Deck 24: Trade,Revolution,Technology,Identity

Question 1

The Schengen Agreement concerned regulated ________ in Europe.

A) immigration and importation
B) a common currency
C) nuclear reactors
D) creating the eurozone

Answer 1

immigration and importation

Question 2

The Mandal Commission met beginning in 1979 to consider ________ in India.

A) sectarian violence
B) caste discrimination
C) the results of partition
D) separatist movements

Answer 2

caste discrimination

Question 3

The Washington consensus refers to policies advocated by the ________.

A) World Bank
B) United Nations
C) International Monetary Fund
D) World Trade Organization

Answer 3

International Monetary Fund

Question 4

When V.P.Singh said that "A silent transfer of power is taking place," he was referring to changes in representation in the nation's governments concerning ________.

A) gender
B) religion
C) country of origin
D) caste

Question 5

Who was elected president after the end of apartheid?

A) F. W. de Klerk
B) Thabo Mbeki
C) Nelson Mandela
D) P.W. Botha

Question 6

The process of globalization concerns ________.

A) culture
B) politics
C) commerce
D) migration

Question 7

Intifadas were launched by ________ against Israel in 1987 and 2000.

A) Saudi Arabia
B) Iraq
C) Egypt
D) the Palestinians

Question 8

Who was elected to be the American president in 2008?

A) Bill Clinton
B) George W. Bush
C) George H.W. Bush
D) Barack Obama

Question 9

In 2010,about what percentage of the population of the United Kingdom was foreign-born?

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

Question 10

The most common name now given to those formerly called "untouchables" is ________.

A) dalits
B) adivasis
C) varnas
D) naxalites

Question 11

The African National Congress represented black Africans in ________.

A) the Congo
B) South Africa
C) Nigeria
D) Ethiopia

Question 12

"Hybridization" is another term for ________.

A) genetically modified organisms
B) cultural fusion
C) globalization
D) cloning

Question 13

Which of these men ruled Egypt from 1981 to 2011?

A) Hosni Mubarak
B) Gamal Abdel Nasser
C) Anwar Sadat
D) Mohamed Morse

Question 14

Which of these was called "creative destruction" by Joseph Schumpeter?

A) industrialization
B) capitalism
C) neocolonialism
D) urbanization

Question 15

Which of these presidents began a war with Iraq in 2003?

A) Barack Obama
B) George H.W. Bush
C) Bill Clinton
D) George W. Bush

Question 16

In 2013,the World Trade Organization had ________ members.

A) 27
B) 92
C) 239
D) 159

Question 17

The motto of the ________ is "Another World is Possible."

A) World Social Forum
B) Conference on Human Settlements
C) United Nations
D) Kyoto Protocol

Question 18

The 2008 global recession began in ________.

A) the United States
B) Asia
C) Europe
D) Latin America

Question 19

Protectionist policies seek to ________.

A) slow exports of manufactured items
B) encourage exports of raw materials
C) slow the process of industrialization
D) keep manufactured goods out of a country

Question 20

Muhammad Yunus is celebrated for his work in ________.

A) the green revolution
B) ending homelessness
C) microfinance
D) gay rights

Question 21

The founder of the Green Belt movement was ________.

A) Nelson Mandela
B) Shakira
C) Waangari Maathai
D) Gabriela Mistral

Question 22

In the context of globalization,McDonald's stands for ________.

A) American imperialism
B) homogenization
C) poor quality
D) a fat-laden diet

Question 23

The African National Congress played the same role in ending apartheid as the Indian National Congress had in achieving ________.

A) Indian independence
B) the end of caste discrimination
C) partition
D) reconciliation between Hindus and Muslims

Question 24

The goal of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was to ________.

A) punish those who created apartheid
B) uncover the truth
C) punish those who took part in apartheid
D) gain restitution for those who were hurt by apartheid

Question 25

The Washington consensus follows the dictates of ________.

A) laissez-faire
B) the moral economy
C) socialism
D) communism

Question 26

Globalization differs from earlier world trade networks primarily in its ________.

A) scope and volume
B) movement by sea
C) dependence on air travel
D) speed

Question 27

Separatist movements seek independence to create ________.

A) democracies
B) theocracies
C) nation-states
D) empires

Question 28

The conflict between Israel and Palestine is primarily over ________.

A) freedom of religion
B) territory
C) economic control
D) balance of power

Question 29

The term "Arab Winter" expresses ________.

A) a cooling of hostilities in Arab nations
B) a period of peace following the Arab Spring
C) the sense that the Arab Spring failed
D) the sense of victory following the Arab Spring

Question 30

In Africa,separatist movements are frequently the result of ________.

A) the scramble for Africa
B) traditional rivalries
C) racial hostility
D) the imperfect decolonization process

Question 31

Between 1980 and 2011,China's greenhouse gas emissions increased ________.

A) by half
B) five times
C) ten times
D) twenty times

Question 32

Fracking is used to extract ________.

A) petroleum
B) mercury
C) coal
D) natural gas

Question 33

The adivasis have much in common with America's________.

A) Puritans
B) blacks
C) slaves
D) Native Americans

Question 34

The recession that began in 2008 was caused by ________.

A) poor lending practices
B) overproduction
C) an Asian stock market slump
D) crop failure

Question 35

Outsourcing is attractive because it ________.

A) increases the speed of transactions
B) provides a tax haven
C) increases customer satisfaction
D) lowers labor costs

Question 36

Which of these is commonly used to create ethanol?

A) coal
B) oil
C) corn
D) methane

Question 37

Containerization has transformed global commerce by ________ shipping.

A) reducing the volume of
B) standardizing
C) accelerating the speed of
D) eliminating

Question 38

The Mandal Commission can be said to have been ________.

A) completely successful
B) partially successfully
C) a failure
D) unimportant

Question 39

The Soviet Union was torn apart by ________.

A) nationalism
B) communism
C) the end of the cold war
D) religious conflict

Question 40

Richard Feynman is a researcher in the field of ________.

A) greenhouse gas emissions
B) hydraulic fracturing
C) computer technology
D) physics

Question 41

Consider nationalist movements in the last decades.How do they differ from earlier nationalist movements of the 1800s and early 1900s?

Question 42

In the map "Ethnic groups in Africa," which of these is most likely to form a separatist movement?

A) Ahaggar
B) Amhara
C) Bambara
D) Dinka

Question 43

How does globalization differ from earlier global trade networks?

Question 44

Is decolonization still taking place in Asia and Africa?

Question 45

The process of fracking has been criticized because of its potential for ________.

A) explosions
B) low yields
C) expensive machinery
D) water pollution

Question 46

Compared to the United States,greenhouse gas emissions in China are ________.

A) insignificant
B) high
C) declining
D) rising at a faster rate

Question 47

Unlike Joseph Stiglitz on the subject of globalization Friedman thinks ________.

A) globalization has had primarily negative impacts
B) globalization is impossible to stop
C) globalization has more positive than negative effects
D) the impacts of globalization are minor

Question 48

Looking at the map "Greenhouse gas emissions," higher greenhouse gas emissions are concentrated in the ________ hemisphere.

A) southern
B) western
C) northern
D) eastern

Question 49

"Fortress Europe" refers to a policy developed in response to ________.

A) the 2008 recession
B) terrorism
C) the creation of the European Union
D) rising immigration in the Europe Union

Question 50

What is the role of new technologies in globalization? Are such technologies critical for globalization?

Question 51

Unlike apartheid in South Africa,caste in India is ________.

A) more persistent
B) untouched by reforms
C) based on race
D) a legacy of colonization

Question 52

The Rio+20 conference indicates that ________

A) global solutions to environmental problems are in place
B) a will to address environmental problems exists
C) the first Rio conference was a failure
D) Latin America is leading the way in environmental issues

Question 53

Research on nanosubstances as challenged our previous knowledge of ________.

A) biology
B) computer technology
C) chemistry
D) ecology

Question 54

In France,immigration in recent decades is an indirect result of ________.

A) colonization
B) industrialization
C) modernization
D) World War II

Question 55

What are the key issues in attempts to address the problem of greenhouse gas emissions?