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1
According to "Global Trends 2025," by the year 2025, the international system will be:
A)unipolar, with the United States as the central power.
B)similar to the system as it existed prior to World War II.
C)global and multipolar.
D)comprised of major gaps in national power between developed and developing countries.
2
As claimed in "Global Trends 2025," the country that will have the most impact on the world over the next 20 years will be:
A)the United States.
B)India.
C)Russia.
D)China.
3
As noted in "Global Trends 2025," China, Russia, and India are currently following the Western liberal model for self-development.
A)True
B)False
4
According to "The New Geopolitics of Food," the world's soaring food prices have contributed to
A)revolutions and upheaval in Africa and the Middle East.
B)a golden era of worldwide international cooperation.
C)a bountiful global grain economy.
D)the worldwide banning of "land grabs."
5
As reported in "The New Geopolitics of Food," the Middle East is the first geographic region whose population continues to grow as
A)water tables are rising.
B)water tables are falling.
C)grain production has peaked and begun to decline.
D)agricultural progress makes it easier to meet increased demand.
6
As noted in "The New Geopolitics of Food," soil erosion is a result of global warming.
A)True
B)False
7
As reported in "The End of Easy Everything," the World Bank contends that the 2008 spike in food prices was largely driven by:
A)rising energy costs.
B)destruction of land through mining.
C)diversion of corn to biofuel.
D)rising labor costs.
8
As noted in "The End of Easy Everything," the overall conclusion reached by the author is that:
A)people must be willing to pay much higher prices for everything.
B)stronger safeguards are needed to prevent environmental damage from mining.
C)to avoid perils, there must be reduced consumption of traditional fuels and metals.
D)hydrofracking should be outlawed.
9
As stated in "The End of Easy Everything," global warming threatens to make extraction of hydrocarbon reserves in the Arctic impossible.
A)True
B)False
10
As reported in "China's Search for a Grand Strategy," from ancient times, the ruling regime of China has often been brought down by a combination of internal uprising and:
A)external invasion.
B)economic woes.
C)governmental corruption.
D)epidemic diseases.
11
According to "China's Search for a Grand Strategy," Chairman Mao's "three worlds theory" postulated that China's main external threats came from the United States and:
A)Japan.
B)India.
C)the Soviet Union.
D)Great Britain.
12
As stated in "China's Search for a Grand Strategy," China's only officially stated foreign policy issue has to do with Taiwan.
A)True
B)False
13
As set forth in "Why the World Needs America," the balance in a new, multipolar world might be more favorable to democracy if the slack from a declining United States were picked up by some of the rising democracies—including all of the following, except:
A)Syria.
B)Brazil.
C)Turkey.
D)South Africa.
14
According to "Why the World Needs America," China's per-apita GDP is at a level comparable to that of:
A)Greece.
B)Slovenia.
C)Germany.
D)Angola.
15
As assessed in "Why the World Needs America," multipolar systems have historically been neither particularly stable nor particularly peaceful.
A)True
B)False
16
According to "The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends That Will Change the World," twenty-first-century international security will depend on:
A)how many people inhabit the world.
B)whether or not the world will be able to produce enough food for its populations.
C)how the world's population is composed and distributed.
D)the ability of global income to increase more than global population.
17
As noted in "The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends That Will Change the World," the extreme population growth in Europe reversed after World War I because:
A)the Industrial Revolution encouraged Europeans to take their skills to poorer countries.
B)a high percentage of young men of reproductive age died in the war.
C)many Europeans were lured to North America with the promise of better conditions.
D)basic healthcare and sanitation began to spread to poorer countries, increasing life expectancy there.
18
As claimed in "The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends That Will Change the World," over the next four decades, the vast majority of the world's GDP growth will occur in Europe and North America.
A)True
B)False
19
According to "Population & Sustainability," the key to long-term environmental sustainability is to:
A)initiate population-control programs to reduce global population growth.
B)control consumption, particularly in high-population areas.
C)act on both population growth and consumption simultaneously.
D)immediately reduce carbon-dioxide emissions in the United States and European Union by a uniform percentage.
20
As explained in "Population & Sustainability," disparities in the population growth and consumption patterns of different nations indicate that the climate would be better served if:
A)India emulated U.S. population growth.
B)the United States emulated Indian consumption patterns.
C)developing nations emulated China's one-child policy.
D)each individual, wherever he or she lived, took responsibility for his or her environmental footprint.
21
As claimed in "Population & Sustainability," population growth in any one area has an immediate, but short-term, effect on the environment.
A)True
B)False
22
As noted in "African Child Mortality," Senegal, Rwanda, and Kenya now have the same level of child mortality as one of the most successful economies in the world during the past decade—namely:
A)India.
B)Venezuela.
C)Malaysia.
D)Canada.
23
As profiled in "African Child Mortality," the project through which a group of African villages are aided by U.S. economist Jeffrey Sachs' Earth Institute of Columbia University is known as:
A)Millennium Villages.
B)Villagers United.
C)Rising Sun.
D)Fair Rewards.
24
As reported in "African Child Mortality," the decline in African child mortality is now speeding up, but it is currently not falling as fast as it was during the early 2000s and the 1990s.
A)True
B)False
25
As noted in "Virus Hunter," in 2003, before infecting humans, SARS moved from bats to:
A)civets.
B)parrots.
C)leaf turtles.
D)gerbils.
26
As discussed in "Virus Hunter," virus stalker Nathan Wolfe would like to see more aid focused on alternative sources of protein, such as domestic animals, which are rarely seen in rural Cameroon, but in the meantime, GVF promotes what might be called:
A)mandatory fish farming.
B)incentivized vegetarianism.
C)safe hunting.
D)flesh quotas.
27
As mentioned in "Virus Hunter," Wolfe served as a technical adviser for the film 12 Monkeys.
A)True
B)False
28
As profiled in "The Blue Food Revolution," Kona Blue Water Farms produces a sushi-grade:
A)salmon.
B)carp.
C)yellowtail.
D)tilapia.
29
As noted in "The Blue Food Revolution," nations exercise sole rights to manage waters out to:
A)200 nautical miles from their shores.
B)100 nautical miles from their shores.
C)25 nautical miles from their shores.
D)3 nautical miles from their shores.
30
As stated in "The Blue Food Revolution," farmed fish are fed small fish that are themselves farmed specifically for their use as feed.
A)True
B)False
31
As claimed in "Climate Change," the current position in the scientific community with regard to climate change is that:
A)no specific cause of climate change can be identified.
B)many scientists disagree on the cause and effects of climate change, so no definitive statements can be made.
C)climate change is simply a natural fluctuation, the type of which can be documented throughout Earth's history.
D)climate change is dangerous and is caused by humans.
32
As argued in "Climate Change," the toughest part of the climate-change equation is the:
A)disagreement in the scientific community about global warming.
B)speed with which global warming is occurring and how little time is left to make changes.
C)refusal of governments to consider or act on remedies for global warming.
D)false sense of urgency that computer models reflect with regard to a global-warming timetable.
33
As reported in "Climate Change," while global warming will hurt some areas of the world, it will help other areas with extended growing seasons, allowing those areas to ease global food shortages over the long term.
A)True
B)False
34
According to "The Other Climate Changers," when compared to carbon dioxide, black carbon and ozone:
A)have a greater effect on global warming.
B)are more expensive to eliminate.
C)will provide more immediate rewards if eliminated.
D)remain in the atmosphere far longer.
35
As explained in "The Other Climate Changers," the majority of black-carbon emissions are associated with the:
A)use of diesel fuels in cars and trucks.
B)release of carbon dioxide.
C)production of agriculture.
D)burning of biomass.
36
As claimed in "The Other Climate Changers," technologies to significantly limit black-carbon and ozone-precursor emissions already exist.
A)True
B)False
37
As expressed in "The Melting North," the arctic ice sheet is synonymous with the:
A)polar atmosphere.
B)core mechanism of an engine.
C)power of nature.
D)glacial sprawl of the Ice Age.
38
As pointed out in "The Melting North," in recent decades, in the tissues of beluga whales, walruses, and polar bears (all of which the Inuit eat), there has been a rise in levels of a coal-burning by-product—specifically:
A)sulfuric acid.
B)arsenic.
C)mercury.
D)calcium carbonate.
39
According to "The Melting North," almost all arctic glaciers have receded.
A)True
B)False
40
As put forth in "Asian Carp, Other Invasive Species Make a Splash," Asian carp are not the most dangerous invasive species to threaten the Great Lakes; that distinction would go to:
A)quagga mussels.
B)sea lamprey.
C)flathead catfish.
D)Eurasian ruffe.
41
As depicted in "Asian Carp, Other Invasive Species Make a Splash," the 19-pound Asian carp netted in Lake Calumet suggests that, despite efforts to keep it out of the Great Lakes area, it had gotten past:
A)a dam on the upper Mississippi River.
B)spotters monitoring the entrance to Lake Calumet.
C)an underwater electric fence.
D)poisons designed to target Asian carp DNA.
42
As explained in "Asian Carp, Other Invasive Species Make a Splash," invasive species such as the Asian carp have led to tough new federal regulations to help stop these species from spreading any farther.
A)True
B)False
43
As pointed out in "Go Glocal," from the mid-1980s to 2008, there was a period of unprecedented market calm that economists refer to as the:
A)Big Cocoon.
B)Cushion Years.
C)Great Moderation.
D)Lazy Global River.
44
As identified in "Go Glocal," P-Tech—a program adopted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City and Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago as part of an effort to boost employment and growth—is a public-private partnership led by:
A)General Motors.
B)Procter & Gamble.
C)IBM.
D)Disney.
45
As quoted in "Go Glocal," Peter Atwater, a financial researcher who studies social mood and the markets, believes a key truism in this new age of volatility is that "everything local will take clear priority."
A)True
B)False
46
As suggested in "Innovation's Long March," perhaps the best current example of how a state-capitalist system can build innovative industries is:
A)Russia.
B)Angola.
C)Indonesia.
D)Brazil.
47
As identified in "Innovation's Long March," Ian Bremmer, author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?, is the president of:
A)Eurasia Group.
B)Vanuatu.
C)Georgetown University.
D)the World Bank.
48
As reckoned in "Innovation's Long March," by 2015, state-owned wealth funds will control some $12 trillion in assets, far outpacing private investors.
A)True
B)False
49
As asserted by the author of "Why the World Isn't Flat," buying into the version of an integrated world that assumes that economics matter more and more and that politics matter less and less is not only unproductive, it is also:
A)naïve.
B)backward.
C)dangerous.
D)intuitive.
50
According to "Why the World Isn't Flat," globalization is a booming cottage industry based on the:
A)number of books about it that have been published.
B)growth of home businesses with a presence on the Internet.
C)amount of money that now crosses national borders in trade.
D)percentage of service industries that can be based anywhere around the world.
51
As reported in "Why the World Isn't Flat," during a recent television interview, the author was asked why he thinks the world is flat.
A)True
B)False
52
As discussed in "Globalization And Its Contents," the globalizing process has its pros and cons, but generally it can be argued that economic globalization has had a positive impact on living standards and purchasing power in:
A)most of the world.
B)the wealthier nations.
C)most of the United States
D)the poorer countries.
53
As pointed out in "Globalization And Its Contents," the invention and application of mass-production technology, together with surplus capital and the free-market economy, are at the root of:
A)human misery.
B)modern prosperity.
C)economic vicissitudes.
D)the globalizing process.
54
Even 50 years ago, the prospect of economically integrating both the communist and the impoverished Third World economies was promising and realistic.
A)True
B)False
55
As stated in "The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive the Decline of the Middle Class?", the main reason for a lack of left-wing mobilization after the global financial crisis is:
A)the Left's general satisfaction with the status quo.
B)the decline of the Left's ranks after the 2008 election.
C)an absence of left-wing economic thinkers.
D)an absence of plausible progressive ideas about economic issues.
56
As given in "The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive the Decline of the Middle Class?", it has been long thought that stable democracy rests on:
A)a broad middle class.
B)a top-down government.
C)oligarchic domination.
D)populist revolution.
57
As noted in "The Future of History: Can Liberal Democracy Survive the Decline of the Middle Class?", almost all the powerful ideas that shaped human societies up until the past 300 years were religious in nature, with the important exception of monarchism in Great Britain.
A)True
B)False
58
As stated in "Who Will Rule the World?," the United States proved how a prosperous economy can rapidly increase its military power and preparedness when push comes to shove following:
A)Pearl Harbor.
B)the Cuban Missile Crisis.
C)9/11.
D)the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
59
As put forth in "Who Will Rule the World?," the right question to ask is not who will be the military leader of the next century, but who will be the technological leader—and the answer must be most probably:
A)China.
B)India.
C)the United States.
D)Japan.
60
As noted in "Who Will Rule the World?," unfortunately, economic inequality often comes bundled with political inequality.
A)True
B)False
61
As reported in "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office," Spanish prosecutor Jose Grinda said in leaked diplomatic cables that:
A)the Soviet government strenuously works to combat the Russian Mafia.
B)organized crime in Russia sticks to traditional crime areas such as extortion.
C)the Russian Mafia exercises significant control of strategic sectors of the global economy.
D)it is clear that Spain has been singled out as a target of organized crime.
62
As noted in "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office," of the nations that might sell nuclear weapons, the most worrisome is:
A)Iran.
B)Ukraine.
C)Bulgaria.
D)North Korea.
63
As pointed out in "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office," ignorance of the scope of international organized crime makes it difficult to defend the budgets agencies need to fight it.
A)True
B)False
64
As depicted in "Bolivia and Its Lithium," Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni contains rich deposits of minerals embedded in:
A)salt.
B)limestone.
C)oil.
D)quartz.
65
As noted in "Bolivia and Its Lithium," the current global focus on lithium is about its potential as a key ingredient in a new generation of:
A)computer laptop batteries.
B)cell phones.
C)electric car batteries.
D)ceramics.
66
As given in "Bolivia and Its Lithium," one of the advantages of lithium production as a major industry for Bolivia is that processing lithium can be easily accomplished without negative effects on the air, water, and soil of Bolivia.
A)True
B)False
67
As described in "Tech's Tragic Secret," the Indonesian island of Bangka, situated just off the eastern coast of Sumatra, is distinctively shaped like a:
A)skull.
B)seahorse.
C)dagger.
D)corkscrew.
68
As noted in "Tech's Tragic Secret," the principal ore of tin is the dark mineral:
A)stibnite.
B)sphalerite.
C)cerussite.
D)cassiterite.
69
As disclosed in "Tech's Tragic Secret," Shenmao Technology and Chernan Metal Industrial—two of the top solder makers in Asia, both suppliers to Foxconn—say they buy 100 percent of their tin from Indonesia.
A)True
B)False
70
As noted in "Africa's Hopeful Economies: The Sun Shines Bright," Ethiopia, once a byword for famine, is now the world's tenth-largest producer of:
A)natural gas.
B)livestock.
C)farmed fish.
D)citrus fruit.
71
As defined in "Africa's Hopeful Economies: The Sun Shines Bright," the ratio of people of working age to those younger and older is known as the:
A)labor ratio.
B)breadwinner ratio.
C)tax-profile ratio.
D)dependency ratio.
72
According to "Africa's Hopeful Economies: The Sun Shines Bright," from Ghana in the west to Mozambique in the south, Africa's economies are consistently growing faster than those of almost any other region of the world.
A)True
B)False
73
As depicted in a graph in "Women and Work," the country with the highest percentage of women in its lower house of parliament or congress (as of August 2011) is:
A)India.
B)Spain.
C)the United States.
D)Sweden.
74
As identified in "Women and Work," Tarja Halonen is the first female president of:
A)the AFL-CIO.
B)United Airlines.
C)Yale University.
D)Finland.
75
As observed in "Women and Work," most workplaces think they are being egalitarian by treating women exactly the same as men. (T)
A)True
B)False
76
As profiled in "It's Still the One," Cushing, Oklahoma, is a significant player in the new global oil industry because:
A)it contains the largest oil supplies in the world.
B)it possesses the only oil reserves traded in the stock market.
C)its oil is the benchmark against which other oils are priced.
D)its oil prices are not dependent on global market swings.
77
As explained in "It's Still the One," one of the most problematic aspects of the new age of oil for consumers is the:
A)volatility of the oil market that is reflected in prices at the gas station.
B)shortage of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil, the only oil appropriate for everyday use.
C)fact that all U.S. oil is being traded globally, leaving a shortage in the United States.
D)low quality of the oil that is being produced in the United States.
78
According to "It's Still the One," state-owned oil companies and governments now control more than 80 percent of the world's oil reserves.
A)True
B)False
79
As claimed in "Seven Myths about Alternative Energy," when it comes to promoting alternative energy, the world should:
A)do everything possible to find solutions.
B)invest as much as is feasible in a range of speculative technologies.
C)take as much time as is necessary to come up with reasonable solutions.
D)try to achieve the biggest emissions reductions for the least money in the shortest time.
80
According to "Seven Myths about Alternative Energy," major problems with the concept of "renewable fuels" include all of the following except:
A)fuel crops displace vegetation that soaks up even more carbon than fuel crops do.
B)the process of clearing peatland to grow fuel crops results in serious carbon emissions that can cause long-term environmental damage.
C)it is impossible to grow fuel crops in most types of soil.
D)fuel crops take up valuable land that could be used for growing food.
81
As noted in "Seven Myths about Alternative Energy," "second-generation" biofuels, such as those derived from switchgrass, are a promising new development for controlling global warming.
A)True
B)False
82
As identified in "King Coal's Comeback," the world's biggest private coal company, based in St. Louis, is:
A)Powder River Inc.
B)Peabody Energy.
C)K.C. Golden.
D)Archway Solutions.
83
As disclosed in "King Coal's Comeback," the last coal-fired power plant in Oregon will:
A)be operated by the Oregon Energy Commission beginning in 2014.
B)be 150 years old in 2016.
C)shut down in 2020.
D)probably double its current production by 2035.
84
According to "King Coal's Comeback," right now, ports on the West Coast lack the infrastructure needed to transfer coal from railcars into container ships.
A)True
B)False
85
According to "Coming Soon to a Terminal Near You," companies such as Gazprom have had a strong hand in price negotiations because the company:
A)has some of the largest gas reserves in the world.
B)controls the pipeline supplying the gas.
C)has an exclusive government contract.
D)also controls oil supplies in the same area.
86
As defined in "Coming Soon to a Terminal Near You," the use of high-pressure liquids to crack up otherwise impenetrable shales to release natural gas is known as:
A)shaling.
B)liquefaction.
C)grappling.
D)fracking.
87
As reported in "Coming Soon to a Terminal Near You," the roots of China's rapid growth in the use of natural gas is found in China's centralized planning.
A)True
B)False
88
According to "Nuclear Energy: The Dream That Failed," Japan has been using nuclear power since the:
A)1920s.
B)1940s.
C)1960s.
D)1990s.
89
As identified in "Nuclear Energy: The Dream That Failed," the most ambitious nuclear-power program of the 1980s, by far, was in:
A)the Netherlands.
B)the United States.
C)Russia.
D)France.
90
As pointed out in "Nuclear Energy: The Dream That Failed," America's nuclear bubble burst in 1979, at Three Mile Island.
A)True
B)False
91
As claimed in "The Revenge of Geography," being a realist in today's world means:
A)valuing freedom above order.
B)focusing on universal ideals, rather than on particular distinctions.
C)recognizing and embracing those forces beyond our control.
D)concentrating on what unites humanity, rather than what divides it.
92
According to "The Revenge of Geography," the sea provides the inviolate border security that is needed to become:
A)a major world power.
B)obsessed with expanding and holding territory.
C)isolationist.
D)a democracy.
93
As stated in "The Revenge of Geography," religious faith is merely a function of geography.
A)True
B)False
94
As assessed in "Unfinished Mideast Revolts," nowhere in the world have the latest shocks to the Old Order been more powerful than in the Middle East and:
A)Southeast Asia.
B)the former Soviet republics.
C)Central America.
D)North Africa.
95
As pointed out in "Unfinished Mideast Revolts," the Old Order emerged when the Middle East's colonial powers and their proxies were upended by ambitious new leaders stirred by the force and promise of Arab nationalism, which occurred during the period following:
A)the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
B)World War II.
C)the Third Crusade.
D)the Crimean War.
96
As noted in "Unfinished Mideast Revolts," Jordan and Morocco share the distinction of being Arab monarchies that do not have oil.
A)True
B)False
97
As reported in "Living with a Nuclear Iran," the prospect of Iran's acquisition of nuclear capability has led to the threat of preemptive military action by:
A)the United States.
B)Iraq.
C)Israel.
D)Russia.
98
As stated in "Living with a Nuclear Iran," Kissinger wrote Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy only a few years after the most recent U.S. war, which at that time was:
A)World War II.
B)the Korean War.
C)the Vietnam War.
D)the first Gulf War.
99
As suggested by the author of "Living with a Nuclear Iran," revolutionary powers see negotiations as a tactic to gain time, not as a way to reduce tensions.
A)True
B)False
100
As reported in "America's Nuclear Meltdown towards 'Global Zero'," the United States has a stockpile of 5,113 nuclear warheads, while China's nuclear capabilities are estimated at:
A)12,527 warheads.
B)2,388 warheads.
C)240 warheads.
D)38 warheads.
101
According to "America's Nuclear Meltdown towards 'Global Zero'," the greatest influence over when India will begin nuclear-force reductions remains its assessment of the security threats emanating from:
A)China and Pakistan.
B)the United States and Russia.
C)Iran and Iraq.
D)Israel and Palestine.
102
As pointed out in "America's Nuclear Meltdown towards 'Global Zero'," one problem with the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is that it covers deployed strategic warheads but places no limits on non-deployed nuclear warheads.
A)True
B)False
103
As addressed in "Peacekeepers at War," the UN mission in the Congo, its largest and most expensive, has shown the problems of what has become known as:
A)compassionate aggression.
B)armed guardianship.
C)robust peacekeeping.
D)unpeaceable peace.
104
As conveyed in "Peacekeepers at War," for three years, Bosco Ntaganda, the former Congolese general accused of atrocious human-rights abuses, lived the high life in the:
A)village of Mbiza.
B)city of Goma.
C)presidential palace.
D)neighboring country of Zambia.
105
As disclosed in "Peacekeepers at War," the Congolese government has begun putting pressure on the United Nations to pull out entirely.
A)True
B)False
106
As claimed in "War in the Fifth Domain," the "fifth domain" of war is:
A)outer space.
B)air.
C)sea.
D)cyberspace.
107
As quoted in "War in the Fifth Domain," according to former spy chief Mike McConnell, the effects of a full-blown cyberwar would resemble the effects of:
A)a nuclear attack.
B)an aerial attack.
C)a tornado or hurricane.
D)the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
108
As noted in "War in the Fifth Domain," one of the more difficult aspects of a cyber attack is that the perpetrator often remains anonymous.
A)True
B)False
109
As noted in "The Healing Fields," Pol Pot, whose regime was responsible for the deaths of some 1.7 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979, purportedly called land mines his:
A)buried angels.
B)necessary evils.
C)special friends.
D)perfect soldiers.
110
As explained in "The Healing Fields," members of Aki Ra's Cambodian Self Help Demining team use special metal detectors to search for explosives, and when they locate one, they:
A)report it to the local authorities.
B)declare the ground forbidden.
C)detonate it.
D)defuse it.
111
According to "The Healing Fields," only 25 percent of land mine victims around the world are soldiers.
A)True
B)False
112
As explained in "Geneva Conventions," the Geneva Conventions are a series of protections for soldiers and civilians in war zones that were established:
A)in ancient Greece.
B)after the Battle of Solferino.
C)after World War II.
D)as a result of the terrorist attacks on the United States.
113
According to "Geneva Conventions," the fundamental bedrock of the Geneva Conventions is to:
A)protect children during wartime.
B)prevent suffering in war.
C)eliminate terrorism.
D)define acceptable methods of torture.
114
As claimed in "Geneva Conventions," given today's terrorist organizations and nuclear proliferation, the Geneva Conventions are seriously outdated and old-fashioned.
A)True
B)False
115
As described in "Africa: MCC and Coca-Cola's Shared Commitment to Water," MCC's principle is that development projects should be:
A)approved by a country's voters.
B)country-owned and implemented.
C)funded by the World Bank and supervised by the United Nations.
D)financed entirely by private capital.
116
As noted in "Africa: MCC and Coca-Cola's Shared Commitment to Water," RAIN projects have all of the following objectives except:
A)providing clean drinking water.
B)expanding access to sanitation.
C)promoting hygiene.
D)introducing "green" farming techniques.
117
As pointed out in "Africa: MCC and Coca-Cola's Shared Commitment to Water," more than 800 million people around the world lack access to clean drinking water.
A)True
B)False
118
As put forth in "Humanitarian Workers," in a previous article, Lieutenant General Lillywhite urges humanitarians to protect a specific approach, while the authors, members of Medecins Sans Frontieres, question even continuing with the:
A)Militant Approach.
B)Comprehensive Approach.
C)Humanitarian Approach.
D)Egalitarian Approach.
119
As presented in "Humanitarian Workers," the view of Lieutenant General Lillywhite is that it is entirely rational for insurgents to perceive humanitarian operations as a key component of their enemy's approach, with the outcome being:
A)creation of their own aid organizations to serve the same purpose.
B)extraordinary close observation of the aid workers by insurgents.
C)increased violence against humanitarian workers.
D)preference given to aid organizations not affiliated with any particular government.
120
As reported in "Humanitarian Workers," what MSF is able to do in Somalia is dwarfed by the massive needs of those war-ravaged communities.
A)True
B)False
121
As told in "Gene Sharp: A Dictator's Worst Nightmare," Gene Sharp recalls being just out of college and having chosen a particular kind of conscientious objection, which he guesses was "the most obnoxious kind that existed"—namely:
A)civil disobedience.
B)high-tailing it to Canada.
C)pronouncing sympathy for the enemy.
D)the destruction of government property.
122
As related in "Gene Sharp: A Dictator's Worst Nightmare," Sharp's chosen path of conscientious objection (rather than a path more expected for the outstanding student that he was) was very distressing to his father, who was a:
A)fundraiser for the Democratic Party.
B)Protestant minister.
C)conservative businessman.
D)decorated survivor of Iwo Jima.
123
As mentioned in "Gene Sharp: A Dictator's Worst Nightmare," Sharp's work was the subject of Ruaridh Arrow's documentary titled "From Dictatorship to Democracy."
A)True
B)False
124
As pointed out in "The Power of the iMob," critics of the dot-org process say it will never be anything more than a waste of time, a chance for the idle to pose as real activists—idlers that in this context are referred to as:
A)grouptivists.
B)talktivists.
C)wacktivists.
D)slacktivists.
125
As mentioned in "The Power of the iMob," in 2005, GetUp! was founded by Jeremy Heimans and David Madden in:
A)Saudi Arabia.
B)Denmark.
C)Australia.
D)Canada.
126
As observed in "The Power of the iMob," much of the criticism of the dot-org movements has come from the Left, which sometimes sees them as a way for the idle and unthoughtful to feel radical.
A)True
B)False
127
As quoted in "UN Women's Head Michelle Bachelet," former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan observed that there is no tool for development more effective than:
A)education.
B)small amounts of cash loaned to those starting businesses.
C)first ensuring good health care.
D)the empowerment of women.
128
As profiled in "UN Women's Head Michelle Bachelet," Bachelet was tortured and exiled from Chile, and, before returning to Chile and becoming president, trained as a:
A)university professor.
B)doctor.
C)lawyer.
D)pilot.
129
As depicted in "UN Women's Head Michelle Bachelet," Bachelet begins her interview with a British newspaper by apologizing for not being able to offer them whisky.
A)True
B)False
130
As pointed out in "The End of Men," one of the most startling changes in recent years is that, apparently:
A)more and more men are going into traditionally female professions, such as nursing and teaching.
B)wage inequality has finally ended, with women earning as much or more than men in similar jobs.
C)more couples who use sex selection are choosing to have girls than boys.
D)more women are choosing to wait until marriage to have children than in previous decades.
131
As profiled in "The End of Men," biologist Ronald Ericsson, who developed a method of sperm selection so couples could select the sex of their child, appropriately loaned out his ranch as a backdrop for ads featuring an iconic advertising symbol, the:
A)Marlboro Man.
B)Pillsbury Doughboy.
C)Juan Valdez.
D)Colonel Sanders.
132
As noted in "The End of Men," with few exceptions, the greater the power of women in a country, the greater the country's economic success.
A)True
B)False
133
As given in "Humanity's Common Values: Seeking A Positive Future," the process of globalization can be positive, if societies reexamine and reemphasize:
A)the prospect of experiencing global culture.
B)their distinct values and cultural practices.
C)the positive values shared by all humans.
D)their religious belief systems.
134
As reported in "Humanity's Common Values: Seeking A Positive Future," local culture groups and proponents tend to view the emerging global culture as a threat, because they:
A)fear an impingement on their traditional culture.
B)are skeptical of change.
C)try to avoid contact with the larger world.
D)have had bad experiences already.
135
According to "Humanity's Common Values: Seeking A Positive Future," morality derives from human biological and physiological characteristics and from higher order capacities of choice and reasoning.
A)True
B)False





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