Question 1

Poorer postcolonial regions have found a profitable market in the West through the adoption of illegal forms of commerce.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

In the mid-1970s,a long recessionary period in Western economies was triggered by:

Accepted Answer

A) a collapse of U.S.stock market prices,which was second only to the Crash of 1929. 
B) an oil embargo inspired by hardliners among the oil-producing states. 
C) a spike in the wholesale price index in the United States. 
D) a series of poor harvests in the United States,Western Europe,and the Soviet Union. 
E) the collapse of the gold market that resulted in the devaluing of the world's currencies.

Question 3

Turkey' international memberships include all except:

Accepted Answer

A) the Council of Europe. 
B) OPEC. 
C) member of NATO. 
D) participation in the Marshall Plan. 
E) associate member of the European Union.

Question 4

One of the major influences in the postcolonial world prior to 1990 was:

Accepted Answer

A) the availability of capital to develop a country's native industries. 
B) a declining birthrate among the developing countries. 
C) denial of European markets to their emerging industries. 
D) full support by the old colonial powers in their colony's development. 
E) the Cold War with its attendant superpower patronage.

Question 5

By the end of the twentieth century,East Asia had become a center of industrial and manufacturing production.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

By the late twentieth century,health officials' worries that a disease would spread to epidemic proportions much more quickly due to accelerated rates of travel were confirmed by:

Accepted Answer

A) SIDS. 
B) AIDS. 
C) SARS. 
D) TARRS. 
E) TARP.

Question 7

The reclamation of Hong Kong from the British in 1997 was part of a plan to establish semicapitalist commercial zones around major cities in China.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Although there is a sharp divide between the most successful global players and the poorer,disadvantaged states and cultures,the poorer states have been able to respond to a very profitable market in the West in one area of manufacture,that of:

Accepted Answer

A) illegal drugs. 
B) steel. 
C) software. 
D) motion pictures. 
E) pharmaceuticals.

Question 9

To what does the term postcolonial refer?

Accepted Answer

A) Diplomatic efforts by the superpowers to play the interests of newly independent states off those of their former colonizers. 
B) The vehement nationalism of independence movements in Europe's Asian colonies. 
C) The many legacies of colonial rule,which have extended well beyond independence. 
D) The emergence of political and cultural philosophies rejecting the legacies of colonialism. 
E) The decade following independence when a new nation establishes itself economically.

Question 10

The European Union:

Accepted Answer

A) maintained a constant money flow to fund construction on developing nations. 
B) allowed member nations independence in setting refinancing on capital loans. 
C) failed to understand the risks of lending money to developing economies. 
D) created many opportunities for new funding revenue to support pensions and health care. 
E) failed to allow Britain to remain a member due to Britain's minimal economy growth rate.

Question 11

In what ways were the September 11,2001,attacks on the United States the product of a new brand of terror born from globalization?

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Question 12

The terrorist organization al Qaeda was created by Islamic military leaders who had fought against a foreign occupation of:

Accepted Answer

A) Pakistan. 
B) Uzbekistan. 
C) Iran. 
D) Iraq. 
E) Afghanistan.

Question 13

Compare and contrast the threats posed to the West by state actors like North Korea,Iraq,and Iran,and non-state actors like al Qaeda.

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Question 14

Sayyid Qutb argued the elites of the new Arab states pursued policies that frayed local and family bonds,deepening economic divides while abandoning the government's responsibility for charity and stability.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Can historians predict the future by studying the past?

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Question 16

In 1979,militant students stormed the American embassy in Iran,taking fifty-two hostages.The deaths of the hostages during the negotiation process resulted in a policy on non-negotiation for all future hostage situations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

In the postcolonial world of the 1960s,many in the Islamic world,led by the cleric _________,laid the blame for the moral failure of the Arab world at the feet of the West and centuries of colonial contact.

Accepted Answer

A) Osama bin Laden 
B) Ayman al-Zawahri 
C) Raiay ak-Henaten 
D) Sayyid Qutb 
E) Sayyid al Sistani

Question 18

What were the effects of independence from colonialism in Africa?

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Question 19

The recent global economic crisis has sparked new debates in the past few years that have centered on a belief in:

Accepted Answer

A) free market capitalism. 
B) self-regulating markets. 
C) private home ownership. 
D) centralized national banks. 
E) government economic planning.

Question 20

Global health in the twentieth century:

Accepted Answer

A) was a struggle to balance guarantees of social well-being with fiscal and political realities. 
B) witnessed a slight increase in young child mortality and childbearing women. 
C) between 1800 and the mid-twentieth century the world population doubled. 
D) the potential for global epidemic diseases decreased. 
E) large pharmaceutical companies were able to meet the global demand for medicine.

Exam 20: A World Without Walls: Globalization and the West

Poorer postcolonial regions have found a profitable market in the West through the adoption of illegal forms of commerce.

In the mid-1970s,a long recessionary period in Western economies was triggered by:

Turkey' international memberships include all except:

One of the major influences in the postcolonial world prior to 1990 was:

By the end of the twentieth century,East Asia had become a center of industrial and manufacturing production.

By the late twentieth century,health officials' worries that a disease would spread to epidemic proportions much more quickly due to accelerated rates of travel were confirmed by:

The reclamation of Hong Kong from the British in 1997 was part of a plan to establish semicapitalist commercial zones around major cities in China.

Although there is a sharp divide between the most successful global players and the poorer,disadvantaged states and cultures,the poorer states have been able to respond to a very profitable market in the West in one area of manufacture,that of:

To what does the term postcolonial refer?

The European Union:

In what ways were the September 11,2001,attacks on the United States the product of a new brand of terror born from globalization?

The terrorist organization al Qaeda was created by Islamic military leaders who had fought against a foreign occupation of:

Compare and contrast the threats posed to the West by state actors like North Korea,Iraq,and Iran,and non-state actors like al Qaeda.

Sayyid Qutb argued the elites of the new Arab states pursued policies that frayed local and family bonds,deepening economic divides while abandoning the government's responsibility for charity and stability.

Can historians predict the future by studying the past?

In 1979,militant students stormed the American embassy in Iran,taking fifty-two hostages.The deaths of the hostages during the negotiation process resulted in a policy on non-negotiation for all future hostage situations.

In the postcolonial world of the 1960s,many in the Islamic world,led by the cleric _________,laid the blame for the moral failure of the Arab world at the feet of the West and centuries of colonial contact.

What were the effects of independence from colonialism in Africa?

The recent global economic crisis has sparked new debates in the past few years that have centered on a belief in:

Global health in the twentieth century: