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Self Test on Knowledge Associated With Worldview Theme #51

Respond to each of the 10 multiple choice questions below by typing the number 1 to 5 of the answer you wish to select in the response box. When finished, click "process your responses".

1.  Which of the following international organizations has a primary purpose of promoting development in poor countries?

1) United Nations       2) World Bank       3) World Trade Organization

4) International Monetary Fund           5) Food and Agriculture Organization 

2.  ____________ exists when goods can be exported and imported without tariffs, quotas or other restrictive barriers.

1) protectionism                        2) free trade          3) a balance of trade 

4) comparative advantage        5)  a subsidy

3. The phrase “should produce and export goods that it can produce at relatively lower costs” is linked most directly to the definition of which of the terms below? 

1) comparative advantage     2) distributive justice          3) free trade

4) global competitiveness index      5) outsourcing 

4.   Which of the following is linked to warlike policies?

1) economic self interest    2) communication breakdown   

3) redistribution of wealth

4) ethnocentrism        5) the quest for purchasing power parity

5. Critics of globalization as it has operated in recent years might rail against it, using in particular all of the following terms in negatively characterizing it except 

1) sweatshops             2) outsourcing                    3) McDonaldization  

4) protectionism         5)  corporate imperialism

6.   It is important to someone for whom the Ethical Globalization worldview theme is a key component of their overall worldview that organizations like the United Nations and the World Trade Organization be  

1) strengthened         2) democratized           3) abolished

4) replaced by new institutions       5) the first and second choices 

7.  Someone for whom the Ethical Globalization worldview theme is a key component of their overall worldview would be most comfortable with which of the following other worldview themes?

1) valuing human rights    2) proud identification   3) seeking wealth and power

4)  anthropocentrism         5)  authoritarianism

8. All of the following hopes for global authority are important to someone for whom the Ethical Globalization worldview theme is a key component of their overall worldview except which?

1) that it promotes global democracy   2) that it stay out of international disputes

3) that international trade not support environmental degradation

4)  that international trade not support worker exploitation

5) that it promote technology transfer to aid those in poor countries

9.  A belief that you would not expect someone for whom the Ethical Globalization  worldview theme is a key component of their overall worldview to hold would be belief in or being sympathetic to which of the following?

1) in world government                2) in a world of global citizens

3) in creating a global village     4) in supporting rights of indigenous people

5) that unfettered free market capitalism should spread to the whole world

10.  Which of the following associations is inappropriate or wrong

1)  appropriate technology / preserves meaningful work

2) human capital / investing in people     

3) economic globalization  / expansion of foreign trade and investment

4)  tariff / government payment to producers or distributors

5) anti-corporate movement / anti-globalization 

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