Chapter 13 Reading Quiz

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. Few things illustrate the interconnection between Americanization and globalization better than

The impact of the Reagan years correct incorrect

The spread of nuclear weapons correct incorrect

The popularity of American entertainers correct incorrect

The power of Wall Street correct incorrect

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. The Washington Consensus involved

The free market correct incorrect

Free trade correct incorrect

Unabashed consumption correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Bill Gates’ Microsoft Company was compared to __________ because of its monopoly over the software industry.

John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil correct incorrect

Collis P. Huntington’s Baltimore & Ohio Railroad correct incorrect

Andrew Carnegie’s US Steel correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. In 1999, what percentage of the world’s biggest two hundred corporations were American?

41 percent correct incorrect

21 percent correct incorrect

50 percent correct incorrect

76 percent correct incorrect

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. Former communist states in Eastern Europe struggled in new, capitalist economies partly because of

Inefficient factories correct incorrect

Former communists maintaining control correct incorrect

Attempts to switch their currency to the dollar correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Tony Blair was the British prime minister in the late 90s, and head of the

Liberal Democratic Party correct incorrect

Labour Party correct incorrect

Conservative party correct incorrect

Scottish Nationalist Party correct incorrect

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. The first US post-Cold War intervention outside of the Middle East, considered a failure, was in

Iraq correct incorrect

Rwanda correct incorrect

Somalia correct incorrect

Yugoslavia correct incorrect

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. Thanks to the impacts of globalization, Europe acquired a significant Muslim population for the first time since

1945 correct incorrect

1492 correct incorrect

1775 correct incorrect

1519 correct incorrect

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. The most severe backlash against perceived US power appeared in

Boycotts of US companies correct incorrect

Rudeness to American tourists correct incorrect

Attacks on US service personnel correct incorrect

Refusal to repay US loans correct incorrect

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. The growing importation of foreign-made goods into the US has been called

The Open Door policy in reverse correct incorrect

Monopolies of companies like Microsoft correct incorrect

The weakening of the Soviet Union in the 1980s correct incorrect

The end of globalization correct incorrect