Ch6 Nations And Nationalism Complete Test Bank - Politics 1e | Exam Pack by Ferdinand by Peter Ferdinand. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 06 Test Bank
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 01
01) The state has been given a clear legal definition by_________.
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a. The 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 02
02) Name some characteristics of the modern state that were consolidated after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
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a. The principle of religious coexistence.
b. Diplomatic representation.
c. The presence of a monarchy.
d. The authority to make treaties with foreign powers.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 03
03) Name one of the criteria for a modern sovereign state as described in the first article of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States.
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a. A permanent population.
b. A defined territory.
c. A government capable of maintaining effective control over its territory and of conducting international relations with other states.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 04
04) It was Hans Christian Anderson who wrote that the nation was like an ‘imagined community’.
a. True
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 05
05) Nationalism often involves a focus on territory, which invokes debate around ‘__________of power’.
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a. Landscapes.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 06
06) The difference between a ‘nation’ and a ‘state’ is _______.
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a. Nation refers to the people, while the state is a formal structure with sovereign power in a particular geographical space.
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 06 - Question 07
07) Which of the following are differences between nationalism and patriotism?
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a. Patriotism is milder than nationalism.
b. They take a different object of devotion/loyalty (country vs nation).
c. Patriots always favour internationalism.
d. All nationalists have the same preferred style of government.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 08
08) Until recently Iceland could claim_________.
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a. To be the only truly homogenous country in the world.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 09
09) Give an example of a multinational state as mentioned in the book.
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a. The UK.
b. Papua New Guinea.
c. Canada.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 10
10) What is primordialism in the context of nations?
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a. The theory that culture is key to the interpretation of a group’s assumed primordial essence.
b. Primordialism views the phenomenon of the nation as something fundamental to human nature and having existed since the start of human existence.
c. The theory that nations have always existed in some form or another but are not ‘given by nature’.
d. The theory that we should go back to living in tribal societies rather than states.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 11
11) The core of van den Berghe’s sociobiological approach was the concept of …______.
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a. Ethnocentrism.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 12
12) The modernist approach is associated mostly with the work of Ernest Gellner.
a. True
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b. False
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 13
13) Explain the difference between ethnic and civic nationalism.
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a. Ethnic nationalism invokes shared history, heritage, and ancestry (including religious, linguistic, or cultural ties) in order to establish the legitimacy of a certain group. Civic nationalism on the other hand assumes the equal political legitimacy of any citizen regardless of ethnic identity, thus membership is open to anyone to accepts the values of the state.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 14
14) Explain Ohmae’s view on the future of the nation-state.
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a. Kenichi Ohmae believed that with globalization, the traditional nation-state model would disappear, giving way to regional conglomerations based more on economic and commercial interests.
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Title: Chapter 06 - Question 15
15) Populism refers to nations expanding in population size.
a. True
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b. False
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