PRE-TEST

GECTW01X: The Contemporary World

Name:

Student No:

Section: Date:

MULTIPLE CHOICE:

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer
before the number.

1. A process of the expansion and intensification of social

relations and consciousness across world-time and world space.

a. Liberalization c. Globalization
b. Internationalization d. Acculturalization

2. Which of the following is a driver of globalization?

a. Technological advancement
b. Trade barriers and controls inflows of foreign direct investment
c. Weak competition
d. Economies of scale are being exploited to the maximum

3. It is the policy in which a country does not levy taxes,

duties, subsidies or quota on the important export of goods or services
from other countries.

a. Product quality c. Cheaper price

b. Peace relations d. Free Trade

4. Globalization represents an increasing integration of all the

following except:

a. Communication c. Economics
b. Morals d. Culture

5. It is the oldest international trade route that spanned

form China to Middle East and Europe.

a. Silk Road c. Gold Road

b. Hard Road d. Bank Road

6. What is transnational company?

 a. Moving across the world
b. Large global firms that operate in a number of countries
c. Getting a job from a company in different countries
d. Selling goods to countries

7. A system heightened interaction between various

sovereign states for the desire of greater cooperation and unity
among states and people.

a. Globalization c. Globalism
b. Internationalization d. Internationalism

8. The following are key attributes of today’s world politics

except .

a. Sovereignty c. Territory
b. Citizens d. Nations

9.What is the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft

economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing?

a. Technological Innovation c. Factory System

b. Industrial Revolution d. Transportation
Innovation

10. To prevent another war after French Revolution, an alliance

called the “Concert of Europe” was created. An alliance of great powers
which is composed of the following countries except .

a. United Kingdom c. Russia

b. Austria d. France

11. Given the scope of the activity of United Nations, what was
there biggest challenges?

a. Related to the humanitarian rights

b. Related to the act of the military intervention
c. Related to issues of security
d. Related to the sovereignty of state

12. What is the belief that the world’s nation had a right to a
free, and sovereign government?

a. Nationalism c. Principle of self-

determination
b. Internationalism d. Unification

13. Which system provided stability for the nations of Europe,

until faced its first major challenged by Napoleon Bonaparte.
 a. Liberal Internationalism c. Metternich
Syste
m b. Westphalian system d. Socialist
Internationalism

14. It is a group of countries located in the same

geographically specifies area?

a. Regionalization c. Regions
b. Globalization d. Regionalism

15. Which of the following is not true about Regions?

a. Organized to regulate and “oversee flows and policy

choices”
b. Made people aware of the world
c. An amalgamation of two regions a combination of more than two
regions
d. Characterized by economic policies

16. . Which of the following economy is an original economic

system in which traditions, customs, and beliefs help shape the goods
and the services the economy produces?

a. Traditional Economy c. Market Economy

b. Command Economy d. Planned Economy

17. It is the Growth of societal integration within a region and

to the often undirected process of social and economic interaction.

a. Regionalism c. regionalism & regionalization

b. Regionalization d. a & b are both correct

18. Refers to the regional concentration of economic flaws

while regionalization refers to a political process by economic policy if
cooperation and coordination are present among countries.

a. Regionalism c. regionalism & regionalization

b. Regionalization d. a & b are both correct

19. What was the Bretton Woods system?

a. Global financial institutions that would promote

economic interdependence and prosperity.
b. To assist with reconstruction and revitalization after
World War II
c. Economic system that would ensure a longer lasting peace
d. It was tasked to promote international cooperation and to
restore international order
e. All of the above
 20. What does the “the regional concentration of
economic flows” refers to?

a. Regionalization c. Regionalism
b. Regions d. Globalization

21. According to the International Monetary Fund it is a

historical process, the result of human innovation and technological
progress.

a. Economic Development Plan c. Millennium Development

Plan
b. Economic Globalization d. Development Center

22. The following facilitates globalization, which is not?

a. Improvement of communication
b. Barriers to trade and investment
c. Loose immigration control
d. Removal of controls on movement of capital across borders

23. The United Nations is an international

organization founded in the year ?

a. 1945 c. 1965
b. 1955 d. 1975

24. Some countries created an association which refuse to join

with any superpower countries. This association is called ?

a. Neutral Movement c. Liberal Movement

b. Non-aligned Movement d. Socialist Movement

25. A more complex organizations that have investments in

foreign operations and has a central corporate facility but give decision-
making, research and development and marketing powers to each
individual foreign market.

a. International Companies c. Multinational Companies

b. Global Companies d. Transnational Companies

26. All are global corporations’ common attributes which is

not?

a. An agent of desired economic development

b. An economic prominence
c. A producer-driven chain became buyer-driver and financial firms
emerged globally
d. Very powerful entity that can create a crisis
 27. Considered as the facet of contemporary political
globalization that seeks to form collaboration among nation- states
through the establishment of intergovernmental organization.

a. Globalism c. Global Interstate System

b. Socialist International d. Internationalism

28. An international governmental organization established in

November 1993 with 28 state members. One of its goals is to promote
peace, its values, and the well-being of its citizens.

a. World Trade Organization c. Global Interstate System

b. European Union d. ASEAN

29. This refers to an organization of UN task to settle in accordance

with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by states and to give
advisory opinions.

a. International Court of Justice c. Secretariat

b. Security Council d. Economic and Social Council

30. A part of the power of international organization that can

invent and apply categories that creates powerful global standards.

a. Power of fix meanings c. Power to diffuse norms

b. Power of classifications d. Power to destiny

31. The following are key attributes of today’s world politics

except .

a. There are countries or states that are independent

b. An international organization’s job is to facilitate
c. These countries interact with each other through
diplomacy
d. An international organization facilitates these
interactions

32. Globalization can create problems for business because

.

a. It can result in more competition

b. It means that they can increase prices
c. It reduces vulnerability to political risk and uncertainty
when operating abroad.
d. All are correct

33. The following are Security Council’s permanent

member countries except;

a. Russia c. Germany
 b. United States d. France

34. A metaphor for interstate inequality and a product of

Western imagination.

a. Global South c. Global North

b. Rich North d. Poor South

35. Among all the continents, it has the biggest population of at

least two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants. It is a continent that comprise
one third of the world’s population.

a. Russia c. Europe
b. Asia d. China

36. After its establishment, what makes Asian nation stronger

than ever is .

a. The growth of societal integrated

b. Collaborations and cooperation based on respect
c. Political process by economic policy
d. Free movement of people, goods, services and capital within
the EU market

37. Refers to the new concept among the continental

communities.

a. ASEAN+3 c. Asian Regionalism

b. American Free Trade Agreement d. East Asia Economic
Group

38. Considered as the home of all members of the Group of

Eight (G8).It is also the abode of the four powerful permanent members
of the United Nations Security Council.

a. Global South c. Global North

b. Rich North d. Poor South

39. Socialist economies were referred to as

.

a. Western Capitalism c. Second World

b. Third World d. First World

40. Known as the bank established by Asian countries that is

more focused on Asia and the Pacific as a reaction to global economic
integration.

a. ASEAN Declaration c. ASEAN+3

b. Asian Development Bank d. East Asia Economic Group
 41. Which of the following defines a situation in which one nation
assumes economic power or influence over the others?

a. Global Economic Imperialism c. Imperialism

b. Economic and Cultural Imperialism d. Cultural
Imperialism

42. It is a socially defined patterns of beliefs concerning the

ultimate meaning of life and It assumes the existence of the supernatural,
they refer to the phenomenon of
?

a. Religion c. Environment
b. Culture d. Spiritual

43. Which item below is an example of Multinational

Companies?

a. McDonald’s c. Pharmacy
b. Shell d. General Electric

44. IMF means;

a. International Monetary Fund c. International

Monetary Finance
b. Indian Monetary Fund d. Indian Monetary
Finance

45. Refers to the central deliberative and only organ where all
member-states have equal representation in discussion and
consideration, and policy making.

a. Economic and Social Council c. Secretariat

b. Trusteeship Council d. General
Assembly

46. UN’s five permanent Security Council members have a veto

power.

a. China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and

United States
b. Japan, United Kingdom, United States, China,
Finland
c. China, France, Japan, United States, India
d. United States, North Korea, India, Singapore,
China

47. Which item below is an example of Global companies?

a. McDonald’s
b. Shell
c. Pharmacy
d. General Electric
 48. This institution is responsible for funding postwar
reconstruction project of WWII.

a. World Trade Organization c. World Bank

b. IMF d. United Nation

49. It is an organization monitors international agreements on

trade, investment, government and procurement.

a. World Trade Organization c. World Bank

b. United Nations d. North Atlantic
Treaty Organization

50. Which of the following states that it is not only states that
agree to work together in the name of a single cause?

a. Non-state Regionalism c. Nation-state

b. Non-government Organization d. Regionalism