Year Long Review

What generalization can be made about the relationship between GDP and literacy?

• Literacy is always lower in countries with a higher GDP.

• Literacy is usually higher in countries with a higher GDP.

• Countries with oil wealth always have the highest literacy rates.

• There is no relationship between a country’s GDP and its literacy rate.

Who takes on the financial risk in starting a new business in a market economy?

• Economists

• Entrepreneurs

• Government planners

• Combination of government planners and economists

What describes the limit that OPEC puts on its members' production of oil?

• Tax

• Tariff

• Quota

• Embargo

Which type of government is Saudi Arabia?

• Autocratic monarchy

• Constitutional monarchy

• Parliamentary democracy

• Presidential democracy

Which branch of government is responsible for making and carrying out the laws in a parliamentary system of government?

• The courts

• The monarch

• The president

• The legislature

Which country has a parliament called the Knesset?

• Iran

• Turkey

• Saudi Arabia

• Israel

When the Ottoman Empire ended and new countries were created, what problems did the new boundaries cause as people found themselves living in newly created countries?

• All of the new countries were very poor.

• People in the new countries were no longer allowed to practice their religion.

• Most of the new countries were all desert and people could not make a living.

• The new countries often included people who did not have very much in common.

Why did so many countries in the United Nations feel it was right to create the state of Israel in 1948?

• There was no one else living on the land at that time.

• Many felt the Jews deserved help because they had suffered so much in the Holocaust.

• Arab countries in the area supported the creation of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.

• All national groups in the former Ottoman Empire were being given homelands at the same time.

What is one of the reasons Iraqis had difficulty forming a new government after the fall of Saddam Hussein?

• Most Iraqis wanted Saddam Hussein to stay in power.

• Iraq is a poor country because they have no oil reserves.

• There are many religious and ethnic groups in Iraq who want power.

• The Iraqis have not tried to form a government of their own.

Why is the Suez Canal so important to international shipping?

• The Suez Canal is the only way for ships to get out of the Persian Gulf.

• The Suez Canal is Iraq’s only waterway leading into the Persian Gulf.

• The Suez Canal makes it possible to get from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea without sailing around Africa.

• The Suez Canal connects the Jordan River to the Persian Gulf, making it less expensive to ship oil to other parts of Southwest Asia.