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Contemporary World Questions
Contemporary World Questions
Contemporary World Questions
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.
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) Columbian Exchange
B) Foreign Exchange
C) American Exchance
D) American-Columbian Exchange
A) Political revolution
B) Financial revolution
C) Cultural revolution
D) Industrial revolution
A) Captain of industry
B) Manager
C) Robber barons
D) Boss