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| 13600276781 | How did Bretton Woods lay the foundation for globalization? | C By creating a set of agreements and institutions to promote free trade | 0 | |
| 13600276782 | How did the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank advance neo-liberal economics? | d By loaning money to developing nations that privatized state-run companies, lowered protectionist tariffs, and cut taxes | 1 | |
| 13600276783 | Which of the following is NOT a way in which money has become internationally mobile? | a An international checking system | 2 | |
| 13600276784 | The sporting goods company Nike is a good example of globalization because in one five-year period it closed 20 factories and opened another 35 in countries all over the world. Why did Nike move these factories? | c Nike moved its factories anywhere in the world where the labor costs were the lowest and the environmental and health regulations the most lenient. | 3 | |
| 13600276785 | Which of the following best describes the massive increase in international migration of the world's peoples during the era of globalization? | b It has allowed many to find work and shelter, but has also victimized others in new ways. | 4 | |
| 13600276786 | How did globalization affect those within wealthy nations, especially the United States? | d It caused millions of Americans to lose their well-paying jobs, while millions of others have become wealthy. | 5 | |
| 13600276787 | What did the Seattle protestors of 1999 mean by their slogan "no globalization without representation"? | a Globalization was a process being decided by large corporations that was not meant to benefit ordinary people, and in which no ordinary people had a say. | 6 | |
| 13600276788 | Which of the following best describes the "American Empire" of the second half of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century? | c A nonterritorial empire of economic, military, and cultural power | 7 | |
| 13600276789 | Which of the following best describes the appeal of the South American revolutionary Che Guevara to people in both the "first" and the "third" worlds? | d He represented an alternative to the materialism of the West and the industrial totalitarianism of the Soviet world. | 8 | |
| 13600276790 | How did women's liberation feminists differ from equal rights feminists? | b Women's liberation feminists wanted to challenge societal and cultural patriarchy through direct action; equal rights feminists preferred political lobbying and passing laws. | 9 | |
| 13600276791 | Why did African feminists resent American and European feminists' opposition to traditional African cultural practices such as polygamy and female circumcision? | d Western feminists could easily begin to sound like colonial missionaries and rulers. | 10 | |
| 13600276792 | Which of the following best describes the response of global fundamentalism to modernity? | a A selective rejection and a seeking of an alternative, more religious modernity | 11 | |
| 13600276793 | Which of the following best describes the term jihad as intended by the original founders of Islamic fundamentalism? | d Struggle to please God | 12 | |
| 13600276794 | Which best characterizes the strategies pursued by Islamic fundamentalist groups for achieving their political aims? | a Most attempted to gain power through elections and placing members in influential government and social positions, but some sought violent revolutions. | 13 | |
| 13600276795 | Why did Osama bin Laden and the leaders of al-Qaeda come to declare the United States as their enemy? | b They objected to American military presence in Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War. | 14 | |
| 13600276796 | In what way has mainstream Christianity responded to the effects of globalization? | c By addressing the moral and ethical problems of social justice, human rights, and the suffering of the poor throughout the world | 15 | |
| 13600276797 | Which of the following is NOT one of the three major ways in which the Earth's environment has been radically impacted by the changes of the last half-century? | b Exorbitant prices of fossil fuels | 16 | |
| 13600276798 | What was a major difference between western environmental movements and environmentalists in developing countries? | c Western environmentalists were concerned more with issues of pollution and limiting growth; environmentalists in developing countries were more concerned with food security and social justice. | 17 | |
| 13600276799 | What was the world's reaction to the United States' refusal to sign on to the Kyoto protocol? | c Anger | 18 |
