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[04HIST] Read the following passage; then answer the question that follows. … The expansion of communications meant that the world got more deeply connected and became “flat,” in Thomas Friedman’s famous formulation. Cheap phone calls and broadband made it possible for people to do jobs for one country in another country—marking the next stage in the ongoing story of capitalism. With the arrival of big ships in the fifteenth century, goods became mobile. With modern banking in the seventeenth century, capital became mobile. In the 1990s, labor became mobile. People could not necessarily go to where the jobs were, but jobs could go to where people were. And they went to programmers in India, telephone operators in the Philippines, and radiologists inThailand. The cost of transporting goods and services has been falling for centuries. With the advent [coming] of broadband, it has dropped to zero for many services. Not all jobs can be outsourced—not by a long shot—but the effect of outsourcing can be felt everywhere.… — Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World, W. W. Norton & Company, 2008 Which conclusion about the global economy is best supported by this 2008 passage?

[09GEO] What would a geographer conducting research be most likely to do?

[12GOV] The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and the founding of Amnesty International in 1961 are both associated with efforts to recognize and protect the ______.

[04HIST]  Wearing of the fez outlawed (1925) Turkish state declared secular (1928) Women received the right to vote and holdoffice (1934) Which idea was promoted by these actions taken in Turkey?

[07US] Read the following passage; then answer the question that follows. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel, and land or permit to be landed, any Chinese laborer, from any foreign port or place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such Chinese laborer so brought, and may be also imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year. — Section 2, Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 Passage of this legislation was mainly a response to _______.

[08US] The brown haze called photochemical smog is most likely to be a problem in U.S. cities:

[06US] Which of the following statements best describes the impact that Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin had on large cotton plantations?

[05US] Read the stimulus (an excerpt from a 1776 letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband John). Use the information below to answer the questions that follow. I long to hear that you have declared an independency — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar [sic] care and attention is not paid to the Laidies [sic] we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. This excerpt best illustrates the use of ______.

[09GEO] Look at the following image; then answer the question that follows. Which statement can best be supported by the information on this 2003 map?

[15ECO] If 200 jobs are available and only 100 people are unemployed, what will have to happen according to the laws of supply and demand?