A. make people feel free
B. secure that will of the people
C. give legitimate authority to the government in power
D. fool the people some of the time
Miscellaneous Economics Mcqs
ideologies tend to arise during periods of………….?
A. prosperity
B. crisis
C. natural disasters
D. conversations among intellectuals
In the United States a sense of national identity ?
A. never developed
B. was first based on a common ethnicity and language
C. was later reinforced by the notion of “specialness”
D. only B and C
Like Freud Erik Erikson maintains that……………?
A. there are five psycho sexual stages
B. the personality is fixed by age five
C. psychoanalysis including dream analysis is the only way to overcome personality problems
D. none of the above
Traditional autocracy has been replaced by…………….?
A. democracy
B. egalitarianism
C. authoritarian or totalitarian ideologies
D. tyranny
A totalitarian regime…………..?
A. contains secret police
B. controls the mass media
C. exhibits a centralized control of the economy
D. all of the above
Fascism……………?
A. distrusts reason
B. refuses violence
C. stresses a belief in human equality
D. appeals to intellectuals
Communism emerged as an ideology in reaction to conditions following…………?
A. the French Revolution
B. starvation in Ireland
C. the Industrial Revolution
D. the Protestant Reformation
Regarding capitalist industrial societies Marx asserted that…………..?
A. the means of production are controlled by the masses
B. religion and philosophy are the foundations of society
C. property is unimportant in the modern state
D. they contained the seeds of their own destruction
The dialectic is based on………….?
A. two extreme positions giving rise to a middle position
B. polarization forcing societies to split up
C. conflicts between rich and poor countries
D. imperialism being destroyed by capitalism