Chapter 13 Quiz

1. When we say that national identity is a political identity, what do we mean?

a. National identity is linked to and helps to shape the distribution of power.

b. National identity only operates within the state bureaucracy: outside of this bureaucracy, it is nationalism.

c. Politicians create national identity in order to manipulate the masses.

d. None of the above

2. Which of the following is the best statement of the relationship between national identity and identity more generally?

a. National identity is a false or absurd kind of identity.

b. National identity isn't really a form of identity.

c. National identity was a kind of identity, important in the twentieth century but disappearing because of globalization.

d. National identity is a kind of identity, important and common in the contemporary world.

3. Which of the following claims is most closely associated with primordialist ideas of nationalism and nationhood?

a. Nationalism emerged in the late eighteenth century.

b. Nationalism is exclusively a source of evil.

c. Nations have existed for a very long time, since well before modernity.

d. Nations are from our prehistory but are no longer with us.

4. Which of the following claims is the least plausible according to comparativists who study national identity?

a. All forms of nationalism eventually lead to violence.

b. Nationalism can sometimes be linked to violence.

c. Nationalism is never linked to violence.

d. Collective violence is largely a problem of the past.

5. Which of the following claims is the most plausible according to comparativists who study national identity?

a. Nationalism should be eliminated.

b. Nationalism has both good and bad consequences.

c. Nationalism is a form of prejudice, plain and simple.

d. Nationalism is important because without it politics would be meaningless.

6. Which of the following sets of pairs corresponds to a commonly used typology of nationalism used in this chapter?

a. Bellicose and pacific nationalisms

b. Civic and ethnic nationalisms

c. Authentic and imposter nationalisms

d. Large and small nationalisms

7. Why might political scientists use typologies to study nationalism and national identity?

a. It is fun to bestow labels and coin phrases.

b. Typologies allow us to impose arbitrary value judgments.

c. When done well, it can help us to ask better questions.

d. Political scientists don't use typologies.

8. Which of the following is discussed in this chapter as potentially a major factor in the emergence of national identity?

a. Old-fashioned prejudice

b. Economic downturns

c. Confusion and social disorder

d. The state

9. Which type(s) of nationalism is/are thought of as normally establishing membership in the nation on the basis of imagined biological ties?

a. Civic nationalism

b. Ethnic nationalism

c. Territorial nationalism

d. Both a and c

10. Donald Horowitz's approach is an example of which of following general theories of ethno-national conflict?

a. Primordial bonds

b. Cultural boundaries

c. Social-psychology and group resentment

d. Rational calculation

11. According to the rational choice theory of ethno-nationalism, which of the following would decrease the likelihood that a given individual would adopt the majority ethno-national identity?

a. A dramatic decrease in the costs imposed on those who seek assimilation

b. A dramatic increase in majority-group membership gains

c. Neither a nor b

d. Both a and b

12. Which of the following would be considered an "institutional" approach to managing potential ethno-national conflict?

a. Community meetings to foster positive relationships between group members

b. Federalism that cuts across ethno-national lines

c. Encounter groups

d. Education and propaganda encouraging peaceful relations

13. Which of the following is a theorist of intergroup conflict who emphasizes the centrality of "symbolic politics" and cultural boundaries?

a. Donald Horowitz

b. Robert Bates

c. David Laitin

d. Stuart Kaufman

14. Which of the following is not true of N-studies?

a. Large N-studies have many cases.

b. Large-N studies typically employ quantitative analysis.

c. Large-N studies always definitively establish causality.

d. Large-N studies are common in political science.

15. Which of the following is true of large-N studies of inter-group conflict?

a. They are always correct.

b. They always tell us more than case studies.

c. If the sample size is big enough, we will definitely know the answer.

d. When well-formulated, they may inform better policy choices.

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