Answer All the Questions:

Question 1

Malaysia’s cultural management policy is based on:

1. the National Cultural Policy (Rappa, 1994)
2. Rukun Negara Policy
3. Warganegara Policy
4. Bumiputra policy

Question 2

When evaluating politics in Vietnam, which of the following must be included?

1. Police Corruption
2. Culture and ideology.
3. Religion and traditions.
4. All of the Above.

Question 3

If State X employs Total Defence as its security strategy and State Y uses Psycho-Cultural Defence as its security strategy,

1. State Y is likely to be more secure
2. State Z, as the hegemon would be the most secure.
3. State X is likely to be more secure
4. Neither State X nor State Y would be secure

Question 4

To best evaluate Asian politics and culture, one has to:

1. accentuate the probabilities associated with chi-square while using a random number generator.
2. conflate dependent variables on a bimodal scale for South Asian as well as Southeast Asian states in late modernity.
3. develop a sufficiently robust method.
4. arrange for many ethnocentric interviews as well as survey replication to ensure that the data remains clean.

Question 5

The name of the former RAND researcher who defended the grand triumphalism of western neoliberal capitalism led by the United States across the globe from Asia to Latin America in the immediate post-Cold War era based on spurious grounds and anecdotal assertions (not well received by his own colleagues or other preeminent scholars) was ___ who wrote ___.

1. Francis Fukuyama. The End of History and the Last Man.
2. Robert Dahl. A Preface to Democracy.
3. Samuel P. Huntington. Military Order in Changing Societies.
4. Gary King. Designing Social Inquiry.

Question 6

Drawing from the work of Hannah Pitkin, which of the following pairs of political scientists argued that most of the literature in political science ignored the “integrated character of representation” thereby making substantive accounts of representation more than the theory itself can bear?

1. Schwindt-Bayer and Mishler
2. Rappa and Wee
3. Foucault and Derrida
4. Almond and Verba

Question 7

There is a politics of culture because:

1. there is ample evidence from ethnographic investigations of collusion and corruption.
2. of the uneven distribution of economic wealth within cultural sub-types.
3. the importance of cultural gatekeepers who are nepotistic by nature and hence worsen the situation for all cultural sub-types.
4. most of the issues that arise from the intersection of politics and economics result in social media discourse in any case.

Question 8

Many Malaysians were horrified and appalled by the 2018 discovery of over $40 million in cash that was discovered by investigators in the houses and apartments of Najib Razak and RosmaMansor. The extent of the corruption scandal of Najib, 1MDB, the murdered Mongolian model (and its attendant allegations) and Rosma Mansur’s expensive jewelry and Berkin luxury bags has reached epic proportions (the public assumption is that the many houses and apartments in Malaysia and overseas were very likely to have been paid for by public money). This has:

1. garnered the support of the Royal Malay Houses for Najib and Rosma whose sultans and their relatives have always been known for having a pure and ethical reputation.
2. clearly shown that Malaysia is a democracy and that corrupt activity is acceptable as long as the perpetrators are not apprehended.
3. tarnished the good name and reputation of Malaysian politicians who had previously been known to be above corruption and scandal.
4. not really affected the value of the Malaysian Ringgit and the political economy of the Malay bumiputra social class; but while it has not weakened Chinese interests in the domestic economy, it may have tarnished the reputation of Malaysia.

Question 9

Societies problems are primarily reducible to

1. semantics and linguistics
2. management and organization
3. politics, survival, and security
4. security and insecurity

Question 10

Culture is not an important part of the economy in:

1. proto-linguistics theory
2. mathematical equation theory
3. general cultural theory
4. government statistical calculations

Question 11

The only Asian political scientist to interview Gabriel Almond about systems theory in political science at Stanford University’s Department of Political Science to evaluate political culture in Asia was:

1. Fred Riggs
2. William Case
3. Antonio L. Rappa
4. Jonathan Rigg

Question 12

Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

The North Africa Economic Outlook (covering Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia) report examines the macroeconomic performance of the region and the outlook for 2018 and 2019 and explores the relationship between food security and rural poverty. Part I looks at the key drivers of regional GDP growth and its sectorial decomposition, price movements, fiscal and current account balance, domestic resource mobilization, and debt dynamics. It also identifies common structural issues facing North African countries and analyses trends in poverty and inequality and how they relate to unemployment and growth. Part II explores food security and rural poverty in North Africa, viewing them as interlinked. It proposes a strategy to enhance food security while reducing rural poverty and rural-urban inequality by increasing farmers’ share of value-added (North Africa Economic Outlook 2018)

What is the primary focus of the North Africa Economic Outlook report above?

1. food security and water maintenance
2. rural-urban inequality
3. national government accounting, poverty trends, and inequality
4. macroeconomic performance and sectorial decomposition

Question 13

Huntington’s notion of culture involves:

1. military elites
2. cultural elites
3. economic elites
4. social elites

Question 14

When evaluating politics in Vietnam, which of the following must be included?

1. Culture and ideology.
2. Religion and traditions.
3. All of the Above.
4. Police Corruption

Question 15

It is clear in the Malaysian social media that the Najib Razak case is a widely discussed topic. Najib and his cronies have effectively used social media to capture public attention, even if they lost GE14. We can deduce from this situation that “culture is part of social media” (Rappa, 2019) because:

1. Najib Razak will have a lot of time to think when in prison and away from the limelight.
2. monetary restitution from Najib and his cronies is very unlikely since most of their wealth has gone into FinTech.
3. cultures changes and adapt to the political dynamics of human societies.
4. there is money involved and when there is money involved, politicians will say many things.

Question 16

Which of the following political leaders would or have adopted a participatory political culture approach?

1. Roosevelt, Lincoln, Carnegie, Mellon
2. Mohandas Gandhi, Mahathir Mohamad, Nelson Mandela
3. Lee Kuan Yew, Sukarno, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
4. Sun Yat-Sen, Ho Chih Minh, Suharto

Question 17

Which of the following political leaders would or have adopted a mass political culture approach?

1. Ho Chih Minh, Sukarno and Lee Kuan Yew
2. JFK, LBJ, JBJ and FDR
3. Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin and Fidel Castro
4. Fidel Marcos, Lee Kuan Yew and Xavier Guevara

Question 18

A subjective approach to democratic political culture was primarily developed by:

1. Almond and Verba and more recently by Eckstein.
2. Louis and Clarke
3. Larry Diamond and Herb Alpert
4. Rappa and Wee

Question 19

When evaluating the political economy of Vietnam, which of the following must be included?

1. All the listed choices
2. Culture and ideology
3. Religion and traditions
4. Police Corruption

Question 20

When considering the evaluation of culture and politics in Asia, the method in social science refers to “a way of doing things”; hence methodology refers to:

1. the same thing as a method, i.e. a way of doing things.
2. examining the possibility of not how but who, what where, and why.
3. using probability theory.
4. the study of methods.