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Question 1
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Which of the following statements is not true?
Select one:
a. The "three worlds" model of geopolitics first arose in the mid-18th century as a way of mapping the various players in the Cold 
War.
b. After the Cold War period, the term "First World" is rarely used in recent years as a dichotomy of countries of the world based on their
affiliation to the United States but is often used to describe countries with economic and political stability regardless of affiliation.
c. While the Second World Concept is still currently used, the term is used to define former communist countries with developing
economies and is only used from an economic perspective and not as a political ideology.
d. The stratification of the countries was initially based on the basis of political ideology affiliation where First World countries were
identified as the countries which were allied with the United States while Second World countries were countries which were allied with
the Soviet Union.
Question 2
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It is a regional organization comprising seven member states lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a
contiguous regional unity:
Select one:
a. ASEAN
b. SAARC
c. APEC
d. BIMSTEC 
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Question 3
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He is viewed as the sole God-creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world in the Islam religion:
Select one:
a. Waheguru
b. Allah 
c. Yahweh
d. Brahman
Question 4
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In the Islam religion, Jesus is considered a ______.
Select one:
a. Prophet 
b. God
c. Priest
d. Savior
Question 5
Correct
The SAARC comprises of eight Member States: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. SAARC stands
for:
Select one:
a. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation 
b. South Asian Assembly for Regional Cooperation
c. South Asian Assembly for Regional Corporation
d. South Asian Association for Regional Corporation
Question 6
Correct
The term _______ comes from the word medium which is defined as channel, means, or method:
Select one:
a. Mode
b. Media 
c. Mass
d. Median
Question 7
Correct
Dividing the countries in two hemispheres originated in which period?
Select one:
a. Cold War 
b. World War I
c. Renaissance
d. Medieval
Question 8
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It is currently the world's largest religious group stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth in the 1st century AD:
Select one:
a. Buddhism
b. Islam
c. Hinduism
d. Christianity 
Question 9
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It is a political and economic alliance of six countries in the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates:
Select one:
a. Commonwealth of Independent States
b. Gulf Cooperation Council 
c. Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation
d. Arab League
Question 10
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ASEAN +3 is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and three other
nations namely:
Select one:
a. Mongolia, India, Pakistan
b. China, Korea, Japan 
c. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal
d. Russia, USA, Canada
Question 11
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Select one:
a. In the current global context, regional organizations are fast becoming the "vehicles of choice" for countries to address pressing
challenges, which require international cooperation.
b. The emergence of new regionalism was driven by economic change, globalization and European integration, and the transformation
of the state.
c. Formed as a "club" of nation states, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took some time to find out that cooperation with 
regional organizations might be of some use in improving social and economic living conditions as well as maintaining
international peace and security and safeguarding the enjoyment of human rights.
d. An economic and currency union, which requires a high degree of political consensus between member states, aims at full economic
integration through a common economic policy, a common currency, and the elimination of all tariff and nontariff barriers.
Question 12
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A form of media consisting of paper and ink, reproduced in a printing process that is traditionally mechanical:
Select one:
a. Digital media
b. Print media 
c. Broadcast media
d. New media
Question 13
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Which of the following does not belong among the regional organizations in the Western Hemisphere?
Select one:
a. Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas
b. North American Free Trade Agreement
c. Caribbean Community
d. Gulf Cooperation Council 
Question 14
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What was the term used to describe several industrial countries and majority of these countries either practiced a socialistic system of
government or a communist system of government?
Select one:
a. Second World 
b. Fourth World
c. First World
d. Third World
Question 15
Correct
What term is alternatively used to refer to Third World countries?
Select one:
a. Independent country
b. Developing country 
c. Super power
d. Underdeveloped country
Question 16
Correct
Select one:
a. The economies of most countries in the South rely on imports from the North and have low technological penetration.
b. The United Nations has been in the forefront in diminishing the North-South Divide through policies highlighted in its Millennium
Development Goals.
c. The North of the Divide is comprised of countries which have developed economies and account for over 90% of all manufacturing
industries in the world.
d. The South is comprised of countries with developing economies which were initially referred to as Second World countries during 
the Cold War.
Question 17
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Who theorized that the 1st World was composed of the "superpowers" - US, Soviet Union, etc; the 2nd World was composed of lesser
powers; and the 3rd World was composed of post-colonial emerging markets?
Select one:
a. Adolf Hitler
b. Mao Zedong 
c. Nelson Mandela
d. Winston Churchill
Question 18
Correct
A form of media, such as radio and television, that reach target audiences using airwaves as the transmission medium:
Select one:
a. New media
b. Print media
c. Broadcast media 
d. Digital media
Question 19
Correct
Select one:
a. In sociological and cultural analyses of globalization, media such as satellite television, the Internet, computers, mobile phones etc. are
often thought to be among the primary forces behind current restructurations of social and cultural geography.
b. According to McLuhan, the world was entering a fourth ''age'' he called the iron age, where people everywhere would be able to 
find and experience the same information through technological tools.
c. Global media cultures create a continuous cultural exchange, in which crucial aspects such as identity, nationality, religion, behavioral
norms and way of life are continuously questioned and challenged.
d. The media provide an extensive transnational transmission of cultural products and, secondly, they contribute to the formation of
communicative networks and social structures.
Question 20
Correct
Select one:
a. Asia is home to over half the world's population, produces three tenths of global output (in terms of purchasing power), and
consistently records the world's highest economic growth rates.
b. The Gulf Cooperation Council is a political and economic alliance of six countries in the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
c. The Arab League is a regional intergovernmental organization, which main goal is maintaining cooperation on political, economic, 
environmental, humanitarian, cultural and other issues between a number of former Soviet Republics.
d. Asian regionalism build connected infrastructure and collaborate on inclusive development to reduce inequalities within and across
economies and thus to strengthen support for pro-growth policies.
Question 21
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It is the proneness of the governments and peoples of two or more states to establish voluntary associations and to pool together resources
in order to create common functional and institutional arrangements and a process occurring in a given geographical region by which
different types of actors come to share certain fundamental values and norms:
Select one:
a. Socialism
b. Regionalism 
c. Fascism
d. Communism
Question 22
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Aside from South Korea, the only Asian country belonging to the First World category is:
Select one:
a. Japan 
b. China
c. North Korea
d. India
Question 23
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This refers to industrial culture, organized on the model of mass production and is produced for a mass audience according to types (genres),
following conventional formulas, codes, and rules.
Select one:
a. High culture
b. Organizational culture
c. Media culture 
d. Corporate culture
Question 24
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What was coined to refer to ethnically or religiously defined populations living within or across national boundaries, nations without a
sovereign state, and indigenous groups that are nomadic, uncontacted or living outside of global society?
Select one:
a. Third World
b. Second World
c. First World
d. Fourth World 
Question 25
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These regions are also called perceptual regions which are often based around a common cultural characteristic:
Select one:
a. Functional regions
b. Nodal regions
c. Vernacular regions 
d. Uniform regions
Question 26
Correct
Select one:
a. Media culture is a terrain on which communication between people in a concrete historic-economic situation takes place.
b. International flows of information have been assisted by the development of global capitalism, new technologies and the increasing
commercialization of global television, and which have occurred as a consequence of the deregulation policies adopted by various
countries in Europe and US, paving the way for the proliferation of cable and satellite channels.
c. With regard the skepticism surrounding global media, international communication argues that global media are in fact best 
described as Eastern media, at most of global scope.
d. In international communication theory and research, cultural imperialism theory argued that audiences across the globe are heavily
affected by media messages emanating from the Western industrialized countries.
Question 27
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What is a system of beliefs, rituals, and practices, usually institutionalized in one manner or another, which connects this world with the
beyond and provides the bridge that allows humans to approach the divine, the universal life force that both encompasses and transcends
the world?
Select one:
a. Religion 
b. Ethnicity
c. Culture
d. Race
Question 28
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The religion which was promulgated by the Prophet Muhammed in Arabia in the 7th century CE.
Select one:
a. Christianity
b. Buddhism
c. Judaism
d. Islam 
Question 29
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A non-traditional form of religion, the doctrine of which is taken from diverse sources, either from non-traditional sources or local narratives
or an amalgamation of both, whose members constitute either a loosely knit group or an exclusive group, which emphasizes the belief in the
divine element within the individual, and whose teachings are derived from either a real or legendary figure, the purpose of which is to aid
the individual in the full realization of his or her spiritual powers and/or union with the Divine:
Select one:
a. Sect
b. Denomination
c. Cult 
d. Church
Question 30
Correct
Select one:
a. With the rapid and accelerated movement of people, culture, and information across national borders, religious ideas also rapidly
transfer from one place to another.
b. Globalization promotes syncretism or the mixing of different religious and cultural beliefs and practices which promotes the growth of
popular religion or folk religion that is different from the original parent religion or mainstream orthodoxy.
c. Globalization brings a culture of monism, meaning religions "with overlapping but distinctive ethics and interests" interact with one 
another.
d. Religion has tremendously benefited from technological advancements.
Question 31
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It is a continuing process of forming regions as geopolitical units, as organized political cooperation within a particular group of states,
and/or as regional communities such as pluralistic security communities:
Select one:
a. Regionalization 
b. Universalization
c. Globalization
d. Internationalization
Question 32
Correct
Who coined the term "global village" which describes the phenomenon of the world's culture shrinking and expanding at the same time due
to pervasive technological advances that allow for instantaneous sharing of culture?
Select one:
a. Em Griffin
b. Marshall McLuhan 
c. Charles Sanders Peirce
d. Roland Barthes
Question 33
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It is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing interdependence of the Asia-Pacific and its 21 members aim to
create greater prosperity for the people of the region by promoting balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative and secure growth and by
accelerating regional economic integration:
Select one:
a. APEC 
b. SCO
c. Arab League
d. Gulf Cooperation Council
Question 34
Correct
Select one:
a. Global regionalism is the result of global regionalization and a system of relations between major interstate associations of the global
world and its actors.
b. Global regionalization is regionalization of international relations at the global level.
c. Regionalization is a politico-administrative process by which regions emerge as relevant units of analysis for economic and political
activity and welfare and service provision.
d. Nodal regions also called perceptual regions, based around some central point or node; typically circular with fading boundaries. 
Question 35
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These regions are also called formal regions wherein some trait is shared with relative uniformity across the space.
Select one:
a. Nodal regions
b. Uniform regions 
c. Functional regions
d. Vernacular regions
Question 36
Correct
According to some scholars, the oldest living religion on Earth is ______:
Select one:
a. Islam
b. Christianity
c. Buddhism
d. Hinduism 
Question 37
Correct
It is a monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews:
Select one:
a. Judaism 
b. Christianity
c. Islam
d. Buddhism
Question 38
Correct
Who introduced the "three worlds" model wherein the First World included the United States and its capitalist allies in places such as Western
Europe, Japan and Australia; the Second World consisted of the communist Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites; and the Third
World encompassed all the other countries that were not actively aligned with either side in the Cold War?
Select one:
a. Mary Douglas
b. Franz Boas
c. Alfred Sauvy 
d. Margaret Mead
Question 39
Correct
The term used to describe the role of media in promoting transparency in public life and public scrutiny of those with power through
exposing corruption, maladministration and corporate wrong-doing:
Select one:
a. Sheepdog
b. Underdog
c. Lapdog
d. Watchdog 
Question 40
Correct
These organizations were established to link together geographically and ideologically related states:
Select one:
a. Regional organizations 
b. Public organizations
c. International organizations
d. Private organizations
Question 41
Correct
In the distinct socio-economic and political categorization of countries, which countries in the southern hemisphere are labeled part of the
North?
Select one:
a. New Zealand and Australia 
b. New Zealand and Namibia
c. New Zealand and Brazil
d. New Zealand and Papua New Guinea
Question 42
Correct
What takes place when a country dominates others through its media exports, including advertising messages, films, and television and radio
programming?
Select one:
a. Cultural imbalance
b. Cultural imperialism 
c. Cultural hybridization
d. Cultural homogenization
Question 43
Correct
Select one:
a. Around 1000 BCE, Judaism began to spread along the Mediterranean Sea, occupying present-day Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Israel.
b. Culture can be explained as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered 
as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a
moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
c. Beliefs and rituals are usually shared by people belonging to a definite religious community.
d. Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world.
Question 44
Correct
What is the shorthand term used to describe for poor or developing nations?
Select one:
a. Third World 
b. Fourth World
c. First World
d. Second World
Question 45
Correct
Select one:
a. Homogenous regionalism is institutional arrangements designed to facilitate the free flow of goods and services and to coordinate 
foreign economic policies between countries in the same geographic region.
b. In the mid-twentieth century there emerged a 'functional regionalism' inspired by states themselves in the context of national
planning and economic modernization.
c. Regional policies were state policies intended to ensure even development across the national territory.
d. Regionalism can be best described as a process occurring in a given geographical region by which different types of actors (states,
regional institutions, societal organizations and other nonstate actors) come to share certain fundamental values and norms.
Question 46
Correct
A religious organization that claims to possess the truth about salvation exclusively wherein membership is by childbirth: new generations are
born into the church and are formally inducted through baptism:
Select one:
a. Denomination
b. Cult
c. Sect
d. Church 
Question 47
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a. Media are essential facilitators of democratic processes and one of the guarantors of free and fair elections.
b. Media are a vehicle for cultural expression and cultural incoherence within and between nations.
c. Media act as channels of information and knowledge through which citizens communicate with each other and make informed
decisions.
d. Media provide us with much of what we learn about the world beyond our immediate experience.
Question 48
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What is the distinct socio-economic and political categorization of countries comprising the three worlds known as First, Second, and Third
Worlds?
Select one:
a. South-West Divide
b. North-South Divide
c. East-West Divide
d. North-East Divide
Question 49
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The term Buddha is a Sanskrit word which means:
Select one:
a. Consecrated One
b. Blessed One
c. Chosen One
d. Awakened One
Question 50
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What is the institutional arrangements designed to facilitate the free flow of goods and services and to coordinate foreign economic policies
between countries in the same geographic region?
Select one:
a. Political regionalism
b. Autonomous regionalism
c. Functional regionalism
d. Economic regionalism
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Which of the following statements is not true?

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In the Islam religion, Jesus is considered a ______.

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b. South Asian Assembly for Regional Cooperation

c. South Asian Assembly for Regional Corporation

d. South Asian Association for Regional Corporation

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Dividing the countries in two hemispheres originated in which period?

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b. Gulf Cooperation Council 

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b. China, Korea, Japan 

c. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal

d. Russia, USA, Canada

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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b. North American Free Trade Agreement

d. Gulf Cooperation Council 

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What term is alternatively used to refer to Third World countries?

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d. Religion has tremendously benefited from technological advancements.

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c. Charles Sanders Peirce

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d. Gulf Cooperation Council

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b. Global regionalization is regionalization of international relations at the global level.

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