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McMichael, Development and Social Change 5e – Instructor Materials
Development and Social Change Test Bank
What follows are examples of questions for instructors to pose to students to help them make
the connections necessary to following the text, and its interpretation of the world of
development. Five questions for each chapter will focus on the chapter’s content, cumulative
Chapter 2. Instituting the Development Project.
1. What were some social and cultural impacts of colonialism, and how may they have
informed the struggle for national independence in the colonial world?
2. What function did the ‘colonial division of labor’ serve, during the colonial era, and in
shaping the terms of reference of the development project?
3. In what ways did the leaders of the Indian nationalist revolt (Gandhi and Nehru) express
tensions in development with which we are familiar today?
4. How did the ‘development project’ address geo-political tensions in the mid-twentieth
century world (decolonization, Cold War)? Compare and contrast development priorities
across the Cold War divide.
5. The ‘development project’ embodied certain assumptions about the process of
development, its location, and its future outcomes. What were these assumptions, and
how did they square with, confirm, and/or challenge the world order at that time?
