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DIRECTION: Analyze the given questions 5. Who coined the term “glocalization”?

below. Shade the letter of the correct answer.


A) Arjun Appadurai
B) Roland Robertson
1. It is a metaphor used to understand the C) George Ritzer
concept of globalization that refers to D) Benjamin Barber
barriers that prevent or make difficult the
movement of things. 6. What are the three perspectives on
global cultural flows?
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity A) Differentialism, hybridization,
C) Dimensionality imperialism
D) Flows B) Differentialism, imperialism,
convergence
C) Differentialism, hybridization,
2. It refers to the increasing ease of convergence
movement of people, things, information, D) Differentialism, imperialism,
and places in the contemporary world. convergence

A) Solidity 7. It emphasizes the fact that cultures are


B) Liquidity essentially different and are only
C) Dimensionality superficially affected by global flows.
D) Flows
A) Cultural Hybridization
B) Cultural Convergence
C) Cultural Differentialism
3. It refers to the movement of people,
D) Cultural Imperialism
things, places, and information brought
by the growing “porosity” of global
8. The idea of __________ means that it is
limitations.
much more difficult to tie culture to a
specific geographic point of origin.
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity
A) McDonalization
C) Dimensionality
B) Cultural Hybridization
D) Flows
C) Scapes
D) Deterritorialization

4. Which of the following are example of 9. It is a governing body that sets rules and
flows? regulations by which different nations
exchange currencies with each other.
A) Global financial crisis
B) Virtual flow of legal and illegal information A) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
such as blogs and child pornography B) World Trade Organization (WTO)
A) Immigrants recreating ethnic claves in C) Trans National Corporations (TNCs)
host countries D) Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs)
B) All of the above
10. This event led to the opening of the major 14. Who is the writer of the book entitled “The
parts of the world for the first time since Clash of Civilization”?
the early twentieth century.
A) Max Weber
A) The emergence of the United States as B) Samuel Huntington
the global power. C) Peter Bayer
B) The emergence of multinational D) Lori Beaman
corporations (MNCs)
C) The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. 15. Who pioneered the idea of microcredit?
D) None of the above
A) Max Weber
11. A singular historical period during which B) Arjun Appadurai
mortality and fertility rates decline from C) Muhammad Yunus
high to low levels in a particular country D) Hans Rosling
or region.
16. What is the correct order of Walt
A) Demographic regionalization Rostow’s four stages of modernization?
B) Demographic transition
C) Demographic migration I. High mass consumption
D) Demographic acceleration II. Traditional stage
III. Drive to technological maturity
12. Among the eight goals of United Nations, IV. Take-off stage
which of the following ranked first?
A) II, III, I, IV
A) Achieving universal primary education B) II, IV, III, I
B) Promoting gender equality and women C) II, IV, I, III
empowerment D) II, I, IV, III
C) Ensuring environmental sustainability
D) Eradication of extreme poverty and 17. This theory was developed in the 1950s,
hunger to explain how both the development and
the underdevelopment of countries are
13. According to Ritzer, ____________ are related in the international system. This
on the move “because they have to be”-- theory simply answers why some
they are not faring well in their home countries are poor and some rich. What
countries and are forced to move in the theory is this?
hope that their circumstances will
improve. A) Economic Theory
B) Financial Theory
A) Vagabonds C) Dependency Theory
B) Tourists D) Industrialization Theory
C) Seekers
D) Residents
18. As per the Dependence Theory, this term B) Intensification
is used describe countries that are less C) Expansion
developed and receive an unequal D) Ethnoscape
distribution of the world’s wealth.
23. It stands for free flow of trade relations
A) Peripheral Nations among all the nations. Each state grants
B) Core Nations MFN (most favored nation) status to
C) United Nations other states and keeps its business and
D) None of the Above trade away from excessive and hard
regulatory and protective regimes.
19. This term is used to describe countries
that are more industrialized and who A) Privatization
receive the majority of the world’s wealth. B) Export System
C) Free Trade
A) Peripheral Nations D) Liberalization
B) Core Nations
C) United Nations 24. The following are characteristics of
D) None of the Above capitalism EXCEPT:

20. This system was established to A) A system in which all natural resources
restructure the world economy and and means of production are privately
ensure global financial stability after the owned.
world had suffered because of World War B) It emphasizes profit maximization and
I, the Great Depression in the 1930s and competition are the main drivers of
World War II. efficiency.
C) When one owns a business, he needs to
A) Bretton Woods outperform his competitors if he is going
B) Britain Woods to succeed.
C) Bretton Wools D) Production are under collective
D) Britain Wools ownership.

21. This is an intergovernmental organization 25. Who viewed socialism as a stepping


tasked to promote international stone toward communism?
cooperation and create and maintain
international order. A) Karl Marx
B) Vladimir Lenin
A) WHO C) George Orwell
B) ECOSOC D) Mao Zedong
C) NAFTA
D) UNESCO

22. A widespread belief among powerful


people that the global integration of
economic markets is beneficial for
everyone.

A) Globalism
26. As international trade becomes easier 30. What are the four elements of the state?
and more widespread, more than just
goods and services are exchanged. A) People, territory, nation, sovereignty
Cultural practices and expressions are B) People, nation, barriers, sovereignty
also passed between nations, spreading C) People, territory, government, nation
from group to group. This is called D) People, territory, government,
__________. sovereignty

A) Compression 31. The state is a political concept, while a


B) Diffusion _____ is a cultural concept.
C) Progression
D) Transfusion A) Nation
B) Nationality
27. This treaty established the notion of the C) Society
nation-state and the idea of state D) Corporation
sovereignty.
32. Who coined the term “United Nations”?
A) Treaty of Paris
B) Treaty of Tordesillas A) George Bush
C) Treaty of Westphalia B) Bill Clinton
D) Treaty of Versailles C) Franklin Roosevelt
D) Theodore Roosevelt
28. Which of the following are the factors
behind emergence of global 33. It is a defensive treaty or a military
governance? alliance between the United States,
Canada, and 25 European countries.
A) Flow of digital information of all sorts
through the internet. A) UNICEF
B) Mass migration of people and their entry, B) NAFTA
often illegally, into various nation-states. C) ICJ
C) Horrendous events within nation-states D) NATO
that the states themselves either foment
and carry out, or are unable to control. 34. The following are inter-governmental
D) All of the above. organizations EXCEPT:

29. _________ refers to the group of people A) World Bank


who have the authority to act on behalf of B) United Nations Environment Programme
a state. (UNEP)
C) Amnesty International
A) Population D) NATO
B) Government
C) Community
D) Constitution
35. What economic association was created 40. What is the movement of goods,
with the goal of increasing free trade? services, and people across the world in
a seamless and integrated manner?
A) United Nations
B) UNICEF A) K wave
C) World Trade Organization B) Labor export
D) All of the above C) Free movement
D) Migration
36. _________ is an economic treaty
between the United States, Canada, and 41. It stands for the freedom of the
Mexico in which the three countries trade entrepreneurs to establish any industry
freely without taxing each other. or trade or business venture, within their
own countries or abroad.
A) WTO
B) NATO A) Increased collaborations
C) UN B) Economic reforms
D) NAFTA C) Privatization
D) Liberalization
37. ________ refers to the network of
connections that transcends distances of 42. _____________ is the transmission of
different countries in the world. ideas, meanings, and values around the
world in such a way as to extend and
A) Globalization intensify social relations. This process is
B) Globalism marked by the common consumption of
C) Migration cultures that have been diffused by the
D) Assimilation internet, popular culture media, and
international level.
38. It is an approach to global economic
resistance which involves the systematic A) Cultural globalization
government intervention in foreign trade B) Economic globalization
through tariffs and non-tariff barriers in C) Industrial globalization
order to encourage domestic producers D) Financial globalization
and deter their foreign competitors.
43. _________ is personal or
A) Fair trade institutionalized set of attitudes, beliefs,
B) Neoliberalism practices relating to or manifesting
C) Trade protectionism faithful devotion to an acknowledged
D) Globalism ultimate reality or deity.

39. Which of the following is the A) Religion


disadvantage of global economy? B) Laws
C) Nature
A) International trade D) Civilization
B) Capital flow
C) Foreign direct investment
D) Violence
44. ASEAN stands for ____________? 48. What does OPEC stand for?

A) Association of Southern Asia Nations A) Organization of the Petroleum Exporting


B) Association of Singapore Economic Countries
Cooperation B) Organization of the Petroleum
C) Association of Southeast Emergency Exportation Countries
Nations C) Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
D) Association of Southeast Asian Nations Corporation
D) Organization of the Petroleum
45. Members of International Governmental Exportation Corporation
Organizations (IGOs) that promote
scientific and technological processes 49. Who believes that global flows involve
and enhance economic, social and people, technology, finance, political
territorial cohesion and solidarity among images, and media and the disjunctures
EU countries, respect its rich cultural and between them which he calls “scapes”?
linguistic diversity.
A) Arjun Appadurai
A) ASEAN B) Manfred Steger
B) United Nation C) Arturo Giralde
C) European Union D) None of the above
D) World Trade Organization
50. __________ saw globalization as “the
46. The most dominant economic framework process of world shrinkage, of distances
and system in many parts of the world. It getting shorter, things moving closer. It
is premised on the “profit motive”. pertains to the increasing ease with
which somebody on one side of the world
A) Market can interact, to mutual benefit with
B) Purchase somebody on the other side of the world”.
C) Economy
D) Capitalism A) Martin Khor
B) Thomas Larsson
47. A philosophy, which adherents that free C) Immanuel Wallerstein
markets and free trade will set free the D) David Harvey
creative potential and the entrepreneurial
spirit which is built into spontaneous 51. It is an imaginary line used by the
order of any human society, and thereby People’s Republic of China in their claim
lead to more individual liberty and well- to the South China Sea.
being, and more efficient allocation of
resources. A) Nine-dash line
B) Demilitarized zone
A) Neoliberalism C) The Great Wall of China
B) Globalism D) International Boundary
C) Capitalism
D) Idealism
52. _______ refers to the increasing 56. What refers to the political groups that
sameness in the world as cultural inputs, are engaged in an “intensification of
economic factors, and political nationalism that leads to greater political
orientations of societies expand to create heterogeneity throughout the world”?
common practices, same economies,
and similar forms of government. A) McWorld
B) McDonaldization
A) Homogeneity C) Glocalization
B) Heterogeneity D) Jihad
C) Austerity
D) Prosperity 57. Arrange the six epochs of globalization in
correct order.
53. According to Barber, “McWorld” is
existing in today’s societies. What does I. Post-World War II period
“McWorld” mean? II. Globalization of religion
III. Intra-European wars
A) Only one political orientation is growing in IV. Post-Cold War period
today’s societies. V. Heyday or European imperialism
B) It’s a term used to describe the VI. European colonial conquests
increasingly heterogenous culture that is
being produced by economic A) II, VI, !, IV, V, III
globalization. B) II, VI, III, V, I, IV
C) Various political orientations are growing C) II, III, V, VI, I, IV
in today’s societies. D) II, VI, V, I, III, IV
D) All of the above
58. What are the three notable changes that
54. It is the process by which Western happened in the last half of the twentieth
societies are dominated by the principles century that scholars consider as the
of fast food restaurants. origin of globalization that we know
today?
A) Starbucks Nation
B) Jollibeezation I. The emergence of the United States
C) McDonaldization as the global power (post World War
D) KFC Nation II)
II. Rampage of the armies of Genghis
55. __________ pertains to the creation of Khan into Eastern Europe
various cultural practices, new III. The emergence of multinational
economies, and political groups because corporations (MNCs)
of the interaction of elements from IV. The demise of the Soviet Union and
different societies in the world. the end of the Cold War

A) Homogeneity A) I, II, III


B) Heterogeneity B) I, III, IV
C) Austerity C) I, II, IV
D) Prosperity D) II, III, IV
59. The Philippines is leading when it comes 63. What are the two types of economies
the flow of remittances, followed by India associated with economic globalization?
and then China. Is this statement TRUE?
A) Protectionism and consumerism
A) True B) Consumerism and trade liberalization
B) False C) Protectionism and trade liberalization
C) False. The Philippines is one of the D) Consumerism and colonialism
leaders when it comes the flow of
remittances, next to India and China. 64. _________ means “a policy of
D) The statement has insufficient systematic government intervention in
information. foreign trade with the objective of
encouraging domestic production.”
60. This term has been increasingly used to
describe migrant communities. A) Protectionism
B) Colonialism
A) Foreigner C) Trade Liberalization
B) Diaspora D) Consumerism
C) Immigrant
D) Migration 65. The development of our world today by
using the earth’s resources and the
61. In the Philippines, a person is officially preservation of such resources for the
living in poverty if he makes less than future is called____________.
100, 534 pesos a year. Is this statement
TRUE or FALSE? A) Environmental development
B) World resources development
A) True C) Sustainable development
B) False D) Human development
C) Sometimes true
D) Depends on the circumstances. 66. _________ aimed at a reduction of global
carbon emissions.
62. According to the United
Nations___________ refers to the A) Kyoto Protocol
increasing interdependence of world B) Clean Air Act
economies as a result of the growing C) Movement against carbon emissions
scale of cross-border trade of D) None of the above
commodities and services, flow of
international capital, and wide and rapid 67. ______________ means an increase in
spread of technologies. one economic activity can lead to an
increase in other economic activities. For
A) Economic globalization instance, investing in local businesses
B) Financial globalization will lead to more jobs and more income.
C) Cultural globalization
D) Information globalization A) The butterfly effect
B) The ripple effect
C) The multiplier effect
D) The domino effect
68. This event refers to the spread of goods,
technology, education, and diseases
between the Americas and Europe after
Christopher Columbus’s so-called
“discovery of the Americas.”

A) Columbian Exchange
B) Foreign Exchange
C) American Exchance
D) American-Columbian Exchange

69. This historical event in the eighteenth


and nineteenth centuries refers to the
new technologies, like steam power and
mechanization which allowed countries
to replace human labor with machines
and increase productivity.

A) Political revolution
B) Financial revolution
C) Cultural revolution
D) Industrial revolution

70. It is a term used frequently in the 19 th


century to describe successful
industrialists whose business practices
were often considered ruthless or
unethical.

A) Captain of industry
B) Manager
C) Robber barons
D) Boss

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