Drill 29 · Multiple Choice · Unit 9: Globalization
AP World History Unit 9 Drill 29 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 9: Globalization. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on how new technologies have transformed global communication, economic integration, and inequality in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from a United Nations Human Development Report, c. 2005 CE.
"The communications revolution of the late twentieth century has transformed the possibilities of human development in ways both profound and deeply unequal. The internet, mobile telephony, and satellite communications have created an integrated global information space that enables individuals, businesses, and governments in even remote regions to access markets, knowledge, and each other with unprecedented speed. Yet the same technology that has enabled a software entrepreneur in Bangalore to compete in global markets has not reached the subsistence farmer in rural Mali, who lacks electricity, reliable connectivity, and the literacy necessary to participate. The 'digital divide' separates not only nations but communities within nations — urban from rural, educated from uneducated, wealthy from poor. Technology does not automatically reduce inequality; it may in fact amplify existing advantages, concentrating benefits among those already positioned to use them."