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POLS 2311 Final Practice Test Part III

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Question 1

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Conference committees are
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  • temporary, invoke members from both houses of Congress, and are charged with reaching a compromise on legislation once it has been passed by both the House and the Senate.
  • temporary and are created to take up an issue that falls between the jurisdiction of existing committees, to highlight an issue, or to investigate a particular problem.
  • permanent and involves members from both the House and the Senate
  • permanent and have the power to write and propose legislation.

Question 2

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A U.S. senator has a _______ year term.
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  • eight
  • six
  • two
  • four

Question 3

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The concept of oversight refers to the effort made by
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  • Congress to make executive agencies accountable for their actions.
  • the president to make Congress accountable for its actions
  • the states to make the federal government responsible for its actions.
  • the courts to make the legislative and executive branches responsible for their actions.

Question 4

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When President Lincoln issued a series of executive orders for which he had no clear legal authority during the start of the Civil War, it illustrated the
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  • delegated powers of the presidency
  • inherent powers of the presidency
  • expressed powers of the presidency
  • "going public" strategy

Question 5

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The expansion of the Executive Office of the President, the development of regulatory review, and the use of executive orders have been important because they
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  • make it very difficult for challengers to defeat incumbent presidents in elections
  • have dramatically limited the power of the president and made it easier for Congress to dominate the American political system.
  • have given presidents substantial capacity to achieve significant policy results despite congressional opposition to their legislative agendas.
  • are deeply unpopular with the public and have led to the declining trust in American government

Question 6

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Gerrymandering refers to the
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  • investigations of the executive branch by members of Congress.
  • tactic used by members of the Senate to prevent action in legislation they oppose by continuously holding the floor and speaking until the majority backs down.
  • practice whereby legislators trade their support or opposition on one bill to get the support of another legislator on a different bill.
  • manipulation of electoral districts to serve the interests of a particular group.

Question 7

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Congress is a _____ legislature with _______ members.
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  • bicameral; 275
  • unicameral; 342
  • bicameral; 535
  • bicameral; 100

Question 8

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Under the original Constitution, senators
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  • were selected by the federal judiciary
  • were appointed by state legislatures
  • could serve only two terms
  • served four-year terms

Question 9

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The use of taxing and spending powers to shape the economy is part of _______ policy.
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  • distributive
  • redistributive
  • fiscal
  • monetary

Question 10

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______ powers are specifically established by the language of the Constitution.
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  • Expressed
  • Delegated
  • Implied
  • Inherent

Question 11

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The last time Congress exercised its constitutional power to declare war was during
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  • the Korean War
  • the Iraq War
  • World War II
  • the Vietnam War

Question 12

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An informal group of advisers to the president is often called the
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  • round table
  • Kitchen Cabinet
  • plumbers
  • inner cabinet

Question 13

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The Civil Service Act of 1883 attempted to pattern government hiring after practices found in
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  • business
  • the Catholic Church
  • Congress
  • local government

Question 14

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A filibuster allows members of the Senate to
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  • add amendments to any bill at any time
  • prevent a vote on a bill by speaking continuously on the floor
  • refer a bill to multiple committees
  • avoid a conference committee

Question 15

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Members of interest groups in the United States are typically people
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  • from the lower socioeconomic levels
  • who identify as Democrats
  • with higher levels of income and education
  • who work in manual labor and unskilled occupations

Question 16

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What is the primary function of a PAC?
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  • to build better networks between interest groups and political parties.
  • to produce and carry out an institutional advertising campaign
  • to raise grassroots support for a particular interest
  • to raise and distribute money to election campaigns

Question 17

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Which of the following is the best description of an iron triangle?
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  • the domination of a few large companies in the regulation of iron mining and smelting.
  • the sable relationship between a bureaucratic agency, a clientele group, and a legislative committee.
  • the breakdown in the separation of powers between Congress, the federal judiciary, and the president.
  • the inability to reform federal rules without help from the House of Representatives, the Senate, ant he president.

Question 18

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Which of the following groups is most likely to belong to the New Politics movement?
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  • recent immigrants to the United States
  • upper-middle-class professionals, for whom the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s were key experiences.
  • blue-collar workers whose formative experience was the Great Depression.
  • conservative evangelical southerners, reacting to the cultural changes of the 1960s.

Question 19

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Oversight can best be described as the
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  • approval that the Senate must give to all president appointments to the federal judiciary.
  • organizational control exercised by party whips over members of Congress.
  • efforts of Congress to supervise the manner in which its laws are implemented by the executive branch.
  • authority of committee chairs over the hearings and investigations conducted by the subcommittees.

Question 20

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In order to get around the need for Senate approval of treaties, many contemporary presidents made use of ____ in foreign affairs.
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  • international protocols
  • diplomacy
  • executive agreements
  • executive immunity

Question 21

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What is the primary constitutional task of the vice president, besides succeeding the president in case of death, resignation, or incapacitation?
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  • to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate
  • to run the day-to-day operations of the Executive Office of the President
  • to represent the president overseas

Question 22

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The solidary benefits of interest groups include
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  • friendship and consciousness-raising
  • special services and goods
  • information and money
  • identification with the purpose or ideology of the group

Question 23

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The term "pork barrel" refers to
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  • bills that grant a special privilege to a person named in the bill
  • appropriations made by legislative bodies for local projects that are often not needed but that are created so that local representatives can win reelection in their home districts.
  • the collective set of law hat regulates America's meat exports.
  • any piece of legislation that changes the number of agricultural subsidies provided to farmers by the federal government.

Question 24

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What is it called when two members of Congress share no common interests but agree to support each other's bill?
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  • filibustering
  • delegating
  • logrolling
  • bargaining

Question 25

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_____ is a strategy that attempts to mobilize the widest and most favorable climate of opinion.
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  • Creating a "war room"
  • Going public
  • Litigation
  • Creating an iron triangle

Question 26

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_____ occurs when the federal government passes authority to administer a program to state or local governments.
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  • Privatization
  • Deregulation
  • Implementation
  • Devolution

Question 27

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The best description of the ideal of pluralism is that
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  • the public good should always trump individual interests.
  • interest groups should be free to compere for governmental influence.
  • interest groups are factions that endanger liberty.
  • democracy is best served by legalizing but regulating the influence of interest groups.

Question 28

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Which of the following groups has had he greatest success with a strategy of litigation?
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  • the National Rifle Association
  • the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • the National Chamber of Commerce
  • the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Question 29

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The goal of the War Powers Resolution was to
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  • end the Vietnam War.
  • limit the ability of Congress to cut off funding for troops when the president send them overseas without congressional approval.
  • compel a congressional declaration of war for every large-scale military operation.
  • limit the power of the president to commit American troops to military action authorization from Congress.

Question 30

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When membership in an organization allows for a reduction in the price of museum tickets, it is called a
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  • promotion offer
  • purposive benefit
  • material benefit
  • solidary benefit

Question 31

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______ is the primary mission of the State Department.
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  • Military protection
  • International aid
  • National security
  • Diplomacy

Question 32

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A senator or representative running for reelection is called the
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  • constituent
  • incumbent
  • trustee
  • delegate

Question 33

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The Freedom of Information Act is designed to
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  • lead to a quicker filing of habeas corpus petitions.
  • make more national security documents available to the public.
  • prevent inefficiency and waste in government management
  • expand the freedom of speech granted to government employees.

Question 34

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When presidents use popular appeals in an attempt to create a mass base of support that will allow them to accomplish their goals, it is referred to as
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  • "selling out"
  • "propagandizing the public"
  • "going rogue"
  • "going public"

Question 35

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Which of the following best describes a way in which the House differs from the Senate?
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  • The House is more centralized and organized than the Senate.
  • The House is a looser and more deliberative body than the Senate
  • The members of the House are much less specialized then the members of the Senate.
  • The House has a much greater level of turnover in its membership than the Senate.

Question 36

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President Clinton was unusual among modern presidents because he left the White House
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  • more popular than when he entered.
  • less popular than when he entered.
  • without issuing a single signing statement.
  • without issuing a single executive order.

Question 37

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How do interest groups use litigation as a strategy of influence?
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  • They engage in institutional advertising, activate issue networks, and directly lobby judges.
  • They file amicus curiae briefs, finance lawsuits, and bring a suit on behalf of the group.
  • They work with 527 committees, directly lobby judges, and engage in institutional advertising.
  • They directly lobby judges, use direct-mail solicitations, and make campaign contributions to members of Congress.

Question 38

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What is required for Congress to override a presidential veto?
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  • two-thirds of both houses of Congress
  • a majority of both houses of Congress
  • a unanimous vote of both houses of Congress
  • three-fourths of both houses of Congress

Question 39

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Why is it important for interest groups to offer selective benefits?
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  • It is necessary to limit the extent of the free-rider problem
  • If they do not, people will join political partied instead
  • Selective benefits are the only way to measure the success of an interest group.
  • If they do not, people will accuse the groups of being antidemocratic

Question 40

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_____ is when bureaucrats attempt to translate laws into specific rules and actions.
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  • Adjudication
  • Implementation
  • Deregulation
  • Regulation
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