B.L.A.; occasionally A.L.B. Bachelor of Liberal Arts History and Social Sciences

Question 1

Which document, signed in 1215, is considered a foundational text for limiting the power of the English monarchy and protecting individual rights?

Accepted Answer

Magna Carta

Answer

Bill of Rights

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Habeas Corpus Act

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Petition of Right

Question 2

The concept of 'manifest destiny' in 19th-century America primarily justified which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Westward territorial expansion across North America

Answer

Abolition of slavery

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Women's suffrage movement

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Industrial labor reforms

Question 3

Which sociologist coined the term 'sociological imagination' to describe the ability to connect personal troubles to broader social issues?

Accepted Answer

C. Wright Mills

Answer

Émile Durkheim

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Max Weber

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Talcott Parsons

Question 4

The Reconstruction Era in the United States (1865–1877) primarily aimed to address which post-Civil War challenge?

Accepted Answer

Reintegrating Confederate states and defining rights of freed enslaved people

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Industrializing the Southern economy

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Expanding westward settlement

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Reforming the federal banking system

Question 5

In anthropology, the term 'ethnocentrism' refers to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Judging other cultures by the standards of one's own culture

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The study of ethnic minority communities

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Cultural exchange between different societies

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The preservation of indigenous traditions

Question 6

Which theory in political science argues that states act primarily out of self-interest and the pursuit of power in an anarchic international system?

Accepted Answer

Realism

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Liberalism

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Constructivism

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Feminism