Chapter 7 Test Bank Answers Marxist IR Hobden Wyn Jones

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 - Question 01

01) Marxism argues that capitalism is an irrelevant way of thinking about the world.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 02

02) Marx himself provided little in terms of a theoretical analysis of international relations.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 03

03) A key element of Marxist thought is the non-material conception of history.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 04

04) Gramsci suggests that Marxists should take superstructural conceptions seriously.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 05

05) As opposed to Gramscians, critical theorists have involved themselves with questions concerning international society, international ethics and security.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 06

06) Rosa Luxemburg…

a. Is the author of the 1913 book, The Accumulation of Capital.

b. Argued that by analyzing capitalism as a closed system, Marx had overlooked the central role played by the colonies.

c. Asserted that capitalism needs to constantly expand into non-capitalist areas in order to survive.

d. All of the given answers are correct.

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 07

07) The Latin American Dependency School applies Lenin’s views, and argues that countries in the periphery suffer as a result of the ‘declining terms of trade’.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 08

08) What is the Marxist approach often known as?

a. Communist theory.

b. Imperialist doctrine.

c. Historical materialism.

d. The base-superstructure model.

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 09

09) Marxist theories argue that any attempt to understand world politics must be based on a broader understanding of the processes operation in…

a. The relations of production.

b. The means of production.

c. The superstructure.

d. Global capitalism.

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 10

10) According to Marx, the central dynamic to be understood is the tension between the means of production and relations of production that together form…

a. the economic base of a given society.

b. capitalism.

c. the mode of production.

d. all of the above.

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 11

11) In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels famously argued that ‘the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of…

a. war and peace'.

b. class struggle’.

c. survival'.

d. ideas'.

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 12

12) According to Maria Mies, there is a sexual (or gendered) division of labour, in which women in the developed world serve as a source of cheap labour, while women in the developing world working as housewives engage in labour that is unpaid but vital in maintaining and reproducing the labour force.

a. True

b. False

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 13

13) According to Gramsci, the mutually reinforcing and reciprocal relationships between the socio-economic relations and political and cultural practices that together underpin a given order is known as which of the following?

a. Hegemonic order.

b. World system.

c. Mode of production.

d. Historic bloc.

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Title: Chapter 07 - Question 14

14) Robert Cox’s critique of realism and neorealism includes which of the following points?

a. These theories serve the interests of those who prosper under the prevailing order, namely the inhabitants of the developed states and the ruling elites.

b. The purpose of these theories is to reinforce and legitimate the status quo by making the current configuration of international relations appear natural and immutable.

c. So-called objective descriptions of the world by realists and neorealists reinforce the ruling hegemony in current world order.

d. All of the given options are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 - Question 15

15) The main body of critical theory emerged from which school of thought?

a. The Frankfurt School.

b. The Italian School.

c. The English School.

d. The Copenhagen School.