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This set of International Marketing Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on International Marketing Unit 4 Set 3

Q1 | Theory of Mercantilism propagates
  • Encourage exports and imports
  • Encourage exports and discourage imports
  • Discourage exports and imports
  • Discourage exports and encourage imports
Q2 | Different strategies are suitable for different companies depending on their particular situation. This is articulated by the “EPRG Framework”. What are the four options of the EPRG Framework?
  • Ethno Policies, Private Polies, Racial Policies, Geography
  • Ethnocentrism, Polycentrism, Regiocentrism, Geocentrism
  • Energy, Privacy, Real-World, Giggity
  • Ethnocentrism, Polycentrism, Racialism, Governmental
Q3 | For any company looking to expand internationally, be it first-time exporter or a major multinational, a fundamental question has been, and continues to be:
  • New Market, New Product
  • New Market, Same Product
  • The extent to which the marketing mix should or can be standardized across the countries in which the firm operates
  • PDI, PDV
Q4 | European and Japanese managers have been “thinking international” from the outset (beginning).
  • True
  • False
  • none
  • all
Q5 | Distribution channels vary depending on which of the following?
  • Target market size
  • Competition
  • Available distribution intermediaries
  • All of the above
Q6 | Within the firm, it is primarily the ________ or _________ managers who argue for standardization for the sake of economies of scale.
  • Production, Finance
  • Marketing, Distribution
  • Logistic, Manufacturer
  • Primary, Secondary
Q7 | Which country has more retailers than the rest of the world combined?
  • Japan
  • China
  • India
  • Germany
Q8 | The process of international market selection is typically done by using _________ toenable a quick and relatively low-cost overview of as many markets as possible.
  • Quantitative data
  • Secondary data
  • Primary data
  • All of the above
Q9 | Ethnocentrism can simply be defined as:
  • Developing a simple diverse strategy for new markets
  • Develop one strategy for all countries worldwide
  • Use everywhere the same strategy as at home.
  • Being ethnically centred on a global scale
Q10 | Which of the following would you consider to be a socio-cultural influence oninternational marketing?
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Social organisation
  • All of the above
Q11 | An overall strategy that involves the firm pouring all of its available resources into one ora select few markets is knows as:
  • Maximum investment strategy
  • Sprinkler Strategy
  • Waterfall Strategy
  • Standardization
Q12 | All of the following are actual modes of market-entry EXCEPT:
  • Licensing
  • Standardization
  • Franchising
  • Exporting
Q13 | __________ suggests spreading the company’s resources in order to gain even smallfootholds across as many markets as possible
  • Direct Exporting
  • Sprinkler Strategy
  • Agent Intermediaries
  • Waterfall Strategy
Q14 | Conditions that may encourage an organization in a domestic environment to expand are:
  • Market Saturation, Slow Population, Growth, Product Adolescence
  • Factors related to the firm's industrial sector, or to the company itself and its products
  • A unique product with a strong competitive advantage, a forward-looking managerial philosophy, corporate objectives calling for rapid growth, as well as as of the right of talents and skills for international operations
  • All of the above
Q15 | _________ usually means that the company sells to a customer in another country, be itan intermediary or an end-customer.
  • Indirect exporting
  • Direct Exporting
  • Franchising
  • Cross selling
Q16 | Which of the following alternative market entry modes offers the least risk?
  • Consortia
  • Strategic International Alliance
  • Contract Manufacturing
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
Q17 | Which of the following alternative market entry modes offers the most control and risk?
  • Franchising
  • Licensing
  • Greenfield
  • Strategic Alliance
Q18 | MEA stands for Manufacturer Export Agent
  • True
  • False
  • none
  • all
Q19 | ______________ are a partnership of two or more companies that join forces to create aseparate legal entity.
  • International Joint Ventures
  • International Consortia
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Co-Branding
Q20 | An unconscious reference to one’s own culterual values, experiences, and knowledge asa basis for decisions.
  • Self-Reference Criterion
  • Pro Globalist
  • Tolerance Effect
  • Culture
Q21 | For managers selling capital equipment and big-ticket industrial services, understandingthe concept of ________ demand is absolutely fundamental to their sucess.
  • Kinked
  • Sliding
  • Multiple
  • Derived
Q22 | The concept of quality encompasses many factors, and the perception of quality restssolely with the _____________.
  • Price
  • Value
  • Sellers
  • Customer
Q23 | ISO 9000 concerns the registration and certification of a manufacturer's ___________.
  • Goods
  • Services
  • Quality systems
  • MIS
Q24 | The __________ measures customers' satisfaction and perceptions of quality of arepresentative sample of U.S goods and services.
  • ISO 9000
  • MIS
  • ACSI
  • API
Q25 | The ability to match the acceptable behaviour, norms, and values is called a product's:
  • Relative advantage
  • Compatibility
  • Complexity
  • Trial-ability