Political Science 001 - Government of US » Winter 2021 » Quiz 1

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Question #1
LECTURE: Which of the following theoretical constructs do political scientists exhibit the most bias?
A.   Positivism
B.   elitism
C.   Realism
D.   Idealism
E.   Pluralism
Question #2
LECTURE - Rational Choice Theory stresses that individuals primarily:
A.   base their decisions on their own emotional needs.
B.   base their decisions according to self-interest…as one defines that self-interest to be.
C.   base their decisions according to the best interest of another party.
D.   base their decisions according to societal trends of behavior
E.   base their decisions according to societal trends of emotional influence.
Question #3
LECTURE - Which of the following theories best describes how competing spheres of influence protect minority rights against majority factions?
A.   Idealism.
B.   Elitism.
C.   Positivism.
D.   Realism.
E.   Pluralism
Question #4
LECTURE - Which of the following is a good description of interdependency theory?
A.   Success is not determined according to one’s ability to achieve set goals.
B.   Success is determined according only to one’s ability to achieve set goals.
C.   The success of one party does not depend on the success of another.
D.   The success of one party is determined according to the success of its related peer.
E.   None of these answers are correct
Question #5
LECTURE - Manipulation is an effective means of influencing societal norms of behavior. Which theory argues that leaders will engage in policies that seek to maintain and/or enhance their positions of power?
A.   Realism.
B.   Elitism.
C.   Culturalism.
D.   Idealism.
E.   Pluralism.
Question #6
LECTURE - What is the primary motivation for one to pursue power?
A.   Individuals pursue power in order to acquire additional resources. This is primarily instinctual. After securing enough resources, individuals willingly give away their power reserves to society.
B.   Individuals pursue power in order to acquire additional resources. Compliance is not a viable route to the accruement of resources. Using force never decreases one’s overall “capacity of resources.”
C.   Individuals pursue power in order to acquire additional resources that enable one to encourage further compliance among peers. Securing compliance adds to one’s overall capacity of power.
D.   Individuals pursue power in order to acquire additional resources. The accruement of power is the net result of using force to secure a greater “capacity of power.”
E.   None of these answers are correct.
Question #7
LECTURE - Alexander Hamilton was America’s first Secretary of the Treasury. He laid the foundation for “Transparency” What does this policy entail?
A.   Disclosing only the military routes a nation-state will undertake.
B.   Disclosing all routes the nation-state will undertake regarding all forms of public policy pertaining to its political, economic, and military strategies.
C.   None of these answers are correct.
D.   Hiding all routes the nation-state will undertake regarding all forms of public policy pertaining to its political, economic, and military strategies.
E.   Disclosing only all economic routes the nation-state will undertake.
Question #8
LECTURE - Elite theorists contend that:
A.   all societies are governed by elites.
B.   elites do not protect government by the people.
C.   average citizens are well informed and politically active.
D.   few societies are divided into elites and masses
E.   None of these answers are correct.
Question #9
CHAPTER 1 - The oldest purpose of government is to provide:
A.   freedom of the press.
B.   None of these answers are correct.
C.   education for children.
D.   insurance for the unemployed.
E.   security for society and protection of private property.
Question #10
CHAPTER 1 - "Authority" refers to:
A.   the right of citizens to demand equality.
B.   a major government office.
C.   None of these answers are correct.
D.   the right of citizens to demand liberty.
E.   the right of government to enforce its decisions
Question #11
CHAPTER 1 - The political theory of majoritarianism states that
A.   government should be controlled at all levels by an elected majority political party
B.   government should do what is best for the majority of people
C.   a small group of elites should control government power and act in the interests of the majority.
D.   None of these answers are correct.
E.   government should do what the majority of the people want it to.
Question #12
CHAPTER 2 - The first draft of the Declaration of Independence was written by:
A.   Thomas Jefferson.
B.   John Locke.
C.   George Washington.
D.   John Adams.
E.   Benjamin Franklin.
Question #13
CHAPTER 2 - Which best describes the country created by the Articles of Confederation?
A.   It was a constitutional monarchy
B.   It had a strong central government that managed weaker states.
C.   It was an association of largely independent states.
D.   None of these answers are correct.
E.   It was federal state.
Question #14
CHAPTER 2 - Which of the following was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
A.   Congress lacked the power to collect taxes directly from the people, Congress lacked the power to demand funds for the militia , each state had the ability to print its own currency and each state had one vote regardless of size.
B.   Each state had the ability to print its own currency.
C.   Congress lacked the power to demand funds for the militia.
D.   Each state had one vote regardless of size.
E.   Congress lacked the power to collect taxes directly from the people
Question #15
CHAPTER 2 - The Constitutional Convention in 1787 was brought on by the:
A.   publication of the Declaration of Independence.
B.   failure of the Articles of Confederation.
C.   publication of the Treaty of Paris.
D.   end of the Revolutionary War.
E.   request of President Washington
Question #16
CHAPTER 2 - The Bill of Rights provided for:
A.   the protection of individual liberties from the national government.
B.   protection against state infringements on the freedoms of conscience, the press, and jury trial.
C.   the protection of individual liberties from state governments.
D.   equal protection under the law.
Question #17
  
A.   direct democracy.
B.   confederal democracy.
C.   limited government.
D.   None of these answers are correct.
E.   limited presidentialism.
Question #18
CHAPTER 2 - Powers specifically granted to the national government by the Constitution are called:
A.   concurrent powers.
B.   None of these answers are correct.
C.   expressed powers.
D.   delegated powers.
E.   enumerated powers.
Question #19
CHAPTER 3 - The Necessary And Proper Clause – Article I, Section 8:
A.   is located in the Constitution in the text of the Tenth Amendment.
B.   has expanded the role of the national government relative to the states.
C.   was in the original Constitution, but was eliminated as a consequence of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.
D.   has increased the powers of the state governments at the expense of Congress’s powers.
E.   has served to limit the expansion of national authority.
Question #20
CHAPTER 3 - The supremacy doctrine asserts the superiority of:
A.   non-slave states over slave states.
B.   large states over small states.
C.   natural law over man-made law.
D.   None of these answers are correct
E.   federal / national law over state law.
Question #21
CHAPTER 3 - One of the potential benefits of federalism is that:
A.   it reduces inequalities among the states.
B.   states can farm out responsibility to the national government
C.   None of these answers are correct.
D.   it keeps some distance between the federal government and state government.
E.   states can serve as laboratories for novel economic or social experiments
Question #22
Chapter 3 - One of the potential disadvantageous results of federalism is:
A.   oo much reliance on communication and transportation.
B.   oo much reliance on communication and transportation.
C.   None of these answers are correct.
D.   unequal protection of states from foreign invasion.
E.   inequalities among states' educational spending and achievement.
Question #23
CHAPTER 3 - Interstate Compacts are:
A.   agreements that require congressional consent.
B.   None of these answers are correct.
C.   agreements that do not increase the power of a state relative to the national government.
D.   agreements on minor matters.
E.   agreements that do not increase the power of a state relative to another state.
Question #24
CHAPTER 3 - In McCulloch v. Maryland, one of the issues before the Court was:
A.   whether the national government could abolish slavery in the Southern states.
B.   to rule on how the necessary and proper clause should be implemented between states that already had existing contracts.
C.   None of these answers are correct.
D.   whether the national government had the implied power to charter a bank and contribute capital to it.
E.   to decide how to apply the commerce clause to the individual states.
Question #25
CHAPTER 3 - In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden:
A.   the ruling provided the national government with decreasing power over economic affairs throughout the land.
B.   the national government lost the power to regulate intrastate commerce.
C.   the power to regulate interstate commerce was determined to be an exclusive national power of the federal government.
D.   the Supreme Court found that commerce was defined as the exchange of goods and not navigation or transport of people.
E.   state governments won the right to control navigation in interstate waters.
Question #26
CHAPTER 3 - While John Marshall was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he did much to:
A.   increase the power of the national government and to reduce that of the states.
B.   create a balance of power between the national government and that of the states.
C.   decrease the power of the national government and to increase that of the states.
D.   None of these answers are correct.
E.   favor states' rights over the rights of the national government in cases of commerce.
Question #27
CHAPTER 3 - Which of the following is a proper definition of dual federalism?
A.   The development of a national economy, the income tax, two world wars and the Great Depression all combined to end the strict distinction between national and state concerns.
B.   The states and the national government each remain supreme within their own spheres. The national government concentrated its attention on the delegated powers while the states decided the important domestic policy issues.
C.   Efforts to return power and responsibility to states and communities. Led to reducing state and local dependency on federal revenues and return powers to states and communities through the consolidation of categorical grants into block grants.
D.   By the time of President Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society in 1964, virtually all problems confronting America were declared to be national problems. The Supreme Court no longer concerned itself with the reserved powers of the states and the 10th Amendment lost most of its meaning.
E.   Supreme Court ended all pretense of constitutional protection of state power in its 1985 Garcia decision. The court declared that there were no constitutionally protected state powers and that the only protection given the states is in congressional and presidential elections.
Question #28
CHAPTER 3 - Which of the following is a proper definition of Cooperative Federalism?
A.   The development of a national economy, the income tax, two world wars and the Great Depression all combined to end the strict distinction between national and state concerns.
B.   Efforts to return power and responsibility to states and communities. Led to reducing state and local dependency on federal revenues and return powers to states and communities through the consolidation of categorical grants into block grants.
C.   Supreme Court ended all pretense of constitutional protection of state power in its 1985 Garcia decision. The court declared that there were no constitutionally protected state powers and that the only protection given the states is in congressional and presidential elections.
D.   The states and the national government each remain supreme within their own spheres. The national government concentrated its attention on the delegated powers while the states decided the important domestic policy issues.
E.   By the time of President Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society in 1964, virtually all problems confronting America were declared to be national problems. The Supreme Court no longer concerned itself with the reserved powers of the states and the 10th Amendment lost most of its meaning.
Question #29
CHAPTER 3 - Which of the following more accurately describes Cooperative Federalism?
A.   A federally funded government program run and managed by a local government.
B.   A federally funded government program run and managed by state governments.
C.   A federally funded government program run and managed by a federal agency.
D.   A federally funded government program run and managed by a nonprofit organization.
E.   None of these answers are correct.
Question #30
CHAPTER 3 - Which of the following is a proper definition of New Federalism?
A.   By the time of President Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society in 1964, virtually all problems confronting America were declared to be national problems. The Supreme Court no longer concerned itself with the reserved powers of the states and the 10th Amendment lost most of its meaning.
B.   Supreme Court ended all pretense of constitutional protection of state power in its 1985 Garcia decision. The court declared that there were no constitutionally protected state powers and that the only protection given the states is in congressional and presidential elections.
C.   Efforts to return power and responsibility to states and communities. Led to reducing state and local dependency on federal revenues and return powers to states and communities through the consolidation of categorical grants into block grants.
D.   The development of a national economy, the income tax, two world wars and the Great Depression all combined to end the strict distinction between national and state concerns.
E.   The states and the national government each remain supreme within their own spheres. The national government concentrated its attention on the delegated powers while the states decided the important domestic policy issues.

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