Thursday, January 17, 2008

Preliminary Question Set for World Studies

1. in the demographic transition chart, the top line represents

a crude birth rate

b crude death rate

c the amount of growth

d the number of people

e the natural rate of increase


2. in the demographic transition chart, the lower line represents

a crude birth rate

b crude death rate

c the amount of growth

d the number of people

e the natural rate of increase


3. in the demographic transition chart, the space between the lines represents

a crude birth rate

b crude death rate

c the amount of growth

d the number of people

e the natural rate of increase


4. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the left

a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture

b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture

c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture

d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture


5. in the demographic transition chart, the part to the right

a represents an earlier part of history and goes along with popular culture

b represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture

c represents an earlier part of history and goes along with folk culture

d represents a later part of history and goes along with popular culture


6. In the demographic transition chart, the highest growth rate occurs in stage

a 1

b 2

c 3

d 4

e 5


7. In which stage do the most developed societies exist

a 1

b 2

c 3

d 4

e 5


8. a pyramid with a wide base and a narrow top that does not go up too high goes along with a country

a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies

b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies

c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies

d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies


9. a pyramid with a rectangular look that tapers at the top indicates

a that is developing and has population growth but lower life expectancies

b an advanced country with zero population growth and lower life expectancies

c an advanced country with high population growth and high life expectancies

d an advanced country with country with zero population growth and high life expectancies


10. On the population pyramid, the area to the right

a represents women

b represents men

c represents age

d represents nothing, it just mirrors the left


11. In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of

A) homogeneous groups.

B) sense of family and community

C) groups living in isolated rural areas.

D) groups that have little interaction with other groups.

E) groups living in large cities


12. Popular culture is linked to the demographic transition chart in that it

A) tends to occur in MDC's

B) has family values that have changed to the point where alternate lifestyles and divorce are allowed

C) has values that shift over time

D) can be expected in countries like the U.S. where women are going to college in larger numbers than men

E) All of the above


13. Folk culture includes all of the following except

a homogeneous

b family

c less development

d individuality



14. Popular culture includes all of the following except

a heterogeneous

b more family values

c more development

d individuality


15. Hitler wanted Germany

a to adapt more popular values

b to keep its folk values

c to move on to stage 4 of the demographic transition

d to go back to stage 1 of the demographic transition with high birth and death rates


16. According to GGS, farming

a leads to a society with many differnt job

b leads to inventions

c leads to food surpluses and an increase in population

d leads to gunpowder and germs

e all of the above


17. According to GGS, the European beat the Aztecs because

a they had disease immunities

b the East-Wet axis forced them to have better military skills

c they had more inventions due to their better farming techniques and more developed societies

d because they had steel

e all of the above


18. According to GGS, having livestock

a means you have a better chance of dying of disease and is not good

b means you develop diseases first and get the immunities first making you more powerful

c is not an advantage or disadvantage

d means you will not farm


19. According to GGS, Eurasia

a had 13 of the 14 ancestors to all of the large animals

b had an advantage because it is the longest landmass going East to West

c had a greater variety of plants

d all of the above


20. The Ottoman empire got involved in WWI because

a the Germans were invading their lands

b the French, English and Russians were invading their lands

c the Austrians and Serbians were invading their lands

d all of the above

e none of the above


21. Germany got involved in WWII because

A of an alliance with Austria

B because of an alliance with Serbia

C because of its close ethnic ties with England

D because it wanted to unite with France


22. All of the following weapons were present throughout the ENTIRE TIME OF WWI except

a machine guns

b barbed wire

c poison gas

d tanks

e none of the above


23. What country was created once again after WWI

a Austria

b Germany

c Poland

d Spain

e Russia


24. What treaty ended WWI

a Versailles

b Cologne

c Magna Carta

d 11th treaty of the 11th hour

e none of the above


25. The treaty that ended WWI did all of the following except

a make Germany give up some land

b blame Germany for the war

c make the Germans pay for the war

d establish the United Nations


26. Whose death sparked WWI

a Franz Ferdinand

b George Princeps

c Neville Chamberlain

d Josef Stephenfritzel


27. A nation-state is

a a group of people who want a country

b an ethnic group that wants its own state

c the same thing. nation means state

d nothing- it is a made up word


28. The Serbians in Austria are an example

a of people who wanted to belong to their own nation-state

b people who felt protected by Austria

c people who fought hard to join with Austria

d people who are people with other people in the people of those people


29. Stop crying during the exam and just put down the letter A for this one (freebie)


30. The line that France put up between it and Germany

a Jouquin

b Maginot

c Jurgun

D JarJarBinks


31. That line failed because

a it was too short

b it was too weak

c it was modeled after the ideas of WWI

d it did not fail. it worked


32. The area between trenches in WWI was known as

a ground hog area

b no man's land

c deserted area

d death valley

e it had no name


33. (T/F) Women live loner than men


34. (T/F) The United Nations came after the League of Nations


35. (T/F) The area between western and eastern Europe was called the Iron wall after WWI


36. (T/F) The Cold War started after WWI


37. The treaty that took Russia out of WWI was

a the Stalin-Hitler pact

b the treaty of Versailles

c the treaty of Brest-Letovsk

d false- Russia stayed in WWI till the bitter end


38. WWII

a officially started with the invasion of Czechoslovakia

b officially started with the invasion of Poland

c Started when Hitler attacked England

d started when Hitler attacked France


39. (T/F) Before WWII officially stared Hitler united with Austria


40. The process of giving into Hitler that occurred before WWII began is known as

a appeasement

b nationalism

c annulment

d deceasement


41. The battle that turned Hitler out of the Soviet Union was

a Moscow

b Ukraine

c Stalingrad

d St. Petersburg


42. (T/F) The Soviet Union came from the west and turned all of those countries in Europe from the west to communism


43. (T/F) Hitler made a pact with Stalin because he did not want to fight a war on two fronts


44. (T/F) Hitler was able to get land back from France without causing the beginning of WWII


45. (T/F) Hitler was into folk culture and wanted German women to have big families with lots of children


46. Homogeneous means

a a group of people that are similar

b groups of people with differing backgrounds

c that you make your country one again

d that you end war through unity


47. (T/F) Jewish scientists from Germany made the atomic bomb possible here in the U.S.


48. (T/F) WWII helped to end global colonization


49. After WWII

a the United States gave tons of money to all of Europe including Germany

b the U.S. gave money and called it the Marshall plan

c the U.S. pushed to help Germany out after the war

d all of the above


50. The term balance of power

a refers to the idea that no one country should get too powerful

b sharing power between all countries through the U.N.

c Hitler's desire to have all power

d all of the above


51. (T/F) Sanction means to penalize a country


52. Immigrants like to go to countries in which phase of the demographic transition

a 1

b 2

c 3

d 4


53. More developed countries with popular cultures are

a often organic in nature

b often mechanical in nature

c are both organic and mechanical

d are neither


54. (T/F) The East-West Axis forced Europeans to develop better military techniques


55. (T/F) WWI started in the area of the Balkans


56. After WWI

a the United nations was formed

b Germany got reparations

c the League of Nations was formed

d WWII started just months later


57. In more developed countries, you would expect their population pyramid to

a look like a rectangle with a small pyramid on top

b to have lower to no population growth

c to have a bulge at the top towards the right

d all of the above

e none of the above


58. In population pyramids, the left and right sides

a separate young from old

b separate newborns from others

c distinguish between men and women

d none of the above


59. (T/F) Armies usually built trenches behind their trenches


60. (T/F) WWI had many weapons to kill but few technologies to protect or move soldiers


61. WWI was caused by

a many secret alliances

b the growth of industry and competition for resources and markets

c fights over colonies

d Austria's Serbians' desire to unite with Serbia

e All of the above


62. The leader of England during WWII

a Westminster

b Abbey

c Thames

d Churchill


63. Hitler hated the Jews because

a he wanted Germany to be an organic state

b he believed the Jews had betrayed Germany and were the cause of their loss in WWI

c he believe in a folk culture

d he believed genetics determined your behavior and culture

e all of the above


64. The United States got involved in WWII in

a 1941

b 1939

c 1945

d 1943


65. Having a long east-west axis

a equals having a greater variety of plants

b equals having a greater variety of climates

c equals having a greater variety of temperatures

d all of the above


66. Russia

a was Russia before WWI

b was Russia after WWI

c was called the Soviet Union after WWI

d was called Russia after 1989

e both a c and d


67. The leader of England responsible for giving to Hitler's desires previous to WWII

a Churchill

b Westminster

c Abbey

d Chamberlain


68. Heterogeneous means

a many differing types

b one type

c a group of people with one trait

d none of the above


69. Who in the hell are you

a someone trying to pass this test

b someone crying alone in a corner

c in your mind you are Sroth, Lord of the Dragons and Future Ruler or all Things Dungeons and Dragons

d all of the above (must answer this to get it right)


70. An example of a country with zero to negative population growth is

a Japan

b Mexico

c India

d Indonesia


71. An example of a country with a high population growth is

a France

b England

c Australia

d India

e none of the above


72. Both stage one and stage four of the demographic transition chart

a have low growth rate

b have nothing in common

c have high birth and death rates

d have low birth and death rates


73. WWII differed from WWI in

a the way Germany was treated

b that it ended with a clear victory

c Germany won WWI

d Germany won WWII

e all of the above


74. WWI differed from WWII in that

a the cold war started after WWI

b the U.S. was not involved in WWI

c the problems that caused WWI were never really ended or solved

d none of the above


3) In contrast to folk culture, popular culture is typical of

A) homogeneous groups.

B) sense of family and community

C) groups living in isolated rural areas.

D) groups that have little interaction with other groups.

E) groups living in large cities



4) Which of the following characteristics is more typical of a popular culture than a folk culture?


A) It has an anonymous origin.

B) It diffuses slowly from its point of origin.

C) It results in a more uniform landscape.

D) It is likely to be derived from physical conditions.

E) It results in a more heterogeneous landscape



9) Folk customs most frequently originate in

A) more developed countries.

B) less developed countries.

C) former communist countries.

D) equally likely in all of the above

E) equally likely in none of the above

47) Folk culture is linked to the demographic transition chart in that

A) Latin American countries are in stage 2, African countries are in stage 3 and both are more likely to have folk customs than countries in stage 4

B) Popular cultures usually go along with societies that have unified, nuclear families

C) Popular cultures usually have lots of leisure time to develop and maintain traditions

D) Stage 3 countries are the most developed and most immersed in popular culture

E) All of the above


48) Popular culture is linked to the demographic transition chart in that it

A) tends to occur in MDC's

B) has family values that have changed to the point where alternate lifestyles and divorce are allowed

C) has values that shift over time

D) can be expected in countries like the U.S. where women are going to college in larger numbers than men

E) All of the above

How does the fact that the Jewish religion is ethnic relate to the Nazi's

How does Hitler represent the values of folk culture

What is the stab in the back theory

How did the weapons change from the time of Napoleon to WWI to WWII and how did that change fighting styles.


How does the GGS theory relate to the Americas

GGS theory

band, tribe chiefdom state

be able to explain the chart that overviews GGS

Know the differences that exist between pop and folk culture and how we saw that in the restaurants

Know when the agri revolution started

Know when the plague started and how many it killed and how that affected Europe

Know why the Aztecs fought the way they did and how that relates to GGS

Know how the Aztec customs involving women show how they are a folk culture

Understand the differences between a state and all of the other levels of existence.

Know what slash and burn farming is and how that relates to environmental possibilism

Know what the renaissance means and who it applies to.

Know what secularism and how it applies to the renaissance

Know the theories of Locke and Hobbes and how Locke's ideas apply to the U.S. and what a social contract is and how the ideas of democracy apply to food.

Know what reason is and how science applies to the enlightenment

What is industrialization and how did it change farming as well as industry

What were the effects of the industrial rev

What were the causes of the French Rev and what were the main ideas of the rev

What were the causes of WWI