Chapter 21 Multiple choice questions

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True or false: Agricultural policy developed in the EC despite not being mentioned in the Treaty of Rome.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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Which of the following objectives motivated EEC member states to create the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)?

The need to ensure adequate supplies of food at reasonable prices. correct incorrect

The need to provide an adequate income to farmers. correct incorrect

The need to increase agricultural productivity. correct incorrect

All of the above. correct incorrect

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Which member state made it a condition of its participation in the EEC that agricultural policy be a joint pillar alongside the common market in industrial goods?

Ireland correct incorrect

Italy correct incorrect

France correct incorrect

Belgium correct incorrect

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True or false: The rise of environmentalism made it politically easier for governments to pursue CAP reform.

False. correct incorrect

True. correct incorrect

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What produced pressure for CAP reform in the 1990s?

Budgetary pressures correct incorrect

Reunification of Germany correct incorrect

The need to stabilize democracy and capitalism in the states of Central and Eastern Europe correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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Which of the following statements best describes the aim of the MacSharry reforms?

To separate income support from production correct incorrect

To raise cereal and beef prices correct incorrect

To encourage more people to farm correct incorrect

To encourage farmers to cultivate more farmland correct incorrect

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What did the Agenda 2000 reforms include?

Decreasing price levels correct incorrect

Decoupling direct payments to farmers from production correct incorrect

Linking payments to social and economic objectives correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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Which of the following factors prompted the 2013 reform of the CAP?

The application of co-decision to agriculture correct incorrect

Demands from national governments for overall budgetary constraint correct incorrect

Growing public concern about environmental issues correct incorrect

The end of the Doha Round of the WTO correct incorrect

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Which of the following best explains the setting up of the CAP?

Neofunctionalism correct incorrect

Institutionalism correct incorrect

Intergovernmentalism correct incorrect

Multi-level governance correct incorrect

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Who tends to benefit most from the CAP?

Consumers correct incorrect

Large farms correct incorrect

Small farms correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect