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Practice Quiz Chapter 06
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A nation-state is defined as ________.
a) a group of people sharing a common culture and attachment to some territory
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b) a political unit with an area that is defined with internationally recognized boundaries
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c) a political unit that contains one principal cultural group that gives it its identity and defines its territory
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d) a supreme authority, vested in government, over the territory and population of a state
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e) A self-governing sovereign political entity with well-defined, and usually agreed-upon, territorial boundaries
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To have supreme authority over individual states to control political, economic, and social affairs within its territorial boundaries is ________.
a) monarchy
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b) sovereignty
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c) nation-state
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d) imperialism
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e) nationalism
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Factors that can have an effect on voting patterns and election outcomes include ________.
a) gerrymandering
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b) levels of employment
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c) social influence
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d) all of the above
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e) none of the above
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Historically, colonialism followed ________.
a) imperialism
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b) exploration
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c) decolonization
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d) centrifugal forces
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e) independence
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Imperialism can be understood as ________.
a) the establishment of an empire with formal colonies
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b) the effort by one group to exert power via their state over another group located elsewhere
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c) the process of transferring power from central to regional or local levels of government
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d) the establishment of a state encompassing multiple nations
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e) the supreme authority of individual states to control affairs within its boundaries
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The following statement about geopolitik is TRUE: ________.
a) It views the state as an organism
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b) It was associated with Nazi expansionist ideology
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c) It emerged in the 1940s
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d) It contends that the state is subordinate to the individual
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e) Both A and B
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Geopolitics includes ________.
a) the study of state power over space and the ability to shape international political relations
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b) the study of multinational states
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c) the growth of states through a process of annexing smaller members
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d) the growth of a network of communications
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e) promoting a state's independence from a colonial power
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The stability or instability of a state is dependent upon ________.
a) the extent of irredentism in neighbouring countries
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b) centrifugal and centripetal forces
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c) the number of nationalities in a country
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d) whether countries are under European control
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e) all of the above
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The following statement about boundaries is TRUE: ________.
a) Antecendent boundaries tend to be geometric
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b) Rivers and watersheds are popular boundaries
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c) Colonial boundaries tend to ignore national boundaries
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d) All of the above
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e) None of the above
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Oligarchy is defined as ________.
a) a political philosophy that rejects the state and argues that social order is possible without a state
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b) an oppressive anti-democratic form of government, where the leader is usually backed by the military
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c) the rule by an elite group of people, typically the wealthy
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d) the institution of rule over a state by the hereditary head of a family
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e) the effort by one group to exert power via their state over another group located elsewhere
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