Free Contemporary Global Issues MCQs with Answers
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- A. Urawa
- B. Omiya
- C. Yono
- D. all of these
Explanation: Saitama City was formed in 2001 by merging Urawa, Omiya and Yono, later joined by Iwatsuki in 2005.
Correct answer: all of these- A. 2000
- B. 2001
- C. 1992
- D. 2006
Explanation: The AbioCor, described as the first self-contained artificial heart, was implanted in Robert Tools in 2001.
Correct answer: 2001- A. Brazil
- B. Zimbabwe
- C. Sri-Lanka
- D. France
Explanation: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva became Brazil’s president in 2003 after winning the 2002 election.
Correct answer: Brazil- A. The end of World War Two following the Holocaust
- B. The nineteenth century and anti-slavery campaigners
- C. The civil rights movement under Dr Martin Luther King
- D. None of these options given is correctHuman Rights & Liberties
Explanation: Modern transnational NGOs can be traced to nineteenth-century movements such as organized anti-slavery campaigns, which operated across…
Correct answer: The nineteenth century and anti-slavery campaigners- A. 1 January
- B. 10 December
- C. 2 March
- D. None of the options given is correct
Explanation: Human Rights Day is observed on 10 December, the date on which the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights…
Correct answer: 10 December- A. Loud emergencies are those that become significant in international public opinion, silent emergencies are those that are a crisis of domestic politics
- B. Loud emergencies happen in the developed world, and threaten to kill thousands, silent emergencies are smaller crises of violence within the developing world
- C. Loud emergencies concern safety and security, silent emergencies are characterized with economic crises
- D. Loud emergencies are the humanitarian crises that receive media attentions, like genocide, ethnic cleansing and famine. Silent emergencies do not get media attention, like slow death from malnutrition and poverty
Explanation: Loud emergencies attract extensive media and international attention, as in genocide, ethnic cleansing, or famine.
Correct answer: Loud emergencies are the humanitarian crises that receive media attentions, like genocide, ethnic cleansing and famine. Silent emergencies do not get media attention, like slow death from malnutrition and poverty- A. Globalization
- B. Measures to prevent the use of child soldiers
- C. Smallpox disease inoculation
- D. All of the options given are correctTry Prep Courses
Explanation: Freedom from fear concerns protection from violence and insecurity, so preventing the recruitment and use of child soldiers fits it…
Correct answer: Measures to prevent the use of child soldiers168. According to the freedom from fear understanding, the core of human security is embodied in what?
- A. The UN Charter
- B. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- C. The Geneva Conventions
- D. All of the options given are correctTake Economics Courses
Explanation: The freedom-from-fear approach draws on the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Geneva Conventions as…
Correct answer: All of the options given are correctTake Economics Courses169. Freedom from want:
- A. Has been advocated more by Japan
- B. Stresses individual escape from poverty, disease, and environmental threats
- C. Focuses heavily on security
- D. a and b
Explanation: Freedom from want is strongly associated with Japan's human-security approach and focuses on protecting individuals from poverty, disease…
Correct answer: a and b- A. Human security
- B. National security
- C. Human development
- D. Economic development
Explanation: Human development, associated especially with Amartya Sen and the UNDP, evaluates progress by expanding people’s real choices and…
Correct answer: Human development- A. Food and economic security
- B. Economic and environmental security
- C. Community and personal security
- D. All of the options given are correctTake Economics Courses
Explanation: The UN Human Development Report’s human-security framework covered economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community and…
Correct answer: All of the options given are correctTake Economics Courses- A. 1993
- B. 1990
- C. 1992
- D. 1980
Explanation: The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
Correct answer: 1992- A. 2006
- B. 2007
- C. 2005
- D. 2004
Explanation: The Kyoto Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005, after Russia's ratification satisfied the required conditions.
Correct answer: 2005- A. The growing global demand for women's domestic and sexual services
- B. The growing global demand for nannies
- C. The global economy of unpaid work
- D. None of the above
Explanation: The global care economy refers to the cross-border demand for women’s reproductive, domestic and related personal services, including care…
Correct answer: The growing global demand for women's domestic and sexual services- A. Feminization of labour
- B. That women's work includes primary responsibility of childcare and housework
- C. Mail order brides
- D. None of the above
Explanation: A gendered division of labour assigns different kinds of work according to gender, traditionally placing primary responsibility for…
Correct answer: That women's work includes primary responsibility of childcare and housework- A. Women/girls come from rural areas into towns or cities to provide gendered services
- B. An increased global flow of women
- C. Prostitution and mail order brides
- D. All of the above
Explanation: The “export of women” describes the movement of women across or within countries into gendered work and relationships, including domestic…
Correct answer: All of the above- A. i
- B. ii, iii
- C. i, ii, iii
- D. i, ii
Explanation: Globalization can reduce state-provided services affecting women, intensify the feminization of poverty and create a gendered…
Correct answer: i, ii, iii178. Decolonization:
- A. Was partially determined by local or trial factors
- B. Was constant across regions and imperial powers
- C. Was sometimes replaces by superpower involvement
- D. Was partially determined by local or tribal factors and was sometimes replaced by superpower involvement
Explanation: Decolonization varied according to local and tribal conditions rather than following one uniform pattern, and the withdrawal of European…
Correct answer: Was partially determined by local or tribal factors and was sometimes replaced by superpower involvement- A. Became a defining term of international discourse
- B. Had its extent contested by scholars such as David Held and Martin Wolf
- C. Became a defining idea of Realist theory
- D. Became a defining term of international discourse and had its extent contested by scholars such as David Held and Martin Wolf
Explanation: After the Cold War, globalization became a central term in international political debate, while scholars such as David Held and Martin…
Correct answer: Became a defining term of international discourse and had its extent contested by scholars such as David Held and Martin Wolf180. US primacy:
- A. Was predicted by constructivist scholars of international relations
- B. Is a key feature of and challenge in the post-cold war order
- C. Has stifled debate about the ends and means of American foreign policy
- D. Was unaffected by 9/11
Explanation: US primacy was a defining feature of the post-Cold War order, but it also created debates about unipolarity, legitimacy, and the limits of…
Correct answer: Is a key feature of and challenge in the post-cold war order