Final Exam: PS 3304
Spring 2023
200 Questions; 1 point each
1. In contrast to the First Industrial Revolution, the Second Industrial Revolution was characterized
mostly by
a) Innovations in the textile industry and steam power.
b) Innovations in ceramic and pottery production.
c) Innovations in digital production and computer-based systems.
d) Innovations in mass production and electrification
2. During the 1980s and 1990s the Chinese government shifted economic focus by
a) Halting all trade with Europe and the United States.
b) Promoting agrarian and farm communes that collectivized agricultural production
c) Privatized agricultural production and promoted industrial plants in southeastern China
d) Promoting economic development in western China, Tibet, and Chinese Turkestan
3. A major reason in forming the European Union was for which of the following reasons?
a) To prevent the migration of peoples from one nation in Europe to another.
b) To allow nations to take unilateral military action to protect its interests.
c) To allow nations to retain its unique culture.
d) To lesson economic differences between nations and promote continental economic growth
4. Read the list of statements below and answer the question that follows.
Signed in 1215
Affirmed feudal rights
Granted certain rights to nobles and all free men
Required the monarch to obey the law
Which of the following is the best title for the above information?
a) Magna Carta
b) Justinian Code
c) Charlemagne’s decree
d) Mayflower Compact
5. The Punic Wars resulted in which of the following?
, a) Rome gaining full control of the western Mediterranean
b) Augustus Caesar becoming the sole leader of the Roman state
c) The Persian Empire trying and failing to conquer Greece
d) Sparta emerging as the strongest of the Greek city-states
6. One important factor in the expansion of the Inca Empire in the fifteenth and early sixteenth
centuries AD was the Inca’s
a) Complicated system of hieroglyphics that allowed for advanced communication among various
peoples.
b) Standardized monetary system, use of credit notes and other financial instruments that
facilitated long-distance trade.
c) Extensive system of roads that allowed for communication and travel through the Andean
highlands and between the highlands and the lowlands along the Pacific coast.
d) Extensive importation of foodstuffs from Mesoamerica to support the population of the less
fertile highland regions of the empire.
7. Ancient Mesopotamia experienced frequent invasions that often resulted in the conquest or
collapse of existing states. Which of the following factors was responsible for facilitating that
tendency?
a) The lack of major natural barriers between Mesopotamia and neighboring regions
b) The presence of an established network of paved roadways in Mesopotamia
c) The ease with which potential invaders could sail down the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and
attack settled societies in southern Mesopotamia
d) The vulnerability of Mesopotamia to seaborne invasions from India and Egypt via the Persian
Gulf.
8. The Paleolithic Age (2,500,000-10,000 BC) was characterized by
a) The invention of writing
b) Hunting and gathering
c) The beginning of agriculture
d) The domestication of animals
9. Members of a city council are considering a change in local zoning that would allow the creation of
commercial establishments in a residential area of the city. One group of councilors believes the
change is necessary to expand the local tax base; an opposing group feels the change would adversely
affect residents of the area. After lengthy discussion of the issue, the council agrees to open a few
clearly defined sections of the residential area to forms of commercial development that are
,compatible with the neighborhood’s character. The council’s action best illustrates which of the
following?
a) The use of arbitration to settle a dispute in which two parties feel strongly about an issue.
b) The use of debate to clarify complex policy questions.
c) The use of negotiation to obtain an equitable settlement of an economic issue.
d) The use of compromise to resolve policy differences
10. A teacher is aware that many students use the World Wide Web to locate information for social
studies assignments and projects. The teacher wishes to ensure that students use the Web effectively
as a research tool. The teacher can best achieve this goal by teaching students to ask which of the
following questions about any document on the Web that they wish to use?
a) How many links to other related sites are contained within this document?
b) Is the author of this document a reliable source of information about the topic in question?
c) Is the information contained in this document also available in paper-based texts of other
media?
d) Is the material in this document protected from copyright and am I able to quote from it if I
wish?
11. A teacher could best help his or her students understand the role of interest groups in decision
making by having the students:
a) Analyze and compare national news broadcasts in terms of the amount of time they spend
reporting on issues of concern to various groups, such as environmentalists or business-people.
b) Analyze recent political party platforms to determine each party’s priorities and the types of
policies it is most likely to support.
c) Use newspaper articles, editorials, and guest speakers to analyze the arguments and influence of
various groups concerned about a local issue, such as where to locate a new airport.
d) Write letters to a local newspaper or politician in which they present their views on an issue of
interest to them, such as a proposed change in the school curriculum
12. To begin a geography lesson, a teacher gives a group of students a map and asks them to
determine where they would choose to locate a settlement if they were just arriving on the island.
The map includes landforms, vegetation and rainfall patterns. The lesson would most clearly illustrate
for students which of the following geographic concepts?
a) To understand human activity patterns within a region, it is often necessary to investigate
interrelationships between that region and other regions of the world.
, b) Geographic regions may be defined in a great many ways; how they are defined depends on the
variables being considered.
c) The parts of a region are often economically interrelated as a result of transportation,
communication and trade.
d) The environment may play an important role in encouraging or limiting a region’s activities and
population patterns.
13. As part of a history lesson on urbanization in the nineteenth-century United States, a teacher
emphasizes ways in which farmers from surrounding areas met the food needs of city dwellers while
purchasing goods in urban workshops and factories. The teacher could best reinforce institution on
this topic by relating it to which of the following economic concepts?
a) competitive markets
b) interdependence
c) factors of production
d) supply and demand
14. Which of the following is a factor of production?
a) State banks
b) Consumers
c) Entrepreneurs
d) Computers
15. Which of the following best represents the potential opportunity cost of local officials cutting their
town’s education budget to increase spending for local roads?
a) Better transportation systems
b) Lower local taxes
c) Fewer high school graduates
d) Lower class sizes
16. Which of the following is a correct statement about how settlement patterns in Texas have been
affected by the state’s geography?
a) The population of southern Texas is in decline due to a drop in average temperature
b) The highest population concentrations are in the Panhandle, where cities have grown along
rivers
c) The population of northeastern Texas has been limited by its isolation and mountainous terrain
d) The western region of Texas is the least populated because of its dry climate and rocky terrain
17. The Neolithic Revolution (10,000-4,000 BC) saw
Spring 2023
200 Questions; 1 point each
1. In contrast to the First Industrial Revolution, the Second Industrial Revolution was characterized
mostly by
a) Innovations in the textile industry and steam power.
b) Innovations in ceramic and pottery production.
c) Innovations in digital production and computer-based systems.
d) Innovations in mass production and electrification
2. During the 1980s and 1990s the Chinese government shifted economic focus by
a) Halting all trade with Europe and the United States.
b) Promoting agrarian and farm communes that collectivized agricultural production
c) Privatized agricultural production and promoted industrial plants in southeastern China
d) Promoting economic development in western China, Tibet, and Chinese Turkestan
3. A major reason in forming the European Union was for which of the following reasons?
a) To prevent the migration of peoples from one nation in Europe to another.
b) To allow nations to take unilateral military action to protect its interests.
c) To allow nations to retain its unique culture.
d) To lesson economic differences between nations and promote continental economic growth
4. Read the list of statements below and answer the question that follows.
Signed in 1215
Affirmed feudal rights
Granted certain rights to nobles and all free men
Required the monarch to obey the law
Which of the following is the best title for the above information?
a) Magna Carta
b) Justinian Code
c) Charlemagne’s decree
d) Mayflower Compact
5. The Punic Wars resulted in which of the following?
, a) Rome gaining full control of the western Mediterranean
b) Augustus Caesar becoming the sole leader of the Roman state
c) The Persian Empire trying and failing to conquer Greece
d) Sparta emerging as the strongest of the Greek city-states
6. One important factor in the expansion of the Inca Empire in the fifteenth and early sixteenth
centuries AD was the Inca’s
a) Complicated system of hieroglyphics that allowed for advanced communication among various
peoples.
b) Standardized monetary system, use of credit notes and other financial instruments that
facilitated long-distance trade.
c) Extensive system of roads that allowed for communication and travel through the Andean
highlands and between the highlands and the lowlands along the Pacific coast.
d) Extensive importation of foodstuffs from Mesoamerica to support the population of the less
fertile highland regions of the empire.
7. Ancient Mesopotamia experienced frequent invasions that often resulted in the conquest or
collapse of existing states. Which of the following factors was responsible for facilitating that
tendency?
a) The lack of major natural barriers between Mesopotamia and neighboring regions
b) The presence of an established network of paved roadways in Mesopotamia
c) The ease with which potential invaders could sail down the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and
attack settled societies in southern Mesopotamia
d) The vulnerability of Mesopotamia to seaborne invasions from India and Egypt via the Persian
Gulf.
8. The Paleolithic Age (2,500,000-10,000 BC) was characterized by
a) The invention of writing
b) Hunting and gathering
c) The beginning of agriculture
d) The domestication of animals
9. Members of a city council are considering a change in local zoning that would allow the creation of
commercial establishments in a residential area of the city. One group of councilors believes the
change is necessary to expand the local tax base; an opposing group feels the change would adversely
affect residents of the area. After lengthy discussion of the issue, the council agrees to open a few
clearly defined sections of the residential area to forms of commercial development that are
,compatible with the neighborhood’s character. The council’s action best illustrates which of the
following?
a) The use of arbitration to settle a dispute in which two parties feel strongly about an issue.
b) The use of debate to clarify complex policy questions.
c) The use of negotiation to obtain an equitable settlement of an economic issue.
d) The use of compromise to resolve policy differences
10. A teacher is aware that many students use the World Wide Web to locate information for social
studies assignments and projects. The teacher wishes to ensure that students use the Web effectively
as a research tool. The teacher can best achieve this goal by teaching students to ask which of the
following questions about any document on the Web that they wish to use?
a) How many links to other related sites are contained within this document?
b) Is the author of this document a reliable source of information about the topic in question?
c) Is the information contained in this document also available in paper-based texts of other
media?
d) Is the material in this document protected from copyright and am I able to quote from it if I
wish?
11. A teacher could best help his or her students understand the role of interest groups in decision
making by having the students:
a) Analyze and compare national news broadcasts in terms of the amount of time they spend
reporting on issues of concern to various groups, such as environmentalists or business-people.
b) Analyze recent political party platforms to determine each party’s priorities and the types of
policies it is most likely to support.
c) Use newspaper articles, editorials, and guest speakers to analyze the arguments and influence of
various groups concerned about a local issue, such as where to locate a new airport.
d) Write letters to a local newspaper or politician in which they present their views on an issue of
interest to them, such as a proposed change in the school curriculum
12. To begin a geography lesson, a teacher gives a group of students a map and asks them to
determine where they would choose to locate a settlement if they were just arriving on the island.
The map includes landforms, vegetation and rainfall patterns. The lesson would most clearly illustrate
for students which of the following geographic concepts?
a) To understand human activity patterns within a region, it is often necessary to investigate
interrelationships between that region and other regions of the world.
, b) Geographic regions may be defined in a great many ways; how they are defined depends on the
variables being considered.
c) The parts of a region are often economically interrelated as a result of transportation,
communication and trade.
d) The environment may play an important role in encouraging or limiting a region’s activities and
population patterns.
13. As part of a history lesson on urbanization in the nineteenth-century United States, a teacher
emphasizes ways in which farmers from surrounding areas met the food needs of city dwellers while
purchasing goods in urban workshops and factories. The teacher could best reinforce institution on
this topic by relating it to which of the following economic concepts?
a) competitive markets
b) interdependence
c) factors of production
d) supply and demand
14. Which of the following is a factor of production?
a) State banks
b) Consumers
c) Entrepreneurs
d) Computers
15. Which of the following best represents the potential opportunity cost of local officials cutting their
town’s education budget to increase spending for local roads?
a) Better transportation systems
b) Lower local taxes
c) Fewer high school graduates
d) Lower class sizes
16. Which of the following is a correct statement about how settlement patterns in Texas have been
affected by the state’s geography?
a) The population of southern Texas is in decline due to a drop in average temperature
b) The highest population concentrations are in the Panhandle, where cities have grown along
rivers
c) The population of northeastern Texas has been limited by its isolation and mountainous terrain
d) The western region of Texas is the least populated because of its dry climate and rocky terrain
17. The Neolithic Revolution (10,000-4,000 BC) saw
