Chapter 1: Development

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Development, as a project, had its origin in the colonial era because ______.

a. European powers once depended on the colonies for resources and markets

b. the global south needed a leader, which can only be found in Europe

c. Europe is the largest continent in the world

d. Europe survived most development crisis in the past

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global Context

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The advantage of the Human Development Index (HDI) over the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it (HDI) focuses more on ______.

a. composite economic indicators

b. composite assets

c. composite of life expectancy and literacy

d. composite of morbidity and mortality

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ecological Questions

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. The development paradox refers to the extent to which participatory methods reproduce ______, and renew development’s legitimacy as poverty adversary.

a. class equality

b. class conflict

c. income

d. inequalities

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Development Paradoxes

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. The colonization of African, Asian, and Latin American countries by European powers is driven mainly by one of the following notions of development. Which is it?

a. development as a social process

b. development as a moral right

c. development as a political intervention

d. development as operation freedom

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Development extended many forms of social engineering to colonies in order to help them develop like the Europeans. These include, all of the following EXCEPT:

a. forced labor schemes

b. schooling

c. segregation

d. annihilation

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. While ______ produced new class inequalities within colonized societies, ______ racialized international inequality.

a. colonialism, industrialism

b. industrialism, colonialism

c. racism, industrialism

d. colonialism, racism

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The English factory-model called “Lancaster School” was established in ______.

a. Lancaster

b. Ghana

c. Egypt

d. Sudan

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. One implication of Walt Rostow’s work, “Stages of Economic Growth” is that ______.

a. development is not an evolutionary process

b. development should follow Western model of free enterprise

c. development should create a society in which all are equal

d. development should lead to underdevelopment

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Naturalizing Development

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The theorization of development as a series evolutionary, linear stages is most associated with the work of ______.

a. Walt Towsrow

b. Walt Rostow

c. Walt Veigen

d. Immanuel Wallestein

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Naturalizing Development

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Although the Rostow’s “Stages of Growth” represent development as a series of evolutionary stages, its success depended on ______.

a. political struggle between the Rostow and Marx

b. political alliance between the West and the Soviet Union

c. political context and a development state willing to create and protect free enterprise

d. political leaders unwilling to fight terrorism and other global wars

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Naturalizing Development

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. ______ stages of growth include the traditional stage, the take-off stage, the drive to technological maturity, and the high mass consumption stage.

a. Wallerstein’s

b. Durkheim’s

c. Marx’s

d. Rostow’s

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Naturalizing Development

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Dependency analysis posits that development of the ______.

a. First World occurred at the expense of the underdevelopment of the Third World

b. Third World was delayed because of religious beliefs

c. First World was solely responsible for the underdevelopment of the Third World

d. Third World was spurred by environmental conditions

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Global Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. All of the following are associated with dependency analysis, except ______.

a. Hans Singer

b. Raul Prebisch

c. Andre Gunder Frank

d. Edward Said

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global Context

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. In World Systems and Dependency analysis model, the ______ or ______ countries, typically extract resources from ______ or ______ countries.

a. semi-periphery or First World, core or First World

b. core or First World, peripheral or Third World

c. periphery or Third World, core or First World

d. core or Second World, peripheral or First World

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Global Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The “development project” and “globalization project” are similar in all of these respects, except that ______.

a. both projects focus on the relations between First and Third World

b. both projects are consequences of post-colonialism

c. both projects are examples of idealistic contracts

d. both projects emphasized the important role of the market

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The effect of technology ‘decoupling’ from nature is known as ______.

a. ecological paradox

b. globalization paradox

c. environmentalist paradox

d. sustainability paradox

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ecological Question

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The sustainability project is a response to the development and globalization projects in the sense that it addresses the ______.

a. benefits of development

b. social and environmental crises caused by globalization

c. challenges posed by climate change only

d. political power vacuums caused by development

Cognitive Domain: Comprehensions

Answer Location: Ecological Question

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. The fact that North Americans consume fast foods that may include chicken diced in Mexico or hamburger beef from cattle raised in Costa Rica illustrates the fact that we have become ______.

a. global consumers

b. global citizens

c. global clients

d. global capitalists

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Development Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

Multiple Response

1. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are consequences of large-scale farming?

a. increasing greenhouse emissions

b. disruption of agrarian cultures

c. dependency on fossil fuels

d. investment in oil production

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ecological Questions

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Eduardo Galeano observation, “advertising enjoins everyone to consume, while the economy prohibits the vast majority of humanity from doing so...”, implies that ______.

a. access to the world’s material wealth is extraordinarily uneven

b. global consumers are a minority

c. advertising is biased

d. global consumerism is not necessarily a universal aspiration

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Development Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Development, today, is increasingly about how we survive the future, rather than how we improve on the past.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Development

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Development ends justify its means, regardless of how socially and ecologically disruptive the process maybe.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Dependency was meant for non-European nations to become developed.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global Context

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The “Stages of Growth” represent development as a reversible, natural, and spontaneous process.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Agrarian Questions

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Dependency analysis arose as a critique of Weberian theory.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Global Context

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. World division of labor focuses on local labor markets around the world.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Global Context

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. The main advantage of “Human Development Index” over conventional measures such as “Gross National Product” is its focus on ecological consequences of development.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ecological Questions

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. The development, globalization, and sustainability projects have the same goals.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. Briefly explain the statement: “Development’s ends justify its means”.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What is the difference between development as a “social process” and development as “political intervention”?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. What is the relationship between “White Man’s Burden” and development as a project?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Explain the statement: “Development involved a relation of power.”

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Development: History and Politics

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What function did the “colonial division of labor” serve, during the colonial era, and in shaping the terms of reference of the development project?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Naturalizing Development

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Explain how development theory is challenged by social change.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Social Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Briefly explain the “environmentalist’s paradox”:

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Ecological Questions

Difficulty Level: Hard

8. What is a commodity chain?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Development Experience

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Briefly explain each of these: development project, globalization project and sustainability project.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Projects as Historical Framework

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. What is the development paradox?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Development Paradoxes

Difficulty Level: Medium