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Question 61. What is the materialist conception of history?

Processes of historical change are a reflection of the economic development of a society
Processes of economic change are based in history
Processes of historical change are based in class was
None of the options given are correct

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Answer: Option A. -> Processes of historical change are a reflection of the economic development of a society
Answer: (a).Processes of historical change are a reflection of the economic development of a society

Question 62. A country's export commodity concentration ratio is the

Average annual investment made in production of exported commodities
Proportion of the primary export commodity in total exports
Ratio of four leading commodities to total merchandise exports
Total annual investment made in production of exported commodities

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Answer: Option C. -> Ratio of four leading commodities to total merchandise exports
Answer: (c).Ratio of four leading commodities to total merchandise exports

Question 63. Low-income countries, the average agricultural family produces a surplus

Enough to supply only a small non-agricultural population
Of zero
large enough to feed five other families
large enough to feed 25 other families

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Answer: Option A. -> Enough to supply only a small non-agricultural population
Answer: (a).Enough to supply only a small non-agricultural population

Question 64. According to Robert Cox, what is critical theory?

Critical theory attempts to challenge power
Accepts the parameters of the present order and critiques it within those parameters
challenge the prevailing order by seeking out social processes
The parameters of the present order and helps legitimate an unjust system

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Answer: Option C. -> challenge the prevailing order by seeking out social processes
Answer: (c).challenge the prevailing order by seeking out social processes

Question 65. What is gross domestic product (GDP)?

Income earned through foreign exchange
The number of dollars earned in industry
Income earned within a country?s boundaries
Goods received from the nation?s local residents

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Answer: Option D. -> Goods received from the nation?s local residents
Answer: (d).Goods received from the nation?s local residents

Question 66. According to critical theorists, what is "emancipation"?

Reconciliation with power
Humanity gaining power over nature
Reconciliation with nature
None of the options given are correct

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Answer: Option C. -> Reconciliation with nature
Answer: (c).Reconciliation with nature

Question 67. What is Antonio Gramsci's view of power?

It comes out of a barrel of a gun
It is a mixture of coercion and consent
It is purely economic
All of the options given are correct

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Answer: Option B. -> It is a mixture of coercion and consent
Answer: (b).It is a mixture of coercion and consent

Question 68. According to the writer In 1494, Pope Alexander's Treaty of Tordesillas established the line of demarcation granting

All of the land north of the meridian not already claimed by Christian nations to the Spanish
All of the land east of the meridian not already claimed by Christian nations to the Spanish
Portugal the right to establish a colonial empire in South America
All of the land west of the meridian not already claimed by Christian nations to the Spanish

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Answer: Option D. -> All of the land west of the meridian not already claimed by Christian nations to the Spanish
Answer: (d).All of the land west of the meridian not already claimed by Christian nations to the Spanish

Question 69. Herodotus was well travelled and had wide knowledge of the race and culture of the world therefore, he was also called the father of

Anthropology
History
Sociologists
Archaeologist

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

Question 70. According to the writer the Columbian Exchange would best be described as

The trade network established between Europe and the Americas
The new agricultural goods brought to Europe from the Americas
The exchange of biological, ecological, and other commodities brought to Europe and the Americas
The introduction of European diseases that decimated indigenous populations in the Americas

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Answer: Option C. -> The exchange of biological, ecological, and other commodities brought to Europe and the Americas
Answer: (c).The exchange of biological, ecological, and other commodities brought to Europe and the Americas