Questions and answers for exam Preparation

MCQs

Total Questions : 168 | Page 12 of 17 pages

Question 111. Referring to interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized more generally is known as

Colonialism
Postcolonial
Green revolution
Overinnovation

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Answer: Option B. -> Postcolonial
Answer: (b).Postcolonial

Question 112. What was the Brundtland Commission?

The world commission on economic growth
The world commission on worldwide neo-liberal reform
The world commission on environment and development
The world commission on trade and development

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Answer: Option C. -> The world commission on environment and development
Answer: (c).The world commission on environment and development

Question 113. What do dependency theorists believe?

That free-market development primarily helps the rich
That developing countries should be dependent on free-market development
That economic growth is dependent on the poor
All of the options given are correct

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Answer: Option A. -> That free-market development primarily helps the rich
Answer: (a).That free-market development primarily helps the rich

Question 114. Anthropologist Daniel Gross studied the effects of sisal in

1974
1971
1973
1976

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Answer: Option B. -> 1971
Answer: (b).1971

Question 115. A well studied case in which development harmed the intended beneficiaries occurred in an arid area of Brazil's northeast interior called the

Sertao
Sere
Santa
None of the above

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Answer: Option A. -> Sertao
Answer: (a).Sertao

Question 116. The "Sick Man of the East" was

The Chosen dynasty
The Russian Empire
Mughal India
Qing China

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Answer: Option D. -> Qing China
Answer: (d).Qing China

Question 117. "Factories" in European-Asian trade were

Areas of neutral territory in which European and Asian officials could meet to discuss trade terms
Places in which laborers could find employers through a kind of auction system
Business headquarters established for various European countries to centralize their overseas operat
Trading posts along the coasts of India, Java, the Philippines, and China

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Answer: Option D. -> Trading posts along the coasts of India, Java, the Philippines, and China
Answer: (d).Trading posts along the coasts of India, Java, the Philippines, and China

Question 118. By the late 19th century, European attitudes toward colonial subject peoples

Had hardened, and they were seen as biologically inferior
Had softened to the point that Europeans questioned the biological explanations of inferiority
Had changed to the point that Europeans saw them as equals
Took on a caretaker nature; Europeans increasingly believed it was their mission to improve the lives

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Answer: Option A. -> Had hardened, and they were seen as biologically inferior
Answer: (a).Had hardened, and they were seen as biologically inferior

Question 119. According to anthropologists, the importance of measurement in quantitative research is that