Political Science 230 Part IV Roskin, pgs. 182-186 Kelleher, pgs. 167-174, A:IR20-12 The Population Explosion
True or False Questions
1. Today, the world's population is about 7 billion people and is expected to top 9 billion by 2050, according to Roskin and Berry. True or False
2. The world’s population is increasing 1.2 percent a year, but most of this is in the developing countries. True or False
3. Roskin and Berry argue that slower population growth results in faster economic growth. True or False
4. Saudi Arabia had an amazingly high population growth rate and as a result it is now full of unemployed and angry youths, many of whom turn to Islamic radicalism according to Roskin and Berry. True or False
5. Unlike other rich countries in Western Europe, the United States refuses to allow new immigrants into its territory. True or False
6. Most European countries have anti-immigrant movements or parties, many with fascist overtones. True or False
7. According to Roskin and Berry, even the dirtiest, lowest-paid jobs in the First World pay ten or more times more what migrants can make at home. True or False
8. Many citizens of rich countries refuse to take low-end jobs; preferring to live off welfare, argue Roskin and Berry. True or False
9. Unlike Western Europe where there has been a tradition of welcoming new immigrants, the United States is less accepting and tolerant of what Americans deem alien outsiders. True or False
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When did the world's population reach one billion people? a) 1670, b) 1830, c) 1870, d) 1900.
2. What was the world's population size in 1987? a) 2.5 billion, b) 3 billion, c) 4.2 billion, d) 5 billion.
3. If a country’s GDP growth is 2.4 percent but its population growth is also 2.4 percent, it enjoys: a) no per-capita increase and remains poor, b) a slow per-capita increase but
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4. At what point of per capita income will the fertility rate start to drop, according to Roskin and Berry? a) $1,000 to $2,000, b) $2,000 to $4,000, c) $5,000 to $8,000, d) $10,000, to $12,000.
5. At what point of per capita income does population stay at the replacement level? a) $2,000 to $5,000, b) $4,000 to $10,000, c) $10,000, to $15,000, d) $14,000 to $19,000.
6. What is Roskin and Berry's solution for bringing down population growth rates in the Global South? a) sterilize women, b) educate girls, c) change religious values, d) pass out condoms.
7. How many new jobs must be created in countries like Mexico, Brazil, and Egypt to match the number of young people that are being born? a) 500,000, b) 1 million, c) 2 million, d) 5 million
8. In the parlance of radicals, neocolonialism is the indirect continuation of colonialism by: a) political means, b) social means, c) cultural means, d) economic means.
9. Quoting from Roskin and Berry, backwardness is about: a) the lack of technology, b) the lack of tractors, c) the lack of paying attention, d) the lack of calendars.
10. What does remittance refer to? a) owing money to your neighbor, b) achieving stability, c) sending money back home, d) emigrating to another country.
11. Transparency refers to: a) secretive favors among government officials, b) businesses and political transactions open to public view, c) looking out for lower level officials, d) isolating defective institutions from the body politic.
12. How long will it take Western Europe’s population to double at the current rate of .2 percent a year? a) 210 years, b) 270 years, c) 350 years, d) 415 years.
13. If immigration is excluded, the U.S. population will double in: a) 75 years, b) 100 years, c) 125 years, d) 160 years
14. The most densely populated country in Africa with an annual rate of 3.4%: a) South Africa, b) Zimbabwe, c) Rwanda, d) Kenya.
15. What is the chief factor leading some in the Third World to immigrate to the First World? a) jobs, b) family unity, c) culture, d) political instability.
16 According to Roskin and Berry, how does the U.S. look upon undocumented immigrants? a) they are welcomed, respected for their hard work, b) as potential
20-2 terrorists, c) oblivious to them because the country is far too big, d) it depends on how close the Americans live to the Canadian border.
17. According to Roskin and Berry, what is the most effective way to curb the flow of immigrants to the industrialized North? a) Pass more stringent laws to assure that immigrants are not rewarded, b) Punish the countries of origin via the UN through a variety of sanctions, including economic embargoes, c) Help the Global South industrialize by allowing the old, labor-intensive industries to die in the North, d) Build an electronic wall at each country's borders with the military assigned responsibility for shooting trespassers.
18. How much do the Europeans, Japanese, and Americans lavish a day on their farmers in taxpayers subsidies? a) $250 million, b) $500 million, c) $750 million, d) $1 billion
19. What is meant by the fertility rate? a) birthrate, b) average number of babies per woman, c) rate of population increase, d) the rate of births to deaths
20. What is the average number of children born to women in the Global South: a) 2, b) 3, c) 6, d) 8.
Fill-in Questions
1. What helped keep populations down in the past? a) Traditional societies had high ______rates and high ______rates. b) They needed the former to compensate for the latter and to stay in rough ______. c) A quarter to _____ of babies died soon after birth, as did the mothers, d) and some people lived to ___ or ___.
2. What helped to dramatically increase population growth rates in much of the Third World? a) Simple public ______improvement--sewers, clean ______, washable cotton underwear—boost life spans. b) With ______, visiting nurses and midwives, and good _____, people attain near-modern levels of health.
3. How does China keep its population at a low .6 percent? a) compulsory ______, b) female ______, and c) punishment for parents who produce ______children.
Effects of Globalization Kelleher, pgs. 167-174
20-3 True or False Questions
1. Most International theorists have given up on the nation-state paradigm and have embraced alternative theories, such as the role of transnational corporations and other nongovernmental organizations. (NGOs). True or False
2. Kelleher and Klein believe that whenever governments make policy and take action, it often supports the realities created by private groups interacting with counterparts in other countries. True or False
3. The United Nations’ organizations and commissions will only work with governmental and public bodies. Private individuals are not permitted to participate in UN related activities because of their lack of accountability. True or False
4. Supporters for the creation of Israel would argue that force was necessary to achieve its establishment while opponents would argue that violence sets the context for the next version of violence designed to counter the former use of force. True or False
5. The creation of the United States was the result of war whereas the creation of Canada was achieved through peaceful means. True or False
6. Columbia willingly gave up Panama as a way to show its cooperation with the United States. True or False
7. A conventional war is one that does not use nuclear weapons but ground troops alongside air and naval forces. True or False
8. It is an outrageous lie for anyone, including groups and organizations, as well as states to accuse Israel of possessing nuclear weapons. True or False
9. The overwhelming majority of Irish-Americans thought of the Irish Republican Army as nothing more than a terrorist organization comprised of criminals, deviants, and sociopaths. True or False
10. The world of states, via the United Nations, have agreed never to politicize the acts or actions who apply terrorism, making sure that such acts are always condemned. True or False
11. Whenever the U.S. government fights terrorists with terrorism, according to Title 22 of the U.S. Code, governments do not commit acts of terror. True or False
12. Many leading states have established intelligence agencies that engage in covert operations against foreign enemies without respect to the limits of law or morality. True or False
Multiple Choice Questions
20-4 1. The following serves to carry out the UN Charter's vision of creating a comprehensive system of international security to deter war: a) Interagency Council on Foreign Affairs, b) Intergovernmental Security Coordinating Commission, c) The World Bank, d) The Security Council.
2. Refers to the UN Security Council's--authorized military action against an aggressor state without that state's consent: a) strategic coordinated action, b) inhibitive security cooperation, c) collective security, d) international deterrence
3. According to the UN Charter, a state's sovereignty can be abridged only when the Security Council has: a) authorized as a result of an aggressor state threatening the peace, b) been dismantled and the UN body as a whole authorizes it, c) functioned illegally by attacking an aggressor state, d) Under no circumstances does the UN Charter allow for removing state sovereignty
4. The UN can administer the government of a dysfunctional state transitionally: a) governmental reconstruction, b) state building, c) humanitarian intervention, d) international peacekeeping.
5. The movement of a state's military forces into a conflict situation as an implied threat: a) coercive response, b) show of force, c) collateral damage, d) allied military coordination
6. The application of formally organized military forces by states with a command and control apparatus by one state against another: a) strategic attack, b) aggressive military actions, c) conventional war, d) structural military responses.
7. The following describes the use of a destructive weapon rather than the manner in which it is used: a) nuclear war, b) cohesive war, c) unnatural war, d) massive retaliatory war
8. Currently, how many states have officially acknowledged the production and possession of nuclear weapons? a) 4, b) 5, c) 6, d) 7
9. After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II, what was the policy position of the United States for their use during the Cold War? a) Whenever it determined to remove an unacceptable regime, b) In combination with conventional weapons, c) Only in retaliation to a direct nuclear attack, d) Never to use them again.
10. Throughout the Cold War, both the Soviet Union and the United States produced some ten-, twenty-, and thirty- megaton nuclear warheads. Putting it in perspective, 1 megaton is how much greater in power than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima? a) 10 times greater, b) 50 times greater, c) 80 times greater, d) 200 times greater.
20-5 11. A term originating during the Spanish Civil War of 1936, involving hit-and-run tactics operating in organized groups: a) evasive actions, b) police responses, c) guerrilla war, d) aggressive military tactics
12. Of the six basic acts of terrorism, which one of them is the least demanding and account for roughly half of all international terrorist incidents? a) assassinations, b) kidnappings, c) bombings, d) hijackings.
Fill-in Questions
1. Over 120 UN-related organizations, commissions, and programs cover a wide variety of international issues, including a) ______rights, b) threats to the natural ______, and c) ______development.
2. A state or group that decides to use force has several choices to make in waging war which include the 5 following categories: a) show of force, b) ______war, c) ______war, d) ______war, e) and ______.
3. Terrorism can be defined as: a) specific acts, such as bombings and assassinations (______), b) carried out by small numbers of people generally against civilians (______), c) for the purpose of ______an existing political system d) or at least revealing it as ______, inept and unworthy of support (______).
Answers
True or False Questions, Roskin, pgs. 182-186
1. True 3. True 5. False 7. True 9. False
Multiple Choice Questions
1. b 3. a
20-6 5. b 7. b 9. c 11. b 13. b 15. a 17. c 19. b
Fill-in Questions
1. birth, death, b) balance, c) half, d) 30, 40 3. a) abortions, b) infanticide, c) three
True or False Questions, Kelleher, pgs. 167-174
1. False 3. False 5. True 7. True 9. False 11. True
Multiple Choice Questions
1. d 3. a 5. b 7. a 9. c 11. c
Fill-in Questions
1. a) human, b) environment, c) global 3. a) tactics, b) targets, c) destabilizing, d) oppressive, objectives
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