Poverty In Pakistan MCQs

Option A: India

Option B: China

Option C: Indonesia

Option D: Vietnam

Correct Answer: China ✔

Option A: systematic differences in wealth and income between global firms

Option B: systematic differences in wealth and income between countries

Option C: systematic differences in wealth and income within countries

Option D: systematic differences in wealth and income between poorer countries

Correct Answer: systematic differences in wealth and income between countries ✔

Option A: tax avoidance

Option B: gated communities

Option C: homelessness

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: none of the above ✔

Option A: the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution

Option B: they lead more people to be defined as in poverty

Option C: the median is a more accurate measurement of earning than the mean

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution ✔

Option A: the critical deconstruction of poverty by feminist theorists

Option B: women’s increased chances of being in poverty due to low pay and greater welfare dependency

Option C: the way in which managing a budget and avoiding poverty tends to be a women’s responsibility within the home

Option D: the disproportionate number of female sociologists who do research on poverty

Correct Answer: women’s increased chances of being in poverty due to low pay and greater welfare dependency ✔

Option A: high rewards and incentives ensure that the most skilled individuals will take the most important social positions

Option B: inequality is inevitable, and we are born into poverty or wealth

Option C: there are no social functions of inequality, so it should be eradicated

Option D: the idea of a meritocracy is a dangerous ideology

Correct Answer: high rewards and incentives ensure that the most skilled individuals will take the most important social positions ✔

Option A: the most extreme level of poverty that is found in a society

Option B: the estimated minimum level of income needed for subsistence

Option C: households that are poor relative to the norms and values of their culture

Option D: the areas of a city in which poverty is concentrated

Correct Answer: the estimated minimum level of income needed for subsistence ✔

Option A: Class factor

Option B: Mathew effect

Option C: Cultural Cause

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Mathew effect ✔

Option A: Asia

Option B: Africa

Option C: South America

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Africa ✔

Option A: 1000-1500 calories

Option B: 1500-2000

Option C: 2000-2500

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 2000-2500 ✔

Option A: The international Monetary Fund and the World Bank

Option B: The World Trade Organization and the World Bank

Option C: The International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization

Option D: The United Nations and the World Trade Organization

Correct Answer: The international Monetary Fund and the World Bank ✔

Option A: Walt Rostow

Option B: Karl Marx

Option C: Immanuel Wallerstein

Option D: Bretton Woods

Correct Answer: Karl Marx ✔

Option A: Gross National Product

Option B: Gross Domestic Product

Option C: Purchasing Power Parity

Option D: Gross National Income

Correct Answer: Gross National Product ✔

Option A: social democratic socialist communist

Option B: social democratic corporatist liberal

Option C: social democratic Christian-democratic nationalist

Option D: none of above

Correct Answer: social democratic corporatist liberal ✔

Option A: Whites

Option B: Indians

Option C: Black Caribbean

Option D: Pakistan /Bangladeshis

Correct Answer: Pakistan /Bangladeshis ✔

Option A: it concentrates too much on kinship ties

Option B: the government should be raising benefit levels

Option C: in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor

Option D: it is wrong to make comparisons between countries

Correct Answer: in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor ✔

Option A: the culturally valued commodities and standards of living that make the poor feel relatively deprived

Option B: the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage

Option C: a stock of economic resources including land shares and bank deposits

Option D: the slices of the population who own differing amounts of wealth

Correct Answer: a stock of economic resources including land shares and bank deposits ✔

Option A: formed an inferior race with low levels of intelligence

Option B: lived morally unsound lives of crime and squalor

Option C: were too reliant upon welfare benefits

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: Industrialist

Option B: Feudal

Option C: Intelligentsia

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Feudal ✔

Option A: Absolute poverty

Option B: Relative poverty

Option C: both a and b

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Relative poverty ✔

Option A: 1 dollar per day

Option B: 2 dollars per day

Option C: 3 dollar per day

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 1 dollar per day ✔

Option A: in a county

Option B: between countries

Option C: for a decade

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: between countries ✔