Overview
1) Jean-Baptiste Colbert directed mercantilist economic policy for which European kingdom?
FranceVenice
Spain
Portugal
2)Imperial German economic policy was characterized by
Group of answer choiceselectrical powerrailcars
advanced pension system
all of the above
3) Which of the following did NOT characterize the "American System" of mercantile-capitalism as envisioned by Secretary Hamilton?
Group of answer choicesthe creation of a national bankdeliberate building up of public credit
chartering a mint
nationalization of industry
4) Which of the following served as the axiomatic idea of British political economy during the commonwealth and imperial periods?
Group of answer choicesstrong immigration restrictionsfree trade
nationalization of industry
protection of infant industry
5) Which of the following is NOT a neoliberal economic doctrine associated with the likes of Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, and JS Mill?
Group of answer choicesprivatizationmass production
restrictions on foreign ownership
capital investment
6) The invention of the assembly line combined with cheap migrant labor allowed which American entrepreneur to produce an automobile every 90 minutes?
Group of answer choicesAndrew CarnegieJack Welch
Robert McNamara
Henry Ford
7) LIBERALIZATION excludes which of the following?
Group of answer choicesfreedom to own and operate a businesstariffs
free movement of capital
power of the employer/boss
8) Which two author-activists together furnished the core of socialist philosophy?
Group of answer choicesJoseph Goebbels and Alfred RosenbergFriedrich Nietzsche and Charles Darwin
Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and C.S. Lewis
9) Which European Socialist political party/movement lost a civil war (1936-39) that brought a ruthless fascist government to power?
Group of answer choicesthe Spanishthe German
the Austrian
the French
10)Which British political party during the twentieth century long included democratic socialists within its ranks?
Group of answer choicesScottish National PartyLabour
United Kingdom Independence Party
Conservative Party
11)All of the following describe the Holy See in Rome EXCEPT:
Group of answer choicesa college of Cardinalspower to conclude concordats (treaties)
a large standing army
a Pope and Cardinal Secretary of State
12)European Christian Democracy (1945-) has stressed all of the following EXCEPT
Group of answer choicesunrestricted capitalist productiondenationalization
social market economy
anti-Communism
13)The commitment of the Vatican-II council (1965) to upholding religious freedom is expressed in which of the following encyclicals?
Group of answer choicesRerum NovarumDignitatis Humanae
Mit Brennender Sorge
Nostra Aetate
14)Which German monk launched the Protestant Reformation in 1520?
Group of answer choicesHuldreich ZwingliJohn Calvin
Thomas Cranmer
Martin Luther
15) The Peace of Westphalia of 1648 included all of the following terms EXCEPT
Group of answer choicesacknowledgement of the Lutheran religionrelinquishment of Holy Roman Empire
a declaration of the rights of man and of citizen
ending of the Wars of Religion
16)Which of the following was the Dutch reformed founder of international law?
Group of answer choicesSamuel PufendorfHugo Grotius
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
17)Author of The Jewish State (1896), which transnational activist was primarily responsible for initiating the doctrine and practice of modern Zionism?
Group of answer choicesNoam ChomskyKarl Marx
Leon Trotsky
Theodore Herzl
18) The so-called Israeli "occupation" (1967-) involves neo-colonialist control over Palestinian Arabs residing in
Group of answer choicesAmmanthe West Bank
the Golan Heights
the Sinai Peninsula
19)Which of the following texts is NOT sacred to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?
Group of answer choicesThe Book of MormonThe Pearl of Great Price
The Doctrine and Covenants
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
20)The Mormons ended their westward migration by permanently settling in
Group of answer choicesUtahColorado
Arizona
New Mexico