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FORM TP 2021190 MAY/JUNE 2021

CARIB BEAN E XAMINATIONS COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION"

CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Paper 01

1 hour 30 minutes

27 MAY 2021 (p.m.)

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1. This test consists of 45 items. You will have I hour and 30 minutes to answer them.

2. In addition to this test booklet, you should have an answer sheet.

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in this test.

4. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A). (B). (C). (D). Read cach item
you are about to answer and decide which choice is best.

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having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below.

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Cultural renewal refers to the revival of Sample Answer
(A)
(B)
the art form
natural resources
D
(C) norms, beliefs and practices
(D) human and social interaction

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 following concepts is NOT
Which of the
BEST described as
5. normallyassociated with the term'creole?
1. A diaspora is
work in the food
(A) people who live and (A) a language
countryside (B) awhite person born in the Caribbean
from
communities developed away
(B) (C) enslaved person born in the
their original homelands an
scattered
(D) Caribbean
communities which are
(C) area
over a large geographic
worked on
(D) people who settled and
plantations in the Caribbean were labelled as violent and
The Kalinagos
6. thought the
warlike because the Spaniards

was
Kalinagos
2. Under slavery, Caribbean society
characterized by I.
were cannibals

II. vigorously protected their territories

(A) social mobility had superior weapons when
III.
equality among all people
(B) compared to the Tainos
(C) rigid separation of classes
the rise of middle-class groups
(D) (A) I and II only
(B) I and IIl only
(C) II and Ill only
Which of the following is an independent
(D) I. Il and IlI
Caribbean country?

(A) Anguilla Which ofthe following reasons did planters

(B) Dominica 1.
give for importing new labourers into the
(C) Montserrat
Caribbean after slavery ended?
(D) Martinique
The formerly enslaved squatted on
(A)
was a term used to describe crown land.
4. Plantocracy
(B) The formerly enslaved persons
a system of total slavery became unionized.
(A)
a system of democratic control (C) Planters did not have money to pay
(B)
C) the wealthy white and coloured labourers a just wage.
planters (D) Newly freed persons withdrew
(D) the ruling class made up of slave from plantation work.
owners and elites

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8. Which of the following CARICOM 12. Neocolonialism refers to the

members share a land border?
(A) continued independence of former
(A) Barbados and Guyana colonies
(B) Guyana and Suriname (B) situation where former colonies
(C) Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago become colonizers
(D) Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago (C) open colonization of a country by
a more powerful one

(D) informal colonization of a country

9. The term 'culture' may BEST be defined via economic, social and cultural
as methods

(A) food and dress

(B) norms and values 13. Which ofthe following elements is involved
C) the way of life of a people in the creolization process?
(D) artistic and literary creations
(A) Stratification
(B) Acculturation
10. Which of the following statements BEST (C) Enculturation
describes the Westminster system? (D) Diversification

(A) There is parliamentary sovereignty

and clear separation of powers 14. The MAIN aim ofcolonial education in the
between the executive and the Caribbean was to
legislature.
(B) There is parliamentary sovereignty (A) control the masses
but no clear separation of powers (B) prepare the masses for managerial
between the executive and the positions
(C) encourage the masses to become
legislature.
(C) The prime minister is the head of independent
government and there is clear (D) provide the masses with skills
separation of powers between needed to function in society
the executive and the legislature.
(D) The head of state is the head of
government but there is no clear 15. Which ofthe following theorists is closely
separation of powers between associated with the term 'creolization'?
the executive and the legislature.
(A) Lloyd Best
(B) M.G. Smith
11. The MAIN tectonic process in the (C) Jennifer Mohammed
Caribbean results from (D) Edward Kamau Brathwaite

(A) subduction
(B) earthquakes
(C) volcanic activity
(D) volcanic eruption

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Which of the following is a non-economic 19. Which of the following are ways in which
indicator of development? globalization presents itself?

(A) Good governance . Racial segregation

(B) Per capita income II Open economic space
(C) Gross national product III. Commercialization of cultures
(D) Gross domestic product
(A) I and II only
(B) I and III only
17. The Dependency ratio is determined by (C) II and III only
calculating the proportion of D) I, II and III

(A) school-age children in a country to

the working population 20. Which institution, in the integration
(B) employment to unemployment movement, preceded the Caribbean
levels on a country for one year Community and Common Market?
(C) working population to persons
under and over the employment (A) Association of Caribbean States
age (B) Caribbean Free Trade Association
(D) foreign aid less-developed country (C) CARICOM Single Market and
gets from more-developed ones Economyy
in one year (D) Organization of Eastern Caribbean
States

18. Which of the following are the MAIN

social indicators used to measure the level 21. Which of the following Caribbean
of development of a country? movements has globalization influenced
the MOST?
(A) Life expectancy, industrialization,
employment (A) Feminist
(B) Birth rate, population growth, (B) Black power
investment level (C) Fight for independence
(C) Death rate, population growth, (D) Universal adult suffrage
level of investment
(D) Life expectancy, literacy rate,
income distribution 22. Which of the following indicators of
development is generated from information
that is derived from an inequality survey?

(A) The Gini index

(B) The age dependency ratio
(C) The international credit rating
(D) The Human Development Index

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23. In which of the The members of the OECS share more

following years was the 27.
World Trade Organization formed? achievements among themselves than with
their CARICOM partners
(A) 1795
(B) 1885 Which of the following is NOTa common
(C) 1945 achievement of the OECS?
(D) 1995
(A) Currency
(B) High court
24. The RSS is an institution of CARICOM. (C) Government
In which of the following areas does the (D) Central bank
RSS operate?

(A) Trade 28. Early nineteenth-century writings from aan

(B) Security indigenous perspective served to

(C) Agriculture
(D) Social services (A) give credit to the Europeans for
shaping Caribbean history
(B) convince Caribbean people that the
25. Which of the following is NOTa reason Kalinagos were peace-loving
why some Caribbean politicians attempted (C) deseribe people living in the
to implement changes based on Marxist Caribbean prior to the arrival of

thought in the latter half of the twentieth Columbus

century? (D) reject the notion held by Europeans
that early inhabitants did not
(A) The influence of the Cuban have a history
Revolution of 1959
(B) The success of Marxists in Europe
xporting their ideas to the 29. Which of the following activities is an
Caribbean example of the mass media acting as an
The need to maintain tenets of agent of socialization?
(C)
colonial rule and the capitalist
(A) Employing popular talk show hosts
system
Disillusionment with capitalism as (B) Utilizing the most up-to-date print
(D)
a means to solve the problems of technology
the region (C) Showing a documentary on healthy
eating habits
(D) Running an advertisement for a
26. A major challenge faced by Caribbean furniture company
countries in achieving integration is

insularity 30. Social justice in society is MAINLY

(A)
high levels of illiteracy concerned with
(B)
disasters
(C) the impact of natural
(D) the large number of indigenous (A) stratification
peoples (B) equal access
(C) the justice system
(D) gender differences

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 eliability in resereh refers t» the eytent 4
A rewncher wihes tt Undiu ai invest
o wliic) n resenrcher is ahle ty yatisai tt the effuts í phrysCal atnie tn
children at a priniaty vtud h h A he
(A) yel siilar reults sfer rejpeating
Irinls with the children
(15) ncces up-10-date infomatin for
reearch work (A) A list f all the thildren in the
(C) mnke nccurate inferenes had on
rCearch indings () Informed u n a t îrrm a pareTt t
(D) Hcl dilferent valid results from a uardian
mcasurcment instrument (C) C e t frorns frrn his enplryer
or the prircipal
(D) Permission from the uhol'
32. A hypothesis may be deseribed as guidancs Unuriellk
(A) a finding of the research
(1B) prediction of an outcome 35. Which ofthe following sztisfies the criteria
(C) the question to be answered for a good rewarch yuestivn?
(D) the limitation of the research
(A) Does computer practice inprove
literacy in studerts?
33. Which of the following describes the (B) Why do studerts seerm indifferert
purpose of a literature review? t Caribbean Studies
(C) What is a gond strategy to improve
(A) Explains the reason for the research student understanding of main
study ideas in Caribbean Sudies tezts
(B) Summarizes the findings of the (D) Do general education teachers
rescarch and special education teachers
(C) Supplies information to consumers evaluate student homework
of the research
differently?
(D) Sets the study in the context of
previous research
36. Which ofthe following BEST represents the
criteria for selecting material to be included
in a research report?

(A) Analysis, quality, adequacy

(B) Relevance, quality. stability
(C) Stability, relevance, validity
(D) Relevance, credibility, adequacy

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37. Dr Goodwin told her students that while observation is viewed as a

1. Participant
conducting their research they should think subjective method of data collection
about how the data will be collected and because
the impact the data collection is likely to
have on the respondents. To what research too much is reported
(A)
concept was Dr Goodwin referring? (B) what is seen is not reported
(C) ofthe researcher's close association
(A) Ethics in research with the respondents
(B) Accessible statistics (D) the wrong conclusions are drawn

(C) Empirically based research by the researcher

(D) Ambiguity in the research
instrument
42. The MAIN difference between a trend and
a pattern is that a trend
38. In which of the following categories of
sampling techniques can purposive (A) is observed over time while a
sampling be placed? pattern is recognizable in current
data
(A) Random (B) is recognizable in current data
(B) Probability while a pattern is recognizable
(C) Convenient over time
D) Non-probability (C) is the observation of dependent
variables, while a pattern is
the observation of independent
39. A researcher wants to see how mothers variables
on a playground interact with each other. D) is an observation of independent
What method of enquiry would be MOST variables, while a pattern is
suitable for the researcher to use? the observation of dependent
variables.
(A) Survey
(B) Observation
(C) Focus group 43. The purpose ofthe conclusion to a research
(D) In-depth interview study is to

(A) summarize the objectives of the

40. Which of the following is the first step in study
selecting a sample for research? (B) provide a review of the relevant
literature
(A) Defining the population (C) summarize the key findings of the
(B) Determining how to randomize research
(C) Compiling a list of the participants (D) outline the methodological
Deciding how to stratify the procedures used
(D)
population

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Which of the following is a probability

44. Correlation in research refers to the 45.
sampling method?

(A) hypothesis of the study

(B) relationship between participants (A) Quota
in a study (B) Judgement
Convenience
(C) degree of relationship between two (C)
variables Simple random
(D)
(D) dependent and independent
variables of the study

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