Exam Midterm 1
Promoting Dialogue between Different Worlds
1. What is the view of terrorism from a dialogical perspective?
a. Terrorism is sometimes morally justifiable.
b. Force should never be used in order to prevent terrorism from occurring.
c. Terrorism has causes that can be addressed in order to diminish its strength.
d. Terrorism can be dealt with by military means alone.
2. What would be a Western response to Muslim terrorism from a dialogical perspective?
a. Do not punish or try to prevent terrorist attacks.
b. Persuade Muslims that they have caused their own problems.
c. Carefully investigate whether any of the Muslim complaints against the West are justified.
d. Give up the nave belief that there are Muslims willing to recognize the accuracy of some Western
criticisms of the Muslim world.
3. Which of the following statements is true about dialogue for resolving conflicts according to Parekh?
a. Confrontations do not occur during the process of dialogue.
b. Our own position will be opposed by everyone on the other side.
c. Dialogue provides an opportunity to critically evaluate ones own position.
d. Rationality is sufficient for the solution of international conflicts.
4. What is an important point made about the globalization of insecurity?
a. Almost all the key threats are from nations.
b. Common security notions have not been introduced at the policy level.
c. The United States has been the main proponent of human security.
d. The globalization of insecurity has led to questioning of traditional ideas of security.
5. Which idea is consistent with an alternative approach to world order?
a. There is a return to tradition and a rejection of modernity.
b. The emphasis is on the unique identities of different civilizations and their differences.
c. The principle of national sovereignty remains central.
d. Dialogue is transformative and a path to self-discovery.
6. What is distinctive about Khatamis perspective?
a. his focus on unique role of artists, intellectuals, and spiritual practitioners in intercivilizational dialogue
b. his belief that Islam plays the leading part in advancing world civilization
c. his rejection of modernity and modern civilization
d. his idea that the East has more to learn from the West than the reverse
7. Which of the following statements does Appiah agree with?
a. All local ties should be given up in order to identify with humanity.
b. We have obligations to people who are not family or citizens of the same nation as ourselves.
c. The traditional way of life is generally superior to the modern one.
d. Moral concern centers on nations, groups, and peoples.
8. What does Appiah believe?
a. The loss of rural uniqueness and distinctiveness has been largely positive.
b. The so-called global village does not exist, since people live their lives mostly in local areas.
c. Globalization leads to cultural homogenization.
d. The world can be divided between locals and moderns.
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9. What is Appiahs view of cross-cultural conversations?
a. We learn about other cultures not to reach agreement but to get used to each other.
b. Through rational argument it is not so difficult to change the minds of members of other cultures.
c. The views that we present are the outcome of a careful process of deliberation and thought.
d. It involves a process of educating others to accept values that are universally valid.
10. Parekhs conception of multiculturalism includes the idea that:
a. cultures be cannot critically evaluated
b. identity is plural, fluid, and open
c. each culture encompasses the full richness and complexity of life.
d. on rational grounds, liberalism can be legitimately judged the best political ideology
11. For Parekh, a multicultural society:
a. should be based on ethnicity or other shared characteristics
b. provides equal citizenship but not a common sense of belonging
c. must find a way to reconcile unity and diversity
d. has been successfully achieved only by India
12. Which statement does Habermas agree with?
a. Identity based on ethnicity is a good foundation for social and political life.
b. The main cause of social problems is lack of communication skill.
c. Democracy is not the best form of government.
d. Freely achieved consensus in a rational dialogue can solve social problems.
13. Which is Habermass view?
a. Ethnicity should be the foundation of a new global order.
b. All human beings are world citizens.
c. The principle of non-intervention in the domestic sphere of nations must be upheld.
d. Global terrorism shows that worldwide rational consensus cannot be achieved.
14. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Appiah and Habermas agree that traditional and modern ways of life are equally valid.
b. Appiah and Garton Ash agree that cultural differences should not be suppressed in modern societies.
c. Bruckner takes an Enlightenment position whereas Habermas favors multiculturalism.
d. Parekh sees multiculturalism as dialogically oriented but Garton Ash prefers cultural relativism.
15. What is Tu Weimings position?
a. Enlightenment ideals such as human dignity, the rule of law, human rights, and individualism are
complete and universally valid.
b. The Confucian ethic of responsibility should be combined with the Enlightenment mentality.
c. The Enlightenment mentality has made no important contributions to human civilization.
d. The Confucian ideal of self-cultivation has been largely realized in contemporary East Asia.
16. Which of the following ideas does Tu Weiming agree with?
a. An important source of the experience of worth and dignity is family and community.
b. Control over nature is the key to human development.
c. Education should emphasize knowledge more than character building and ethics.
d. People must choose to identify with either community, nature, or the cosmos.
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19. What do Tu Weiming and Mahbubani have in common?
a. Their emphasis that Asia is culturally superior to the West.
b. Their belief that the spiritual aspects of life are as important as the material aspects.
c. Their rejection of globalization as an attempt to impose Western values on the world.
d. Their belief that Asia has important contributions to make to the global order.
29. What do political psychology and terror management theory tell us?
a. War is not really popular among ordinary people.
b. People are largely aware of their fears of death at the conscious level.
c. People who make careful rational decisions have less need to defend their worldview.
d. People with strong death anxiety tend to be political liberals.
30. Which political approach is LEAST likely to gain support from those with high death anxiety?
a. Integrating all opinions and showing trust and respect toward all people.
b. Charismatic leader who provides clear vision and direction.
c. Market fundamentalism that sees the market as the solution to every economic problem.
d. Preference for law and order.
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