Test Bank Docx | Globalization, Colonialism, And – Ch.15

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Chapter 15: Globalization, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism

Multiple Choice

1. What were the major goals of the first Europeans to engage in mercantilism in the Americas?

a. wealth and conquest

b. religious conversion and the establishment of churches

c. spreading democratic and capitalist ideals

d. the capture and sale of people as slaves

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Latin America

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Which infrastructure project facilitated Britain’s economic and political control in South Asia?

a. The Hoover Dam

b. The Three Gorges Dam

c. The Panama Canal

d. The Suez Canal

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Colonialism in the Middle East

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Who were the first Europeans to establish a slave trade in Africa?

a. Spanish

b. French

c. Portuguese

d. English

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Slave Trade

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The majority of the wealth taken by European colonizers from the Caribbean was in the form of ______.

a. gold

b. rich treasuries

c. diamonds

d. sugar plantation profits

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Caribbean

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Britain exploited India’s ______ to establish political and economic control.

a. rich raw materials

b. cheap labor

c. decentralized government

d. weak religious rulers

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: India, Myanmar (Burma), and Malaysia

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. ______ was a Southeast Asian country that did not become a direct colony of a European country.

a. Laos

b. Cambodia

c. Vietnam

d. Thailand

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Thailand: An Independent Country

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Why did the British succeed in colonizing parts of China?

a. The Chinese government was attracted by Western imports.

b. They exploited Portuguese ports to invade.

c. China’s government was highly decentralized.

d. Conflicts over the import of opium led to war.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: China

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. What was the most significant factor in the dramatic decline in population in the Americas after Western conflict?

a. disease

b. European military violence

c. famine

d. fighting amongst indigenous groups

Learning Objective: 15.2: Describe the demographic, economic, and religious changes associated with globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. European colonial practices in non-Western countries resulted in ______ in the long term.

a. huge population growth

b. rapid population decline

c. no demographic changes

d. slow but steady population decline

Learning Objective: 15.2: Describe the demographic, economic, and religious changes associated with globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Haciendas in Latin America were sources of ______.

a. religious power for Portuguese Christians

b. political power for indigenous resistance fighters

c. social support for the economically disadvantaged

d. economic power for Iberian landowners

Learning Objective: 15.2: Describe the demographic, economic, and religious changes associated with globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Economic Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. The economic systems of colonized countries in the Middle East and Asia in the nineteenth century were based on ______.

a. sugar plantations

b. the hacienda system

c. production of goods for export

d. information technology

Learning Objective: 15.2: Describe the demographic, economic, and religious changes associated with globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Economic Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. The Día de los Muertos celebrations in Latin America are an example of ______.

a. Voudoun

b. caudallismo

c. resistance

d. syncretism

Learning Objective: 15.2: Describe the demographic, economic, and religious changes associated with globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Religious Change

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Christianity spread in colonized African countries through ______ activity.

a. prophetic

b. conquistadores

c. missionary

d. vodounist

Learning Objective: 15.2: Describe the demographic, economic, and religious changes associated with globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Religious Change

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu were involved in resistance movements against ______.

a. monocultural dependency

b. encomienda

c. revitalization

d. apartheid

Learning Objective: 15.3: Discuss why independence, nationalist, and revolutionary movements developed in colonized countries.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Political Changes: Independence and Nationalist Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. In South Africa, which racial category occupied the bottom rung of society?

a. Afrikaners

b. Colored

c. Asians

d. Black South Africans

Learning Objective: 15.3: Discuss why independence, nationalist, and revolutionary movements developed in colonized countries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Political Changes: Independence and Nationalist Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. The economies of peripheral and semi-peripheral postcolonial countries are based around ______.

a. service and manufacturing jobs

b. information technology

c. the production of goods for export to core countries

d. serving the needs of their large middle classes

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe how the postcolonial countries are situated in the global economy today.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Peripheral Postcolonial Countries

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. In what way did China’s “Cultural Revolution” impact the Chinese economy?

a. Removing some of the most skilled and educated people from the workforce.

b. Promoting Western values of individual achievement and competition.

c. Pushing for a shift from agrarian to information technologies.

d. Revitalizing the ancient traditional artforms.

Learning Objective: 15.4: Describe how the postcolonial countries are situated in the global economy today.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Withdrawal From the Global Economy

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. The encouragement of ______ in postcolonial countries has led to a decline in “moral economies” among the peasantry.

a. cooperation and reciprocity

b. individual achievement

c. tobacco and alcohol use

d. subsistence agriculture

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss what anthropologists have learned about the peasantry in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: African Peasants: A Unique Phenomenon?

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. What is the most common type of family in postcolonial cities?

a. nuclear

b. extended

c. joint

d. polygynous

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Social Structure in Postcolonial Societies

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Why do anthropologists Brokensha and Erasmus (1969) argue that rural Africans were not typical peasants?

a. They engaged in horticultural production.

b. Most precolonial states had limited control over their populations.

c. They quickly adopted novel industrial technologies.

d. They already exhibited complex democratic political organization prior to the arrival of colonial forces.

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss what anthropologists have learned about the peasantry in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: African Peasants: A Unique Phenomenon?

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. In a dyadic contract, patrons have ______ than clients.

a. lower status

b. bigger families

c. fewer children

d. more power

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Latin American Social Relationships

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Ideal families in the Arab world are ______.

a. matriarchal

b. monogamous

c. patrilineal

d. exogamous for religious group

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Family and Social Structure in the Middle East

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. The majority of marriages in Muslim societies are ______.

a. polyandrous

b. polygynous

c. matrilocal

d. monogamous

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Marriage

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. One factor that limits the ability of Muslim men to marry more than one wife is ______.

a. religious prohibitions against polygyny

b. family disapproval of multiple marriage

c. the ability to financially care for multiple wives

d. the lower political power of men in Muslim societies

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Marriage

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. The ideal marriage partner for someone in India would be ______.

a. a member of their own jati

b. someone belonging to a superior caste

c. a patron

d. a Dalit

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Origins of the Caste System

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Women inherit wealth in India in the form of ______.

a. land

b. religious status

c. their dowries

d. livestock

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Dowry

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. In Latin America, the proportions of mestizos and mulattos to indigenous people in various areas was largely impacted by which of the following?

a. the compadrazgo system

b. religious beliefs

c. taboos prohibiting intermarriage

d. geographic isolation

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Latin America

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. In postcolonial Mexico, the ______ have occupied the lowest status.

a. Europeans

b. mestizos

c. mulattos

d. indios

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Latin America

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. The major difference between indios and ladinos in Latin America was ______.

a. level of assimilation

b. proportion of European ancestry

c. land ownership

d. occupation

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Latin America

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. The transition from identification as indio or mestizo to indigena reflects a shift in ______.

a. the proportion of European and indigenous ancestors

b. agrarian to industrial production

c. prioritizing an indigenous rather than a European perspective

d. the rights of women and children

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Latin America

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. Prior to European colonization, all three predominant ethnic groups in Nigeria relied on ______ for survival.

a. foraging

b. nomadic horticulturalism

c. agriculture

d. herding

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Africa

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. The role of women in precolonial Igbo society included which of the following?

a. voting in group decision making

b. activities in the domestic but not the public sphere

c. trade within the region but not with other regions

d. Shamanic control of ritual activities

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Africa

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. What has been one major challenge in the formation of Nigerian national identity?

a. the vast number of ethnic groups in Nigeria

b. infighting among people of different social classes

c. interference from neighboring political leaders

d. destabilization caused by cyberattacks from the West

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Africa

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. The ______ are an ethnic minority who face oppression in all of the countries in which they live.

a. Syrians

b. Hans

c. Kurds

d. Tutsis

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethnicity in the Middle East and Asia

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. Which ethnic group in China has faced ethnocide in recent years.

a. Han

b. Uyghur

c. Maoist

d. Buddhist

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: China and Ethnic Minorities

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. The Middle East is correctly referred to as the Arab world.

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Middle East and Asia

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Karl Marx’s model best explains revolutions in non-Western countries.

Learning Objective: 15.3: Discuss why independence, nationalist, and revolutionary movements developed in colonized countries.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Explaining Revolution

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Open peasant communities are isolated from the world economy.

Learning Objective: 15.5: Discuss what anthropologists have learned about the peasantry in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethnographic Studies

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The ideal family structure of Arabic, Turkish, and Iranian extended family households has been impacted by globalization.

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Different cultural groups in Africa are referred to as ethnic groups rather than tribes.

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Africa

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. How did the European slave trade in Africa differ from the forms of slavery found in indigenous African groups prior to European imperialism?

Learning Objective: 15.1: Discuss the early phases of Western colonialism in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Slave Trade

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Discuss the short-term and long-term impacts of European colonial activity on the populations of the Americas.

Learning Objective: 15.2: Describe the demographic, economic, and religious changes associated with globalization.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Demographic Change

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Which groups participate in revolutions in non-Western countries, and which groups do not? What factors explain these groups’ levels of participation?

Learning Objective: 15.3: Discuss why independence, nationalist, and revolutionary movements developed in colonized countries.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Explaining Revolution

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Compare and contrast the patterns of exchange in the compadrazgo and caste systems.

Learning Objective: 15.6: Describe the characteristics of family and social structure in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Latin American Social Relationships, Social Structure and Family in India: Caste

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. Discuss how globalization impacted the Rwandan genocide.

Learning Objective: 15.7: Discuss the issues related to ethnicity in postcolonial societies.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ethnicity in Africa

Difficulty Level: Hard