POLI Midterm MCQ PDF

_____________________________________________________________ 1. As the highest authority in a given society, the state can claim to be which of the following? - A. Just - B. Independent - C. Sovereign - D. Accountable - E. Omnipotent _____________________________________________________________...

_____________________________________________________________ 1. As the highest authority in a given society, the state can claim to be which of the following? - A. Just - B. Independent - C. Sovereign - D. Accountable - E. Omnipotent _____________________________________________________________ 2. Polis means: - A. Provincial state - B. City-state - C. Nation state - D. None of these answers _____________________________________________________________ 3. The simile of the cave demonstrates that: - A. Everybody may learn to govern if educated properly - B. The best rulers will be reluctant to rule - C. Democracy is the best form of government - D. Philosophers do not make the best rulers _____________________________________________________________ 4. The author of The Prince is: - A. Plato - B. Thomas Hobbes - C. Michel Foucault - D. Niccolo Machiavelli _____________________________________________________________ 5. Both empirical and semantic analysis arose during what revolution of the 1950s? - A. The rational-choice revolution - B. The behavioural revolution - C. The positivist revolution - D. The critical revolution - E. The realist revolution _____________________________________________________________ 6. Aristotle’s three bad constitutions are: - A. Monarchy, oligarchy, polity - B. Tyranny, aristocracy, polity - C. Tyranny, oligarchy, democracy - D. Tyranny, aristocracy, democracy _____________________________________________________________ 7. Thomas Hobbes believes the best form of government is: - A. Federal government - B. Absolute monarchy - C. Republican state - D. Limited government _____________________________________________________________ 8. The inductive method is associated with: - A. Dialectical materialism - B. Rational choice theory - C. Behaviouralism - D. All are _____________________________________________________________ 9. The ‘nightwatchman state’ is: - A. Title of a book written by a neo-liberal philosopher - B. A state which adopts a hands-on interventionist model - C. An approach to the study of politics that emphasizes social programs - D. None are correct _____________________________________________________________ 10. The branches of state are: - A. Federal and provincial/state governments - B. Both are correct - C. Executive, legislative, judiciary - D. Neither are correct _____________________________________________________________ 11. Who articulated a post-modern theory of power? - A. Noam Chomsky - B. Karl Marx - C. Michel Foucault - D. Antonio Gramsci _____________________________________________________________ 12. According to Max Weber, what is the most common basis of authority for the modern state? - A. Divine right - B. Charismatic authority - C. Justice - D. Rational–legal authority - E. Force _____________________________________________________________ 13. The assumption that all groups have equal input in the political process is associated with which approach? - A. Pluralism - B. Communism - C. Corporatism - D. Fascism - E. Elitism _____________________________________________________________ 14. Fascism is a phenomenon that originated in which century? - A. The twenty-first century - B. The seventeenth century - C. The nineteenth century - D. The twentieth century - E. The sixteenth century _____________________________________________________________  15. Reflections on the Revolution in France was written by: - A. Thomas Hobbes - B. Edmund Burke - C. J. S. Mill - D. Francis Fukuyama _____________________________________________________________ 16. Which of these tenets is associated with neo-liberalism? - A. Pro family values - B. Decrease in size of state - C. Civic virtue - D. Belief in law and order _____________________________________________________________ 17. Who developed the distinction between positive and negative liberties? - A. John Locke - B. Isaiah Berlin - C. T.H. Marshall - D. Adam Smith _____________________________________________________________ 18. Tommy Douglas - A. Was a founder of the CCF - B. Wanted a strong military - C. Was Premier in Alberta - D. Opposed universal health care _____________________________________________________________ 19. Which of the following thinkers is most closely associated with the idea of hegemony? - A. Karl Marx - B. Herbert Marcuse - C. Steven Lukes - D. Antonio Gramsci _____________________________________________________________  20. Two Treatises of Government was published in: - A. 1689 - B. 1776 - C. 1948 - D. 1789 _____________________________________________________________ 21. According to Hobbes, which are natural rights? - A. Right to freedom of religion - B. Right to liberty - C. None of the answers are right - D. Right to property _____________________________________________________________ 22. What is John Rawls's device for ensuring that individuals do not know what their position in society will be? - A. The original position - B. Reflexive equilibrium - C. The social contract - D. The veil of ignorance - E. Social justice _____________________________________________________________ 23. Which organization adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1966? - A. The United States - B. NATO - C. World Trade Organization - D. Greenpeace - E. The United Nations _____________________________________________________________ 24. What were the two movements that emerged almost immediately out of the 2008 Credit Crisis? - A. None of these answers are correct - B. Occupy and Tea Party Movements - C. Trumpism and Socialism - D. General Strikes and Book Banning _____________________________________________________________ 25. What kind of rights are not included in the Canadian Charter of Rights? - A. Legal Rights - B. Equality Rights - C. Democratic Rights - D. Property Rights _____________________________________________________________ 26. The International Criminal Court grew out of what historical event? - A. Kosovo ethnic violence - B. Srebrenica ethnic violence - C. Rwanda genocide - D. All of the answers are correct _____________________________________________________________ 27. The author(s) of The Civic Culture is/are: - A. Verba and Almond - B. Putnam - C. Weber - D. Tocqueville _____________________________________________________________ 28. Deliberative democracy was heavily influenced by the ideas of which of the following theorists? - A. Joseph Schumpeter - B. David Held - C. Jürgen Habermas - D. J.S. Mill _____________________________________________________________ 29. The central argument of Diverse Communities is: - A. All are correct - B. Participation is changing rather than in decline - C. Gap in trust is more important than decline - D. Traditional groups have declined in membership _____________________________________________________________ 30. Which president led the United States into World War I? - A. Woodrow Wilson - B. Franklin D. Roosevelt - C. William McKinley - D. Harry S. Truman - E. Theodore Roosevelt _____________________________________________________________ 31. Which of the following wars ended with the Peace of Westphalia? - A. World War I - B. The Thirty Years War - C. The Vietnam War - D. World War II - E. The War of 1812 _____________________________________________________________ 32. What would be included in the definition of new forms of human insecurity? - A. Terrorism - B. Climate Change - C. All of the answers are correct - D. Global Trade in Drugs _____________________________________________________________ 33. Which thinker is most closely associated with critical IR theory? - A. Woodrow Wilson - B. Robert Keohane - C. Hans Morgenthau - D. Antonio Gramsci _____________________________________________________________  34. Which figure, author of Politics among Nations, was the principal figure in post-war American IR? - A. George Kennan - B. E.H. Carr - C. Richard Ned Lebow - D. Hans Morgenthau - E. Hannah Arendt _____________________________________________________________ 35. Which of the following thinkers did not defend natural rights? - A. Edmund Burke - B. John Locke - C. Thomas Hobbes - D. All of them defended natural rights _____________________________________________________________ 36. Which of the following is an example of a positive right? - A. Freedom of religion - B. Free speech - C. Freedom to assemble - D. Right to shelter - E. Freedom of the press _____________________________________________________________ 37. What are some key characteristics of the 1990's and 2020's materialist forms of protests? - A. Both left and right support - B. All of the answers are correct - C. International and mobile - D. Physical and economic security concerns - E. Record levels of unemployment _____________________________________________________________ 38. Deliberative democracy defends a model of democracy: - A. That requires citizens to be rational in their arguments and decision making - B. Opposed to altruism - C. Exactly like direct participatory democracy of Ancient Greece - D. Rooted primarily in elections _____________________________________________________________ 39. According to Hobbes, which are natural rights? - A. Right to freedom of religion - B. Right to property - C. Right to liberty - D. None of the answers are right _____________________________________________________________ 40. What are some limitations of the International Criminal Court? - A. Investigations have been limited in practice - B. All of the answers are correct - C. Only massive kinds of human rights violations (genocide, war crimes, etc.) can be investigated - D. Only state parties can be investigated _____________________________________________________________ 41. Fascism is: - A. Anti-enlightenment - B. All of these answers - C. Associated with the 20th century - D. Emphasizes the organic state _____________________________________________________________ 42. For John Locke, the chief end of government is: - A. Right to shelter - B. None of these - C. Foreign Alliances - D. Preservation and protection of natural rights _____________________________________________________________ 43. Which president led the United States into World War I? - A. Woodrow Wilson - B. Franklin D. Roosevelt - C. William McKinley - D. Harry S. Truman - E. Theodore Roosevelt _____________________________________________________________ 44. What does Plato say will happen when the philosopher returns to the cave? - A. Devote his/her life to philosophy by contemplating the objects outside the cave - B. The people in the cave will think he is crazy - C. He will happily rule over people - D. None of the above _____________________________________________________________ 45. The dialogue within which Plato describes the metaphor of the cave is called: - A. Leviathan - B. The Apology - C. The Politics - D. The Republic _____________________________________________________________ 46. According to Thomas Hobbes, which of the following is not a natural right: - A. Right to property - B. Right of self-preservation - C. Neither of the above - D. Both of the above _____________________________________________________________ 47. For John Locke, the chief end of government is: - A. Preservation and protection of natural rights - B. Order and security - C. Foreign Alliances - D. None of the above _____________________________________________________________ 48. Positivism in the study of politics refers to: - A. A positive view of human nature - B. A social scientific methodological approach - C. Positive liberties - D. None of the above _____________________________________________________________ 49. Rational choice analysis is: - A. Rooted in economic theory - B. Uses deductive reasoning - C. Assumes human beings act in accordance with rational self-interest - D. All of the above _____________________________________________________________ 50. Dialectical materialism is associated with: - A. Edmund Burke - B. Jean Jacques Rousseau - C. Karl Marx - D. Jeremy Bentham _____________________________________________________________ 51. Thomas Hobbes believes the best form of government is: - A. Limited government - B. Federal government - C. Republican state - D. Absolute monarchy _____________________________________________________________ 52. Aristotle’s three good constitutions are: - A. Monarchy, oligarchy, democracy - B. Monarchy, aristocracy, democracy - C. Monarchy, aristocracy, polity - D. Monarchy, oligarchy, polity _____________________________________________________________ 53. Machiavelli defines ‘virtu’ as: - A. Necessary to the Prince to combat fortuna - B. Cunning, foresight and pre-planning - C. Moral virtues - D. Both (A) and (B) _____________________________________________________________ 54. Fascism is a phenomenon that originated in which century? - A. The twenty-first century - B. The twentieth century - C. The nineteenth century - D. The seventeenth century _____________________________________________________________ 55. Anarchism means: - A. An ideology that seeks a centralized form of government - B. An ideology that seeks to divide power between the different levels of government - C. An ideology that seeks a strong judiciary - D. None of the above _____________________________________________________________ 56. The branches of state are: - A. Federal and provincial/state governments - B. Executive, legislative, judiciary - C. Both of the above - D. Neither of the above _____________________________________________________________ 57. Semantic analysis is concerned with: - A. Time series data - B. Groups in politics - C. Contested meanings of concepts - D. None of the above _____________________________________________________________ 58. Which of the following thinkers would be considered a conservative thinker? - A. Jean Jacques Rousseau - B. John Locke - C. J.S. Mill - D. Edmund Burke _____________________________________________________________ 59. Leviathan was published in: - A. 1651 - B. 5th century B.C. - C. 1790 - D. 1948 _____________________________________________________________ 60. Politics as a Vocation was written by: - A. T.H. Marshall - B. Lenin - C. Karl Marx - D. Max Weber _____________________________________________________________ 61. The inductive method is associated with: - A. Rational choice theory - B. Behaviouralism - C. Dialectical materialism - D. All of the above _____________________________________________________________ 62. Which of these tenets is associated with neo-liberalism? - A. Belief in law and order - B. Decrease in size of state - C. Pro family values - D. Civic virtue _____________________________________________________________  63. Which type of theorist believes that the existence of competing groups is a natural feature of all societies of any complexity? - A. Marxists - B. Communists - C. Pluralists - D. Elitists _____________________________________________________________ 64. T.H. Marshall distinguishes between: - A. Positive and negative liberties - B. Democratic and legal rights - C. Civil, political, and social rights - D. None of the above _____________________________________________________________ 65. The Enlightenment originated in: - A. 17th century AD - B. 18th century AD - C. 19th century AD - D. 5th century BC _____________________________________________________________ 66. Max Weber’s typology of authority does not include: - A. Charismatic - B. Rational-legal - C. Authoritarian - D. Traditional _____________________________________________________________ 67. The US Bill of Rights embraces: - A. Human rights - B. Rights of citizens - C. Rights of Parliament - D. Group rights _____________________________________________________________  68. The ‘nightwatchman state’ is: - A. Title of a book written by a neo-liberal philosopher - B. An approach to the study of politics that emphasizes social programs - C. A state which adopts a hands-on interventionist model - D. None of the above _____________________________________________________________ 69. Authority can be defined as: - A. Legitimate exercise of power - B. Supreme lawmaking authority - C. Both of the above - D. None of the Above