Lesson Y9-U01-L04

Y9-U01-L04 Transnational Corporations: The Case of Unilever Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 13

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Lesson Y9-U01-L04, Transnational Corporations: The Case of Unilever: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 13: Year 9: A Globalised World: Economies, Trade and Power, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is a transnational corporation (TNC)?

    • A government agency that trades only with its neighbours
    • A bank that lends money only within its home country
    • A charity that works only inside one city
    • A large company that operates in many countries at once

  2. Where is Unilever's headquarters?

    • London, United Kingdom
    • Sao Paulo, Brazil
    • Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Mumbai, India

  3. Roughly how many countries do Unilever's products reach?

    • More than 190
    • Exactly 100
    • About 50
    • Fewer than 20

  4. Roughly how many factories does Unilever run worldwide?

    • About 50
    • Fewer than 20
    • More than 2,800
    • More than 280

  5. What is a host country for a TNC?

    • A country that only sells raw materials to TNCs
    • A country that bans all foreign companies from operating
    • A country where a TNC builds factories or offices to do business
    • The country where the TNC's headquarters is based

  6. What does profit repatriation mean?

    • When a company gives its profits to workers as bonuses only
    • When a company sends its profits back to its home country
    • When a company stops paying tax in every country
    • When a company spends all its profits on local schools

  7. What is outsourcing?

    • Paying another company, often abroad, to do part of the work more cheaply
    • Moving a factory into the same town as the headquarters
    • Hiring only workers who speak the host country's language, so that every manager can give orders locally
    • Selling products through a single shop in one country

  8. Which of these is a benefit of a TNC for a host country?

    • It closes the roads and power supplies in the area
    • It sends all its profits to the host government
    • It stops local firms from gaining any new skills
    • It creates local jobs, so workers earn wages

  9. How does a TNC's tax payment help a host country?

    • The government can spend the money on roads, schools and hospitals
    • The tax is spent only on the company's advertising
    • The tax is kept by the TNC's headquarters abroad
    • The tax is cancelled after the first year of trading, so the government collects nothing from the firm later

  10. A TNC transfers skills and technology to local workers. What does this mean for the host country?

    • The country loses all of its own technology
    • Local workers can gain new skills and local firms can learn new methods
    • Local workers must leave the country to find work
    • The TNC stops training anyone in the region and sends all of its skilled staff back to its headquarters

  11. Which of these is a drawback of a TNC for a host country?

    • Most profits are sent back to the home country
    • It builds roads and ports that others can use
    • It creates thousands of new local jobs
    • It pays taxes to the local government

  12. Why might wages be a concern in some host countries?

    • Wages are fixed by the host government at a very high level
    • Wages are paid only in the home country's currency
    • Wages can be low and working conditions sometimes poor
    • Wages are always the highest in the world in TNC factories

  13. Why can jobs be moved away from a host country quickly?

    • Workers must stay in the same job for their whole lives
    • Outsourcing lets a firm move work abroad if costs rise elsewhere
    • Factories are always locked to one location by law
    • Governments ban TNCs from moving any work between countries

  14. In the Kodaikanal example, what did residents protest about?

    • The lack of any jobs in the region
    • A rise in local tax rates, which the regional council had introduced without any public consultation
    • Mercury pollution from a former Unilever plant
    • The building of a new airport nearby

  15. Which source is most likely to present the positive side of a TNC's impact?

    • Unilever's own annual report, which highlights jobs and taxes
    • A local community group, which highlights pollution
    • A survey of wages in local villages
    • A report on pollution from a river

  16. A local group claims a TNC's profits leave the country. Which evidence would best test this?

    • A single photo of one factory
    • The company's own advertising slogan, printed on every box of products sold across the whole country
    • Independent data on where the profits are actually sent
    • A personal opinion posted online

  17. When a foreign firm opens a soap factory in India, which group usually keeps the larger share of the profit?

    • Unilever, which keeps the larger profits and decision-making power
    • Local shopkeepers, who receive all the factory's wages
    • The Indian government, which keeps all the profits
    • No one, because the factory makes no profit at all

  18. Hindustan Unilever, its Indian arm, employs over 21,000 people. What does this figure show?

    • That all profits are kept entirely within India
    • It creates jobs for local workers in India
    • That the factory produces soap only for export
    • That Unilever has no staff in the UK at all

  19. Which statement judges whether a host country can share a TNC's profits more fairly?

    • Fair sharing is impossible because TNCs never pay any tax anywhere
    • Governments can negotiate tax and wage rules, although this can reduce investment
    • A TNC always gives its profits to the host country without being asked
    • Governments have no power at all over TNCs operating within their borders

  20. Why does a balanced judgement of a TNC weigh both sides?

    • Because only the company's own report can be used as evidence
    • Because a TNC has no effect on jobs or the environment anywhere
    • Because a TNC can bring jobs and skills while also sending profits home and causing pollution
    • Because a TNC is either entirely good or entirely bad for all countries, so no balance is ever needed

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