Unit 9 Test guide

The poem can best be seen as an example of the way in which literature and the arts in the late twentieth century became expressions of

activism and political engagement

In the late twentieth century, which of the following factors would most directly enable governments around the world to achieve the public policy goals outlined in Keshavarz' article?

Advances in medicine, such as vaccines and antibiotics

New concepts of rights and citizenship above?

Both interpretations offer critical evaluations of the effectiveness of international organizations relative to their respective missions.

Based on the passage, anti-malarial programs in the twentieth century are broadly illustrative of health-care efforts to combat which of the following types of diseases?

Diseases associated with poverty

Which of the following types of data would most likely demonstrate a positive effect of economic globalization and thereby undermine the authors' argument regarding free trade?

Data on employment levels and personal disposable income in Pacific Rim Asian countries in the 1990s

Which of the following was the most direct result of the attitude toward the environment reflected in the passage?

Desertification and increased competition for natural resources

Which of the following contributed most to the demographic changes shown on the graph above?

Diffusion of Green Revolution technology

Keshavarz' analysis in the third paragraph of the difficulties of growing Iran's population best reflects which of the following demographic realities in the early twentieth century?

Diseases associated with poverty and underdevelopment were still prevalent in most world regions.

Which of the following late-twentieth-century developments best explains why Mejía Godoy's characterizations of Christ and Pontius Pilate in the poem might have resonated with people living in Nicaragua in the 1970s?

Economic inequalities between rich and poor countries increased.

The policies pursued by the Chinese government starting in the 1980s, which led to the economic situation reflected in the painting, are best seen as an example of which of the following late-twentieth-century trends?

Economic liberalization

Which of the following twentieth-century processes contributed most directly to the adoption of the system of cultural values to which Banksy alludes in Image 1 ?

Greater industrial productivity and new technologies led to increased availability of consumer goods.

The evidence from all of the case studies most strongly illustrates which of the following developments in the twentieth century?

Human societies increasing cooperation and introducing new methods to address environmental challenges

The response by the author to the idea of being sent to Vietnam to "kill wretched people living far away" best exemplifies which of the following late-twentieth-century global processes?

Individuals challenging established racial and cultural assumptions

Which of the following aspects of the development of international businesses in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries best explains why the Subway corporation chose to include the specific items shown on the menu?

International corporations sought to adjust to the cultural preferences of local or regional markets.

Kartini's goals were most clearly advanced by which of the following during the early twentieth century?

New concepts of rights and citizenship

Which of the following best explains the change in energy consumption in the time period from 1850 to 2000 C.E.?

New technologies that enhanced production through the use of petroleum and nuclear power

Mazower's interpretation in the passage is most clearly informed by which of the following?

Postcolonial critiques of imperialism

In which of the following twentieth-century historical contexts would artists have been most likely to display works that carry messages similar to that conveyed by Wang Guangyi's painting?

Russia after the end of the Cold War

Based on the trends shown in the graph, which of the following best describes the populations of Sweden and Mexico at the end of the twentieth century?

Sweden's population was stable, while Mexico's population was still growing.

All of the following statements about the 1980s and 1990s are factually accurate. Which could have best been cited at the time to explain a limitation in Deng Xiaoping's arguments about the benefits of enacting the reforms proposed in the passage?

The Soviet Union collapsed in part because the implementation of economic liberalization policies exposed the weakness of its economy.

In the broader context of the 1990s, which of the following most likely limited the popular appeal of protests against the "global economic system" such as the ones called for in the passage?

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting absence of alternatives to the Western-dominated political and economic order

Based on the passage, FARC was most likely reacting against which of the following developments in the late twentieth century?

The extensive influence of global financial institutions on developing countries

Which of the following aspects of the historical situation in India at the beginning of the twenty-first century is most significant in understanding the menu items illustrated in the image?

The increasing globalization of consumer culture

Which of the following post-1945 processes in Western Europe was most directly inspired by the "sea-change" in Europeans' political and social attitudes described by Mazower in the last sentence of the first paragraph?

The initial steps toward European economic and political integration

The solutions implemented in the case studies were most directly in response to which of the following developments in the twentieth century?

The rapid growth of human populations increased competition for natural resources and placed enormous pressures on the environment.

Based on the images, Banksy's work best illustrates which of the following?

The spread of social protests against the inequalities of global economic integration

Women won the right to vote primarily as a result of the women's rights movement, but other factors were also important. Which of the following best helps explain the pattern in the bar graph above?

The world wars and decolonization

Based on the image and its historical context, which of the following can best be inferred about the artist's primary purpose in creating the painting?

To offer an ironic commentary on the triumph of Western consumer culture in communist China

Based on the graph, the increased availability of antibiotics and vaccines after circa 1955 is most clearly associated with

a greater decline in the death rates for Mexico than in the death rates for Sweden

Based on the two passages, the authors would most likely have agreed that

international organizations dedicated to maintaining world peace need to have effective enforcement mechanisms

A supporter of free-market policies in the late twentieth century would have most likely explained that the policy argued for in the passage did not sufficiently

liberalize the Chinese economy because only fourteen cities were opened to foreign investment and trade

As outlined in the passage, the institutions involved in twentieth-century anti-malarial efforts best illustrate the link between global public health efforts and

the development of organizations to safeguard international peace