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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Motown
B The Bee Gees
C Scorpions
D The Beatles
Question #2
A Policy
B Policy Tools
C National Tools
D Grand Strategy
Question #3
A The use of the military industrial complex
B An organization that tries to influence what the government does in order to advance their agenda
C A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials, rather than by elected representatives
D The belief that government agencies, corporations, and research institutes work together to benefit from military spending
Question #4
A When the “true Scotsman” fallacy is used
B When you attack a person’s character instead of their ideas
C When there is a lack of dissenting opinion in a group
D When new ideas are considered under harsh scrutiny
Question #5
A using norms and practices to assume behavior
B a cost benefit analysis
C compromise between government agencies
D standard operating procedures
Question #6
A Governmental bargain model
B Diplomatic model
C Organizational process model
D Rational model
Question #7
A military intervention
B full scale war
C sanctions
D creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations
Question #8
A Both the people and government of a foreign state
B the government of a foreign state
C your own people
D the people of a foreign state
Question #9
A military intervention
B creating alliances, institutions, and negotiations
C sanctions
D an embargo
Question #10
A Overall national strategy to achieve goals
B the specific tools used to try and achieve a goal
C A countries goals, what a state wants to achieve
D the result of diplomatic efforts
Question #11
A Control the means of production
B Live comfortable, wealthy, lives
C Exploit the Bourgeoisie
D Are exploited for their labor
Question #12
A They team together to fight communism
B They never go to war at all
C They are busy exploiting poor countries
D They have common identities
Question #13
A False
B True
Question #14
A Core countries
B Periphery countries
C First world countries
D Egregious countries
Question #15
A Authoritarian
B Democratic
C Republic
D Aristocracy
Question #16
A They are essential for trade
B They do not exist
C They are tools of wealthy countries to exploit poor countries
D They are essential to maintain peace and prosperity
Question #17
A Anarchy is growing
B Only the United States is anarchic, not the entire international system
C Anarchy exists
D Anarchy is a human construct
Question #18
A Primarily by the system itself
B Only by the United States
C By state’s view of the international system
D By random events
Question #19
A False
B True
Question #20
A The bourgeoisie
B The dregousis
C The proletariat
D Foreign dictators
Question #21
A Warhawkism
B Economic interconnectivity
C Democratic peace theory
D Collective security
Question #22
A Democracy
B Strict state control of industry
C Collective Security
D Economic Interdependence
Question #23
A Commercial liberalism
B Republican liberalism
C Classical liberalism
D Liberal internationalism
Question #24
A Dominance
B Submission
C Reciprocity
D Identity
Question #25
A Bill Nye, The Science Guy
B Joseph Nye
C Frances Fukuyama
D Immanuel Kant
Question #26
A Democracies are more likely to go to war
B Democracies are less likely to go to war
C Non-democratic countries are more likely to declare war on democratic countries
D Democracies do not go to war with one another
Question #27
A Who has the biggest military
B The actors in the system
C Who has the largest population
D The system itself
Question #28
A Cultural influence
B Unknown powers
C Unmeasured military factors
D The resolve of the people
Question #29
A Religion and Democratic Socialism
B Religion and Nationalism
C Nationalism and Democratic Socialism
D Communism and Socialism
Question #30
A John Locke
B Emanuel Kant
C Thomas Hobbes
D Machiavelli
Question #31
A states simply react to changes in the international system
B states rise or fall on the merit of their international decision making
C there is no international system
D a state’s position in the international system is purely luck
Question #32
A There can only be one winner
B One country must be destroyed
C Everyone loses
D There can only be two winners
Question #33
A True
B False
Question #34
A John Locke
B John Lennon
C Thomas Hobbes
D Machiavelli
Question #35
A True
B False
Question #36
A Power
B Wealth
C Independence
D Preserving natural rights
Question #37
A The Melians
B The Spartans
C The Athenians
D The Romans
Question #38
A Hans Morgenthau
B Machiavelli
C Thomas Hobbes
D Thucydides
Question #39
A self help
B Pragmatism
C liberalism
D constructivism
Question #40
A Vanity
B Military Size
C Self interest
D Money
Question #41
A Multi-polar
B Bi-polar
C Tri-polar
D Uni-polar
Question #42
A False
B True
Question #43
A France
B Russia
C The United States
D China
Question #44
A Few clearly defined territories
B Democracy
C The emergence of the modern nation state
D Clearly defined borders
Question #45
A None of these are correct
B A hierarchy of power
C A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent
D A sovereign territory controlled by a government
Question #46
A WWII
B The French Revolution
C The Congress of Vienna
D WWI
Question #47
A A conflict between two minor states, sponsored by larger states
B The dominance of one country over others
C A bi-polar regional system
D A balance of power between nations
Question #48
A The Peace of Westphalia
B The Peace of West Germany
C The 7 Years War
D The 50 Years War
Question #49
A Greece
B The United States
C Rome
D Persia
Question #50
A How to gain a comparative advantage over other states
B How to solve the collective action problem
C How to create peace between nations
D How to predict state behavior