Deck 12: Identity Politics: Nationalism and Ethnicity

Question 1

What do call the norms, customs and ways of living of a group of people that are transmitted from one generation to another?

A) Ethnic inheritance.
B) Class consciousness.
C) Culture.
D) National character.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which theoretical approach is most likely to ask the question "who are we"?

A) Realism.
B) Constructivism.
C) Marxism.
D) Liberalism.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following theorists argues, "To have an identity is simply to have certain ideas about who one is in a given situation"?

A) Alexander Wendt.
B) Kenneth Waltz.
C) Robert Keohane.
D) J. Ann Tickner.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is the best known political identity in international relations?

A) Feminism.
B) Religion.
C) Class.
D) Nationalism.

Question 5

Who is the author of "Clash of Civilizations?"

A) Samuel P. Huntington.
B) Alexander Wendt.
C) Robert Jackson.
D) Joseph Nye.

Question 6

Which of the following best reflects the beliefs of religious fundamentalists?

A) The world should be governed by Muslims.
B) Law and government should be based on holy scripture.
C) Women should be veiled.
D) Politicians must believe in monotheism.

Question 7

What Islamic country seeks to join the European Union?

A) Iraq.
B) Iran.
C) Syria.
D) Turkey.

Question 8

Which of the following describes a "fifth columnist"?

A) Subversives working on behalf of a foreign country.
B) Traitors fighting against one's own nation-state.
C) Spies who steal a country's secrets.
D) Mercenaries who fight for profit.

Question 9

What identity do socialists emphasize?

A) Gender.
B) Nationality.
C) Class.
D) Ethnicity.

Question 10

What did Vladimir Lenin consider World War I to be?

A) A conflict among capitalists.
B) A war to help France regain Alsace-Lorraine.
C) A conflict to prevent Germany from overthrowing the balance of power.
D) A war to achieve national self-determination for all peoples.

Question 11

Which European country has the largest proportion of Muslim residents?

A) Germany.
B) Great Britain.
C) Italy.
D) France.

Question 12

Where do most Muslims in Great Britain trace their national origin?

A) Morocco.
B) Pakistan.
C) Saudi Arabia.
D) Turkey.

Question 13

Where do most Muslims if France trace their national origin?

A) Morocco.
B) Pakistan.
C) Saudi Arabia.
D) Turkey.

Question 14

What symbol of Islam has become controversial in the West?

A) The Koran.
B) Mosques.
C) Headscarves.
D) Turbans.

Question 15

What American historical figure had to decide between conflicting identities?

A) Ulysses S. Grant.
B) Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
C) Robert E. Lee.
D) Rutherford B. Hayes.

Question 16

According to Samuel P. Huntington, what group of Americans is not assimilating sufficiently quickly?

A) Catholics.
B) African-Americans
C) Muslims.
D) Hispanics.

Question 17

What issue was decided in the case of Korematsu v. United States?

A) The legality of interning Japanese-Americans.
B) The legality of suspending habeas corpus in wartime.
C) The rights of illegal combatants captured in Afghanistan.
D) The internment of Iraqi civilians.

Question 18

What do we call someone or some group that is unjustly blamed for someone else's actions?

A) Sucker.
B) Dupe.
C) Victim.
D) Scapegoat.

Question 19

In what countries do the Kurds live?

A) Iraq, Syria, Turkey.
B) Iraq, Iran, Turkey.
C) Syria, Lebanon, Iran.
D) Lebanon, Iraq, Iran.

Question 20

Which of the following is a major tribal group in Nigeria?

A) Luo.
B) Kikuyu.
C) Hutu.
D) Hausa.

Question 21

What militant Islamic group originates in Russia?

A) Chechens.
B) Belaruskins.
C) Bashkirs.
D) Armenians.

Question 22

In what context was the term "genocide" first used?

A) The Holocaust in World War II.
B) The murder of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda in 1994.
C) The "killing fields" of Cambodia in the 1970s.
D) The murder of British civilians in the "Black Hole" of Calcutta in 1756.

Question 23

What is "psychological distance"?

A) The level of anger between different nations.
B) The degree to which leaders can perceive the world accurately.
C) Racial differences within different countries.
D) The degree of dissimilarity between cognitive frameworks.

Question 24

What do we call groups in which members feel that they are obliged to treat one another according to shared norms, rules, and standards that do not apply to "outsiders"?

A) Moral communities.
B) Nation-states.
C) Civil society.
D) Security communities.

Question 25

What group of people did the Dominican Francisco de Vitoria try to help?

A) Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
B) Aboriginal peoples in Australia.
C) Gypsies in central Europe.
D) Jews in Russia.

Question 26

Which of the following nationalities has held a referendum regarding whether they wish independence from Great Britain?

A) Welsh.
B) English.
C) Scottish.
D) Northern Irish.

Question 27

What civilizations did Samuel Huntington fear would ally against the West?

A) Confucian-Muslim.
B) Confucian-Hindu.
C) Slavic-Muslim.
D) Confucian-Slavic.

Question 28

What do we call the quality that is possessed by a group or its leaders that is viewed as having a right to make binding decisions for its members?

A) Validity.
B) Lawfulness.
C) Legitimacy.
D) Licitness.

Question 29

What three groups fought one another for control of Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995?

A) Sunni, Shia and Kurds.
B) Muslims, Croats, and Serbs.
C) Catalonians, Basques, and Spaniards.
D) Catholics, Protestants, and Muslims.

Question 30

What country that fell apart as conflict erupted in Bosnia?

A) The Soviet Union.
B) Czechoslovakia.
C) Uzbekistan.
D) Yugoslavia.

Question 31

Who was the leader who stirred up Serbian nationalism in the 1980s and 1990s?

A) Radovan Karadžic.
B) Ratko Mladić
C) Josip Broz.
D) Slobodan Milošević.

Question 32

On what region was Serbia's historic nationalism most strongly focused?

A) Vojvodina.
B) Kosovo.
C) Vukovar.
D) Macedonia.

Question 33

What was the symbol of Serb nationalism invoked by Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević?

A) The fall of Constantinople.
B) The Battle of Karbala.
C) The Battle of the Plain of the Blackbirds.
D) The Kozara Offensive.

Question 34

Who was Shamil Basayev?

A) Russia's president.
B) A leader of the Bosnian Serbs.
C) The first president of independent Georgia.
D) A military leader of Chechnya's separatists.

Question 35

What is the name given to the provocative annual parade of Northern Ireland's Protestants to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne?

A) The Orange Walk.
B) St. Stephen's Day.
C) The St. Patrick's Day Parade.
D) The Apprentice Boys of Derry Parade.

Question 36

What type of group is based on some combination of a common language, religion, ethnicity, and history?

A) State.
B) Realm.
C) Nation.
D) Country.

Question 37

What ideology did the Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini advocate?

A) Liberal nationalism.
B) National socialism.
C) Social Darwinism.
D) Liberal interventionism.

Question 38

Who was Friedrich von Bernhardi?

A) A liberal nationalist leader who advocated German unification.
B) A Nazi advocate of the European Holocaust in World War II.
C) An ultranationalist military thinker who advocated German expansionism.
D) A liberal German economist who sought to prevent World War I.

Question 39

Which of the following was a German historian who advocated a darkly malignant form of nationalism?

A) Wilhelm Goethe.
B) Franz Ferdinand.
C) Heinrich von Treitschke.
D) Johan Gottlieb Fichte.

Question 40

What was the ultranationalist ideology that took hold in Italy in the 1920s and Spain in the 1930s?

A) Fascism.
B) Communism.
C) Corporatism.
D) Nazism.

Question 41

What two states exchanged minorities to make their states homogeneous?

A) Spain and Portugal.
B) England and Ireland.
C) Iran and Iraq.
D) Greece and Turkey.

Question 42

What country claims to be the spiritual leader of Shia Muslims?

A) Iran.
B) Lebanon.
C) Turkey.
D) Syria.

Question 43

What identity did Machiavelli praise as helping to make a strong state?

A) Ethnicity.
B) Religion.
C) Race.
D) Class.

Question 44

Which of the following was a leading Protestant fundamentalist during the Reformation?

A) John Calvin.
B) Desiderius Erasmus.
C) Ignatius Loyola.
D) Peter Abelard.

Question 45

What is a "theocracy"?

A) A government of the wealthiest citizens.
B) A government based on religion.
C) A totalitarian state.
D) An ethnically divided society.

Question 46

What 1979 event was a milestone advance in the spread of Muslim fundamentalism?

A) The overthrow of Iran's monarchy by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
B) The assassination of Iraq's king by followers of Saddam Hussein.
C) The election of Islamic militants. in Algeria.
D) The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Question 47

What country contains a Catalan minority?

A) France.
B) Italy.
C) Spain.
D) Greece.

Question 48

What organization was founded in Egypt in 1928 to promote Islamic identity?

A) The Muslim Brotherhood.
B) Hezbollah.
C) Hamas.
D) The Justice and Development Party.

Question 49

What ethnic group uses the Cyrillic alphabet?

A) Slavs.
B) Magyars.
C) Flemish.
D) Slovenes.