Test your global awareness with J. Nathan
Corbitt's Global Awareness Profile
The Global Awareness Profile (GAPtest) contains
40 questions representing common knowledge from global geographic regions,
life-context areas, and general global concerns. The purpose of this self-scoring
profile is to
*measure your awareness of people, places, and events
in a global context
*identify the gaps in your knowledge of these subjects,
*motivate you to pursue further learning in your areas
of weakness.
The following questions are a sample of the full version
of the GAPtest which you can log onto by clicking onto the link at the end
of this preview section.
*Your supervisor has just sent you to a conference in Mexico
City as part of an international team. Your task is to foster goodwill and
to begin building a network for future work. You have been selected because
your are trilingual. Your first language is English, your second Spanish.
Your third language is spoken by more people than any other in the world.What
language is it?
*Your organization is interested in shipping supplies from
Italy to Sudan. What passageway would you discuss with your Egyptian dinner
partner?
*Following breakfast, you are escorted to a conference room
where a man is addressing the group on economic reforms in his country. He
is concerned about the price of crude oil in the Middle East and the effects
on LAFTA. His country is a member of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries), though it is not located near the Middle East. A translator is
requested for him and you volunteer. Which of your languages would you use?
*One of your new acquaintances from Africa cannot understand
why Americans keep referring to female circumcision as genital mutilation.
She explains that it is still practiced in some rural areas as an important
element in what initiation process?
*In a discussion about the role of governments in world
affairs and the importance of foreign aid, a representative states that one
industrialized nation contributes a large amount of money but, in comparison,
gives the smallest percentage of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Which country
is it?
*During a break, a young woman from Laos says that the greatest
danger to the farmers of her country comes not from lack of water or deforestation
but from another global problem, that of....
*As a person concerned with human rights, you attend a conference
session debating the subject. A representative of Israel keeps using the term
"shoah". To what is she referring?
*During an argument about political sovereignty and national
unity, you point to the problems of violence in Northern Ireland, where six
countries have been under the dominion of the United Kingdom. An Irish representative
retorts that the United States has not been without its problems. In 1954
an armed group of nationalists from a Caribbean island opened fire on the
U.S. House of Representatives in protest of their Commonwealth status. What
island is it?
*At breakfast you are seated with guests from Thailand, Vietnam,
and Myanmar. What shared religious heritage might you eventually discuss?
If you want to take the full
self-scoring test, click on the button below. Scroll down the list of courses
to 'The Art of Crossing Cultures' and click on the key icon on the left to
create a user account. You may only take the test once.
