Republic of the Philippines

Western Mindanao State University

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
Zamboanga City

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

NAME: APB SCORE:

COURSE/SECTION: DATE:

GENERAL DIRECTION: Read each direction written in every type of test.

I. TRUE OR FALSE TEST.

Directions: Write T if the statement is TRUE, and write F it otherwise. Write your answer on the space provided at the
left side of the test paper.

T 1. Globalization encompasses a multitude of processes that involves the economy, political

system, and culture.
T 2. Swedish journalist Thomas Larson (2001) defined globalization as “the process of world
shrinkage, of distance getting shorter, things moving closer.
T 3. Ohmae in 1992 stated that globalization means the onset of the borderless world.
T 4. The concepts derived in the definition of globalization are complex and multifaceted as
the definitions deal with economic, political, and social dimensions.
F 5. In the comprehensive study of 114 definitions by the Geneva Center for Security Policy
in 2006, 67 of them refer to cultural definitions.
T 6. The Nine-Dash Line—refers to the undefined vaguely located, demarcation line used
initially by the Republic of China (1912–1949) and subsequently the governments of the
Republic of China (ROC / Taiwan) and the People's Republic of China (PRC), for their
claims of the major part of the South China Sea.
F 7. To Samuel Huntington, the most important characteristic of liquid: tends to melt
whatever stands in its path.
T 8. In the metaphors of globalization, liquidity is the metaphor that could best describe
globalization today.
T 9. In the globalization theories, heterogeneity is associated with cultural hybridization.
T 10. According to Benedict Anderson, nation is an “imagined community”

II. MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on the blank provided at the left side of the test paper.

He is the former President of the Third World Network in Malaysia, who once regarded
___A____1. globalization as colonization.
a. Martin Khor c. Friedrich Engels
b. Benedict Anderson

___A____2. In 1996, he said that globalization is a world of things that have different speeds, axes, points of
origin and termination and varied relationship to institutional structures in different regions,
nations, and societies.
a. Arjun Appdurai c.Manfred Steger
b. Robert Cox

___C____3. He asserted that globalization is the debate and the debate is globalization.
a. Manfred Steger c. Cesare Poppi
b. Robert Cox

___C____4. He described globalization as the the EXPANSION and INTENSIFICATION of social relations and
consciousness across the world-time and across world-space.
a. Arjun Appdurai c. Manfred Steger
b. Matin Khor

___A____5. In the metaphors of globalization, it refers to the barriers that prevent or make difficult the
movement of things. It can be natural or man-made.
a. Solidity c. plasmic
b. Liquidity
___A____6. In the metaphors of globalization, it refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things,
information, places in the contemporary world.
a. Liquidity c. plasmic
b. solidity

___A____7. In the globalization theories, Homogeneity is linked to ___________.

a. Cultural imperialism c. Cultural integration
b. Cultural hybridization

___B____8. Ritzer (2008) claimed that the contemporary world is undergoing the process of ___________. It
involves the spread of rational system such as efficiency, calculability, predictability and
control.
a. Jollibeezation c. MangInasalization
b. McDonaldization

___A____9. In contrast to glocalization, it is the process wherein nations, corporations impose themselves on
geographic areas in order to gain profits, power.
a. Hybiridization c. Integration
b. Grobalization

___C____10. In the globalization theories, Heterogeneity pertains to the creation of various cultural practices,
new economies and political groups. It refers to the differences or hybrids or combination of
culture.
a. homogeneity c. heterogeneity

b. mixture

___C____11. In the dynamic of local and global culture, it emphasizes the fact that cultures are essentially
different and are superficially affected by global flows.
a. Cultural hybridization c. Cultural Differentialism
b. Cultural convergence

___A____12. In the dynamic of local and global culture, this approach emphasizes the integration of local and
global culture.
a. Cultural hybridization c. Cultural Differentialism
b. Cultural convergence

___A____13. He believed that the economic crises occur not when a country does not have enough money, but
when money is not being spent and, thereby not MOVING.
a. John Meynard Keynes b. Francis Fukuyama
c. Jos Raadschelders

___C____14. It is a policy model bridging politics, social studies and economics.

a. Neanderthal b. New generation model c. Neoliberalism

___C____15. It is referred to as the decline in the economic growth and employment takes place alongside a
sharp increase in prices.
a. Inflation b. Stagnation c. Stagflation
b.

III. IDENTIFICATION. Write your correct answer on the blank provided before each number. 2pts for every correct
answer.

FLOWS 1. It refers to the movement of people, things and information brought by the
growing “porosity” of global limitations.
HOMOGENEITY 2. In the globalization theories, it refers to the increasing sameness in the world as
cultural inputs, and political orientations of societies expand to create common
practices, and similar forms of government.
BRETTON WOODS 3. This agreement was negotiated in July 1944 to establish a new international
AGREEMENT monetary system. The Agreement was developed by delegates from 44
countries at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference.
NEOLIBERALISM 4. It is a policy model—bridging politics, social studies, and economics—that seeks
to transfer control of economic factors to the private sector from the public
sector. It tends towards free-market capitalism and away from government
spending, regulation, and public ownership.
INTERNATIONAL 5. Identify the two important organizations which were created under the Bretton
MONETARY FUND Woods Agreement. (5-6)
THE WORLD BANK 6.
JOHN MAYNARD 7. Who are the two primary designers of the Bretton Woods System? (7-8)
KEYNES
HARRY DEXTER WHITE 8.
FRIEDRICH HAYEK 9. They argued that government’s practice of pouring into their economies had
MILTON FRIEDMAN 10. caused inflation by increasing the demand of goods without the increasing
supply. (9-10)