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| 51. |
Criticisms leveled at post-colonial studies include which of the following? |
| A. | That the theory entered international relations too recently to be considered an academic theory |
| B. | That it is too similar to realism and so serves no function |
| C. | That it is not sophisticated enough to be an academic theory |
| D. | That the field focuses so heavily on identity and language |
| Answer» E. | |
| 52. |
From a critical perspective, how does postcolonialism relate to security studies? |
| A. | Postcolonialism highlights the consequences for analysis of Eurocentrism and promises better social |
| B. | Postcolonialism identifies the multiple ways in which security studies expresses the point of view o |
| C. | Postcolonialism holds out the possibility of more plural, enabling and transformative understandings |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 53. |
According to anthropology an international ethics include |
| A. | Cosmopolitanism |
| B. | Realism |
| C. | Pluralism |
| D. | All of the options given are correct |
| Answer» E. | |
| 54. |
Gramsci shifted the focus of Marxist analysis through which of the following ideas? |
| A. | Hegemony is a product of the lack of class conflict |
| B. | That consent for a particular social and political system was produced and reproduced through the op |
| C. | Social and economic changes |
| D. | None of the options given are correct |
| Answer» C. Social and economic changes | |
| 55. |
According to anthropologists which of the following groups were supportive of the French Revolution during in the year? |
| A. | Tories |
| B. | Republicans |
| C. | Liberals |
| D. | Radicals |
| Answer» E. | |
| 56. |
Of the following could not be considered a major economic system? |
| A. | Capitalism |
| B. | Communism |
| C. | Socialism |
| D. | Physical quality of life index |
| Answer» E. | |
| 57. |
Which of the following are not third-world regions? |
| A. | Latin America |
| B. | Asia |
| C. | Africa |
| D. | Australia |
| Answer» E. | |
| 58. |
According to anthropology the difference between a measure and an indicator is that of |
| A. | Measures are unambiguous quantities |
| B. | Relationship to the measures |
| C. | Indicators are quantities |
| D. | Measures are devised |
| Answer» B. Relationship to the measures | |
| 59. |
In anthropology participating in local life means that ethnographers talk to people and ask questions about what they observe this technique is called |
| A. | Data analysis technique |
| B. | Data-gathering technique |
| C. | Data Management technique |
| D. | Data oriented technique |
| Answer» C. Data Management technique | |
| 60. |
Graeme Turner argues that novels are of specific value to post-colonial studies. What is the rationale he offers for this argument? |
| A. | That there have been too many political science theories based purely on the works of academics |
| B. | That because stories and novels are generated by culture they therefore produce meanings and signifi |
| C. | Novels and stories are more enjoyable to read than works of theory so post-colonial studies will gar |
| D. | Turner didn't have access to academic works when he was writing |
| Answer» C. Novels and stories are more enjoyable to read than works of theory so post-colonial studies will gar | |
| 61. |
Which European country colonized Vietnam? |
| A. | England |
| B. | Germany |
| C. | France |
| D. | Spain |
| Answer» D. Spain | |
| 62. |
According to the writer Edmund Burke was born in |
| A. | 1725 |
| B. | 1729 |
| C. | 1730 |
| D. | 1733 |
| Answer» C. 1730 | |
| 63. |
According to anthropologists, Quantitative research has the validity of |
| A. | The sense of accuracy |
| B. | High in validity |
| C. | The natural and social worlds |
| D. | Similarities between |
| Answer» B. High in validity | |
| 64. |
According to critical alternative views, what is poverty? |
| A. | A monetary condition brought about by people's own laziness |
| B. | A monetary condition where people do not have enough to satisfy basic needs |
| C. | A monetary and non-monetary condition where people lack access to community regulated common resourc |
| D. | All of the options given are correct |
| Answer» D. All of the options given are correct | |
| 65. |
According to anthropologists, Quantitative social researchers are because of |
| A. | Reliability tests |
| B. | striving |
| C. | Have to manipulated |
| D. | Only correlations |
| Answer» E. | |
| 66. |
What was the Brundtland Commission? |
| A. | The world commission on economic growth |
| B. | The world commission on worldwide neo-liberal reform |
| C. | The world commission on environment and development |
| D. | The world commission on trade and development |
| Answer» D. The world commission on trade and development | |
| 67. |
What do dependency theorists believe? |
| A. | That free-market development primarily helps the rich |
| B. | That developing countries should be dependent on free-market development |
| C. | That economic growth is dependent on the poor |
| D. | All of the options given are correct |
| Answer» B. That developing countries should be dependent on free-market development | |
| 68. |
According to anthropologists, the importance of measurement in quantitative research is that |
| A. | The degree of relationship between concepts |
| B. | The cnsistent device or yardstick |
| C. | Differences between people or cases |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 69. |
Referring to interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized more generally is known as |
| A. | Colonialism |
| B. | Postcolonial |
| C. | Green revolution |
| D. | Overinnovation |
| Answer» C. Green revolution | |
| 70. |
According to anthropology which of the following is not a form of measurement? |
| A. | Concurrent |
| B. | Face |
| C. | Conductive validity |
| D. | validity |
| Answer» D. validity | |
| 71. |
According to anthropology an operational definition is |
| A. | Underlying concept |
| B. | Theoretical |
| C. | Terms of specific, empirical measures |
| D. | Opera singers |
| Answer» D. Opera singers | |
| 72. |
According to anthropologists acculturation may be voluntary or |
| A. | By push |
| B. | Forced |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 73. |
Different degrees of destruction, domination, resistance, survival, adaptation and modification of native cultures may follow |
| A. | Lineage |
| B. | Kinship |
| C. | Interethnic |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 74. |
According to anthropologists after getting some establishment they have started an |
| A. | Office |
| B. | Meeting hall |
| C. | Home |
| D. | both a and b |
| Answer» E. | |
| 75. |
According to anthropology the first states emerged in the old world about how many years ago? |
| A. | 10000 |
| B. | 5000 |
| C. | 5200 |
| D. | 5500 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 76. |
Acculturation may be applied to any case of cultural contact and change, the term has most often describe is known as |
| A. | Modernization |
| B. | Westernization |
| C. | Assamilation |
| D. | Acculturation |
| Answer» C. Assamilation | |
| 77. |
According to the writer as a result of early exploration by the Spanish, they claimed land in what areas? |
| A. | Central and South America |
| B. | Areas of Montreal and Quebec |
| C. | Part of the islands, such as Barbados |
| D. | Areas of North America |
| Answer» B. Areas of Montreal and Quebec | |
| 78. |
One of the most controversial British reforms in India was |
| A. | The prohibition on wearing the veil |
| B. | The prohibition on sati |
| C. | Mandatory elementary school education |
| D. | Making Sunday the official "day of rest." |
| Answer» C. Mandatory elementary school education | |
| 79. |
Belgian rule in the Congo was distinctive among the methods of colonial government for its |
| A. | Near lack of conflict with the native population |
| B. | Use of education and training of the native population for government positions |
| C. | Use of local tribal leaders as stand-ins for colonial power positions |
| D. | Employment of extreme brute force |
| Answer» E. | |
| 80. |
What is Antonio Gramsci's view of power? |
| A. | It comes out of a barrel of a gun |
| B. | It is a mixture of coercion and consent |
| C. | It is purely economic |
| D. | All of the options given are correct |
| Answer» C. It is purely economic | |
| 81. |
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, threats to the mercantile colonial system outside Europe came from |
| A. | Independence movements and slave revolts |
| B. | The rise of the market economy |
| C. | The cultural revolution sparked by the Enlightenment |
| D. | The growing popularity of communism and various forms of socialism |
| Answer» B. The rise of the market economy | |
| 82. |
Peasants are |
| A. | Rural politicians |
| B. | Rural cultivators |
| C. | Rural industrialist |
| D. | Rural religious group |
| Answer» C. Rural industrialist | |
| 83. |
What is meant by "trickle down effect"? |
| A. | That economic growth will eventually (and automatically) bring benefits to the poor |
| B. | That economic growth needs delivery systems to bring benefits to the poor |
| C. | That economic growth needs to be controlled by the state |
| D. | None of the options given are correct |
| Answer» B. That economic growth needs delivery systems to bring benefits to the poor | |
| 84. |
According to globlization, Core components are |
| A. | Deontological and consequentialist ethics |
| B. | Kantianism and utilitarianism |
| C. | Rawls' conceptions of justice |
| D. | All of the options given are correct |
| Answer» E. | |
| 85. |
Green revolution was expected to increase the world's victims of poverty and |
| A. | Medicine |
| B. | Education |
| C. | Food |
| D. | Shelter |
| Answer» D. Shelter | |
| 86. |
According to the writer the end of the feudal systems that defined the European Middle Ages was primarily caused by |
| A. | The arrival of the Black Death in 1300 |
| B. | The demands of serfs for wages in coinage |
| C. | The emergence of trade and a middle class of merchants |
| D. | Disruption of traditional trade routes such as the Silk Road |
| Answer» D. Disruption of traditional trade routes such as the Silk Road | |
| 87. |
The moral justification for New World colonies in the early period of European colonies was found in |
| A. | The idea that colonization brought the expanding world trade network to people who had never experie |
| B. | The idea that colonization brought technology and science to the "dark" areas of the world |
| C. | The idea that colonization brought culture to "heathens |
| D. | The idea that colonization brought religious missions, which were saving the souls of "heathens |
| Answer» E. | |
| 88. |
The orthodox view of development assumes what? |
| A. | That people can only move forward through self-reliance |
| B. | That economic growth can be unlimited through the free market and will trickle down to the poor |
| C. | That economic growth is unimportant in development |
| D. | That equitable development is more important than efficient development |
| Answer» C. That economic growth is unimportant in development | |
| 89. |
When was the first cotton mill set up in India |
| A. | 1814 |
| B. | 1824 |
| C. | 1854 |
| D. | 1864 |
| Answer» D. 1864 | |
| 90. |
The social-cultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai writes about five types of cultural flows of imagination what are they? |
| A. | Ethnos capes, medias capes, techno capes, financscapes and ideoscapes |
| B. | Ethnos capes, econoscapes, cultures capes, financscapes and ideoscapes |
| C. | Geographical flows, cultural flows, ideas-flows, technological flows, ethnicity flows |
| D. | Liberal flows, realist flows, post colonial flows and post structuralist flows |
| Answer» B. Ethnos capes, econoscapes, cultures capes, financscapes and ideoscapes | |
| 91. |
What is the concept of negritude? |
| A. | It seeks to study the experiences of blacks in colonial powers |
| B. | It linked black people across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that |
| C. | It was introduced to post colonial studies by Franz Fanon |
| D. | It was introduced to post colonial studies by Edward Said |
| Answer» C. It was introduced to post colonial studies by Franz Fanon | |
| 92. |
When was the telephone invented? |
| A. | 1885 |
| B. | 1976 |
| C. | 1876 |
| D. | 1776 |
| Answer» D. 1776 | |
| 93. |
Which country is not a transitional economy |
| A. | China |
| B. | Russia |
| C. | Hungary |
| D. | Mexico |
| Answer» E. | |
| 94. |
Of the following countries are not newly industrialized countries (NICs)? |
| A. | Taiwan |
| B. | North Korea |
| C. | Singapor |
| D. | Hongkong |
| Answer» C. Singapor | |
| 95. |
What was the fly shuttle used for |
| A. | Washing |
| B. | Weaving |
| C. | Drying |
| D. | Sowing |
| Answer» C. Drying | |
| 96. |
Immanuel Wallenstein argues |
| A. | There are two types of world systems: world-empires and world-economies |
| B. | The modern world system is a world economy |
| C. | The world system has a core, semi-periphery and periphery |
| D. | All of the options given are correct |
| Answer» E. | |
| 97. |
According to the writer the primary function of the Spanish pueblo during Spanish colonial control of Mexico was to |
| A. | Serve as military posts to protect villages and missions |
| B. | Serve the Catholic Church in converting indigenous populations |
| C. | Serve as mainly outposts for traders |
| D. | Serve as centers of cultural education |
| Answer» D. Serve as centers of cultural education | |
| 98. |
Guilds were associations of |
| A. | Industrialization |
| B. | Exporters |
| C. | Traders |
| D. | Producers |
| Answer» E. | |
| 99. |
How did advertisements reach the common people |
| A. | T.V |
| B. | Radio |
| C. | Calendars |
| D. | Products |
| Answer» D. Products | |
| 100. |
The political, social , economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time is called |
| A. | Colonialism |
| B. | Postcolonial |
| C. | Green revolution |
| D. | Development |
| Answer» B. Postcolonial | |