Development and Social Change A Global Perspective 8e
Philip McMichael, Heloise Weber [All Chapters 1 to 10 Original
Test Bank, A+Grade]
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Questions & Answers
1. Development, as a project, had its origin in the colonial era because ______.
A. European powers once depended on the colonies for resources and markets
B. the global south needed a leader, which can only be found in Europe
C. Europe is the largest continent in the world
D. Europe survived most development crises in the past
Correct Answer: A. European powers once depended on the colonies for resources and markets
2. What has been the outcome of neoliberal "free market" international trade and financial
relations?
A. a decrease in global manufacturing and agricultural industries
B. enrichment of corporate and financial elites
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C. equal distribution of wealth among the global population
D. an end to malnutrition worldwide
Correct Answer: B. enrichment of corporate and financial elites
3. How does the Eurocentric narrative of development frame the non-European world?
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A. as embodying modernity and scientific progress
B. as representing the future of global development
C. as embodying the past in a linear progression from tradition to modernity
D. as the primary driver of global technological advancements
Correct Answer: C. as embodying the past in a linear progression from tradition to modernity
4. The colonization of African, Asian, and Latin American countries by European powers is driven
mainly by one of the following notions of development. Which is it?
A. development as a social process
B. development as a moral right
C. development as a political intervention
D. development as operation freedom
Correct Answer: C. development as a political intervention
5. Development extended many forms of social engineering to colonies in order to help them
develop like the Europeans. These include all of the following EXCEPT:
A. forced labor schemes
B. schooling
C. segregation
D. annihilation
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Correct Answer: D. annihilation
6. While ______ produced new class inequalities within colonized societies, ______ racialized
international inequality.
A. colonialism, industrialism
B. industrialism, colonialism
C. racism, industrialism
D. colonialism, racism
Correct Answer: B. industrialism, colonialism
7. The English factory-model called “Lancaster School” was established in ______.
A. Lancaster
B. Ghana
C. Egypt
D. Sudan
Correct Answer: C. Egypt
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8. One implication of Walt Rostow’s work, “Stages of Economic Growth” is that development
______.
A. is not an evolutionary process
B. should follow the Western model of free enterprise
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C. should create a society in which all are equal
D. should lead to underdevelopment
Correct Answer: B. should follow the Western model of free enterprise
9. The theorization of development as a series of evolutionary stages, linear sequence is most
associated with the work of ______.
A. Joseph Stiglitz
B. Walt Rostow
C. Karl Marx
D. Immanuel Wallerstein
Correct Answer: B. Walt Rostow
10. What is one advantage of low-input farming polycultures over agribusiness monocultures?
A. They use more chemicals and technologies to increase production.
B. They focus on a single crop for higher yields.
C. They save seeds, promote biodiversity, and use local knowledge.
D. They receive more subsidies from international systems to "feed the world."
Correct Answer: C. They save seeds, promote biodiversity, and use local knowledge.
11. What does Walter Rodney identify as the key factor leading to enduring suffering and ongoing
struggles for justice in Africa?
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A. The introduction of modern technology by Europeans
B. The European trade in enslaved persons
C. The implementation of new agricultural techniques
D. The spread of European cultural values
Correct Answer: B. The European trade in enslaved persons
12. Dependency analysis posits that the development of the ______.
A. First World occurred at the expense of the underdevelopment of the Third World
B. Third World was delayed because of religious beliefs
C. First World was solely responsible for the underdevelopment of the Third World
D. Third World was spurred by environmental conditions
Correct Answer: A. First World occurred at the expense of the underdevelopment of the Third World
13. All of the following are associated with dependency analysis, except ______.
A. Hans Singer
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B. Raul Prebisch
C. Andre Gunder Frank
D. Edward Said
Correct Answer: D. Edward Said
14. In World Systems and Dependency analysis model, the ______ or ______ countries, typically
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extract resources from ______ or ______ countries.
A. core or Third World, peripheral or First World
B. core or First World, peripheral or Third World
C. peripheral or Third World, core or First World
D. core or Second World, peripheral or First World
Correct Answer: B. core or First World, peripheral or Third World
15. The “development project” and “globalization project” are similar in all of these respects, except
that both projects ______.
A. focus on the relations between First and Third World
B. are consequences of post-colonialism
C. are examples of idealistic contracts
D. emphasized the important role of the market
Correct Answer: D. emphasized the important role of the market
16. What is the economic strategy that is associated with American economist Dani Rodrik?
A. increasing international trade to boost the global economy
B. implementing industrial policies to support the green transition and rebuild domestic supply
chains
C. promoting free market capitalism without government intervention
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D. expanding export sectors in the global South for greater resource extraction
Correct Answer: B. implementing industrial policies to support the green transition and rebuild
domestic supply chains
17. The sustainability project is a response to the development and globalization projects in the
sense that it addresses the ______.
A. benefits of development
B. social and environmental crises caused by globalization
C. challenges posed by climate change only
D. political power vacuums caused by development
Correct Answer: B. social and environmental crises caused by globalization
18. The fact that North Americans consume fast foods that may include chicken diced in Mexico or
hamburger beef from cattle raised in Costa Rica illustrates the fact that we have become global
______.
A. consumers
B. citizens
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C. clients
D. capitalists
Correct Answer: A. consumers
19. Which of the following is a consequence of large-scale farming?
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A. decreasing greenhouse emissions
B. disruption of agrarian cultures
C. little dependency on fossil fuels
D. investment in oil production
Correct Answer: B. disruption of agrarian cultures
20. Eduardo Galeano’s observation, “advertising enjoins everyone to consume, while the economy
prohibits the vast majority of humanity from doing so...”, implies that ______.
A. access to the world’s material wealth is extraordinarily uneven
B. global consumers are a majority of the world’s population
C. advertising is biased
D. global consumerism is a universal aspiration
Correct Answer: A. access to the world’s material wealth is extraordinarily uneven
21. Development, today, is increasingly about how we survive the future, rather than how we
improve on the past.
A. True
B. False
Correct Answer: A. True
Development and Social Change 8e Philip McMichael Test Bank Chapter 1-10 (C) eDiscountShop (C)
Philip McMichael, Heloise Weber [All Chapters 1 to 10 Original
Test Bank, A+Grade]
Test Bank Chapter 1-10 (C) eDiscountShop (C)
development-and-social-change-8e_lms_TB 1
Questions & Answers
1. Development, as a project, had its origin in the colonial era because ______.
A. European powers once depended on the colonies for resources and markets
B. the global south needed a leader, which can only be found in Europe
C. Europe is the largest continent in the world
D. Europe survived most development crises in the past
Correct Answer: A. European powers once depended on the colonies for resources and markets
2. What has been the outcome of neoliberal "free market" international trade and financial
relations?
A. a decrease in global manufacturing and agricultural industries
B. enrichment of corporate and financial elites
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C. equal distribution of wealth among the global population
D. an end to malnutrition worldwide
Correct Answer: B. enrichment of corporate and financial elites
3. How does the Eurocentric narrative of development frame the non-European world?
(C) eDiscountShop (C)
A. as embodying modernity and scientific progress
B. as representing the future of global development
C. as embodying the past in a linear progression from tradition to modernity
D. as the primary driver of global technological advancements
Correct Answer: C. as embodying the past in a linear progression from tradition to modernity
4. The colonization of African, Asian, and Latin American countries by European powers is driven
mainly by one of the following notions of development. Which is it?
A. development as a social process
B. development as a moral right
C. development as a political intervention
D. development as operation freedom
Correct Answer: C. development as a political intervention
5. Development extended many forms of social engineering to colonies in order to help them
develop like the Europeans. These include all of the following EXCEPT:
A. forced labor schemes
B. schooling
C. segregation
D. annihilation
Development and Social Change 8e Philip McMichael Test Bank Chapter 1-10 (C) eDiscountShop (C)
, Test Bank Chapter 1-10 (C) eDiscountShop (C)
Correct Answer: D. annihilation
6. While ______ produced new class inequalities within colonized societies, ______ racialized
international inequality.
A. colonialism, industrialism
B. industrialism, colonialism
C. racism, industrialism
D. colonialism, racism
Correct Answer: B. industrialism, colonialism
7. The English factory-model called “Lancaster School” was established in ______.
A. Lancaster
B. Ghana
C. Egypt
D. Sudan
Correct Answer: C. Egypt
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8. One implication of Walt Rostow’s work, “Stages of Economic Growth” is that development
______.
A. is not an evolutionary process
B. should follow the Western model of free enterprise
(C) eDiscountShop (C)
C. should create a society in which all are equal
D. should lead to underdevelopment
Correct Answer: B. should follow the Western model of free enterprise
9. The theorization of development as a series of evolutionary stages, linear sequence is most
associated with the work of ______.
A. Joseph Stiglitz
B. Walt Rostow
C. Karl Marx
D. Immanuel Wallerstein
Correct Answer: B. Walt Rostow
10. What is one advantage of low-input farming polycultures over agribusiness monocultures?
A. They use more chemicals and technologies to increase production.
B. They focus on a single crop for higher yields.
C. They save seeds, promote biodiversity, and use local knowledge.
D. They receive more subsidies from international systems to "feed the world."
Correct Answer: C. They save seeds, promote biodiversity, and use local knowledge.
11. What does Walter Rodney identify as the key factor leading to enduring suffering and ongoing
struggles for justice in Africa?
Development and Social Change 8e Philip McMichael Test Bank Chapter 1-10 (C) eDiscountShop (C)
, Test Bank Chapter 1-10 (C) eDiscountShop (C)
A. The introduction of modern technology by Europeans
B. The European trade in enslaved persons
C. The implementation of new agricultural techniques
D. The spread of European cultural values
Correct Answer: B. The European trade in enslaved persons
12. Dependency analysis posits that the development of the ______.
A. First World occurred at the expense of the underdevelopment of the Third World
B. Third World was delayed because of religious beliefs
C. First World was solely responsible for the underdevelopment of the Third World
D. Third World was spurred by environmental conditions
Correct Answer: A. First World occurred at the expense of the underdevelopment of the Third World
13. All of the following are associated with dependency analysis, except ______.
A. Hans Singer
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B. Raul Prebisch
C. Andre Gunder Frank
D. Edward Said
Correct Answer: D. Edward Said
14. In World Systems and Dependency analysis model, the ______ or ______ countries, typically
(C) eDiscountShop (C)
extract resources from ______ or ______ countries.
A. core or Third World, peripheral or First World
B. core or First World, peripheral or Third World
C. peripheral or Third World, core or First World
D. core or Second World, peripheral or First World
Correct Answer: B. core or First World, peripheral or Third World
15. The “development project” and “globalization project” are similar in all of these respects, except
that both projects ______.
A. focus on the relations between First and Third World
B. are consequences of post-colonialism
C. are examples of idealistic contracts
D. emphasized the important role of the market
Correct Answer: D. emphasized the important role of the market
16. What is the economic strategy that is associated with American economist Dani Rodrik?
A. increasing international trade to boost the global economy
B. implementing industrial policies to support the green transition and rebuild domestic supply
chains
C. promoting free market capitalism without government intervention
Development and Social Change 8e Philip McMichael Test Bank Chapter 1-10 (C) eDiscountShop (C)
, Test Bank Chapter 1-10 (C) eDiscountShop (C)
D. expanding export sectors in the global South for greater resource extraction
Correct Answer: B. implementing industrial policies to support the green transition and rebuild
domestic supply chains
17. The sustainability project is a response to the development and globalization projects in the
sense that it addresses the ______.
A. benefits of development
B. social and environmental crises caused by globalization
C. challenges posed by climate change only
D. political power vacuums caused by development
Correct Answer: B. social and environmental crises caused by globalization
18. The fact that North Americans consume fast foods that may include chicken diced in Mexico or
hamburger beef from cattle raised in Costa Rica illustrates the fact that we have become global
______.
A. consumers
B. citizens
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C. clients
D. capitalists
Correct Answer: A. consumers
19. Which of the following is a consequence of large-scale farming?
(C) eDiscountShop (C)
A. decreasing greenhouse emissions
B. disruption of agrarian cultures
C. little dependency on fossil fuels
D. investment in oil production
Correct Answer: B. disruption of agrarian cultures
20. Eduardo Galeano’s observation, “advertising enjoins everyone to consume, while the economy
prohibits the vast majority of humanity from doing so...”, implies that ______.
A. access to the world’s material wealth is extraordinarily uneven
B. global consumers are a majority of the world’s population
C. advertising is biased
D. global consumerism is a universal aspiration
Correct Answer: A. access to the world’s material wealth is extraordinarily uneven
21. Development, today, is increasingly about how we survive the future, rather than how we
improve on the past.
A. True
B. False
Correct Answer: A. True
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