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WorksheetsThe Contemporary World
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Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
It is a widespread belief among powerful people that the global integration of economic markets is beneficial for everyone, since it spreads freedom and democracy across the world.
Globalism
Globalization
Culture
Tradition
The following is an example of social media, EXCEPT
Skype
Microsoft Office
You tube
The reality and omnipresence of globalization make us see ourselves as part of what we refer to as the______
Iron Age
Global Age
Ice Age
Age of Exploration
The advancement of the technologies in the Philippines is an example of what type of scapes?
Financescapes
Technoscape
Ideoscape
Mediascape
Which institution was to be the global lender of last resort to prevent individual countries spiraling into credit crises?
IBRD or World Bank
GATT
IMF
WTO
It is known as the oldest international trade route
Gold Standard
Open Trade System - use currencies
Silk Road
Galleon Trade System
According to Keynes, governments have to reinvigorate markets with infusions of capitals. This active role of governments in managing spending served as the anchor for what would be called a system of __________.
Economic globalization
Global Keynesianism
Washington Consensus
Neoliberalism
GATT stands for.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
General Accumulation on Taxes and Tariffs
General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs
General Accumulation on Tariffs and Trades
It was the worst and longest recession ever experienced by the Western world.
Typhoon
Depression
Earthquake
Corruption
Which of the following is not an attribute of today’s world politics?
There are countries or states that are independent and govern themselves
These countries interact with each other through diplomacy
There are international organizations, like the UN that facilitate the
Integration of the country’s culture with the rest of the world
Which of the following is not an element of a state?
Population
Territory
Governance
Sovereignty
An agreement signed to the Thirty Year’s War between the major continental power.
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Westphalia
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Tordesillas
John is from the Cebu City transferred to live in Batanes is an example of:
Internal migration
International migration
Global migration
National migration
Which of the following does not belong to the Axis powers?
Italy
Japan
Germany
Great Britain
Which of the following does not belong to the Allied powers?
Japan
United States
Belgium
Holland
Who spearheaded to the creation of League of Nation?
Immanuel Kant
Jeremy Bentham
Woodrow Wilson
Giuseppe Mazzini
The main headquarters of United Nations is located at __________________
Vienna, Italy
Nairobi in Africa
Geneva, Switzerland
Manhattan, New York
The following are the official languages of United Nations, EXCEPT
French
Russian
African
Chinese
The United Nations is divided into five active organs, EXCEPT.
Security Council
General Assembly
Secretary- General
Secretariat
What regional organization was established by the Arab countries to regulate production and sale of oil?
OPEC
NAM
ASEAN
UAE
Which of the following countries is NOT part of the ASEAN?
Brunei
Japan
Cambodia
Indonesia
Which of the following was the cause of the political conflict between China and Philippines, recently?
The West Philippine Sea
The Coral Reef formation in the Philippines
The Boracay Island
The resources in the Philippines
Who warned in his 1798 “An Essay on the Principle of Population” that population growth will inevitably exhaust world food supply by middle of the 19th century?
Thomas Malthus
Thumas Malthus
Thomas Malthos
Tomas Malthus
The “Home of Hollywood”, where movies are made for global consumption
San Francisco
New York
Los Angeles
Tokyo
The Philippines played a leading role in the early year of the GA. Who was the Filipino diplomat was elected General Assembly (GA) President from 1949-1950?
Carlos P. Romulo
Carlos P. Garcia
Ramon Magsaysay
Elpidio Quirino
Which of the following does not show the direct effect of globalization on the government?
Globalization is seen to impose a forced choice upon nation-states.
The establishment of international laws and principles.
The establishment of economic and political integrations.
The increasing number of migrants in developed countries.
Which of the following is an example of a multinational company?
Annipie
Gaisano Mall
McDonald’s
Penong’s.
What is the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing?
Factory system
Industrial revolution
Transportation innovation
Technological innovation
Which of the following shows the best way for the national government to attract investments from multinational companies?
Continue the BUILD–BUILD program initiated by the last administrations.
Impose quota in all exported and imported products.
Implement policies and create cash programs for the local investors.
Loosen the national border regulatory requirements.
Which of the following countries are core countries?
Australia, Japan, USA, and UK
Australia, USA, Japan, and Russia
India, Thailand, Singapore, and South Korea
Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand
Which of the following countries are periphery countries?
India, Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand
India, Philippines, South Korea, and South Africa
Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, and Cambodia
Which of the following shows the influence of the World Trade Organization in our nation’s border policy?
The adaptation of the K-12 curriculum in the Philippine educational system.
The creation of social networks expanded and intensified global cultural integration.
The replacement of the Agricultural Tariffication Act of 1996 to the Rice Tariffication Law or R.A no.11203.
The implementation of national policies that adhere to the Sustainable Development Goals imposed by the international organization.
Which of the following statements are true about global inequality?
Multinational corporations and organizations eliminate the factors that trigger social inequality.
Peripheral countries have no exit way in the Modern World System.
Globalization eliminates global inequality through economic globalization.
Multinational corporations and international organizations perpetuate global inequality.
What is the impact of the capitalist economy on the global economy?
It paved the way for the creation of the core, periphery, and semi-periphery countries.
Capitalist economy generates more job opportunities for the developed countries.
The capitalist economy stimulates global conflict.
Global actors work only for the developed countries.
Which of the following best shows the role of the Philippine government in economic globalization?
Address the existing issues about the Maharlika investment fund.
Improve transparency in all government transactions.
Import products such as rice and advanced technologies from well-developed countries.
The country continues to establish good international ties to facilitate market integration.
What do you call the process that refers to corporate expansion by consolidating additional marketing functions and activities with a single management framework?
Globalization
Economic globalization
Market Integration
Globality
From distributor of original films, Netflix started producing original programs and content in 2012 to remove its reliance on other creators and cater to the demand of its customers interested in more original content. What type of market integration is being performed?
Backward vertical integration
Forward vertical integration
Conglomeration
Horizontal integration
Facebook, now known as Meta, acquired Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion and WhatsApp for a historic $19 billion in 2014. What type of market integration is being performed?
Backward vertical integration
Forward vertical integration
Conglomeration
Horizontal integration
Which of the following is NOT true about Russia and China in the context of the global economy?
Both countries are now new powerful countries.
Both are core countries.
Both are influential economically and politically.
Both are US rivals.
Apple launched a new iPhone model, the iPhone 16 series, last month which is now available in different countries. What scape of globalization is being shown?
Ethnoscapes
Ideoscapes
Mediascapes
Technoscapes
Which of the following is an example of a conglomerate originally from the Philippines?
Ayala Corporation
ABS CBN corporation
Seven Eleven
San Miguel Corporation
Many Filipino teachers are currently working in the USA on J-1 visas. What scape of globalization is being highlighted?
Ethnoscapes
Ideoscapes
Mediascapes
Technoscapes
Around the world, many nations have now made same-sex unions lawful. What scape of globalization is being shown?
Ethnoscapes
Ideoscapes
Mediascapes
Technoscapes
In 2017, the Walt Disney Company merged with 21st Century with $71.3 billion deal. What type of market integration is being performed?
Backward vertical integration
Forward vertical integration
Conglomeration
Horizontal integration
Which factors hindered true globalization in the era of silk road and spice route trade?
High demand of supply
Low demand of supply
High volume of supply
Low volume of supply
Which of the following best shows the effect of globalization on people’s daily lives?
I. People’s consumption habits are now global.
II. People are now heavily dependent on technology.
III. People consume organic products to stay healthy.
IV. People love to buy cultural products.
How does economic globalization improve the lives of Filipino citizens?
Accessibility and affordability of technological products from other countries.
The increasing inflation rate forced Filipinos to work hard.
Filipino farmers are still dependent on traditional farming.
The changing societies and the conversion of farmlands to housing and industrial lands.
Which of the following global events simply shows the concept of the Modern World System?
I. Most Covid-19 vaccines distributed globally are manufactured from China and the US.
II. The Philippines imported S26.9B in electrical machinery and equipment, mainly from China, South Korea, and Japan.
III. Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 led to a series of economic sanctions and trade restrictions on Russia, limiting the world’s supply of oil and gas that rocketed the world’s inflation rate.
IV. Maintaining maritime sovereignty in the South China Sea and balancing bilateral relations with China and the US will be a challenge for the Philippines in the coming future.
Which of the following BEST describes a primary negative implication of lowering trade barriers?
Capitalists will spread its business innovations and territories.
Environmentalists will increase in number.
Government policies will become lenient over foreign companies.
There will be rampant piracy of products.
Which of the following is not the reason why cities became the major terror attack of recent years?
High population
With national influence
Attractive to workers and migrants
A and B
Which of the following is not one of the roles of the General Assembly?
Financial matters of the organization.
To settle disputes through peaceful means.
Deciding as to the expulsion of a member country.
Giving recommendations to the United Nations
What is the negative effect of media globalization on the diversity of cultures of people across the globe?
Hegemony
Cultural imperialism
Monoculture
All of the above
Social media have both beneficial and adverse effects. Which of the following statements supports the latter?
communication has democratized access
enable users to consumers and producers of information simultaneously
proliferation of counterfeits has been widespread across different platforms.
Anyone with an internet connection or a smartphone can use Facebook and Twitter for free.
According to Sociologist Saskia Sassen, what are the three global cities that she identified based on global finance and capitalism way back 1990s?
Manila, Los Angeles, Barcelona
New York, London, Tokyo
Brisbane, Dubai, Seoul
Davao, Beijing, Singapore
Why internationalism became very crucial aspect of globalization?
Global interactions are heightened by the increased interdependence of states
Some countries are taking over the sovereignty of other countries.
Rise of the United Nations as the center of global governance.
It encourages these socialist revolutions across the world.
Which of the following is not included in the criteria to measure economic competitiveness?
Market size
Purchasing power of citizens
Size of the lower-class
Potential for growth
With the current territorial disputes between the Philippines and China over the islands in the West Philippine Sea, which organ of the United Nations is responsible to settle international disputes based on international order/law?
The General Assembly (GA)
The Security Council (SC)
the International Court of Justice
the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
How do the countries establish a common basis for currency prices and fixed exchange rate systems which related to mercantilism?
Based on the political standing of the country
All are based on the value of gold.
By the scope of their territory
All based on the products they could able be to be produced
From what perspective is against any form of population control, as they are compulsory in resorting to a carrot-stick approach that does not empower women?
Feminist
Church
State
None of the above
World population projection in the year 2050, will reach to?
8 billion
9.5 billion
11.2 billion
13 billion
Group of people who have imbibed a particular culture, spoke a common language, and live in a specific territory.
Which of the following negates the idea that religion is the foundation of modern republics?
Rulers of a certain state is not the head of the religion of Islam.
Islamic rule was the superior form of government because it was spiritual.
The Malaysian government places religion at the center of the political system.
Malaysian constitution explicitly states that Islam is the religion of the Federation.
Which of the following scholars below described globalization as the process of “the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and across world-space.”?
Adam Smith
John Maynard Keynes
Karl Marx
Manfred Steger
How did television change the lives of people since the beginning?
television has steered people from the dining table they eat and tell stories to each other
television has drawn people away from other meaningful activities such as playing games or reading books
Neither A nor B
Both A and B
Which of the follow describes the relationship of media and globalization?
With media, there’s a spread of culture.
With media, there’s only the spread of ideas.
Media as a form of technology, reshapes society.
A and C
Religion and globalism clash over the fact that religious evangelization is in itself is a form of globalization. How does the statement above manifest in society?
Religion uses social media platforms to spread holy ideas globally
Religion itself has long been the scapegoat of imperialists to conquer weaker nations throughout history.
Religion assumes that there is the “the possibility of communication between humans and the transcendent
Options A and B are both correct
Seo Dal Mi believes that change is inevitable and the only constant thing in this world. From which perspective is she more likely inclined with based on her belief?
Religious
Globalist
Conformist
Anarchist
Who among the following is known for his remarks, “Religion is the opium of the people”?
Max Weber
Karl Marx
Samuel Huntington
William Ernest Henley
What do you call to a protocol that set targets but left it to the individual countries to determine how best they would achieve those stated goals in reducing greenhouse gases?
Kyoto protocol
Greenhouse revolution
Framework Convention for Climate Change
A and B
What do you call the imperialist cultural belief as American President William McKinley claimed, “it was the duty of the United States “to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them”?
Mandate of heaven
Manifest destiny
The White Man’s Burden
Sphere of Influence
Which of the following statements showcase the reality of the relationship of politics and religion in the Philippine context?
By constitutionality, there is a separation of church and the state
Government does not interfere with religious activities
The church itself is non-partisan
Religious leaders have used religion to wield influence in the political arena.
What do you call the main channel of globalization to spread global cultures and ideas?
Newspaper
Television
Internet
Media
Which was the most powerful organ of the United Nations composed of 15 members of which 5 were permanent members while the other 10 members were elected by the General Assembly to two-year terms?
General Assembly
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
International Court of Justice
Rhona loves K-Dramas, and this became her reason to move to Korea from the Philippines. Which of the following describes immigration?
Rhona immigrated from the Philippines.
Rhona immigrated to Korea.
Rhona is not considered an immigrant but an emigrant of Korea.
B and C
The Sustainable Development Goals number 5 is also known as_______
Quality education
Gender Equality
Zero Hunger
Reduced Inequalities
If our goal is to make cities, human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, which SDG should we focus on?
SDG 10
SDG 11
SDG 16
SDG 17
Which of the following are the determinants of population growth?
Fertility and Mortality
Life expectancy and Migration
Natural calamities and Socioeconomic conditions
All of the above
Which of the following human factors contribute to the high density of the population due to good job opportunities
Economic
Political
Social
Resources
What do you call to the sparsely and densely populated places?
Population distribution
Population projection
Population density
Population growth
Which of the following is/are not part of the UN five active organs?
economic council
general assembly
political security
security council
Mia is an OFW who now permanently lived in Canada. Which of the following describes emigration?
Mia is an emigrant from Philippines
Mia is an emigrant in Canada
Mia is not considered as emigrant because she officially lives in Canada.
B and C
Who is a defender of globalization which states that civilizations can be held together by religious worldviews?
Max Weber
Karl Marx
Samuel Huntington
William Ernest Henley
This kind of media includes books, magazines, and newspapers ____________
Broadcast media
Print media
Social media
Digital media
Since when was television introduced in the market?
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Which of the following is true about regionalization?
Regional concentration of economic flows.
Group of countries located in the same geographical area.
A political process characterized by international coordination and collaboration in economic policy.
A and B
Who coined the term “imagined community” to describe a nation?
Karl Marx
John Maynard Keynes
Benedict Anderson
Manfred Steger
Which of the following is not one of the roles of the General Assembly?
Financial matters of the organization.
To settle disputes through peaceful means.
Deciding as to the expulsion of a member country.
Giving recommendations to the United Nations
Is globalization a new occurrence, or has it been around for ages?
It's been around for a while, but it is slowing down now.
Globalization started with the dot.com bubble in the late 1990s.
It's been around for a while, but it is really speeding up now.
It's definitely new, and it will pick up speed quickly.
What are the foremost characteristics or indicators to be considered as a global city?
Unity
Harmonize culture
Economic power
Deposits of gold
It refers to a borderless world
Localization
McDonalidization
Globalization
Integragtion
Who coined the term “imagined community” to describe a nation?
Karl Marx
John Maynard Keynes
Benedict Anderson
Manfred Steger
Which of the following is not one of the roles of the General Assembly?
Under what political party is the newly-elected US President Donald Trump?
Democrat
Republican
Federal
Nacionallista
Sustainable Development Goals is due until____
2030
2040
2050
2060
Religion and globalism clash over the fact that religious evangelization is in itself is a form of globalization. How does the statement above manifest in society?
Religion uses social media platforms to spread holy ideas globally
Religion itself has long been the scapegoat of imperialists to conquer weaker nations throughout history
Religion assumes that there is the “the possibility of communication between humans and the transcendent
Options A and B are both correct
Which of the following statement does not support globalists’ perspectives claim?
skills are more pedestrian as they aim to seal trade deals, raise the profits of private enterprises and improve government revenue collections
detest politics and the quest for power for they are evidence of humanity’s weakness
sees his/her work as contributing to the general progress of the community, the nation, and the global economic system
values them as both means and ends to open up further the economies of the world
Which of the following is not an environmental challenge/s identified by the Conserve Energy Future?
Overpopulation
The destruction of million-year-old ecosystems and loss of biodiversity.
waste disposal catastrophe due to the excessive amount of waste.
Rural sprawls that continue to expand as a city turns into a megalopolis
With the advancement of technology, smartphones become the most accessible tools for communication which brought so much convenience to people except that:
allows user to keep in touch instantly with multiple people at the same time
simultaneously extend and amputate human senses
dull the users’ communicative capacities
keep their family updated real-time even from afar
This allowed for further connections of people, communities, and countries all over the world
Mass Media
Books
History
Culture
A system of organization in which people with a common identity like inside a country with firm borders and a single government.
Nation
State
Nation-state
Stateless
