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Multiple Choice
Select the best answer from the choices provided.

This activity contains 25 questions.

	The increasing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic, political, and cultural change is:   popular culture. Americanization. the World Wide Web. globalization.

	Features of a well-integrated global economy do NOT include:   Global communications and transportation systems. State-controlled economies. Transnational corporations. Privatized firms and services that employ international workers.

	Hybridization is the process of:   melding American popular culture with local cultural traditions. cross-breeding genetic characteristics between plants and animals. fusing diverse cultures into a single homogenized world identity. creation of a single world government.

	Key multinational organizations that facilitate the flow of goods and capital across international boundaries include the:   United Nations and International Court of Justice. nongovernmental organizations, such as the Grameen Bank. World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO). Federal Reserve and General Accounting Office.

	One of the leading criticisms against globalization is that it:   leads to economic convergence. increases inequity between rich and poor. reduces the number of sweatshops globally, thereby limiting employment opportunities for the poor. increases public funding for services such as education and health care.

	Rapid population growth is a serious concern for some nations. However, some nations with no natural increase in population still have growing populations due to:   rural development. in-migration. population planning. decreased social services, such as medical care.

	Demographic transition is:   a natural decrease in rural to urban migration. a model for conceptualizing the city as it evolves with regard to urban structure and form. a four-stage model that tracks changes in birth- and death rates through time as a population urbanizes. responsible for higher birthrates among low-income families in culturally traditional areas.

	Population pyramids are useful because they:   compare the number of males vs. females in a given population, and compare the number of young to old in that same group. eliminate the need to consider whether the numbers of working-age people are sufficient to support the elderly population in a given area. compare the number of fertile women to men in a specific group. indicate which sectors of the population are more likely to die first.

	Currently, migrants account for about _____ of the world's total population. Of these, roughly _____ are refugees from civil strife.   0.2 percent; 25 percent 2 percent; 20 percent 12 percent; 15 percent 20 percent; 2 percent

	As people in developing countries move from the countryside to cities, they should expect major changes in all of the following EXCEPT:   Transportation methods. Family structure. National policies. Market and manufacturing economics.

	Culture is:   Innate, individual and static. Unraveling as a result of increased local and regional conflicts. Neither abstract nor material. Learned, shared and dynamic.

	Cultural nationalism:   supports cultural imperialism by actively promoting an incoming cultural system. blends incoming and indigenous cultures through cultural syncretism. promotes and defends an existing cultural system against incoming cultures. legitimizes use of new languages, educational systems, and administrative institutions.

	Increasingly, the "lingua franca" for business and other international activities is:   English. French. Spanish. Swahili.

	The largest religion in the world, both in areal extent and number of adherents, is:   Islam. Christianity. Hinduism. Buddhism.

	Hinduism is all of the following EXCEPT:   A universalizing religion, which actively seeks new converts. An ethnic religion, which is closely identified with a specific tribal or national group. A religion that involves many deities as representations of a single divine, cosmic unity. Historically linked to the caste system in India.

	A relatively homogenous cultural group with its own fully independent political territory is a:   nation. state. nation-state. micronation.

	Many forces tend to hold a nation together or were factors in nation-building due to their advantages. Which of the following are considered centripetal forces that promote political unity and reinforce the state structure?   Shared sense of history. Need for military security. Advantages that come from a larger, unified political structure. All of the answers provided.

	Political boundaries that follow cultural traits such as language or religion are:   ethnographic boundaries. geometric boundaries. physical boundaries. internationally recognized borders.

	The U.S.-led war on global terrorism involves:   Breaking down the system of globalization so that terrorists cannot use the Internet. Increasing unilateral action by the U.S. at the expense of coalition-building. Well-established political states only. Asymmetrical warfare, where superpower military technology and strategy must face lower-level technology and nontraditional tactics.

	Decolonialization means:   Total eradication of influences from the colonial power. Necessarily entering into exploitive neo-colonialism with the former colonial power. The process of gaining control over territory and establishing a separate government, independent from the colonial power. Formal establishment of rule over a foreign population.

	The core-periphery model was developed to explain why, until recently, most economic development was centered in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. Of the following, which is NOT an assumption of this model?   All G-7 countries, which include some of the world's richest states, are located in the core. The core achieved its wealth by exploiting the periphery. Former colonies in the periphery may prosper at the expense of core states. Peripheral areas remain at the mercy of the core's economic imperialism.

	Gross national income (GNI) is an incomplete or misleading economic indicator because it ignores:   The value of all final goods and services produced within a country's borders. Nonmarket economic activity, ecological degradation or depletion of natural resources. A country's net income from abroad. Gross national product (GNP).

	In order to obtain a sense of the true cost of living in an area, one can adjust raw economic data to create a comparable figure for a common market basket of goods and services purchased with local currency. This adjustment is called:   Gross National Income. Gross National Income Per Capita. Purchasing Power Parity. Economic Growth Rate.

	Which of the following is NOT an indicator of regional or national social development?   Number of live births per 1,000 population. Mortality rate under 5 years of age. Adult illiteracy rates. Percentage of females in the labor force.

	In many countries, work performed by women is not completely included in economic statistics measuring employment or productivity because:   Informal and/or temporary work situations are closely monitored. Household and agricultural work is generally unpaid. Women earn more than men in most jobs. Women generally have greater job security and chances of advancement compared to men.

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