Question 1

Why did the revolutionary Islamic program of leaders like the ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have a wide appeal?

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A)   It promised social benefits to all men and women who followed their political and religious program.
B)   It claimed that a strict theocracy would restore the pride and Islamic identity that imperialism had stripped from Middle Eastern men.
C)   It promised improved status for women and offered them better access to education and the workforce as well as better opportunities for their children.
D)   It argued that everyone should have equal access to oil wealth, which Western imperialists were exploiting, and that only Islam could lead the way to the future.

Question 2

How did the Palestinian-Israeli dispute change from the 1990s, and how was the conflict related to global terrorism?

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Question 3

What events and the responses to them led terrorism to become the preoccupying concern in international politics between 1990 and 2006? Be sure to balance your essay chronologically.

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Question 4

This map, of the post-cold war fracturing of Yugoslavia, demonstrates
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A)   nationalism declined as a potent force with the formation of the European Union.
B)   the difficult ethnic tensions that emerged as peoples adapted to a communist society.
C)   Italy's and Greece's rising role as the peacekeepers of Europe.
D)   post-World War I diplomats did not entirely understand ethnic divisions in parts of eastern Europe.

Question 5

Discuss the cultural cross-fertilization that took place between the West and non-Western parts of the world in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Take special account of literature, language, film, music, and consumer goods.

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Question 6

What name was given to the new class of superwealthy Russians who, as allies of President Boris Yeltsin, benefited from the collapse of the Soviet Union?

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A)   The "new tsars"
B)   Russian tigers
C)   Oligarchs
D)   Yeltsin's cronies

Question 7

In 1991, a group of antireform hard-liners that included the head of the Soviet secret police attempted a coup in the USSR in response to what event?

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A)   The Russian parliament's election of Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian republic
B)   Mikhail Gorbachev's decision to further liberalize the Soviet economy and his pronouncement that there was "no alternative to the transition to the market"
C)   President Boris Yeltsin's call for the dissolution of the Communist Party
D)   Gorbachev and Kohl's agreement that the USSR would completely withdraw its forces from East German soil within the next four years

Question 8

Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union fell apart largely due to which groups claiming independence?

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A)   Political groups
B)   Religious groups
C)   Ethnic groups
D)   Language groups

Question 9

Zadie Smith wrote compassionately on the lives of mixed-race girls and women in postimperial Britain, rejecting which style that had been traditionally used to convey such stories?

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A)   Surrealism
B)   Hysterical realism
C)   Romanticism
D)   Classicism

Question 10

What signs were there that prosperity was becoming more widespread in the twenty-first century?

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Question 11

The war in Chechnya began when Chechens

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A)   bought large amounts of military equipment from the United States.
B)   declared their independence from Russia.
C)   joined the European Community.
D)   invaded their neighbor, Ukraine.

Question 12

What provoked the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) , which established a free-trade zone of the United States, Canada, and Mexico?

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A)   The enormous success of the "tiger" economies of the Far East
B)   Growing fragmentation following the collapse of the USSR
C)   The economic success of-and potential competition from-the European Community
D)   Wars and civil strife around the world

Question 13

In the late twentieth century, fossil-fuel pollutants such as those from natural gas, coal, and oil mixed with atmospheric moisture to create what environmental problem?

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A)   Toxic runoff in rivers and lakes, which contaminated drinking water
B)   Acid rain, which was responsible for killing vast areas of forest
C)   Rising sea levels, which threatened coastal settlements
D)   Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) , which weakened the ozone layer

Question 14

The United States declared a "war against terrorism" in response to what event?

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A)   The discovery of Saddam Hussein's collection of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, ostensibly to be used to attack the United States and Europe
B)   The bombing of subways in Madrid and London by al-Qaeda operatives, under orders of Osama bin Laden, in 2004 and 2005
C)   The hijacking of planes on September 11, 2001, by Islamic militants, who flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with a fourth plane crashing in Pennsylvania
D)   A taped message from Osama bin Laden, broadcast over television networks worldwide, in which he proclaimed "death to all infidels" and swore to carry out horrific violence against the United States

Question 15

Which of the following terms is used for supranational organizations like charitable foundations, think tanks, or service-based organizations that act independently of governments and greatly influence social, economic, and political policies in the contemporary world?

Accepted Answer

A)   Community foundations
B)   Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) 
C)   Multinationals
D)   Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)

Question 16

What did the term ethnic cleansing come to mean in the Balkan wars of the 1990s?

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A)   Harassment of ethnic minorities in ethnically mixed states like Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as job discrimination against Muslims in Christian states
B)   A policy of genocide against ethnic minorities in the pursuit of an "ethnically pure" state in a region where an ethnic mix was the norm
C)   An attempt to "Christianize" the former Yugoslav federation by forcing Muslim minorities to move to Arab states in the Middle East and North Africa
D)   A major renovation of health care services for certain ethnic groups in various states, even as other groups were allowed to languish in terrible conditions

Question 17

How did globalization of the economy affect the West?

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Question 18

Which of the following Russian leaders declared himself committed to legality by announcing that "democracy is the dictatorship of law"?

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A)   Mikhail Gorbachev
B)   Vladimir Putin
C)   Boris Yeltsin
D)   Slobodan Milosevic

Question 19

According to this map, which of the following nations successfully achieved independence from Russia?
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A)   Chechnya
B)   Latvia
C)   Turkey
D)   Mongolia

Question 20

Which of the following occurred in 1990, after Slobodan Milosevic won the presidency of Serbia and began to claim Serb ascendancy over the Yugoslav federation as a whole?

Accepted Answer

A)   All sides engaged in ethnic cleansing, not only committing acts of genocide but also destroying the cultural heritage of their opponents.
B)   Peaceful elections occurred in most of the new states of the federation, although ethnic tensions between Muslims and Christians in Bosnia led to violence.
C)   Russian leader Boris Yeltsin pledged his support to the Serbian cause as a means of supporting Slavic nationalism across Europe.
D)   Although various ethnic groups wanted to declare their independence, Milosevic was able to unite them under the federation.

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