Edwards

Ch8

Q1

Which of the following is not a function of a political party?

• √ raising money for campaigning providing loans to candidates

• articulating politics

• give giving cues to voters

• run running campaigns

• pick picking the party's candidates

Edwards

Ch8

Q3

Allowing voters to choose both Democratic and Republican candidates is referred to as:

• √ blanket primaries

• coalition

• closed primaries

• patronage

• open primaries runoff primaries

Edwards

Ch13

Q1

Which of the following is not true about the presidency?

• √ Presidents are able to get their agendas pushed ahead of other lawmakers use the line item veto.

• The president is usually . . .

• Americans tend to  . . .

• A president must . . .

• No woman or minority . . .

Edwards

Ch14

Q2

Revenue losses due to special exemptions are known as:

• tax loopholes

• tax reductions

• √ tax expenditures tax breaks

• tax benefits

• tax reforms

Edwards

Ch16

Q9

The Supreme Court rarely cannot overrules its own precendents precedents.

• True

• √ False

Edwards

Ch20

Q3

The Central National Intelligence Agency

• resists . .

• agrees . . .

• coordinates . . .

• √ coordinates . . .

• embraces . . .

Fiorina

Ch6

Q2

Which of the following is not a cause of low voter turnout?

• Citizens . . .

• Americans . . .

• Presidential . . .

• Voters . . .

• √ Americans are basically apathetic Literacy tests.

Fiorina

Ch11

Q1

The free use of the U.S. mail for the official business of the Congress is call __________.

• the safe seat.

• √ the franking priviledge

• the PAC.

• the fillibuster

• None . . .

Fiorina

Ch12

Q2

An elected delegate who acts exactly as his or her constituency demands is called _________.

• a political leader.

• a trustee.

• √ a delegate an instructed delegate.

• an incumbent.

• the majority leader.

Fiorina

Ch20

Q3

The member of the intelligence community responsible for coordinating all intelligence agencies is _____________.

• Homeland Security

• the National Security Agency.

• Joint Chiefs of Staff.

• √ the Central Intelligence Agency National Intelligence Agency.

Greenberg

Ch9

Q7

Political parties exist for make politic political issues more confusing and inaccessible to the average citizen.

• True

• √ False

Greenberg

Ch11

Q2

An elected delegate who acts exactly as his or her constituency demands is called _________.

• a political leader.

• a trustee.

• √ a delegate an instructed delegate.

• an incumbent.

• the majority leader.

Greenberg

Ch18

Q3

The member of the intelligence community responsible for coordinating all intelligence agencies is ___________.

• the National Security Agency.

• the National Reconnaissance Office.

• Joint Chiefs of Staff.

• Homeland Security.

• the Central National Intelligence Agency

O'Connor

Ch1

Q5

An individual's coherent set of values and political beliefs about the purpose and scope of government is called his or her ______________.

• political culture.

• political climate.

• √ political ideology.

• political freedom.

• political landscape.

O'Connor

Ch1

Q7

Aristocracy is a system of government in which control is based on the "rule of the highest" and the most powerful in the society govern.

• √ True

• False

O'Connor

Ch2

Q7

In order to amend change the Constitution, an amendment proposal an amendment must be approved only by a simple majority of both houses of Congress and signed by the President.

• True

• √ False

O'Connor

Ch5

Q1

The responsibility of balancing the interests of liberty versus security and order--or the interests of two conflicting liberties--generally fall upon rests with __________.

• Congress.

• the states.

• the people.

• the President.

• √ the judicial branch.

O'Connor

Ch6

Q7

Affirmative action refers to policies designed to give equal special attention or considerations to members of a previously disadvantaged group.

• √True

• False

O'Connor

Ch8

Q3

Collectively, the heads of the fourteen fifteen executive departments, who are appointed by the President, are called __________.

• the Secretary Bureau.

• the Ministry of Advisement.

• Chiefs-of-Staff.

• √ the Cabinet.

• the Executive Advisory Committee.

O'Connor

Ch10

Q6

The most recent appointment to the Supreme Court was Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton George W. Bush in 1994 2006.√

O'Connor

Ch13

Q2

A procedure whereby the state legislative legislature submits proposed . . .

• front-loading.

• an initiative.

• a general election.

• √ a referendum

• a closed primary

O'Connor

Ch12

Q2

Virtually unregulated donations to a political party for noncandidate specific purposes at the state level are called __________________.

• taxable . . .

• PAC . . .

• quasi . . .

• √ soft . . .

• hard . . .