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|1. |Quarry workers, quarry owners, stone cutters, exporters, designers and architects, builders, tile and stone distributors, etc. |

| |represent an example of the links connecting producers and consumers in a world market. This is an example of |

|A) |an export-import model. |

|B) |a commodity chain. |

|C) |globalization theory. |

|D) |a core-periphery model. |

|2. |________________ processes in the commodity chain involve technology, education, research and development, and high wages. |

|A) |Core |

|B) |Value-added |

|C) |Neo-colonial |

|D) |Periphery |

|3. |Which of the following is not associated with core production processes? |

|A) |technology |

|B) |low-wage labor |

|C) |education |

|D) |research and development |

|4. |The word “development” implies |

|A) |progress. |

|B) |colonialism. |

|C) |lowering of wages through mechanization. |

|D) |technology. |

|5. |Modern ideas of development are related to |

|A) |the Industrial Revolution. |

|B) |the Agricultural Revolution. |

|C) |gross domestic product. |

|D) |religious views of equity. |

|6. |Gross national product (GNP) measures the total value of goods and services produced by a country's corporations and |

| |individuals. It is standardized by |

|A) |being calculated in Euros. |

|B) |measuring the informal as well as informal economy. |

|C) |being calculated on a per capita basis. |

|D) |adjusting for differences in attitude toward “progress.” |

|7. |Gross domestic product measures only |

|A) |home-based output. |

|B) |the informal economy. |

|C) |the productivity of individuals. |

|D) |production within a country. |

|8. |Which of the following has the highest per capita GNP? |

|A) |Japan |

|B) |United States |

|C) |European Union |

|D) |Canada |

|9. |Which does not make up a portion of Colombia's GNP? |

|A) |professional sports franchises |

|B) |tourism |

|C) |coffee production |

|D) |drug trafficking |

|10. |Which Asian nation listed below has a per capita GNP above the world average? |

|A) |Vietnam |

|B) |China |

|C) |South Korea |

|D) |North Korea |

|11. |A large component of survival in countries with low per capita GNP is |

|A) |foreign aid. |

|B) |the sale of resources. |

|C) |the informal economy. |

|D) |tourism. |

|12. |High levels of development can be determined by measurement of access to railways, roads, airline connections, telephones, radio|

| |and television, etc. These are collectively referred to as |

|A) |infrastructure. |

|B) |dependency measures. |

|C) |formal economy. |

|D) |commodity connections. |

|13. |Dependency ratio measures: |

|A) |family size |

|B) |percent of the population dependent on welfare |

|C) |the number of young plus the number of elderly per 100 workers |

|D) |average number of hours of work to feed a family of four |

|14. |Which is not among the five stages of Rostow's development model? |

|A) |traditional |

|B) |take-off |

|C) |high-mass consumption |

|D) |collapse-decline |

|15. |Rostow's model, developed in the early 1960s, was based upon the experience of |

|A) |financial economists. |

|B) |Latin American countries. |

|C) |China. |

|D) |Western modernization. |

|16. |Even if the Gross National Product (GNP) index is used to measure the well-being of a country, it will fail to show |

|A) |growth in secondary industries (manufacturing). |

|B) |the distribution of wealth. |

|C) |growth within tertiary industries (services). |

|D) |growth within primary industries (mining, forestry, agriculture, fishing). |

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