Question 1

Recep Erdoğan's party, AKP, garnered slightly more than half of the vote, on which basis they

Accepted Answer

A)   changeed the president's ceremonial office into an executive one
B)   ignored a court injunction to stop constructing his government palace 30 times bigger than the US White House
C)   enacted constitutional reforms which rescinded the military's power in politics
D)   suppressed popular demonstrations in Istanbul C

Question 2

In Syria, hopes for an Arab Spring were dashed almost immediately by the horrific violence inflicted by its leader, ________ al-Assad.

Accepted Answer

A)   Bashar
B)   Hafez
C)   Qusay
D)   Mahmud A

Question 3

Since the early 2000s, the so-called BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, and China, as well as Turkey and _______, have been added to the first tier of global economic powers.

Accepted Answer

A)   Kenya
B)   Bangladesh
C)   Mexico
D)   Paraguay C

Question 4

One of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was Tawakkol Karman, leader of the Women Journalists Without Chains protest movement in ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   Syria
B)   Yemen
C)   Morocco
D)   Bahrain

Question 5

The revolution against Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was launched by the April 6 Youth Movement, a ________ group composed of social and political activists.

Accepted Answer

A)   Twitter
B)   Facebook
C)   Taliban
D)   Google

Question 6

The policies of "globalization" were shaped and directed, in great measure, by the advisors of US President ______ in the 1990s.

Accepted Answer

A)   Bill Clinton
B)   George H.W. Bush
C)   George W. Bush
D)   Ronald Reagan

Question 7

Which of the following was NOT a component of the criticism related to globalization?

Accepted Answer

A)   The loss of the traditional manufacturing.
B)   Sacrificing American sovereignty to foreign investors and markets.
C)   Exclusion of poorer countries in the global capitalist system.
D)   The opening of foreign markets to U.S. investors.

Question 8

Republicans in the US Congress shut down the government for 16 days in 2013 in a failed effort to defund the ________ Health Care Act, passed into law in 2010.

Accepted Answer

A)   Affordable
B)   Single-Payer
C)   Expanded Medicaid
D)   Great Society

Question 9

In August 2008, Putin provoked the former Soviet republic of ________, which was on track for admission into NATO, into a conflict that resulted in Russian control over one-fifth of its territory.

Accepted Answer

A)   Georgia
B)   Ukraine
C)   Belarus
D)   Lithuania

Question 10

In 2000, about _______ of the world's population of 6 billion lived in fully industrialized countries, two-thirds in middle-income countries, and 15 percent in poor countries.

Accepted Answer

A)   one tenth
B)   one fifth
C)   one third
D)   one half

Question 11

In the 1990s, _________________ became an entirely new branch of industry.

Accepted Answer

A)   commercial airline travel
B)   locally produced commodities
C)   information technology
D)   computers

Question 12

As in many other places in the past decade, young people in ________ demonstrated a faith in democracy in 2009.

Accepted Answer

A)   Pyongyang
B)   Karachi
C)   Tehran
D)   Manila

Question 13

After a Turkish military coup attempt in July 2016

Accepted Answer

A)   Erdoğan was arrested
B)   Opposition leader Fethullah Gülen was executed
C)   Mass citizen rallies prompted the coup to collapse and ushered in waves of retaliatory purges
D)   Erdoğan transformed the office of the presidency from a ceremonial one to an executive one

Question 14

Two recessions in the first decade of the 2000s in the U.S. were centered upon what industries?

Accepted Answer

A)   Farming and automobile production
B)   Currency speculation and imports
C)   Dot-com industry and housing
D)   Housing and imports

Question 15

Despite the success of the middle class in _________, almost three quarters of the population still lived in villages with poor or no water, electricity, and roads at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Accepted Answer

A)   China
B)   Vietnam
C)   India
D)   Brazil

Question 16

The global recession began in 2008 with a(n):

Accepted Answer

A)   "Toxic" mortgage crisis that snowballed into a general credit crisis.
B)   Contested US presidential election in which the Electoral College results differed from the popular electoral tally.
C)   Immigration crisis, as refugees fleeing the Arab Spring crowded into southern Europe.
D)   Precipitous increase in the global inflation rate.

Question 17

As a result of overproduction on the world market, commodity prices were depressed through most of the 1990s. The price depression imposed severe budget cutbacks on many poor countries, with consequent unemployment, middle-class shrinkage, reduction in education, and a rise in __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Suicide statistics
B)   Murder statistics
C)   HIV infections
D)   Women's liberation movements

Question 18

The most extreme example of a nation going against the grain of the twenty-first century, North Korea forces adults to subsist on ____ calories daily, as compared to 2000-2500 among Europeans.

Accepted Answer

A)   700
B)   1000
C)   1250
D)   1500

Question 19

Which Middle Eastern country has largely escaped Islamist militancy?

Accepted Answer

A)   Lebanon
B)   Turkey
C)   India
D)   Iran

Question 20

By the 1990s, the United States' economy had become an even deeper "sinkhole", this time for textiles, toys, and simple electrical and electronic devices made in _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   Cuba
B)   Chile
C)   India
D)   China

Exam 31: A Fragile Capitalist-Democratic World Order, 1991-2014