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Political Ideology

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 4hrs 45mins

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Class
Date
1.

According to John Stuart Mill, personal freedom is __________.

a)

of limited importance

b)

a relic of old and obsolete thinking

c)

to be highly prized

d)

destined to lead to civil war

2.

The harm principle assumes that __________.

a)

freedom encourages experimentation and open dialogue that allows people to reject dangerous ideas

b)

freedom encourages tension, stress, and competition

c)

freedom inevitably results in religious extremism

d)

in the state of nature, people will always act in their own self-interest

3.

Marxism views the working class as __________.

a)

the most privileged class

b)

the class that will lead a revolution against capitalism

c)

the owners of the means of production under capitalism

d)

the perpetuators of systemic racism

4.

Gramsci believed that __________.

a)

capitalists use cultural control to shape workers’ way of thinking against the goals of Marxism

b)

a workers’ revolution would never happen

c)

traditional religion is highly valuable and should be protected against critique

d)

owners and workers are on the same team

5.

Authoritarianism always entails a complete repudiation of individual rights

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Maoism alters Marxism by seeing __________.

a)

capitalism as good

b)

the peasantry as unable to change society

c)

religion as a social force to be celebrated and promoted

d)

None of the above

7.

The center left is a form of __________.

a)

democratic liberalism

b)

communism

c)

socialism

d)

populism

8.

Political fusionism combines __________.

a)

Marxism and multiculturalism

b)

moderate economic liberalism and moderate social liberalism

c)

moderate economic libertarianism and extreme social conservatism

d)

moderate economic libertarianism and moderate social conservatism

9.

Which of the following ideologies is not associated with the New Left?

a)

Environmentalism

b)

Second-wave feminism

c)

Conservative populism

d)

Indigenism

10.

The assertion that contemporary Western societies manifest structural racism is __________.

a)

a key position of conservative populists

b)

a key element of communism

c)

a key position of critical race theorists

d)

a key element of Maoism

11.

Conservative populism __________.

a)

sees the New Left as a threat

b)

sees the center right as inadequate

c)

has seen electoral success in the United States, Hungary, and Brazil

d)

All of the above

12.

Those on the New Right see “woke capitalists” as __________.

a)

betraying the long-standing social values of their countries of origin

b)

violating the close connection between economic freedom, free markets, and social conservatism that defined the center-right coalition for decades

c)

embracing Marxist ideals

d)

Both A and B

e)

All of the above

13.

What alternative to political ideology do Burkeans propose?

a)

Strict adherence to empirical social science

b)

Religious extremism

c)

The lessons of history and tradition

d)

None of the above

14.

Religious extremists reject basing government on __________.

a)

human reason

b)

individual religious texts

c)

national identity

d)

revelations

15.

Which of these ideologies do you prefer?

a)

Capitalism

b)

Socialism