International Politics 2018-2019
MOCK exam, Week 7
I. Multiple choice questions (20 points/20 questions)
1. What do International Relations scholars mean when they refer to the term
“international relations“?
a. Relations between human individuals.
b. Relations between sovereign states.
c. Relations between political actors of all sorts.
d. Relations between firms.
2. In the chapter ‘How can we stop people harming others?’, Anne Orford
identifies different ways of understanding the relationship between legality
and legitimacy. What is meant by the metaphysical account of law?
a. Legitimacy is determined by universal values that transcend the rules
of any existing legal system.
b. Legitimacy is determined by metaphysical values that are decided by
the sovereign.
c. Legitimacy is determined by universal values that are the outcome of a
democratic process.
d. Legitimacy depends on the context and not on universal values.
3. Can we decide freely on our identities from the vantage point of a dynamic
approach to identity?
a. No, according to the dynamic approach to identity, it is the state that
decides who we are.
b. Yes, according to the dynamic approach, we choose our identities.
c. No, according to the dynamic approach, we are identified through
society and discourse and we can have no identity prior to being
identified through society and discourse.
d. Yes, according to the dynamic approach, we can choose our identities
if our choice matches the way in which others define us.
4. What does informalization refer to in the contemporary global political
economy, according to V. Spike Peterson in the chapter ‘How Is the World
Organized Economically’?
a. The growth of informal economic activities and sectors.
b. The advent of collegial economic relations.
c. The rise of worker friendly economic production.
d. The increase in method of calculating, measuring, and in legislation.
5. What is meant by the intersubjective quality of identity?
a. One’s identity is constituted in the relation between self-understanding
and other actors’ understandings
b. One’s identity is constituted by a subjective decision
c. One’s identity is constituted inside the subjective sphere, which is
outside the social sphere
d. One’s identity is constituted through the acceptance of those who are
fundamentally different
6. Why have contemporary feminists been critical of so-called second-wave
feminism?
MOCK exam, Week 7
I. Multiple choice questions (20 points/20 questions)
1. What do International Relations scholars mean when they refer to the term
“international relations“?
a. Relations between human individuals.
b. Relations between sovereign states.
c. Relations between political actors of all sorts.
d. Relations between firms.
2. In the chapter ‘How can we stop people harming others?’, Anne Orford
identifies different ways of understanding the relationship between legality
and legitimacy. What is meant by the metaphysical account of law?
a. Legitimacy is determined by universal values that transcend the rules
of any existing legal system.
b. Legitimacy is determined by metaphysical values that are decided by
the sovereign.
c. Legitimacy is determined by universal values that are the outcome of a
democratic process.
d. Legitimacy depends on the context and not on universal values.
3. Can we decide freely on our identities from the vantage point of a dynamic
approach to identity?
a. No, according to the dynamic approach to identity, it is the state that
decides who we are.
b. Yes, according to the dynamic approach, we choose our identities.
c. No, according to the dynamic approach, we are identified through
society and discourse and we can have no identity prior to being
identified through society and discourse.
d. Yes, according to the dynamic approach, we can choose our identities
if our choice matches the way in which others define us.
4. What does informalization refer to in the contemporary global political
economy, according to V. Spike Peterson in the chapter ‘How Is the World
Organized Economically’?
a. The growth of informal economic activities and sectors.
b. The advent of collegial economic relations.
c. The rise of worker friendly economic production.
d. The increase in method of calculating, measuring, and in legislation.
5. What is meant by the intersubjective quality of identity?
a. One’s identity is constituted in the relation between self-understanding
and other actors’ understandings
b. One’s identity is constituted by a subjective decision
c. One’s identity is constituted inside the subjective sphere, which is
outside the social sphere
d. One’s identity is constituted through the acceptance of those who are
fundamentally different
6. Why have contemporary feminists been critical of so-called second-wave
feminism?
