Deck 23: Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, Politics, and Religion

Question 1

Which of these countries used "special economic zones" to encourage development?

A) China
B) Russia
C) India
D) Egypt

Answer 1

China

Question 2

The European Union currently has ________ member nations.

A) 28
B) 17
C) 32
D) 45

Answer 2

28

Question 3

The Russian president from 2000 to 2008 was ________.

A) Vladimir Putin
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Dmitry Medvedev

Answer 3

Vladimir Putin

Question 4

Which of these Muslim-majority Russian republics fought for independence beginning in 1994?

A) Ukraine
B) Crimea
C) Mordovia
D) Chechnya

Question 5

Which of these came into being in 1993?

A) the European Central Bank
B) the European Economic Community
C) the European Coal and Steel Community
D) the European Union

Question 6

The author of The End of History is________.

A) Saskia Sassen
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Francis Fukuyama
D) Jiang Zemin

Question 7

The first mammal cloned successfully was a ________.

A) sheep
B) rat
C) horse
D) mouse

Question 8

The current Chinese premier is________.

A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Xi Jinping
C) Chou Enlai
D) Jiang Zemin

Question 9

What percentage of HIV cases occurs in sub-Saharan Africa?

A) 80
B) 100
C) 60
D) 40

Question 10

Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French politician associated with ________.

A) a call for banning nuclear weapons
B) anti-immigrant sentiment
C) opposition to the European Union
D) communism

Question 11

The Three Gorges Dam was built on the ________ River in 2012.

A) Indus
B) Yellow
C) Yangzi
D) Nile

Question 12

Per capita income in China ________ between 1978 and 2008.

A) quadrupled
B) doubled
C) remained the same
D) declined by one-quarter

Question 13

What percentage of the Chinese population was below the poverty line in 2011?

A) 23
B) 33
C) 3
D) 13

Question 14

Which of these is designated by Saskia Sassen as a "Global City"?

A) Beijing
B) Tokyo
C) Paris
D) Cairo

Question 15

The Kyoto Protocol concerns ________.

A) ending slums
B) fighting terrorism
C) greenhouse gas emissions
D) nuclear test bans

Question 16

Great apes and humans share ________ percent of their DNA.

A) 73
B) 97
C) 34
D) 55

Question 17

James D.Watson,Francis Crick,and Rosalind Franklin are associated with the discovery of ________.

A) the procedure for cloning
B) the HIV virus
C) a cure for tuberculosis
D) DNA

Question 18

The Chinese premier from 1982 to 1987 was ________.

A) Deng Xiaoping
B) Mao Zedong
C) Jiang Zemin
D) Xi Jinping

Question 19

China hosted the Olympics in what year?

A) 2012
B) 2008
C) 2004
D) 2000

Question 20

Which of these was banned in China in 1999?

A) Buddhism
B) communism
C) Falun Gong
D) Daoism

Question 21

As of 2011,terrorist attacks appear to be ________.

A) increasing slowly
B) increasing dramatically
C) declining
D) nearly stopped

Question 22

Deng Xiaoping moved to ________ government controls on the Chinese economy.

A) tighten
B) implement
C) end
D) relax

Question 23

Which of these led to a spike in European Union membership in recent decades?

A) the end of the Soviet Union
B) creation of the United Nations
C) the end of NATO
D) the creation of the eurozone

Question 24

Megacities are defined by their ________.

A) location
B) size
C) structure
D) global importance

Question 25

Which of these country's application for membership in the European Community has generated the most debate in recent decades?

A) Turkey
B) Poland
C) Greece
D) Spain

Question 26

Manmohan Singh became the first ________ Indian prime minister in 2004.

A) Muslim
B) Sikh
C) Hindu
D) Jain

Question 27

China's government has recently been________ the process of urbanization.

A) hostile to
B) unconcerned with
C) working to assist
D) extremely active in

Question 28

Skinheads are part of the ________ trend in Europe in recent decades.

A) anti-immigrant
B) pro-Common Market
C) anti-euro
D) green party

Question 29

The adoption of "sites and services" policies concerning slums can be considered a ________ measure.

A) punitive
B) progressive
C) compromise
D) desperate

Question 30

The Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 indicated that the Chinese government ________.

A) was hostile to university students
B) was returning to communist control
C) had implemented the tactics of the Cultural Revolution
D) would not permit open criticism

Question 31

Pope ________ was elected in 2013.

A) John Paul II
B) Benedict XVI
C) John XXIII
D) Francis I

Question 32

Which of these best sums up the issue examined in "The Force Behind China's Economic Growth: Capitalism or Socialism"?

A) the role of Mao Zedong in Chinese communism
B) the extent of China's economic development in recent decades
C) the relationship between China's economic boom and communism
D) the influence of capitalism on communism

Question 33

Which of these confirmed Darwin's theory of evolution?

A) the Great Ape project
B) discovery of the HIV virus
C) the AIDs epidemic
D) the discovery of DNA

Question 34

In the 1990s,Russia underwent profound ________ changes.

A) economic and political
B) environmental
C) social and economic
D) political

Question 35

Hindutva stresses an Indian person's ________ identity.

A) ethnic
B) religious
C) Hindu
D) family

Question 36

Which of these men came to power in Iran in 1979?

A) Muhammad Mussadeq
B) Ayatollah Khomeini
C) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
D) Ayatollah Sayyid Khameini

Question 37

Unlike early patterns of urbanization,since around 1900 cities are created largely from ________.

A) an influx of those looking for work
B) surplus rural populations
C) industrialization
D) population growth

Question 38

The 2008 Olympics indicated that China's attitude towards foreigners and towards criticism ________.

A) had changed radically
B) remained the same
C) was changing slowly
D) had undergone a revolution

Question 39

Which of these is the most recent to shift from predominantly rural to predominantly urban?

A) Britain
B) China
C) the United States
D) France

Question 40

The mujahideen are militants in ________.

A) Iran
B) Iraq
C) Syria
D) Afghanistan

Question 41

Pursuing a policy of Hindutva in India is problematic because it is ________.

A) nationalistic
B) too broad
C) associated with partition
D) exclusive

Question 42

Divisions in the Balkans are best described as ________ schisms.

A) primarily ethnic
B) primarily religious
C) a complex mixture of religious and ethnic
D) insignificant

Question 43

Boko Haram combines ________ ideologies.

A) anti-Western and Islamist
B) communist and capitalist
C) nationalist and democratic
D) Marxist and liberal

Question 44

What are the most important aspects of China's changing role in the world?

Question 45

Compare religious developments in different world religions.What are their commonalities/differences?

Question 46

Russia's experience in Afghanistan was very similar to the US experience in ________.

A) Korea
B) Cuba
C) Vietnam
D) Guatemala

Question 47

Between 1950 and 2000,China has changed most in what area?

A) governmental
B) economic
C) gender relations
D) religious

Question 48

Unlike megacities,"Global Cities" are ________.

A) influential
B) large
C) cosmopolitan
D) multiethnic

Question 49

For François Mitterrand,in "The Continuing Rationale for European Integration," the most important role of European integration is ________.

A) maintaining the balance of power
B) limiting German aggression
C) economic stability
D) keeping the peace

Question 50

How has our understanding of evolution changed in the last 100 years?

Question 51

How has the end of the Cold War changed international politics?

Question 52

Looking at "Ethnic map of Yugoslavia," which of these countries is most unified as a nation-state?

A) Croatia
B) Slovenia
C) Macedonia
D) Bosnia and Herzegovina

Question 53

Like al-Qaeda,Boko Haram is inspired by ________.

A) anti-Shi'a Islamism
B) Arab nationalism
C) the desire to purify Islam
D) Sufism

Question 54

The Iranian revolution of 1979 was a ________ revolution.

A) communist
B) nationalist
C) democratic
D) social

Question 55

What are the most important ways that urbanization has changed since the emergence of the first Neolithic cultures?