QUIZ 1 - THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

What is mercantilism?

• a government-issued currency that is not backed by a

  physical commodity

• the economic

  theory that trade generates wealth

• a network of pathways where trade was facilitated in the ancient world

• a tax imposed on imported or exported products

What is the main focus of the 'MEDIASCAPE' in the context of globalization?

• The flow of money across political boarders

• The global movement of people across boundaries

• The flow of media across boarders

• The global flow of ideas

What is the main focus of the 'ETHNOSCAPE' in the context of globalization?

• The flow of money across political boarders

• The global flow of ideas

• The flow of technology, mechanical goods, or software

• The global movement of people across boundaries

This is a type of currency that was not backed by any precious metal.

• barter

• Bretton-Woods System

• Fiat Currency

• gold standard

He is the proponent of the "scapes" of globalization.

• Aljur Abrenica

• Arjun Appadurai

• Arjuna Appadurai

• Jake Andrich

This is the single, most important defining factor of a state.

• language

• national flag

• sovereignty

• economy

The 30-Year War was a religious dispute between what faiths?

• Islam and Christians

• Catholics and Protestants

• Catholics and Satanists

• Islam and Protestants

_________ theorized that the world is divided into three distinct parts; peripheral, semi-peripheral, and core countries.

• Charles Darwin

• Immanuel Kant

• Karl Marx

• Immanuel Wallerstein

What is the best scholarly description of globalization?

• The flow of media across boarders

• The expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and across world-space

• The integration of the international markets to a wider global market

• The global movement of people across boundaries

What does the term 'scapes' refer to in the context of globalization?

• The multiple and intersecting dimensions of integration

• The global movement of people across boundaries

• The flow of money across political boarders

• The intersecting processes of globalization