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Final exam challenge

Ten questions of mixed difficulty, covering Historical globalization, Legacies, Prosperity, Responding, the economics. Print it, or work through it on screen — the answer key starts on its own page.

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Final exam challenge

Social Studies 10-1 · maddyhelps.com

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  1. Historical globalization refers to the period beginning with

    1. a) the Industrial Revolution only
    2. b) the Second World War
    3. c) European exploration and colonization from around 1500
    4. d) the internet age

  2. The strongest argument that free trade reduces poverty is that

    1. a) it removes all inequality
    2. b) it guarantees good wages
    3. c) it eliminates tariffs
    4. d) it has accompanied large falls in extreme poverty in rapidly trading economies

  3. The term Global South is preferred by some writers because

    1. a) it avoids implying that all countries are on one path towards the same goal
    2. b) it is older
    3. c) it is geographically exact
    4. d) it refers only to Africa

  4. A non-governmental organization is

    1. a) an international treaty
    2. b) a government department
    3. c) an organization independent of government, often working on a cause
    4. d) a corporation

  5. The Human Development Index combines

    1. a) income, life expectancy and education
    2. b) trade volume and tariffs
    3. c) income only
    4. d) population and area

  6. Protectionism is usually defended on the grounds that it

    1. a) increases global trade
    2. b) protects domestic jobs and industries from foreign competition
    3. c) helps exporters
    4. d) lowers consumer prices

  7. Mercantilism's central assumption was that

    1. a) tariffs are harmful
    2. b) trade benefits both sides
    3. c) colonies should be independent
    4. d) global wealth is fixed, so one country gains only at another's expense

  8. Self-determination has proved difficult to apply because

    1. a) populations are mixed, so any border leaves some group as a minority
    2. b) the UN forbids it
    3. c) no state supports it
    4. d) it applies only to Europe

  9. The Columbian exchange refers to the transfer between the Americas and Europe of

    1. a) plants, animals, people and diseases
    2. b) only enslaved people
    3. c) only ideas
    4. d) only gold and silver

  10. The scramble for Africa in the late 19th century saw European powers

    1. a) trade as equals
    2. b) grant independence
    3. c) divide the continent among themselves with little regard for existing peoples
    4. d) withdraw entirely

Answer key · Final exam challenge

Social Studies 10-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. c) European exploration and colonization from around 1500 — The course dates it from the voyages of exploration, through mercantilism, colonization and industrialization, to decolonization. Related Issue 2 is about what that period left behind.
  2. d) it has accompanied large falls in extreme poverty in rapidly trading economies — China and parts of Southeast Asia are the usual evidence. The honest qualification is that trade came with industrial policy and state direction, so the causation is contested — and saying so is stronger than claiming it outright.
  3. a) it avoids implying that all countries are on one path towards the same goal — Terms like developing and third world carry an assumption about direction and hierarchy. Noticing what a label assumes is exactly the kind of source analysis this course rewards.
  4. c) an organization independent of government, often working on a cause — Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders and Oxfam are standard examples. They are the main vehicle for collective action by individuals in this course.
  5. a) income, life expectancy and education — It was designed precisely because GDP per person can be high in a country where most people are poor or short-lived. Using HDI alongside GDP is a good habit in an answer.
  6. b) protects domestic jobs and industries from foreign competition — The cost is borne by consumers through higher prices, and other countries often retaliate. Stating the trade-off in both directions is what makes an answer analytical.
  7. d) global wealth is fixed, so one country gains only at another's expense — That zero-sum view is exactly what Adam Smith argued against, and the disagreement runs straight into the modern free trade debate. Naming the assumption makes the continuity visible.
  8. a) populations are mixed, so any border leaves some group as a minority — Drawing a line around one people usually traps another inside it. Partition in India and the breakup of Yugoslavia both show how fast the principle can produce the violence it was meant to prevent.
  9. a) plants, animals, people and diseases — Potatoes and maize went east; horses, wheat and smallpox went west. Disease was the most devastating element, killing a large majority of Indigenous populations in some regions before most Europeans arrived.
  10. c) divide the continent among themselves with little regard for existing peoples — The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 drew borders on a map in Europe. Those borders survive, which is why so many later conflicts run across rather than between ethnic groups.