Poverty and Disease — Cumulative exam Answers

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Which best explains why India is suffering from widespread poverty, even though it has a rapidly growing economy?

A
Its population is also growing rapidly.
B
It has no way to distribute available food.
C
It has a shortage of healthy and able workers.
D
Its government has no ability to treat sick people.
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What was the result when a military coup seized power in Ghana?

A
The government finally stabilized.
B
Civilian rule was abolished for good.
C
Nkrumah became stronger than ever.
D
Government instability increased.
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How did satellites impact scientific understanding of space during the late 20th century?

A
Satellites allowed astronauts to successfully navigate around the moon.
B
Satellites allowed for more accurate predictions of solar flares.
C
Satellites provided images from surrounding solar systems that confirmed the existence of other planets with water.
D
Satellites provided high resolution photos that helped scientists research the origins of the universe.
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Why were party leaders shocked by Krushchev’s rejection of Stalin?

A
Stalin had kept everyone safe for a long time.
B
Stalin had expanded Soviet rule over many countries.
C
The party had grown accustomed to Stalin’s decisions.
D
The party believed that Stalin was a noble leader.
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Most of those Russians drafted to fight in World War I were peasants. This resulted in a(n)

A
scarcity of food, so people died of starvation.
B
untrained and unprepared military force.
C
appeal to women to do peasants’ jobs.
D
reason for the tsar to shut down peasant factories.
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In the mid-1950s, Polish workers rebelled because they wanted

A
political reforms.
B
better pay.
C
more personal freedom.
D
national independence.
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Who founded the Nazi Party?

A
Adolf Hitler
B
former German soldiers
C
former Weimar officials
D
socialists
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Why did the Allies want to seize New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the surrounding islands?

A
to get closer to the Philippines
B
to overcome these Japanese strongholds
C
to take Guadalcanal
D
to have a base near Australia
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What happened to China’s economy during the Great Leap Forward?

A
The economy went backward.
B
The economy moved ahead.
C
The economy was modernized.
D
The economy stayed the same.
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Which event started the Korean War?

A
South Korea invaded North Korea.
B
The United States declared war on North Korea.
C
The United Nations forced the two sides to unite.
D
North Korea invaded South Korea.
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What was one negative effect of the end of communism in Czechoslovakia?

A
The Czech Republic fractured.
B
Slovakians began to revolt.
C
Slovakia suffered economically.
D
Czechs lost the right to vote.
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Who was known as “the father of modern China”?

A
Mao Zedong
B
Emperor Puyi
C
Chiang Kai-shek
D
Sun Yat-sen
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What challenge did newly independent countries have to face as a result of unchanged colonial boundaries?

A
The boundaries ignored the presence of mountains and rivers.
B
The boundaries often put rival ethnic and religious groups in the same country.
C
The boundaries put together people who had no desire for independence.
D
The boundaries ignored ways for countries to have access to the world’s oceans.
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When European nations established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s, they

A
controlled colonies’ government but gave colonies economic control.
B
allowed colonies to run their government but held economic control.
C
exercised complete economic and political control over the colonies.
D
negotiated with colonies to determine economic and political control.
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Which events increased tensions between the Japan and the United States in the late 1930s? Select three options.

A
Japan attacked the US at Pearl Harbor.
B
Japan continued its expansion into China.
C
Japan joined the Allied countries.
D
Japan joined the Axis countries.
E
Japan barred trade with the US.
F
Japan invaded French Indochina.
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Which best describes the changes Deng Xiaoping sought to make in China?

A
He wanted to remove capitalist influences.
B
He wanted to modernize the country.
C
He wanted to remove socialist influences.
D
He wanted to privatize all industry.
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In order to invade the USSR, Hitler had to first

A
make sure US troops were occupied elsewhere.
B
defeat Great Britain’s forces in North Africa.
C
get Italy to commit troops for the invasion.
D
break the German-Soviet nonaggression pact.
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Which of these is a demographic shift that has resulted from China’s one-child policy?

A
declining average age
B
shrinking population
C
gender imbalance
D
greater emigration
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Why did the British promise some of their colonies independence during World War II?

A
The British felt sorry for their colonies.
B
The British believed it was wrong to have colonies.
C
The British wanted colonial troops to help in the fighting.
D
The British wanted to follow the example that had been set by Germany.
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After Hitler’s demand for all of Sudetenland, world leaders debated whether to

A
implement economic sanctions against Germany.
B
use League of Nations forces to stop Germany.
C
compete with Germany for territory.
D
appease Germany by giving in to its demands.

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