Question 1

Many of the oil-producing countries of the world organized themselves into a cartel to regulate the production and the pricing of oil: this cartel is called the:

Accepted Answer

A) Organization of Oil Producing Countries (OOP
C) . 
B) Oil Producing Countries United (OPCU). 
C) Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPE
C) . 
D) Petroleum Producing Countries United (PPCU). 
E) Association of Petroleum Exporting Countries (APE
C) .

Question 2

The Middle East has drawn more attention in recent years due to all of the following reasons except:

Accepted Answer

A) the Arab-Israeli conflict. 
B) the creation of OPEC. 
C) radical Islamic organizations like al Qaeda. 
D) Iraq's Islamic Revolution. 
E) the invasion of Kuwait.

Question 3

Although an attempt was made following World War I to safeguard individuals against nation-states,nothing was accomplished until the United Nations published the:

Accepted Answer

A) Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. 
B) Universal Proclamation on Human Rights. 
C) Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Responsibilities. 
D) Universal Proclamation of Human Liberty. 
E) Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Question 4

"Globalization" and "internationalization" are not synonymous,as globalization can occur:

Accepted Answer

A) only between countries with a common language and culture. 
B) quite independently of national control. 
C) between two or more groups of people,but only in the cultural realm. 
D) only under the control of established nation-states. 
E) only within a single geographical area.

Question 5

The term checkerboard of poverty and affluence refers to the presence of wealthy countries among poverty-stricken ones.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The Mujahidin were religious fighters who gained their reputation in fighting against:

Accepted Answer

A) the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. 
B) the United States in Afghanistan. 
C) the British in India. 
D) France in Indochina. 
E) Iran in the Iran-Iraq war.

Question 7

How were South African politics decisively transformed in and after 1990?

Accepted Answer

A) By the brutal spillover of civil wars in neighboring Angola and Zaire. 
B) By the dramatic example of Rhodesia's transition to minority rule as Zimbabwe. 
C) By the return to the politics of apartheid that had been eliminated in the 1960s. 
D) By the cumulative economic effects of sanctions imposed on South Africa by the United States and the Commonwealth during the 1980s. 
E) By the release of political prisoner Nelson Mandela and the legalization of the African National Congress.

Question 8

In 1990,Saddam Hussein attempted to restore Iraq's influence and prestige by invading its neighbor:

Accepted Answer

A) Syria. 
B) Kuwait. 
C) Iran. 
D) Afghanistan. 
E) Pakistan.

Question 9

By the 1990s,the most ambitious medical research project undertaken was:

Accepted Answer

A) a worldwide commitment to seek a cure for all forms of cancer. 
B) the Human Genome project to map the architecture of human DNA. 
C) the search for a cure for all MSCs of influenza. 
D) a final push to eradicate smallpox and tuberculosis from the world. 
E) the failed attempt to eliminate cholera from the industrial world.

Question 10

By the turn of the twenty-first century,the largest heavy industrial producer in the world was:

Accepted Answer

A) China. 
B) Germany. 
C) Japan. 
D) Russia. 
E) the United States.

Question 11

The Iran-Iraq war was the result,at least indirectly,of:

Accepted Answer

A) rapidly rising oil prices. 
B) the defeat of the Iranian revolution by the shah. 
C) the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 
D) a failed invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. 
E) the end of the Cold War.

Question 12

On September 11,2001,one of the new terrorist organizations,_________,carried out an attack on the symbolic seat of "globalization," the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) al-Sistani 
B) al-Quds 
C) al Qaeda 
D) al-Taliban 
E) al-Zawahri

Question 13

Persistent fears about such groups as al Qaeda include all except:

Accepted Answer

A) their increasing power and availability of weapons. 
B) Iraq might transfer weapons to apocalyptic terrorists. 
C) western superpowers feared their inability to maintain a nuclear balance of power. 
D) terrorists might mount new attacks similar to those on New York and Washington on 9-11. 
E) an alliance of support from the Soviet Union for conducting air strikes.

Question 14

How has globalization promoted human rights?

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Question 15

In what ways did oil give power to the former colonies of the West?

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