History of Contemporary Issues: Final Multiple Choice Practice

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Quiz on History of Contemporary Issues: Final Multiple Choice Practice, created by Adrianne Rafael on 01/07/2022.
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Question 1

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Simon Bolivar, "the Liberator" of Latin America was:
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  • Indigenous
  • Born in Spain
  • of Spanish descent born in America

Question 2

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The architect of German unification was:
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  • Prussia
  • Napoleon
  • Austria
  • All of the above
  • None of the above

Question 3

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Nationalist movements:
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  • arose in Multinational empires
  • arose in European colonies
  • resulted in the unification of smaller political entities
  • all of the above
  • none of the above

Question 4

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The "sun never sets" was the boast of which "empire"
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  • Japan
  • British
  • French

Question 5

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A philosophic movement that had a great impact on ideologies and events of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:
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  • Nationalism
  • the Enlightenment
  • Absolutism

Question 6

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The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore:
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  • was opposed to nationalism
  • favoured nationalism
  • saw nationalism as having positives and negatives
  • none of the above

Question 7

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Mary Two-Axe Earley made history when she:
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  • successfully stopped a gold course from being built on Indigenous lands
  • succeeded in getting recognition for Indigenous languages
  • succeeded in having the law that discriminated against Indigenous women struck off

Question 8

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The group that gained the most from successful nationalist movements of the nineteenth century:
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  • monarchs
  • bourgeoisie
  • urban dwellers

Question 9

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Groups of Christian communists of the seventeenth century:
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  • Levellers
  • Ciompi
  • Both of the above

Question 10

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A leader of the English peasant revolt of 1381 was John Ball
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  • True
  • False

Question 11

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A leader of the German peasant revolt of 1525 was Martin Luther
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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Keynesian economics supports a mixed economy of:
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  • public and private sectors
  • private ownership and government ownership
  • both of the above
  • none of the above

Question 13

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Limited abortion under certain circumstances was first legally permitted in Canada in:
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  • 1959
  • 1969
  • 1979

Question 14

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In 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada's abortion law as unconstitutional as it violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms with respect to a woman's right to life, liberty, and security of person:
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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Zero-hour contracts are associated with:
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  • Laissez-faire economics
  • Protectionist economics
  • Neoliberal economics
  • Socialist economics

Question 16

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This fifteenth century invention has been called the :single most important capitalist invention"
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  • double-entry book keeping
  • joint stock company
  • the corporation

Question 17

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GDP/GNP can provide information on the wealth gap in a country
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  • True
  • False

Question 18

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A reproductive justice framework is fundamentally a human rights framework:
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  • True
  • False
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