Deck 11: Back to the Land

Question 1

The goal of industrial agriculture is to produce:

A) grain
B) beef
C) pork
D) chicken
E) profit

Answer 1

E

Question 2

The goal of the health care system in the U.S. is to produce:

A) better drugs
B) health care for all
C) the best health care in the world
D) adequate health care
E) profit

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The goal of household production systems is to produce:

A) what the people of the household need
B) education
C) security
D) a living wage
E) profit

Answer 3

A

Question 4

After the French left Vietnam, the Vietnamese had to fight the:

A) Chinese
B) Burmese
C) English
D) Americans
E) Japanese

Question 5

If you think myths are true and try to fix something, you will:

A) create a new myth
B) probably get it right by faith
C) get it wrong and probably hurt people
D) not understand what went wrong
E) not make much difference one way or another

Question 6

As commercial production replaced household production in Thailand, there was more:

A) poverty
B) infant mortality
C) poor health
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 7

One reason for the collapse of farm prices after the Civil War in the U.S. was:

A) overproduction
B) rural poverty
C) urban poverty
D) the Indian Wars
E) imports

Question 8

Corporations in the U.S. faced a major threat from:

A) communism
B) socialism
C) republicans
D) cooperatives
E) agricultural colleges

Question 9

The Farm Bureau is:

A) a democratic organization
B) an organization to promote small farm interests
C) an educational organization
D) a right-wing propaganda machine
E) none of the above

Question 10

To run his new factories in the fields, Stalin recruited:

A) Norwegian farmers
B) Swedish agricultural scientists
C) American agricultural scientists
D) Chayanov's students and colleagues
E) Russian peasants

Question 11

Today agricultural colleges work mainly for:

A) cooperatives
B) small farmers
C) pure science
D) corporations
E) communists

Question 12

During the Spanish Civil War the invader was a:

A) communist
B) socialist
C) anarchist
D) fascist
E) republican

Question 13

During the Spanish Civil War the loyalists were:

A) communists
B) anarchists
C) socialists
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 14

Stalin's ideas about the best way to organize agriculture were closest to those of:

A) Chayanov
B) Nasrudin
C) American agricultural scientists
D) Franco
E) Marx

Question 15

The Russian revolution was made in the name of the:

A) industrial workers
B) peasants
C) cooperatives
D) farmers
E) business people

Question 16

The Russians supported the Loyalists in Spain because:

A) the Germans supported Franco
B) the Americans supported the Lincoln Brigade
C) the French supported the Americans
D) the Anarchists opposed the Communists
E) the Farm Bureau was not involved

Question 17

The main problem Lenin faced after the revolution was:

A) war with Germany
B) the invasion of Britain and the U.S.
C) shortages of food
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 18

The British promised their colonies in South and Southeast Asia independence after World War II and gave them independence.

Question 19

The French, on the other hand, promised their colonies independence after the Second World War and didn't give it to them.

Question 20

Agricultural colleges in the U.S. have promoted the interests of small farmers.

Question 21

Eastern Iowa has never been under martial law.

Question 22

The U.S. has invaded Russia.

Question 23

The Soviet Union encouraged cooperatives.

Question 24

The Soviets shot all of the free Soviet railroad workers.

Question 25

Cheap food is the same as reducing productivity of farmers.

Question 26

Marxist economics is just as much a religion as neoliberal economics is.

Question 27

Stalin had Chayanov shot.

Question 28

Communists destroyed cooperatives in the Soviet Union.

Question 29

Capitalists destroyed cooperatives in the U.S.

Question 30

Communists and capitalists agreed in their opposition to cooperatives.

Question 31

The Farm Bureau called supporters of cooperatives Bolsheviks.

Question 32

Bolsheviks called supporters of cooperatives capitalists.

Question 33

The Farm Bureau opposed the American supporters of Stalin.

Question 34

Cooperatives were more popular with the government of Guatemala than with the governments of the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Question 35

In the Spanish Civil War, the ruling class fought against the government.

Question 36

Communists shot the cooperative people in the Spanish Civil War.

Question 37

The ruling class does not appreciate it when people of the working class organize democratic groups for their own interests.

Question 38

List two anthropologists named in this chapter:

Question 39

List two ways to organize production:

Question 40

List four preconditions for commercial production:

Question 41

Discuss the consequences of encouraging commercial production to replace household production in Thailand and explain why these things happened.

Question 42

Explain why a development program could look so good to an economist and so bad to an anthropologist and why that happens.

Question 43

Explain how the "treadmill" works.

Question 44

If a business has negative profits, it fails, but a farm doesn't. Explain the difference.

Question 45

Explain how we know that it must be an ideology driving the idea that farmers are businesses.

Question 46

Explain the post revolutionary food shortages in the Soviet Union according to Chayanov's understanding of household economics.