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Culture, Change, and the Modern World MCQ

________________ are people who leave their homes to work for a time in other regions or countries

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Correct Answer: Migrants

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________ occurs in all human societies.

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Correct Answer: Puberty

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_____ is an international agency that provides technical assistance and loans to promote international trade and economic development, especially to poor nations.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Sweatshops is a pejorative term for factories with working conditions that may include low wages, long hours, inadequate ventilation, and _____ abuse.

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Correct Answer: Any of these

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Structural Adjustment is a development policy promoted by Western nations, particularly the United States, that requires poor nations to pursue free-market reforms to get new loans from the _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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A corporation that owns business enterprises or plants in more than one nation is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Multinational Corporation

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Modernization Theory is a model of development that predicts _____ societies will move in the social and technological direction of industrialized nations.

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Correct Answer: Nonindustrial

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Members of societies that have occupied a region for a long time and are recognized by other groups as its original (or very ancient) inhabitants are known as_____

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Correct Answer: Indigenous People

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Demographic Transition is the tendency for family size and fertility to decline as societies transition from majorities that are poor and rural to majorities that have_____

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Correct Answer: More wealth and urban

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Basic Human Needs Approach refers to projects aimed at providing access to _____ for the poorest of the world’s people.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Tirailleurs Sénégalais was composed largely of soldiers from _____ West African colonies led by officers from Metropolitan France.

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Correct Answer: French

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Tirailleurs Sénégalais was a regiment of Senegalese riflemen that existed from 1857 to_____.

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Correct Answer: 1960

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Pillage means to strip an area of _____ through the threat or use of physical violence.

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Correct Answer: Any of these

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Monoculture Plantation means the agricultural plantations specializing in the _____ production of a single crop to be sold on the market.

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Correct Answer: Large-scale

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A firm that is managed by a centralized board of directors but owned by its shareholders is known as Joint Stock Company.

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Correct Answer: True

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The members of the board of directors of the Dutch East India Company are known as_____

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Correct Answer: Heeren XVII

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Dutch East India Company is a joint stock company chartered by the Dutch government to control all Dutch trade in the_____ Oceans.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Corvée Labor is the paid labor required by a governing authority.

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Correct Answer: False

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Colonies are the territories under the _____ political control of a nation–state.

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Correct Answer: Immediate

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The active possession of a foreign territory and the maintenance of political domination over that territory is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Colonialism

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The notion that colonialism was a duty for _____ and a benefit for the colonized is known as Civilizing Mission.

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Correct Answer: European

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Which of the following statements best reflects anthropology’s role in addressing the major problems faced by the world today?

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Correct Answer: Anthropology can develop frameworks to analyze and understand events and processes.

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What significant lesson should be understood from the Norwegian government’s relationship with the Saami?

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Correct Answer: Even benevolent governments can’t assure the safety of indigenous groups.

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Which of the following statements best reflects how global warming will impact parts of the globe in different ways?

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Correct Answer: It will hit poor nations hardest as they have fewer resources to cope with the impact.

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Which of the following has been an effect of China’s one-child policy on the population of that country?

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Correct Answer: It has led to an increase in sex-selective abortions.

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Where are most of the “high fertility” countries (those where women have an average of five or more children) located in the world?

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Correct Answer: Africa

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Anthologist Ulf Hannerz coined the phrase “urban swirl” to explain ______.

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Correct Answer: The flow of ideas and culture in cities

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The spread of multinational corporations and the brands the sell ______.

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Correct Answer: Often leads to less cultural variation

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Where did the worst sweatshop disaster in world history occur?

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Correct Answer: Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Which type of nation is most vulnerable to having their governments influences by multinational corporations?

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Correct Answer: Poor nations

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Which of the following is a major route for a stream of migrants in the world today?

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Correct Answer: Through the Mediterranean Sea into Italy

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Migrants from less developed countries tend to leave their homes for more developed countries because they ______.

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Correct Answer: Are seeking better working conditions and pay

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In which of the following places has economic inequality grown the fastest in recent years?

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Correct Answer: The United States

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The Brookings Institute estimates that there are approximately ______ people in the “global” middle class.

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Correct Answer: 3.2 billion

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Thanks to the World Health Organization’s efforts, which of the following diseases has been virtually eliminated from threatening human populations across the globe?

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Correct Answer: Smallpox

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The failure of development policies throughout the 1950s to the 1970s in Africa meant that by the 1980s, about ______ of countries in that region had experienced some form of military intervention.

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Correct Answer: 84%

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Most European colonies gained independence by about what time?

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Correct Answer: The 1970s

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How did World War II affect European colonialism?

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Correct Answer: It weakened European countries and made it more difficult for them to sustain colonies.

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Anthropologists in the colonial era tended to study ______.

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Correct Answer: In the colonies controlled by their own country

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Which of the following trends is associated with both the rise of anthropology and European colonialism?

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Correct Answer: Enlightenment rationality

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How did countries with imperial power force their colonies to participate in a market economy?

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Correct Answer: Taxation

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At the turn of the 19th century, the native colonized people of the Congo were ordered to give ______ hours of labor each month to their Belgian colonizers.

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Correct Answer: 40

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What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference?

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Correct Answer: It was for European nations to partition Africa into colonies.

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The era of colonialism was marked by ______.

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Correct Answer: Active possession of other areas by European nations

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Which of the following joint stock companies was known for committing a massacre of almost 1,000 Chinese merchants and traders?

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Correct Answer: Dutch East India Company

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Monoculture plantations made possible which of the following changes in British lifestyle?

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Correct Answer: A dramatic increase in the consumption of sugar

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More than 7 million African slaves were transported by non-Europeans to ______.

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Correct Answer: The Islamic world

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The European pillaging of art and wealth affected ______.

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Correct Answer: Every region it encountered

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Between 1500 and 1660, the Spanish extracted at least ______ tons of gold from their colonies in the Americas.

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Correct Answer: 300

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The European system of colonization meant that people in Europe enjoyed a rising standard of living. For those in the rest of the world, it typically meant ______.

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Correct Answer: Being systematically impoverished and exploited

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Before the rise of Europe to global influence, the wealthiest and most powerful nation was probably ______.

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Correct Answer: China

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