Question 1

Match between columns
                        Premises: "Western" culture usurped much from its colonies
Indicted for war crimes against humanity
Says human fear of death signals consciousness
Said "Canada's identity is its identity crisis"
Issue of survival key to Canadian national identity
Devised a four-fold classification of human races
Rosy vision of Web-based global sense of community
"Territoriality is genetic and ineradicable"
A pool of whites lie ready to respond to racist signals
Fears many culture-based wars in future
Turned down lucrative trade terms from Japan
Argues Brazil has "a deep national inferiority complex"
Cites individualism and freedom as core of U.S. identity

Accepted Answer

The Answer of Samuel Huntington and Margaret Atwood and Raphael is...

Question 2

The term ethologist is applied to humanistic social scientists who rely on a religiously-based view of humans as unique beings spiritually superior to other species existing on the face of the earth.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

The large increase in the number of separate countries in the world since World War II has been influenced most seriously by:

Accepted Answer

A)   decolonization
B)   human consciousness
C)   ethnic identity
D)   racial identity
E)   emergence of the European Union A

Question 4

Newly-industrialized countries NICs) like Taiwan and South Korea have successfully emulated Japan as a model of an export-driven managed economy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

During Mikhail Gorbachev's presidency, the Japanese government offered Russia an extensive economic incentive package, including $26 million in cash and major purchases of Russia's vast Siberian natural resources, in exchange for the Kurile Islands-but the Russians turned down the offer.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

A love of spontaneous pleasurable experiences coupled with relatively little concern for planning the future best fits the national identity of:

Accepted Answer

A)   Brazil
B)   United Kingdom
C)   United States
D)   Japan
E)   China

Question 7

What makes the Human Development Index HDI) unusual as a measure of national development?

Accepted Answer

A)   it measures gross national product
B)   it measures gross national product per capita
C)   it measures quality of life
D)   it measures quality of corporate profit

Question 8

Human social identity is based on subjective as well as objective factors; in other words, concrete and measurable variables tell only part of the story of social identity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Which world region has demonstrated the greatest economic growth in recent decades?

Accepted Answer

A)   Middle East
B)   Latin America
C)   Sub-Saharan Africa
D)   former Soviet Union
E)   East Asia

Question 10

The Gini Index is a quantitative means of measuring the degree of political democracy in different countries.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

A century ago _____systematically developed the argument that how we view ourselves derives mostly from our impressions of how others see us.

Accepted Answer

A)   John Watson
B)   Sigmund Freud
C)   Charles Horton Cooley
D)   Karl Marx
E)   Emile Durkheim

Question 12

Which large country is most culturally homogeneous?

Accepted Answer

A)   Japan
B)   United States
C)   India
D)   Russia
E)   Malaysia

Question 13

Rich and poor countries in the Middle East are determined more by the location of oil deposits than any other single factor.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

When contrasted with that of the United States, both Canadian and Brazilian national identities possess something of a sense of self-deprecation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Which three mega-cultures does Samuel Huntington describe as most likely to come into conflict with one another?

Accepted Answer

A)   Japanese, American, Western
B)   Confucian, Japanese, Islamic
C)   Western, Islamic, Confucian
D)   Islamic, Hindu, Slavic
E)   Slavic, Hindu, Latin American

Question 16

Some Serbian leaders were tried in the 1990s for crimes against humanity in the first International Criminal Tribunal since 1947.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The process of colonization by European powers weakened all colonized areas economically, socially, psychologically, and politically. However, in what region was the number of indigenous native) peoples most seriously decimated?

Accepted Answer

A)   Latin America
B)   Pacific Rim
C)   Asia
D)   Middle East
E)   Africa

Question 18

The major Slavic peoples of the former Soviet Union included:

Accepted Answer

A)   Russians, Ukrainians, Byelorussians
B)   Russians, Latvians, Estonians
C)   Russians, Armenians, Georgians
D)   Russians, Poles, Hungarians

Question 19

Most of the NICs are found in the Latin American world region.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Humans have it, but apparently chimpanzees and orangutans do not, and it is?

Accepted Answer

A)   communication
B)   RNA
C)   DNA
D)   consciousness
E)   competition

Exam 6: Identity Amid Human Diversity

Matching Names:

The term ethologist is applied to humanistic social scientists who rely on a religiously-based view of humans as unique beings spiritually superior to other species existing on the face of the earth.

The large increase in the number of separate countries in the world since World War II has been influenced most seriously by:

Newly-industrialized countries NICs) like Taiwan and South Korea have successfully emulated Japan as a model of an export-driven managed economy.

During Mikhail Gorbachev's presidency, the Japanese government offered Russia an extensive economic incentive package, including $26 million in cash and major purchases of Russia's vast Siberian natural resources, in exchange for the Kurile Islands-but the Russians turned down the offer.

A love of spontaneous pleasurable experiences coupled with relatively little concern for planning the future best fits the national identity of:

What makes the Human Development Index HDI) unusual as a measure of national development?

Human social identity is based on subjective as well as objective factors; in other words, concrete and measurable variables tell only part of the story of social identity.

Which world region has demonstrated the greatest economic growth in recent decades?

The Gini Index is a quantitative means of measuring the degree of political democracy in different countries.

A century ago _____systematically developed the argument that how we view ourselves derives mostly from our impressions of how others see us.

Which large country is most culturally homogeneous?

Rich and poor countries in the Middle East are determined more by the location of oil deposits than any other single factor.

When contrasted with that of the United States, both Canadian and Brazilian national identities possess something of a sense of self-deprecation.

Which three mega-cultures does Samuel Huntington describe as most likely to come into conflict with one another?

Some Serbian leaders were tried in the 1990s for crimes against humanity in the first International Criminal Tribunal since 1947.

The process of colonization by European powers weakened all colonized areas economically, socially, psychologically, and politically. However, in what region was the number of indigenous native) peoples most seriously decimated?

The major Slavic peoples of the former Soviet Union included:

Most of the NICs are found in the Latin American world region.

Humans have it, but apparently chimpanzees and orangutans do not, and it is?