Exam Questions | America and the Global South Aid, – Ch.7

Chapter 7

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following involves foreign intervention in the Global South?

a. Sending physicians to help eradicate disease.

b. Attaching conditions to foreign aid.

c. Providing funds to the World Health Organization.

d. Providing funding for research into Ebola vaccines.

2. In which way do failed states threaten U.S. security?

a. Terrorism.

b. Regional instability.

c. Transnational crime.

d. All of the above.

3. Which of the following is an indicator of fragile states?

a. Poverty.

b. Number of elections.

c. Size of armies.

d. All of the above.

4. Where are most fragile countries located?

a. Latin America.

b. Southeast Asia.

c. Africa.

d. The Balkans.

5. Which of the following is a fragile state?

a. Cuba.

b. Haiti.

c. Panama.

d. Uruguay.

6. Which of the following is regarded as the world’s most fragile state?

a. South Sudan.

b. Kenya.

c. Niger.

d. Pakistan.

7. Why do U.S. leaders pay little attention to fragile states?

a. They tend to be unconcerned about poor countries.

b. They are absorbed by domestic challenges.

c. They regard many fragile states as hopeless.

d. They tend to focus on situations that pose immediate threats.

8. What did President Obama regard as a key obstacle to strengthening fragile states?

a. Corruption.

b. Western trade policy.

c. Ethnic divisions.

d. Unfavorable climate.

9. Which of the following provided aid to participants in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

a. South Sudan.

b. The Central African Republic.

c. Rwanda.

d. Zimbabwe.

10. Which of the following was governed by Robert Mugabe?

a. South Sudan.

b. The Central African Republic.

c. Rwanda.

d. Zimbabwe.

11. What policy in Zimbabwe contributed to the country’s growing fragility?

a. Rapid urbanization of its capital city, Harare.

b. Clearing jungles in order to plant commercial crops.

c. Distributing farms seized from white owners to political supporters and government officials.

d. Initiating war against Lesotho.

12. Where did a cholera epidemic infect hundreds of thousands of people in 2010?

a. South Africa.

b. Burundi.

c. Haiti.

d. Guatemala.

13. What problem may result if a country receives large amounts of foreign aid quickly?

a. It may fuel a recession.

b. It may cause currency flight.

c. It may foster corruption.

d. It may require higher taxes.

14. Which of the following was a major problem for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto?

a. Drug-related violence.

b. Pollution in the Gulf of Mexico.

c. American efforts to secure the border with Mexico.

d. The theft of funds by his political associates.

15. Where did America send military advisers to help eradicate drug violence?

a. Mexico.

b. Colombia.

c. Peru.

d. Honduras.

16. What policy made the United States increasingly popular in Africa?

a. Reducing domestic agricultural subsidies.

b. Sending troops to aid Nigerian counterterrorism.

c. Providing aid for combatting HIV/AIDS.

d. Trying to extradite Sudan’s president to the International Criminal Court.

17. What is the UN target for members’ foreign aid?

a. 10 percent of nation income.

b. 0.7 percent of national income.

c. 5.8 percent of national income.

d. 0.19 percent of national income.

18. How much does the U.S. spend on foreign aid?

a. 10 percent of nation income.

b. 0.7 percent of national income.

c. 5.8 percent of national income.

d. 0.19 percent of national income.

19. For which of the following does the U.S. spend most of its foreign aid?

a. Economic development.

b. Global health.

c. Global education.

d. Humanitarian assistance.

20. Which of the following did the Bush administration wish had been included in the Millennium Development Goals?

a. Achieving good governance.

b. Promoting gender equality.

c. Ensuring environmental sustainability.

d. Combatting HIV/AIDS.

21. What was the objective of America’s Millennium Challenge Account?

a. To provide a crash program to cope with the Ebola disease in West Africa.

b. To institute agricultural trade reforms.

c. To offer incentives for countries to demonstrate they could use aid responsibly and effectively.

d. To reduce the dependence of developing countries on raw material exports.

22. Which of the following diseases is difficult to diagnose because it has symptoms associated with common respiratory ailments?

a. MERS.

b. Ebola.

c. Malaria.

d. Tuberculosis

23. Where did the 2014 Ebola outbreak originate?

a. Niger.

b. Guinea.

c. Indonesia.

d. South Sudan.

24. What region was most affected by the 2014 Ebola outbreak?

a. Southern Africa.

b. Northern Africa.

c. East Africa.

d. West Africa.

25. What region was most affected by HIV/AIDS?

a. Southern Africa.

b. Northern Africa.

c. East Africa.

d. West Africa.

25. Which of President Clinton’s economic policies may have impeded efforts to combat HIV/AIDS?

a. Balancing the federal budget.

b. Supporting free trade.

c. Supporting intellectual property protection.

d. Reforming the welfare system.

26. Which of the following was the most active in providing aid to combat HIV/AIDS?

a. George H. W. Bush.

b. Jimmy Carter.

c. Bill Clinton.

d. George W. Bush.

27. Which of the following UN agencies has global health as its main function?

a. ILO.

b. UNESCO.

c. WHO.

d. IMO.

28. How does the principle of refoulement protect refugees?

a. It prevents their forcible return to their homeland.

b. It prevents their detention in the country to which they flee.

c. It outlaws human trafficking.

d. It requires that if in danger at sea they must be rescued.

29. Refugees from which of the following countries long enjoyed a privileged status?

a. Russia.

b. Cuba.

c. China.

d. Haiti.

30. The U.S. has interdicted and repatriated refugees from which of the following countries?

a. Russia.

b. Cuba.

c. China.

d. Haiti.

31. Why are Americans concerned about refugees from Syria?

a. Increases in U.S. unemployment.

b. Fear of terrorism.

c. Welfare costs.

d. Language barrier.

32. Which of the following was a member of the nonaligned movement during the Cold War?

a. Egypt.

b. Poland.

c. Portugal.

d. Latvia.

33. For which of the following organizations was Danny Kaye a Goodwill Ambassador?

a. WHO.

b. UNICEF.

c. UNESCO.

d. UNHCR.

34. Which of the following threatens human security?

a. Disease.

b. Environmental degradation.

c. Poverty.

d. All of the above.

35. In which of the following countries did the United States intervene militarily in 1983?

a. Haiti.

b. Somalia.

c. Grenada.

d. The Dominican Republic.

36. In what country did the Sandinistas hold power?

a. Honduras.

b. Nicaragua.

c. Panama.

d. Guatemala.

37. In which country did the United States arrest Manuel Noriega?

a. Honduras.

b. Nicaragua.

c. Panama.

d. Guatemala.

38. Why was Colombia a threat to the United States?

a. It was the source of most cocaine in the U.S.

b. It provided Cuba with inexpensive oil.

c. It imprisoned U.S. medical students.

d. It elected a communist president.

39. Where did Washington first justify military intervention on humanitarian grounds?

a. Haiti.

b. Somalia.

c. Grenada.

d. The Dominican Republic.

40. Which of the following represented an effort by President John F. Kennedy’s effort to limit Cuba influence in Latin America?

a. The Peace Corps.

b. The establishment of USAID

c. The Alliance for Progress.

d. The development Loan Fund.

Essay Questions

41. What country was cited as an example of “how to kill a country”?

42. What was the Zeta cartel?

43. What was the “Monterey Consensus”?

44. What was PEPFAR?

45. What is human security?

46. What was the FARC?

47. Who were François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier? a. Answers vary; They were dictators of Haiti.

48. In what region did a debt crisis occur in the early 1980s?

49. What anti-American regional group did Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez organize?

50. Who was Nicolás Maduro?

51. Paramilitaries that terrorize populations and bloated, ineffective, and corrupt bureaucracies are associated with _____________.

52. The Bush administration introduced the ____________________ in 2002, a bilateral initiative to increase aid by 50 percent over three years.

53. A _______________ is someone with a well-founded fear of persecution based on religion, race, nationality, political views, or membership in a particular social group, and cannot expect protection from their government.

54. In 2014 the number of ___________________ apprehended trying to enter the country illegally increased to 60,000 from 13,625 in 2012.

55. The U.S. seeks to woo less-developed countries like ____________________ that are influenced by China.

56. In Latin America Washington seeks better relations with countries that might be attracted to the leftist policies of ____________.

57. Fragile states threaten U.S. security by providing ________________ with safe havens.

58. President Bill Clinton regarded failed states as a threat to stability in regions where America had clear interests, and viewed the solution as including ___________________ to prevent state failure.

59. Formerly Zaire, civil war in erupted in ____________ in 1997 as a spillover from Rwanda’s genocidal conflict.

60. Mexican policy was successful in destroying the large Knights Templar, Gulf, and Zeta cartels, but ______________ increased dramatically as numerous, smaller cartel offshoots fought for control of territory.

61. _____________ involved interdiction of drug shipments and coca eradication programs.

62. _____________ was Haiti’s first democratically elected president.

63. The 1961 Foreign Assistance Act established ____________________________ to coordinate formerly separate, ad hoc foreign-aid programs.

64. _____________________ was designed to help Europe recover from World War II and help their political institutions resist communist influence.

65. In 1950, _________________ offered technical

a. the Point Four Program