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DIRECTION: Analyze the given questions 5. Who coined the term “glocalization”?
below. Shade the letter of the correct answer.
A) Arjun Appadurai
B) Roland Robertson
1. It is a metaphor used to understand the C) George Ritzer
concept of globalization that refers to D) Benjamin Barber
barriers that prevent or make difficult the
movement of things. 6. What are the three perspectives on
global cultural flows?
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity A) Differentialism, hybridization,
C) Dimensionality imperialism
D) Flows B) Differentialism, imperialism,
convergence
C) Differentialism, hybridization,
2. It refers to the increasing ease of convergence
movement of people, things, information, D) Differentialism, imperialism,
and places in the contemporary world. convergence
A) Solidity 7. It emphasizes the fact that cultures are
B) Liquidity essentially different and are only
C) Dimensionality superficially affected by global flows.
D) Flows
A) Cultural Hybridization
B) Cultural Convergence
C) Cultural Differentialism
3. It refers to the movement of people,
D) Cultural Imperialism
things, places, and information brought
by the growing “porosity” of global
8. The idea of __________ means that it is
limitations.
much more difficult to tie culture to a
specific geographic point of origin.
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity
A) McDonalization
C) Dimensionality
B) Cultural Hybridization
D) Flows
C) Scapes
D) Deterritorialization
4. Which of the following are example of 9. It is a governing body that sets rules and
flows? regulations by which different nations
exchange currencies with each other.
A) Global financial crisis
B) Virtual flow of legal and illegal information A) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
such as blogs and child pornography B) World Trade Organization (WTO)
A) Immigrants recreating ethnic claves in C) Trans National Corporations (TNCs)
host countries D) Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs)
B) All of the above
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10. This event led to the opening of the major 14. Who is the writer of the book entitled “The
parts of the world for the first time since Clash of Civilization”?
the early twentieth century.
A) Max Weber
A) The emergence of the United States as B) Samuel Huntington
the global power. C) Peter Bayer
B) The emergence of multinational D) Lori Beaman
corporations (MNCs)
C) The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. 15. Who pioneered the idea of microcredit?
D) None of the above
A) Max Weber
11. A singular historical period during which B) Arjun Appadurai
mortality and fertility rates decline from C) Muhammad Yunus
high to low levels in a particular country D) Hans Rosling
or region.
16. What is the correct order of Walt
A) Demographic regionalization Rostow’s four stages of modernization?
B) Demographic transition
C) Demographic migration I. High mass consumption
D) Demographic acceleration II. Traditional stage
III. Drive to technological maturity
12. Among the eight goals of United Nations, IV. Take-off stage
which of the following ranked first?
A) II, III, I, IV
A) Achieving universal primary education B) II, IV, III, I
B) Promoting gender equality and women C) II, IV, I, III
empowerment D) II, I, IV, III
C) Ensuring environmental sustainability
D) Eradication of extreme poverty and 17. This theory was developed in the 1950s,
hunger to explain how both the development and
the underdevelopment of countries are
13. According to Ritzer, ____________ are related in the international system. This
on the move “because they have to be”-- theory simply answers why some
they are not faring well in their home countries are poor and some rich. What
countries and are forced to move in the theory is this?
hope that their circumstances will
improve. A) Economic Theory
B) Financial Theory
A) Vagabonds C) Dependency Theory
B) Tourists D) Industrialization Theory
C) Seekers
D) Residents
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DIRECTION: Analyze the given questions 5. Who coined the term “glocalization”?
below. Shade the letter of the correct answer.
A) Arjun Appadurai
B) Roland Robertson
1. It is a metaphor used to understand the C) George Ritzer
concept of globalization that refers to D) Benjamin Barber
barriers that prevent or make difficult the
movement of things. 6. What are the three perspectives on
global cultural flows?
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity A) Differentialism, hybridization,
C) Dimensionality imperialism
D) Flows B) Differentialism, imperialism,
convergence
C) Differentialism, hybridization,
2. It refers to the increasing ease of convergence
movement of people, things, information, D) Differentialism, imperialism,
and places in the contemporary world. convergence
A) Solidity 7. It emphasizes the fact that cultures are
B) Liquidity essentially different and are only
C) Dimensionality superficially affected by global flows.
D) Flows
A) Cultural Hybridization
B) Cultural Convergence
C) Cultural Differentialism
3. It refers to the movement of people,
D) Cultural Imperialism
things, places, and information brought
by the growing “porosity” of global
8. The idea of __________ means that it is
limitations.
much more difficult to tie culture to a
specific geographic point of origin.
A) Solidity
B) Liquidity
A) McDonalization
C) Dimensionality
B) Cultural Hybridization
D) Flows
C) Scapes
D) Deterritorialization
4. Which of the following are example of 9. It is a governing body that sets rules and
flows? regulations by which different nations
exchange currencies with each other.
A) Global financial crisis
B) Virtual flow of legal and illegal information A) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
such as blogs and child pornography B) World Trade Organization (WTO)
A) Immigrants recreating ethnic claves in C) Trans National Corporations (TNCs)
host countries D) Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs)
B) All of the above
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10. This event led to the opening of the major 14. Who is the writer of the book entitled “The
parts of the world for the first time since Clash of Civilization”?
the early twentieth century.
A) Max Weber
A) The emergence of the United States as B) Samuel Huntington
the global power. C) Peter Bayer
B) The emergence of multinational D) Lori Beaman
corporations (MNCs)
C) The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. 15. Who pioneered the idea of microcredit?
D) None of the above
A) Max Weber
11. A singular historical period during which B) Arjun Appadurai
mortality and fertility rates decline from C) Muhammad Yunus
high to low levels in a particular country D) Hans Rosling
or region.
16. What is the correct order of Walt
A) Demographic regionalization Rostow’s four stages of modernization?
B) Demographic transition
C) Demographic migration I. High mass consumption
D) Demographic acceleration II. Traditional stage
III. Drive to technological maturity
12. Among the eight goals of United Nations, IV. Take-off stage
which of the following ranked first?
A) II, III, I, IV
A) Achieving universal primary education B) II, IV, III, I
B) Promoting gender equality and women C) II, IV, I, III
empowerment D) II, I, IV, III
C) Ensuring environmental sustainability
D) Eradication of extreme poverty and 17. This theory was developed in the 1950s,
hunger to explain how both the development and
the underdevelopment of countries are
13. According to Ritzer, ____________ are related in the international system. This
on the move “because they have to be”-- theory simply answers why some
they are not faring well in their home countries are poor and some rich. What
countries and are forced to move in the theory is this?
hope that their circumstances will
improve. A) Economic Theory
B) Financial Theory
A) Vagabonds C) Dependency Theory
B) Tourists D) Industrialization Theory
C) Seekers
D) Residents
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