Republic of the Philippines

Malama Conner Apayao

Midterm Examination in Contemporary World
S.Y. 2019
Name: ________________________ Date: ____________

Course/Year: ___________________

I. Multiple Choice: Choose the correct answer and write the letter of your answer on the
space provided.

_________1. What was the Bretton Woods system?

a. Post war the military system

b. Post war political system
c. Post war international economic system
d. None of these

_________2. what did indentured labour mean?

a. Cheap Labour

b. Free Labour

c. Bonded Labour

D. None of these

_________3. what were ‘Canal Colonies?

a. Large Colonies

b. Sea Ports

c. Large Canals

d. Irrigated areas

_________4. Which food traveled west from China to called “Spaghetti”?

a. Soya

b. Groundnuts

c. Potato

d. Noodles

_________5. Which disease spread like wild fire in Africa in the 1890’s?

a. Cattle plague
b. Small pox
c. Pneumonia
d. None of these
_________6. Which was the Tabled city of gold?

a. Peru
b. Mexico
c. El Doeodo
d. Spain

_________7. Who adopted the concept of assembly line to produce automobiles?

a. Samuel Morse
b. Henry Ford
c. T. Cuppla
d. Iman Husain

_________8. The Descendants of indentures workers is a Noble Prize winning

a. Bob Morley
b. V.S. Naipaul
c. Amartya Sen
d. Ram Naresh Sarwan

_________9. The great Depression began in

a. 1927
b. 1928
c. 1929
d. 1930

_________10. The Chutney music was popular in-

a. North America
b. South America
c. Japan
d. China

_________11. Rinder Pest is a?

a. Cattle disease in Africa

b. Cattle disease in China
c. Cattle disease in India
d. Cattle disease in Russia

_________12. Which of the following is not a economic exchange?

a. Flow of Labour
b. Flow of Captial
c. Flow of knowledge
d. Flow of trade

_________13. What is NIEO?

a. New international economic order

b. New Indian economic order
c. New International Excise order
 d. New international economic ordinance

_________14. Name the law which allowed the British Government to restrict the import of corn.

a. Corn Act
b. Food Act
c. Corn Laws
d. Import Laws

_________15. What is IMF?

a. International Money fund

b. International Monetary Fund
c. International Monetary finances
d. Indian Monetary fund

_________16. What was the use of cowries during Indus Valley civilization?

a. As a toy
b. As an instrument
c. As a means of transportation
d. As a form of currency

_________17. The term used to describe Indian indentured labour was ___

a. Porter
b. Coolie
c. Juggler
d. Rikshaw puller

_________18. Henry Morton Stanley was

a. Explorer
b. Trader
c. Missionary
d. Soldier

_________19. Rinderpest spread in Africa through

a. Cattle
b. Birds
c. Human
d. None of these

_________20. A major supplier of wheat in the world market was

a. Africa
b. Eastern Europe
c. North America
d. Asia
 II. True or False
_________1. June 28, 1914, the heir to the Austrian throne Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife,
Sophia were Assassinated in the Bosnian City.

_________2. July 28, Tsar Nicholas ordered a partial mobilization of the Russian army against
Austria.

_________3. July 23, Austrian leader issued an ultimatum to Serbia.

_________4. August 4, Great Britain declared was on Germany

_________5. August 4, all the great power of Europe were at war.

_________6. 1912 when Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Greece organized the Balkan league.

_________7. 1914, two armed camps viewed each other with suspicion

_________8. 1908-1909, the Bosnian crisis

_________9. 1882-German Austrian alliance was enlarged with intrance of Italy.

_________10. The British women’s movement was the most Vocal and Active In Europe.

_________11. 1903, founded the women’s social and political union

_________12. The working classes constituted almost 80 percent of the population of Europe.

_________13. Daughters of tycoons gained titles.

_________14. Top of European Society stood a wealthy Elite, Constituting only 5 percent of the
population.

_________15. British produced about 30 tons of pig iron in 1760.

_________16. Eiffel tower, the tallest man-made movement in the world.

_________17. October 7, 1908 Austria – Hungary anneued Bosnia and Herzegovina.

_________18. March 1909 IZVOLSKY notified Germany that Russia Acceopted Austria’s annexation

_________19. 1891- a Bristish housing have empowered local town and livepool.

_________20. 1916 the European economy as a whole war dominated by large factories.

Test III. Identification

___________________1. Means careful about spending money and budgeting

___________________2. Means the things that you plan to do.

___________________3. Century, the rise of strong nation-state

___________________4. Is an international financial institution that provides loan to countries of

the world for capital program.

___________________5. The great Scientific and Social Advance.

___________________6. Nation, a closed society and Feudal Structure.

___________________7. Means good behavior, moral quality

___________________8. Better known as the Smoothawley tariff Act.

___________________9. Century the global economy was in turmoil.

___________________10. Is the increase in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and
services produced by an economy.

Prepared by: Checked and Noted by:

EDWARD B. ASWIGUE ANGELYN D. LADERA

Instructor BSE Program Coordinator