#1 Quiz

Question 1

Which of the following terms is a way to describe numbers that have been adjusted for purchasing power parity? PPP

Answer 1

Real

Question 2

GDP is a measure of total economic activity. Which of the following is an alternative measure of total economic activity?

Answer 2

GNI

Question 3

Which of the following best describes how the education gap between boys and girls has changed in most regions of the world since 1990?

Answer 3

The gap has decreased

Question 4

What kind of countries do we find the highest concentration of people living in extreme poverty?

Answer 4

Middle income ? Got this wrong before

Question 5

What is the first step in the process of social science research?

Answer 5

Develop a research question

Question 6

Which of the following countries has the highest GDP?

Answer 6

US

Question 7

In the United States in 2012, a Big Mac costs about four dollars. With that same four dollars about how many Big Macs would a person buy in Sweden in 2012?

Answer 7

1/2

Question 8

How has the World Bank described its primary goal since the presidency of Robert NcMara?

Answer 8

Ending Poverty

Question 9

What is an “explanatory” variable?

Answer 9

A variable that we think is directly causing out outcome variable

Question 10

Which of the following best describes global progress on
Millennium Development Goal #1.A (Halving the Proportion of People in the World Living in Extreme Poverty)?
A. The goal was met because of large decreases in the proportion of people living in poverty in countries all over the world.
B. The goal was met because of large decreases in the proportion of people living in poverty in Africa.
C. The goal was met because of large decreases in the proportion of people living in poverty in Asia.
D. The goal was not met.

Answer 10

C

Question 11

According to Wolfgang Sachs’s article (2000), in announcing the
“Point Four Program,” U.S. President Harry S. Truman became the first major political figure to use what term?
A. Microcredit
B. Private-Public Partnership
C. Sustainable development
D. Underdeveloped

Answer 11

D. Undeveloped

Question 12

What is the objective of Sachs’ (2000) article?
A. To argue that poor countries should focus on democratizing first and develop economically later
B. To test the hypothesis that world development will lead to world peace
C. To argue that rural-to-urban migration is a fundamental step toward economic development because it provides industrial employment
D. To present an overview of the Development Era, including its history, its pivotal changes, and its future prospects

Answer 12

D.

Question 13

A. Both Northern and Southern countries should continue growing their economies on their own, and they will eventually converge due to free markets.
B. Northern countries should continue growing their economies but also help Southern countries grow through foreign aid; this way, the two will eventually converge.
C. Northern countries should stop growing their economies to allow Southern countries to catch up to them so that eventually the two will converge when every country reaches the same industrial production as the United States.
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D. Northern countries should contract their economies by reducing their consumption levels and their exploitation of fossil fuels, while Southern countries can continue to grow their economies, allowing eventually for convergence.

Answer 13

D

Question 14

According to Sachs, why was it possible for GNP per capita to become the paramount measure of the degree of civilization in a country?
A. Both Northern and Southern countries should continue growing their economies on their own, and they will eventually converge due to free markets.
B. Northern countries should continue growing their economies but also help Southern countries grow through foreign aid; this way, the two will eventually converge.
C. Northern countries should stop growing their economies to allow Southern countries to catch up to them so that eventually the two will converge when every country reaches the same industrial production as the United States.
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D. Northern countries should contract their economies by reducing their consumption levels and their exploitation of fossil fuels, while Southern countries can continue to grow their economies, allowing eventually for convergence.

Answer 14

C

Question 15

According to Sachs (2000), which of the following is TRUE about Sir Fredrick Lugard’s notion of the colonial mandate versus Truman’s notion of the development mandate?
A. The colonial mandate involved first of all economic progress and gains for the colonizing power and only secondly improvements in the welfare of the natives.
B. The development mandate assumes that the welfare of the natives follows from the economic progress of the former colonies.
D. All of the above.
Question 13
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B

Answer 15

C

Question 16

Which of the following statements summarizes Sachs’ (2000) main criticism of development policy?

A. That the concept of development does not allow for countries to have different aspirations and goals, as it assumes there is one end goal to which all countries aspire and one path along which they can all reach it
B. That no valid operationalization of development exists to measure its progress
C. That globalization caused the development industry to pay too much attention to global trends and not enough to local communities
D. None of the above

Answer 16

A

Question 17

Which of the following is an example of a nation that is within a state and not a nation-state?
A. Belgium
B. Japan
C. Russia
D. Wallonia

Answer 17

? Wallonia

Question 18

The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 divided up what part of the world among European colonial powers?
A. Africa
B. Australia
C. South America
D. Southeast Asia

Answer 18

A. Africa

Question 19

How does Matthew Lange (2005) use customary court cases in his analysis of direct and indirect colonial rule?
A. Lange operationalizes indirect rule using the ratio of customary court cases to total court cases.
B. The ratio of customary court cases to total court cases serves as Lange’s explanatory variable.
C. The ratio of customary court cases to total court cases represents a colonial power intervening in local law.
D. A and B

Answer 19

D) A and B

Question 20

Which were the first European powers to embark on large-scale colonization?
A. Portugal and Spain
B. Holland and England
C. Portugal and Holland
D. Spain and England

Answer 20

A. Portugal and Spain

Question 21

What is the main finding of the analyses presented in Matthew Lange’s article (2005)?
A. The type of British colonial rule does not appear to have had long-term effects on the development of former colonies.
B. Direct and indirect British colonial rule had equally negative long-term effects on the development of former colonies.
C. Colonies that were ruled more indirectly by the British went on to experience lower levels of development than those that were ruled more directly.
D. Colonies under French rule went on to experience lower levels of development than those that were under British rule.

Answer 21

C. Colonies that were ruled more indirectly by the British went on to experience lower levels of development than those that were ruled more directly.

Question 22

Which of the following is an example of a nation without a state?
A. Kurds
B. Hezbollah
C. Vietnam
D. Spain

Answer 22

A. Kurds

Question 23

How might Lakshmi Iyer’s study of India discussed in the lecture video (2010) be seen as superior to Matthew Lange’s study (2005) of British colonies?
A. Iyer’s study has more external validity than Lange’s study
B. Iyer’s study has more internal validity than Lange’s study
C. Iyer’s study included many more hypotheses than Lange’s study
D. Iyer’s study spent more time discussing operationalization and measurement

Answer 23

Iyer’s study has more internal validity than Lange’s study.

Question 24

Which of the following are examples of territories with empirical sovereignty but not juridical sovereignty?
A. Japan and South Korea
B. Wallonia and Belgium
C. Somaliland and Puntland
D. Scotland and Ireland

Answer 24

C. Somaliland and Puntland

Question 25

What is a nation?
A. An ethnic group that aspires to control territory
B. A social group that shares a common ideology, set of customs, and sense of homogeneity and that is often associated with a particular territory
C. A sovereign human community that successfully claims the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory
D. A political subdivision of a country that holds administrative jurisdiction over a geographic territory

Answer 25

B. A social group that shares a common ideology, set of customs, and sense of homogeneity and that is often associated with a particular territory.

Question 26

When did the majority of African decolonization take place?
A. 1810 – 1830
B. 1884 – 1885
C. 1918 – 1939
D. 1957 – 1975

Answer 26

D. 1957-1975

Question 27

What explains state formation in most of the developing world?
A. States were formed for the purpose of waging war.
B. States were formed when citizens wanted to give up their money in order to get public goods.
C. States were formed when citizens reached naturally occurring geographic boundaries, like mountain ranges and rivers, that helped them demarcate their territory.
D. None of the above

Answer 27

? not A. but I’m assuming none of the above because developed countries colonized and made their own borders.

Question 28

What is direct colonial rule?
A. European institutions and laws were put in place; the colonizer established a new bureaucracy and incorporated natives into that bureaucracy.
B. Preexisting laws prevailed, and land use adhered to local– rather than European – law.
C. The colonizer set up a new government and created a new sovereign state that was independent of the original colonizing country but nevertheless governed by Europeans.
D. The colonizing power exercised unofficial authority by influencing the political leadership of the colony through bribes or special favors.

Answer 28

A. European institutions and laws were put in place; the colonizer established a new bureaucracy and incorporated natives into that bureaucracy.

Question 29

Which of the following statements best summarizes what we learn from looking at subnational measures of HDI?
A. Human development tends to be very consistent across regions of a country.
B. Human development is always better in rural regions of a country.
C. Human development can vary dramatically within regions of a country.
D. Human development does not correlate with GDP per capita within regions of a country.

Answer 29

C. Human development can vary dramatically within regions of a country.

Question 30

Which of the following best describes the “effectiveness reason” for why freedom is central to development according to Amartya Sen (1999)?
A. Foreign aid donors give more money to free countries.
B. Observing freedom is the same as observing development.
C. GDP per capita is higher in free countries.
D. Having freedom allows people to pursue development.

Answer 30

D. Having freedom allows people to pursue development.