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Students Zone - Self test questions
Use these questions both to test your detailed knowledge of each chapter. Make a note of your answers and then consult the answers page on this website. If you score less than 12 correct answers for any chapter, you probably need to spend more time re-reading and revising its contents.
CHAPTER 3: Economy and Society
1. Britain is:
a) Unusual in combining capitalism with democracy
b) Part of the prevailing pattern in the world today in combining capitalism and democracy
c) One of a select group of rich countries that combine capitalism and democracy
2. The Thatcher Governments in the 1980s:
a) Radically reshaped British society
b) Had no measurable effect on British society
c) Marginally changed British society
3. The Industrial Revolution:
a) Made class more important in Britain
b) Made class less important
c) Had no measurable impact on the importance of class
4. In traditional class society:
a) The working class was in a minority
b) The working class was in a majority
c) The working class and the middle class were of equal size
5. In recent decades manual workers have:
a) Grown in numerical importance
b) Diminished in numerical importance
c) Remained at an unchanging proportion of the workforce
6. The service sector in recent decades:
a) Has grown in importance
b) Has diminished in importance
c) Has remained constant in importance
7. The service sector consists mostly of:
a) Highly paid professional jobs
b) Lowly paid unskilled jobs
c) A mix of all kinds of skilled and unskilled work
8. The South East of England is:
a) By most measures the richest region in the United Kingdom
b) By most measures the poorest region in the United Kingdom
c) By most measures at about the average level of prosperity in the United Kingdom
9. Women's participation in the workforce in the United Kingdom is:
a) Below the average for the European Union
b) Above the average for the European Union
c) At about the average for the European Union
10. In higher education:
a) Women now outnumber men
b) Men outnumber women
c) The proportions of men and women are the same
11. In the last half century Britain has become:
a) Ethnically more diverse
b) Ethnically less diverse
c) Has experienced no great change in ethnicity
12. In recent decades immigrants have:
a) Come from an increasingly narrow range of countries
b) Come from an increasing wide range of countries
c) Come mostly from the same countries as was the case a generation ago
13. Most shares in publicly quoted companies are:
a) Owned by private individuals
b) Owned by financial institutions
c) Owned in equal measure by private individuals and financial institutions
14. Giant companies:
a) Are unimportant in the British economy
b) Dominate the British economy totally
c) Vary in importance from sector to sector of the economy
15. Inequality in Britain:
a) Has clearly grown over the course of last quarter century
b) Has clearly decreased over the last century
c) Has grown on some measures and decreased on others
