QUIZ 2

Name: _____________________________________________ Score: __________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICES: Read the questions carefully, write the letter of the correct and best answer on the
space provided before the item.

______1. It is an objective, empirical process of increasing economic and political connectivity, a subjective
process unfolding in consciousness as the social awareness of global interconnectedness. What is it?

a. Glocalization b. Globalization c. Global consciousness

______2. What are the states of matter used as a metaphor to relate the concept of globalization?

a. Solid and Gas b. Liquid and Plasma c. Liquid and Solid

______3. What state of matter used as a metaphor which refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult the
movement of things?

a. Solidity b. Liquidity c. Gasify

______4. Which of the following is an example of Natural solids?

a. Great Wall of China b. Mountains c. Earthquake

______5. What do today’s liquid phenomena changing quickly and their aspects, spatial and temporal, are in
continuous change means?

a. Liquid phenomena movement is difficult to stop

b. Liquid tends to melt whatever stands in the path (especially solids)
c. Space and time are crucial elements of globalization

______6. What do you call the movement of people, things, places, and information brought by the growing
“porosity” of global limitations?

a. Solidity b. Flow c. Liquidity

______7. What refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the
contemporary world?

a. Liquidity b. Solidity c. Flow

______8. Whose ideas were the ones that have much to say about the characteristics of liquidity?

a. Zymunt Bauman b. Al Janeera c. Roland Robertson

_____9. What is the globalization process which means that a given culture influences other cultures?

a. Heterogeneously b. Heterogeneity c. Homogeneity

_____10. What pertains to the creation of various cultural practices, new economies, and political groups
because of the interaction of elements from different societies in the world?

a. Heterogeneously b. Heterogeneity c. Homogeneity

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