COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Midterm Examination
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THE CONTEMPOARY WORLD

1ST Semester: A/Y 2019-2020

Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of the best answer.

1. Most felt to be one of the foremost challengers of globalization most especially after the September the
11 World Trade Center attacks in New York City.
a. Market down b. Terrorism c. Global Gap d. Economic Crises
2. Which statement/s is/are true about impacts of globalization in education?
I. Global education interconnects methods of teaching from worldwide systems to encourage the
international development of environmental sustainability.
II. The development of multicultural awareness from an early age may integrate ideologies sourced
from various societies to arrive at well-balanced conclusions.
III. Education and learning will provide today’s leaners the ability to be more familiar and comfortable
with abstract concept and uncertain situations
IV. Globalization breaks boundaries of space and time using advanced information and communication
technologies, a new system of knowledge, education and learning should be applied.
a. I,IV b. II,III c.I,II,IV d. I,II, III, IV
3. The following are the positive effects of globalization except;
a. Global Market b. Stable Security c. Legal effects d. Fluctuation prices
4. Globalization has encouraged more trades and increased the flow of capital among nations that will
allow businesses to seek their funding from foreign banks that offers most competitive interest rate.
a. Environmental b. Economical c. Cultural d. Political
5. The communication, information exchange and mass media have been raised which helps reduced the
communication barriers so that people from different places, lifestyle and society have more
understanding of each other.
a. Environmental b. Economical c. Cultural d. Political
6. Globalization promotes the circumstances of state interaction whether nations like it or not.
a. Cultural b. Political c. Economical d. Technological
7. Globalization allows countries to gain easier access to foreign knowledge and it enhances international
competition including as a result of the rise of emerging market and innovate and adopt foreign
machineries and tools.
a. Cultural b. Political c. Economical d. Technological
8. Globalization that refers to the internationally coordinated practices and regulations regarding on
climate ambient and external condition protection.
a. Environmental b. Economical c. Cultural d. Political
9. The following are the negative effects of globalization except;
a. Market Competition c. Environmental damage
b. Job Insecurity d. Fluctuation in prices
10. According to the commission on Global Governance, after a Cold war, global governance was the new
beginning of a new era, supposedly of peace and international political progress.
a. True b. False c. Partly true d. Partly false
11. The Republic of Korea implemented the national project and has contributed to improving the quality of
education through information and communication technologies, creating new teaching models.
a. Digital Education c. Digital Technology
b. Technology Education d. All of these.
12. The following are the countries who developed into the most powerful regional motors from which
Malaysia and Thailand have benefitted except:
a. South Korea c. Taiwan
b. Singapore d. Indonesia
13. This is the only region worldwide in which economic regional ties are considered significant and that
has not actually experienced military factor in national politics.
a. APR b. APEC c. UNESCO d. ASEAN
14. Which of the following statement is true.
a. Globalization and regionalization are completely new processes.
b. The new regionalism is a barrier to political globalization.
c. Possible protectionism in advanced economies should deter export-orientation growth in South
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Asia.
d. The effects globalization can be seen in the economic, cultural, social and political spheres of the
contemporary world.
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 15. The following are the effects of Economic Dependence of developing countries except;
a. Environmental pollution and degradation
b. Eradication of local procedures
c. Efficient and effective collection of taxes and revenues
d. Poverty increased due to less jobs and government restriction
16. This refers to the increasing global relationship of culture, people and economic activity.
a. Media b. Mass Media c. Globalization d. Global community
17. This refers to the huge transnational global corporation that embody globalization.
a. Media b. Mass Media c. Globalization d. Global community
18. Is the conglomeration of historical, political, cultural and economic forces that have worked in concert
with media from down of time to our present day.
a. Media b. Mass Media c. Globalization d. Global community
19. It plays an important role to enhance globalization, facilitate cultural exchange and varied flows of
information and image between countries through international new broadcast.
a. Media b. Mass Media c. Globalization d. Global community
20. Arjun Appadurai: Cultural Anthropologist, Benedict Anderson:________.
a. World Economist b. Biologist c. Political Scientist d. Media Technologist
21. Which statement is/are true about Globalization of media.
I. Freedom of the press is insignificant for the successful of operation of democracy.
II. Globalization encourages competition among the different media sectors which further facilitate
the construction diversities of the neutral programmers.
III. The media have made economic globalization possible by creating the condition for global
capitalism.
IV. Media are huge transnational global corporation that embody globalization.

a. I,III.IV b. II,III,IV c.III d, III,IV

22. According to Arjun Appadurai, there was a rupture with social life in the late twentieth century. This
implies best that ___.
a. Both media and migration basically have transformed the human lives and gave way to what we call
now as globalization
b. Human beings have used media to explore, settle and globalize the world
c. Globalization has been present since the time immemorial but without having been given a
nomenclature.
d. All of the above.
23. An economist who associated globalization with dependency theory
a. Terhi Rantanem b. Harold Inn c. Andre Gunder Frank d. Lewis Mumford
24. Marshall Mcluhan used this term to describe people who act in concert and cohort creating the
conditions through which many can imagine themselves as part of one-world global imaginary.
a. Digital media b. Global Village c. Electronic Media d. Printing Press
25. This refers to the transmission of information electronically and comprise of television, film, radio,
movie, CDs and other gadget such as cameras.
a. Digital media b. Global Village c. Electronic Media d. Printing Press
26. A means of conveying something as a channel of communication.
a. Digital b. Media c. Press d. Global
27. Which of the statement/s describe as Digital Media is the most significant medium to influence
globalization.
I. In economics, global trading is happening 24 hours a day
II. In politics, computers allow citizen access to information from around the world.
III. It transformed cultural life, information around the globe allows people to adopt and adapt new
practices in music, sports, education etc.
a. I b. II c. III d. I,II.III
28. This the origin of the English word paper and was used in ancient times in writing surface.
a. Paprus b. Pepero c. Papyrus d. Peparus
29. An American historian of technology and science found Utopian hope in media technology on 1970.
a. Terhi Rantanem b. Harold Inn c. Andre Gunder Frank d. Lewis Mumford
30. This views as action and things to be of value only if it works and bring satisfaction.
a. Existentialism c. Essentialism c. Pragmatism d. Communism
31. Religion is one of the drivers of globalization in the past.
a. True b. False c. Partly False d. Partly True
32. The following statements are true except ;
a. Globalization enables people to move from one place to another and one timeline to the next.
b. Glocalization of religion manifest the retention of one’s religion and culture in a foreign land with
completely different ways of life.
c. Religion is not part of a people’s culture even it is a way of life.
d. Glocalization is also synonymous with the term cultural hybrids.
33. This is Jean Paul Satre’s philosophy that gives premium to human freedom. Man’s is cursed to make
choices in life”.
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a. Existentialism c. Essentialism c. Pragmatism d. Communism
34. It manifest the retention of one’s religion and culture in a foreign land with completely different ways of
life.
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 a. Sphere of Globalization c. Religion
b. Glocalization of religion d. Glocalization
35. One of the American Philosophies construed to be one of the causes of secularization in such a way
that it teaches that a thing or being is only good only if it is value and useful.
a. Existentialism c. Essentialism c. Pragmatism d. Communism
36. An ideology that bans and challenges all sorts of religion since for this religion has strong connections
with the realm of capitalism.
a. Existentialism c. Essentialism c. Pragmatism d. Communism
37. A famous sociologist who asserted that capitalism finds its roots from many Protestant cities.
a. CS Pierce b. Max Weber c. Steger d. Apolinario Dela Cruz
38. This penetrates the inner core of people’s consciousness in such a way that it has become an integral
aspect of their lives.
39. It manifest the retention of one’s religion and culture in a foreign land with completely different ways of
life.

a. Sphere of Globalization c. Religion

b. Glocalization of religion d. Glocalization
40. Which of the following is not true about Globalization of Religion.
a. The migration of people across borders did not enable religion to spread widely across the world.
b. As globalization enables people to move from one place to another and one timeline to the next.
c. The realm of religion has not been able to escape the present word’s dynamic essense.
d. None of the above.
41. Globalization has greatly increased free trade. This line means.
a. The rise of regional blocks all over the world
b. Develop trade barrier such as tariffs and import quotas
c. Promote favourable and friendly business
d. Makes among regional blocks more difficult.
42. Which of the following is not the product of globalization?
a. Communicate with people hundred miles away with a hand held gadget
b. Use of barter in trading and commerce
c. Internet connection is accessible for a large number of people
d. People and institution are given access beyond boundaries
43. The imposition by one usually political or economically dominant community of various aspects of its
culture into another non-dominant community.
a. Colonialism b. Colonial Mentality c. Crab Mentality d. Colonial imperialism
44. This is the quantitative transformation of functional integration between international dispersed
activities.
a. Globalization b. Internationalism c. Localization d. Decolonization
45. The measure of the total value of a country’s economic production.
a. Gross National Product c. Net National Income
b. National income d. Per Capita Income
46. The Duterte administration advances _______ in order to strengthen regional autonomy and local
governance.
a. Federalism b. Nationalism c. Anti-drug campaign d. Anti-corruption drive
47. China’s aggressive global commence has created ____ tension in trade and commence especially for
the Trump US administration.
a. Ideology b. Economic c. Political d. sociology
48. Facets of ____ personality of a people may explain the paradox that the Philippines is rated by
Transparency International as one of the most corrupt in Asia, and yet 80% of its population profess the
catholic religion.
a. Political b. Cultural c. Ideological d. Economic
49. Innovation as a key to global growth is done through various means except__.
a. Inventing new method c. Keeping organizational structure
b. Introducing new Product d. Opening new markets
50. These are the best way we can deal with scarcity of global resources except__.
a. Making right choices in capital goods
b. Keeping resources as unused resources
c. Using resources efficiently
d. Distributing resources equitably

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