Politics of Developing Nations Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Politics of Developing Nations examines the political systems, institutions, and processes that shape governance and development in countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The course covers themes such as state formation, democratization, political economy, conflict, and the influence of international actors, while analyzing the challenges and opportunities encountered by developing nations in pursuing social, economic, and political progress. Through comparative case studies and theoretical frameworks, students gain insight into the diversity of experiences in the Global South and the complex interplay between domestic and global forces impacting development trajectories.
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Challenge of Third World Development The 7th Edition by Howard Handelman
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Chapter 1: Understanding Underdevelopment
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Q1) East Asia's per capita income is the highest among the Third World's regions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What did modernization theorists feel was the major cause of Third World underdevelopment?
A) Lack of investment capital
B) Failure to believe in God and the ten commandments
C) Extreme economic inequality
D) Nonproductive agricultural sectors
E) Traditional values
Answer: E
Q3) Which of the following terms is NOT used by political scientists or economists as an alternative to the term Third World countries?
A) Poor countries
B) Developing countries
C) Less developed countries
D) Developing world
E) Developing nations
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Explosion of Third World Democracy
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Q1) Consolidated democracies
A) never break down.
B) precede democratic transitions.
C) are very rare.
D) require that previous dictators be put on trial.
E) are, by definition, the only game in town.
Answer: E
Q2) The first and second waves of democracy were followed by reverse waves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Democratic consolidation
A) requires a new constitution.
B) is not that important.
C) follows democratic transition.
D) usually requires substantial foreign aid.
E) is easier to achieve when there are sharp class divisions.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Religion and Politics
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Q1) Support for Al Qaeda and bin Laden among the general public in Muslim countries
A) was never very high (never over 50 percent) in any country.
B) continued to rise up to the time of bin Laden's death.
C) fell substantially from its height in the years soon after the 9/11 attack until bin Laden's death.
D) has remained fairly steady.
E) has not varied substantially from country to country.
Answer: C
Q2) Osama bin Laden spoke of the "near enemy" and the "far enemy." By the "near enemy" he meant certain Arab governments that were geographically closer to Afghanistan and Pakistan than the U.S.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The U.S.and other western nations are antagonistic toward all Islamic fundamentalist states.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Politics of Cultural Pluralism and Ethnic Conflict
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Q1) What are the major arguments for and against outside intervention-by individual nations or international organizations such as the U.N.or the African Union-as a means of resolving or simply reducing ethnically based violence? Give 1-2 examples of successful foreign intervention and 1-2 of interventions that failed or made things worse.
Q2) Consociationalism is
A) a means of sharing political power between feuding ethnic or other groups.
B) a form of Arab socialism.
C) a way to reduce the damage caused by an ethnic group's secession.
D) a complex system of voting that reduces parliamentary representation from the nation's largest ethnic groups.
E) a means of reducing the links between political and economic power.
Q3) Which is the most politically powerful ethnic group in Iraq today?
A) The Druze
B) The Kurds
C) The Shi'a
D) The Sunni
E) The Malachites
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Chapter 5: Women and Development
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Q1) Female United Nations peacekeepers
A) constitute a substantial percentage of UN peacekeepers since those forces were first organized in the 1950s.
B) are helpful in areas where contending military forces have engaged in widespread rape.
C) are kept out of areas where there have been widespread rapes.
D) now account for over 40 percent of all UN peacekeepers.
E) come primarily from Europe and other First World countries.
Q2) Which type of parliamentary electoral system makes it easiest to apply gender quotas effectively?
A) First past the post
B) Single-member districts
C) Single-member districts with run-offs
D) Proportional representation
E) Winner take all
Q3) GEM stands for "Gender Empowerment Measure."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: The Politics of the Rural and Urban Poor
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Q1) Which Third World region has the most equal distribution of rural,agricultural land?
A) South America
B) The Middle East
C) East Asia
D) Sub-Saharan Africa
E) North Africa
Q2) Discuss the Third World's rural,class structures in terms of the various types of peasants,their major concerns,and their relationship with rural landlords.
Q3) On average,what portion of the Third World's population is rural?
A) More than half
B) About 40 percent
C) Less than 10 percent
D) Most of the population in Latin America but far less in Asia
E) Most of the population of Latin America but far less in Africa
Q4) Compare the nature,success,and limitations of the following types of agrarian reform: agrarian reforms initiated under U.S.pressure in East Asia; and revolutionary agrarian reform in countries such as China and Vietnam.
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Chapter 7: Revolutionary Change
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Q1) Like many revolutionary leaders,Emiliano Zapata (Mexico)and Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam),came from middle-class families.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Although revolutionary governments usually claim to be more honest than the government that they toppled,Transparency International,an independent watchdog group on government corruption,has determined that the communist governments of Cuba and China are considerably more corrupt than the average developing nation's government.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following sectors often provides key leadership for the revolutionary cause?
A) The upper class
B) The working class
C) Doctors
D) The middle class
E) The peasantry
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Chapter 8: Soldiers and Politics
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Q1) In time,military rule generally causes a decline in the cohesion of the armed forces.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Whether or not the armed forces seize power in a particular country is primarily a function of the military's internal cohesion and its own political skills.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During the last 20-25 years the number of successful military takeovers
A) has fallen most sharply in Africa.
B) has risen most dramatically in Asia.
C) remained fairly constant.
D) has increased somewhat in the developing world.
E) has declined sharply in the developing world.
Q4) What is it about the nature of the armed forces and the nature of civil society and of the political system that has led to such frequent military intervention or takeovers in politics?
Q5) In what regions have military regimes performed best and where have they performed worst?
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Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Third World Development
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Q1) One of the major foci of the study of political economy is how politics determines important aspects of the economy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is a major reason why Asian countries generally have more equitable income distribution than Latin American nations do?
A) Socialist redistributive policies in Asia
B) The U.S. economy is less dominant in Asia than in Latin America
C) Asian governments tax the rich at a higher rate than Latin American governments do
D) Spanish colonial policy in Latin America favored big landholdings far more than Asian rural policies did
E) Asia has a more extensive safety net for the poor than Latin America does
Q3) China and Vietnam have both moved away from market socialism for a market economy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the successes and failures of Latin American statism as an economic model.
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