Analyzing Progress Check Multiple Choice Questions: Explain Error Unit 9 Multiple Choice 1. Score that you received: 14/24 2. What questions did you answer incorrectly? Q3 Cost of Transport MCQ 3, Q4 China Healthcare MCQ 1, Q10 Soros on Markets MCQ 1, Q13 Manitoba Women Vote MCQ 1, Q14 Manitoba Women Vote MCQ 2, Q19 Vandana Shiva antiglobalization MCQ 1, Q20 Vandana Shiva antiglobalization MCQ 2, Q21 Vandana Shiva antiglobalization MCQ 3, Q22 Dumbarton Oaks and Bretton Woods MCQ 1, Q24 Dumbarton Oaks and Bretton Woods MCQ 3 3. For each question answered incorrectly, explain why your answer was wrong. - Q3: I chose Option A. This was incorrect because while it applied to the cost of all other technologies on the graph, it did not apply to that of trans-Atlantic telephone calls and satellite television, which both declined more rapidly in the second half of the 20th century. - Q4: I chose Option B. This was incorrect because China’s government became communist only in 1949, so communism cannot be directly accountable for short life expectancy. In the late twentieth-century China’s economy remained largely communist with small enclaves of capitalist investment, so capitalism alone cannot be credited with longer life expectancy. - Q10: I chose Option B. This was incorrect because the author does, in fact, argue in the passage that a lack of regulation could lead to the collapse of financial systems. I thought of Option C as a possible response, but changed my mind because I thought the statement was too generalized; free market policies don’t improve everyone’s standards of living, since large corporations often exploit developing countries and put laborers through harsh working conditions. - Q13: I chose Option B. This was incorrect because the authors of the document do not use technical knowledge to prove their point. Answer D, on the other hand, was correct because the petition uses the largely globally accepted concept of equality to challenge patriarchal social norms and argue that women should be given the right to vote. - Q14: I chose option D, which was incorrect. Answer B was correct because the expansion of voting rights (for men) and increased access to education in countries such as Canada led to the transformation of party politics, with the rise of new political parties and with existing parties having to adapt their programs to reflect the views of a widening electorate. - Q19: Option D was incorrect because it is not a criticism of her objectivity. Option C was correct because the author’s political positions as an environmentalist and anti-globalization activist can be legitimately seen as a source of potential bias in her presentation of the data. This question could be linked to how we’ve been taught to write Point of View sourcing statements. - - - - Q20: I chose Option A. This was incorrect because this type of data would likely demonstrate the considerable profitability of multinational agribusiness corporations and the global extent of their reach and, as such, would likely strengthen Shiva’s criticism. Q21: I chose Option C. While the statement itself was correct, it does not point to a weakness in Shiva’s criticism of global food markets because membership in such organizations is often a prerequisite for developing countries receiving aid from the international community. Q22: I chose Option B. It was incorrect because the World Bank & the IMF do not explicitly mention addressing humanitarian problems (even though the United Nations & Security Council do). Q24: I chose Option D, which was incorrect because it is not accurate in regards to the World Bank and neither agreement mentions implementing sanctions to enforce compliance.
