View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through For Chapters 8-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 2, the average annual income is what in the location where black rhinoceros horns are worth much on the black market?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $6,000.
(c) $2,500.
(d) $8,700.

2. The Cuban Revolution deposed what dictator?
(a) Fidel Castro.
(b) Roberto Goizueta.
(c) Fulgencio Batista.
(d) Nicholas Sarkozy.

3. In finance, what is a derivative financial instrument that specifies a contract between two parties for a future transaction on an asset at a reference price?
(a) Option.
(b) Portfolio.
(c) Bond.
(d) Trade-off.

4. When was Douglas Ivester born?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1922.

5. What, as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks?
(a) Retirement.
(b) Overemployment.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) Underemployment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does HDI stand for?

2. What term was first used in the early 1990s to denote an organization's reputation as an employer?

3. Arab members of OPEC alarmed the developed world when they used the "oil weapon" during what war by implementing oil embargoes?

4. In economics, what refers to a general slowdown in economic activity?

5. What is the ninth factor one should consider along with the GDP to understand an economy, according to the author in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 229 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample