Chapter 9 ~ Test 2
What does it mean to say the world is flat? Question 2 options: 1) The cultural, economic, and distance barriers between peoples are smoothed away. 2) Economic prosperity is brought equally to everyone. 3) The cultural impacts bring a sense of "sameness." 4) Production chains connect all countries.
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What effectively disrupted globalization, particularly between its second and third waves? Question 17 options: 1) the World Wars 2) the US Civil War 3) the Crusades 4) the Korean War
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Which of the following countries exports the most capital in remittances? Question 3 options: 1) United States 2) Saudi Arabia 3) United Kingdom 4) Norway
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Almost ________ of the world's container ships are currently too large to pass through the Panama Canal. Question 10 options: 1) One-quarter 2) One-third 3) One-half 4) Two-thirds
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Economic globalization is about creating flat surfaces and eliminating heirarchies, according to our textbook's author. Question 9 options: 1) True 2) False
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For centuries what was the easiest way to move people and goods a long distance? Question 7 options: 1) By cart 2) Ships 3) By horse 4) On foot
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What was the most important industry from the 1500s until the 1800s in propelling the space-time convergence? Question 5 options: 1) Slavery 2) Transportation 3) Manufacturing 4) Gold and silver
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When did the railroad eclipse the canal system, in terms of shipped tons, in the United States? Question 8 options: 1) between 1770-1780 2) between 1840-1850 3) between 1900-1910 4) between 1960-1970
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When did the third wave of globalization emerge? Question 1 options: 1) After 1950 2) After 1960 3) After 1970 4) After 1980
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Which country's capital was moved to the coast in 1703 to be more open to foreign influences and international trade? Question 13 options: 1) England 2) Portugal 3) Russia 4) India
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New World populations ranged between 54 million to 112 million before the Columbian Encounter of 1492. What was the population by 1650? Question 12 options: 1) 120 million 2) 75 million 3) 35 million 4) 5 million
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What invention from approximately 1280 allowed sailors to travel across wider oceans? Question 11 options: 1) Maps 2) Sextant 3) Compass 4) A timepiece to measure longitude
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According to our textbook's author, "There are different levels in the flows of globalization that lead to different geographies of globalization." Question 9 options: 1) True 2) False
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Although its pace has increased, globalization is long established as a continuing process of the human occupancy of the Earth. Question 4 options: 1) True 2) False
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By the year 2000, there were 142 million vehicles registered in the USA, and there were more than 3.3 million miles of surfaced roads. Question 6 options: 1) True 2) False
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The earliest cargo of long distance maritime global trade carried what type of goods? Question 20 options: 1) Luxury items 2) Wheat 3) Bulk clothing 4) Coal
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The second wave of globalization centered on one particular city. It was: Question 16 options: 1) London 2) Dubai 3) New York 4) Paris
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What are one of the consequences of a global shift in manufacturing? Question 4 options: 1) A female working class emerged as young women filled many of the new jobs in maquiladoras along the U.S./Mexican border. 2) Production remains high among skilled and higher-paid labor in traditional manufacturing regions. 3) Little manufacturing history prevents growth in newly industrializing regions of the world. 4) Economic and political strength is static among the organized working class of the United States and Europe.
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What canal connected Buffalo to Albany and connected the Great Lakes with New York City? Question 2 options: 1) Erie Canal 2) Black River Canal 3) Portage Lake Canal 4) Junction Canal
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Which of the following arguments does our textbook's author find more convincing? Question 5 options: 1) The economic geography of the world economy is entirely flat-there is no variation in it. 2) The economic geography of the world economy is more varied than flat. 3) The economic geography of the world economy is more flat than varied. 4) The economic geography of the world economy is entirely varied-there is no flatness in it.
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Who wrote the following statement in 1829? "As you may well know, Mr. President, "railroad" carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by "engines," which in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed." Question 6 options: 1) Andrew Jackson 2) Martin Van Buren 3) The Duke of Bridgewater 4) Peter the Great
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London's Docklands, Baltimore's Inner Harbor, and Sydney's Inner Harbor, all located upstream, became abandoned due to what? Question 19 options: 1) Air transport 2) Railway growth 3) Modern container ships 4) None of the above
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The bulk of foreign investment occurs between what countries? Question 10 options: 1) Rich to poor 2) Poor to rich 3) Rich to rich 4) Rich to middle
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What author is famously associated with 'the world is flat'? Question 1 options: 1) Milton Friedman 2) Martin Van Buren 3) Thomas Friedman 4) Thomas Aquinas
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We discussed "A Plan of a Navigable Canal" from 1776 in our class. The plan involved what country? Question 7 options: 1) The United States of America 2) Egypt 3) Panama 4) England
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What has been nicknamed the "highway to India?" Question 15 options: 1) The Panama Canal 2) The maritime path around the Horn of Africa 3) The overland route 4) The Suez Canal
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What is a remittance? Question 3 options: 1) An important commodity that attracts a lot of capital from overseas. 2) Increased capital mobility that attracts investment but may lead to rapid and destabilizing capital flows. 3) The level of foreign direct investment that is highly variable at the aggregate and national level. 4) Form of capital that migrants send back to their home country.
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What is the Lucas Paradox, used to describe international investment patterns? Question 8 options: 1) A form of development investment rather than diversified investment. 2) More investment goes to capital poor rather than capital rich. 3) Capital flows to the places that need it. 4) The places that most need foreign investment may be getting less of it.
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What is true regarding space-time convergence? Question 14 options: 1) It is the collapse of the time it takes to cover distance. 2) Intensifying economic interactions reduce transport costs for goods, services, and people. 3) Places are effectively pulled closer together in both time and cost terms. 4) All of the above are true statements regarding space-time convergence 5) None of the above are true statements regarding space-time convergence
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What percentage of world trade was 'containerized' by the late 1990s? Question 18 options: 1) roughly 10% 2) roughly 33% 3) roughly 49% 4) roughly 90%
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