Economics in the Global Age/AP Exam Practice

Topic 4 AP Exam Practice

Multiple-Choice Questions

Questions 1–3 refer to the passage below.

“[Google] has become famous in India for its program of Saathis—the Hindi word for friend—which it launched in 2015 to help draw more women online. Women make up a small percentage of internet users in the country. Google partnered with Tata Trusts, the philanthropic arm of India’s manufacturing and retail conglomerate, and recruited about 60,000 so-called Saathis, all women, in more than 200,000 villages across India, to teach other women how to get online. Google trained the Saathis and gave them each a smartphone, while Tata pays them a stipend of about $40 a month. . . .

Google claims the Saathis have so far trained about 22 million people, mostly women, in basic skills like how to make WhatsApp calls and pay bills online. It aims to reach about 300,000 villages by the end of this year. Several Saathis and their trainees have seized the chance to start cottage industries with their new Internet skills, downloading instructional videos on YouTube on how to make homemade honey or embroider shirts, for example. . . . ‘I learned how to decorate bangles with thread and stones on YouTube,’ says Parveen Begum, 32, whose husband, a devout Muslim, did not permit her to work outside the house. She now sells her bangles to local clients. ‘Women come to my house to learn the Internet,’ she says. ‘I will train about 1,200 people in the end.’”

Vivienne Walt, “Google’s Hopes and Dreams in India,”

Fortune, February 20, 2019

1. Which of the following describes a likely benefit to Google of its efforts in India?

(A) Google is looking to India’s women as a source of low-cost labor.
(B) Google is creating potential future customers by introducing technology.
(C) Google is looking to avoid U.S. taxes by establishing a presence in India.
(D) Google is looking for ways to extract natural resources from India for its finished products.

2. Which best states a claim about globalization that this article could be used to support?

(A) Companies both encourage and benefit from economic growth.
(B) The pay difference among workers around the world doing similar jobs will grow larger over time.
(C) Google’s relationship with India’s middle class is mainly charitable.
(D) One limit to economic liberalism is that companies fail to transfer skills to workers around the world.

3. In what way have Google and YouTube benefited the women in the Saathis program economically?

(A) It pays them a $40 per month stipend.
(B) It saves them money through online bill paying.
(C) It exposes them to ideas they might use to make money.
(D) It gives women more freedom to work outside the home.

Short-Answer Questions

1. Use the image below to answer all parts of the question that follows.

(A)(A) Describe ONE reason cotton from Texas was shipped to Vietnam, as reflected in the image.

(B)(B) Explain ONE way in which globalization contributed to the development of foreign manufacturing in the late 20th century.

(C)(C) Explain ONE way in which economic trends in Vietnam were similar to the economic trends in Mexico in the late 20th century.

2. Answer all parts of the question that follows.

(A)(A) Explain ONE way in which governments encouraged economic liberalization in the late 20th century.

(B)(B) Explain ONE way in which revolutions in information and communications technology affected knowledge economies in the late 20th century.

(C)(C) Explain ONE way in which industrial production affected Asia or Latin America in the late 20th century.

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