Homework Lance
Choose the letter of the best answer.
1.
What was meant by scholars who argued that the fall of the Berlin Wall led to an “end of history”?
A)
They meant that the past no longer mattered.
B)
They meant Western-style liberalism had triumphed for all time.
C)
They meant that universities would soon serve no purpose.
D)
They meant that all that mattered was science.
2.
Why has the triumph of liberal ideology tended to produce activism?
A)
Liberalism has tended to increase inequality.
B)
Liberalism often involves the imposition of fundamentalist beliefs.
C)
Liberal leaders have tended to be tyrants.
D)
Activism seeks to expand opportunities for wealth creation.
3.
Of the increasingly assertive middle powers, what has become the dominant nation-state in South America?
A)
Peru
B)
Brazil
C)
Argentina
D)
Chile
4.
The emerging multipolar political system has been characterized by which of the following?
A)
The rise of new superpowers to challenge the United States and Russia
B)
Economic consolidation and cooperation among superpowers
C)
New and continuing regional wars
D)
Increased reliance on the United Nations to resolve conflicts
5.
Many of the civil wars since the 1990s have been caused by which of the following?
A)
Economics and trade
B)
Political ideology
C)
Ethnic rivalries
D)
Industrialization
6.
Which country has abandoned its nuclear weapons program?
A)
Libya
B)
India
C)
Pakistan
D)
Israel
7.
What relationship led to the September 11 attacks on the United States?
A)
Israel’s support for Hamas
B)
Iran’s support for Hezbollah
C)
Iraq’s support for al-Qaeda
D)
Taliban support for al-Qaeda
8.
On March 11, 2004, 191 people were killed by a bombing in a train station in what European city?
A)
Hamburg
B)
London
C)
Paris
D)
Madrid
9.
Which of the following characterizes terrorism in the world since 2001?
A)
It has been largely directed by Osama bin Laden.
B)
It has coalesced around al-Qaeda.
C)
It has been aimed mostly at the United States.
D)
It has fragmented into many loosely connected cells and movements.
10.
What did Barack Obama promise Americans he would do about the conflict in Iraq after the 2008 election?
A)
“Double down” on efforts to win the war
B)
Continue the war with Chinese support
C)
Withdraw as soon as Osama bin Laden was killed
D)
Withdraw from the conflict
11.
What have several former Soviet republics done with their nuclear weapons since the breakup of the Soviet Union?
A)
Destroyed them
B)
Transferred their nuclear capabilities to energy plants
C)
Returned their nuclear weapons to Russia
D)
Sold them to the United States and Great Britain
12.
One concern about North Korea’s nuclear program is that it will produce warheads capable of reaching what country?
A)
India
B)
Japan
C)
The United States
D)
The United Kingdom
13.
What are the major factors driving global migration?
A)
Pursuit of economic opportunity and flight from persecution
B)
Declining costs associated with travel
C)
The relative ease of returning to native countries
D)
Warfare
14.
What has contributed to growing restrictions on immigration since the 1980s?
A)
Increasing cultural homogeneity in host nations
B)
Growing reluctance from employers to hire foreign workers
C)
Slowing economic growth in host nations
D)
Stricter United Nations regulations affecting the treatment of migrants
15.
Which of the following describes the bazaar economy common in cities in the developing world?
A)
It largely caters to urban elites and tourists.
B)
It is generally controlled by organized crime.
C)
It is tightly regulated by the government.
D)
It is largely composed of small traders and unskilled labor.
16.
How many megacities (those with 5 million or more inhabitants) were there in 1950, and how many do estimates suggest there will be by 2015?
A)
Zero, seventeen
B)
Four, twenty
C)
Eight, fifty-nine
D)
Twelve, eighty-four
17.
Which of the following has led to more than half of urban growth?
A)
Improved health care in cities
B)
The attraction of new industrial jobs
C)
Rural migration to cities
D)
Wars, food shortages, and disease epidemics
18.
Who makes up the great majority of Asian and African migrants to the cities?
A)
Entire families
B)
Young married couples
C)
Young men
D)
Single women
19.
How did the growing migration of some individuals change the lives of rural African and Asian women?
A)
It left many of them destitute as their husbands abandoned them to find work in the cities.
B)
It reduced the overall number of children as many married later.
C)
It created more pressure to get married and travel to the city with a husband.
D)
It encouraged women’s independence as many became heads of households after men left.
20.
How has the presence of multinational corporations in developing nations affected those nations?
A)
Multinational corporations have encouraged the sale of products specifically tailored to the interests of the local markets.
B)
Multinational corporations have spread the products and values of a consumer society among the elites of developing nations.
C)
Multinational corporations have led to sharp declines in unemployment and poverty.
D)
Many multinational corporations have created social tensions as they often refuse to hire local business leaders to important positions in their operations.
21.
How has the relationship of the developing world to global systems of capital and production changed in the past decade?
A)
Developing countries are increasingly connected to the Chinese economy.
B)
Developing countries have stopped turning to Western banks.
C)
The labor force in the developing world is less mobile.
D)
The economies of developing countries have become less subject to external influences.
22.
Why were the effects of the recession that began in 2008 in Europe especially harsh for countries such as Greece?
A)
Smaller states had larger debts.
B)
Smaller states were not integrated into the European Union.
C)
Smaller states had less influence over European monetary policy.
D)
Smaller states were more closely tied to the American economy.
23.
What influenced the development of the 1981 World Health Organization’s new standards for breast-milk substitutes?
A)
Pressure from governments in Africa
B)
Mass deaths in the non-Western world
C)
The Nestlé boycott
D)
Reforms suggested by formula producers
24.
Rachel Carson is most famous for her book
A)
The Population Bomb.
B)
Silent Spring.
C)
Fatal Harvest.
D)
North America Tomorrow.
25.
What was the greatest environmental concern at the beginning of the twenty-first century?
A)
Nuclear waste
B)
Global warming
C)
Acid rain
D)
Species extinction
26.
What was an important outcome of the Nestlé boycott that began in 1977?
A)
The bankruptcy of Nestlé.
B)
The rapid improvement in water quality in the developing world.
C)
The formation of an international social movement.
D)
An end to the independence of multinational corporations in the global economy.
27.
Which of the following has been a major change regarding the health of the world’s poorest women?
A)
Almost none of them die in childbirth anymore.
B)
Heart disease has been largely eradicated in the poor women of Asia and Africa.
C)
Fewer poor women are contracting AIDS.
D)
The birthrate for poor women has slowed.
28.
About 90 percent of all persons who die from AIDS and 86 percent of those currently infected with HIV live in
A)
South Asia.
B)
sub-Saharan Africa.
C)
North America.
D)
East Asia.
29.
How have United Nations member states viewed the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child?
A)
Most have rejected it.
B)
It has been ratified by more than 190 countries.
C)
Western countries have rejected it, while developing countries have accepted it.
D)
Most Western countries have accepted it, while developing countries have rejected it.
30.
What characterized the progress of the movement for lesbian, gay, and transgender rights from the 1970s forward?
A)
A liberalization of laws primarily in Europe
B)
A liberalization of laws globally, except in North America
C)
A liberalization of laws, mostly in Europe and North America
D)
A liberalization of laws across Europe and the Americas, but not in most other parts of the world
31.
What characterized twentieth-century gains for women in access to education, political representation, and employment?
A)
Little progress on the political front
B)
A class divide, with much greater progress for the affluent
C)
A class divide, as the less affluent “caught up” to gains the wealthy had already achieved
D)
Progress, primarily outside of the western world
32.
What do programs like Mexico’s CCT and Brazil’s Bolsa Family offer to families in poverty?
A)
Stipends or subsidies for improving the education of their children
B)
Stipends for parents who remain married
C)
Stipends for families who are willing to put their children up for adoption
D)
Subsidies for families who agree to undergo sterilization
33.
After World War II, scientists developed a vaccine against what crippling disease?
A)
Chicken pox
B)
Malaria
C)
Smallpox
D)
Polio
34.
What has happened to the global population since 1950?
A)
It has increased slightly.
B)
It has increased by nearly 1 billion.
C)
It has doubled.
D)
It has increased by 4.5 billion.
35.
The accelerated population growth of the developing world since 1945 was primarily a result of which of the following?
A)
The green revolution
B)
The medical revolution
C)
Industrialization
D)
The decline in terrorism
36.
In 1979, the World Health Organization announced that it had eradicated what deadly disease?
A)
Smallpox
B)
Cholera
C)
Rubella
D)
The bubonic plague
37.
In 2003, the Human Genome Project had successfully
A)
cloned a mammal.
B)
found the cause of birth defects.
C)
mapped and sequenced human DNA.
D)
doubled the average human life expectancy.
38.
What was the thesis of Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 book The Population Bomb?
A)
That the poverty of the Third World would result in savage racial wars.
B)
That a green revolution could solve the world’s overpopulation problem.
C)
That conflict between liberalism and communism would destroy the world.
D)
That it was too late to prevent hundreds of millions of people from starving.
39.
The green revolution began with the development of new strains of wheat in what country?
A)
India
B)
Egypt
C)
Austria
D)
Mexico
40.
The green revolution’s greatest successes have come in which Asian countries?
A)
Those dominated by large-scale estate farms
B)
Those that have collectivized farming
C)
Those with broad-based peasant ownership of land
D)
Those where tenant farming predominates
41.
Why have many countries banned the import of genetically altered crops?
A)
They are too expensive to import.
B)
The effects of such crops on humans are unknown.
C)
They compete with natively developed, genetically altered crops.
D)
They taste poorly compared to naturally grown crops.
42.
What pattern characterizes the change in birthrates globally since the 1970s?
A)
Birthrates are declining in industrialized countries but are increasing elsewhere.
B)
Birthrates are increasing in wealthy countries but decreasing in poorer countries.
C)
Birthrates have increased slightly globally.
D)
Birthrates are declining in both the industrialized and the developing world.
43.
Which religious group(s) has (have) been most hostile to birth control?
A)
Catholics and Muslims
B)
Buddhists and Hindus
C)
Protestants
D)
Jews
44.
What has prevented AIDS medications from being more widely distributed in South Africa?
A)
No one has been willing to distribute them for free.
B)
No effective medications have been developed.
C)
The lack of facilities makes them impossible to administer there.
D)
Availability of the medications cannot keep up with the need.
45.
The “information age” has developed out of the parallel development of
A)
human social skills and population.
B)
electrification and transport.
C)
computing and communication technologies.
D)
stable governments and private corporations.
46.
What social institutions were especially important in the dissemination of communication technologies?
A)
Churches
B)
Voluntary associations
C)
Governments
D)
Private corporations
47.
What recent technological development has had the greatest impact on human communication?
A)
The Internet
B)
The cell phone
C)
Television
D)
Film
48.
Governments have found that new communication technologies
A)
make both censorship and privacy more difficult to enforce.
B)
make populations easier to manipulate.
C)
can be easily controlled at “node points.”
D)
make revolutions less likely.
49.
How has the digital revolution affected the problem of inequality?
A)
Communication has made inequality harder to sustain.
B)
Technology has encouraged the breakup of large corporations.
C)
Rural areas have been relatively advantaged by new technologies.
D)
A “digital divide” has emerged that perpetuates inequalities.
50.
In what sense has history not “ended”?
A)
The Cold War has continued.
B)
Technological change has slowed but not halted.
C)
Cycles of economic growth and crisis have persisted.
D)
While regional conflict has ended, change has not.
Answer Key
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B
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B
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C
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C
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D
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B
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C
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C
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B
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B
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