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Question 1:

The unofficial US refugee policy for Cubans is referred to as ________.
a) “high sea/dry land”
b) “wet feet/dry feet”
c) “by sea/by land”
d) harbouring
e) Golden Exiles

Question 2:

A system in which the market decides the relative values of national monies is called a ________ exchange rate system.
a) mixed
b) fixed
c) floating
d) multilateral
e) compounding

Question 3:

The author of “The Spirit of the Laws” is ________.
a) Grotius
b) de Vattel
c) Machiavelli
d) Montesquieu
e) Huntington

Question 4:

Sovereignty as we know it today emerged in 1648 with the ________.
a) Peace of Westphalia
b) signing of the Osnabrück and Münster treaties
c) end of the Thirty Years’ War
d) end of the Eighty Years’ War
e) all of the above

Question 5:

e international organization created to promote co-operation among the independent nations of Africa is the ________.
a) Organization for African Unity
b) African Unity Federation
c) Organization of African States
d) African Union
e) African Regional Authority

Question 6:

The method of distinguishing comparable strengths of political units is known as ________.
a) relative power
b) absolute power
c) systemic power
d) units of analysis
e) structural analysis

Question 7:

APEC is an example of a ________.
a) national organization
b) regional subsystem
c) European agreement
d) non-governmental organization
e) military alliance

Question 8:

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, created in the postwar era, was later absorbed into the ________.
a) World Trade Organization
b) World Bank
c) International Monetary Fund
d) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
e) League of Nations

Question 9:

Hans-Henrik Holm and Georg Sørenson define globalization as “the intensification of economic, political, social, and ________ relations across borders.”
a) cultural
b) military
c) legal
d) environmental
e) institutional

Question 10:

The ________ is made up of highly industrialized states.
a) OECD
b) Torrest Strait
c) Occupy movement
d) Warsaw Pact
e) United Nations

Question 11:

“Politics Among Nations” was written by ________.
a) Kenneth Waltz
b) Thrasymachus
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Hans Morgenthau
e) Samuel Huntington

Question 12:

The political or economic situation in which one side has to lose in order for another to gain is known as ________.
a) security dilemma
b) balance of power
c) structural anarchy
d) positive sum
e) zero-sum game

Question 13:

Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” speech advocated ________.
a) citizen rights
b) democracy
c) free trade
d) free access to the seas
e) all of the above

Question 14:

The Marxist term for the political, legal, cultural, and religious justifications, structures, and practices of an economic system is ________.
a) superstructure
b) dialectical materialism
c) materialism
d) imperialism
e) capitalism

Question 15:

________ was criticized as “appeasement.”
a) The invasion of Iraq
b) The Munich Agreement
c) NORAD
d) Multilateralism
e) The Treaty of Versailles

Question 16:

Nearly ________ per cent of Canadians live within ________ kilometres of the US border.
a) 50; 160
b) 80; 100
c) 80; 160
d) 100; 80
e) 100; 50

Question 17:

Canada’s GDP of US$1.7 trillion ranks ________ in the world.
a) fourth
b) fifth
c) seventh
d) eleventh
e) thirteenth

Question 19:

Canada is sometimes referred to as the ________.
a) “helpful fixer”
b) “meddlesome player”
c) “quiet north”
d) “great power”
e) “world’s referee”

Question 20:

Territorial integrity is the benchmark of the ________.
a) Bretton Woods system
b) Westphalian system
c) Treaty of Versailles
d) Munich Agreement
e) OECD

Question 21:

Canadian Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “global village.”
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

The Occupy movement began in Amsterdam.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Iran’s population is heavily weighted towards people over the age of 30.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

There are 193 member states in the United Nations.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

NAFTA is an example of a “subsystemic” grouping.
a) True
b) False

Question 26:

NATO was formed in 1944 in an effort to end World War II.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

Multinational corporations are non-governmental actors.
a) True
b) False

Question 28:

The 1950s were branded the decade of “détente.”
a) True
b) False

Question 29:

Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union in 1980.
a) True
b) False

Question 30:

Structural anarchy means there is no political authority greater than the sovereign state in international relations.
a) True
b) False

Question 31:

Behaviouralists seek a value-oriented approach to politics.
a) True
b) False

Question 32:

April Glaspie was the US ambassador to Iraq in 2003.
a) True
b) False

Question 33:

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
a) True
b) False

Question 34:

The Occupy movement was praised for clearly conveying its central goals to the world.
a) True
b) False

Question 35:

NGOs are becoming less prominent in international affairs due to the growing nature of world problems.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Politics: An Introduction, Second Edition: Chapter 11