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Government Practice Test 2

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Questão 1

Questão
Shays's Rebellion was the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 2

Questão
In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court decided that the interstate commerce clause allowed New York to grant a monopoly to a steamboat operator.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 3

Questão
A theocratic government with absolute power is a totalitarian regime.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 4

Questão
Which of the following were used in southern states during the Jim Crow era to deny African Americans their voting rights?
Responda
  • white primaries
  • literacy tests
  • poll taxes
  • grandfather clauses
  • All these answers are correct.

Questão 5

Questão
Social conservatives, who now form a large part of the base of the Republican Party, often are also members of
Responda
  • programs seeking to expand welfare programs.
  • groups seeking to keep government out of Americans' private lives.
  • religious organizations.
  • pro-choice groups.
  • groups seeking to enhance marriage by allowing domestic partnerships.

Questão 6

Questão
A woman sells scarves to passersby on a busy city street during the week of Independence Day. Three months later, the city council passes a law making street vending illegal. Could the woman be found guilty of violating the new law?
Responda
  • Maybe, but only if the law is not considered a bill of attainder.
  • Yes, particularly if the law was passed because she was making a disturbance.
  • Yes, but only if she was being libelous.
  • No, as it is considered an ex post facto law.
  • No, because the woman broke law over a holiday weekend.

Questão 7

Questão
The Supreme Court ruled that individuals who are arrested must be informed of their constitutional rights in
Responda
  • Smith v. Massachusetts.
  • Mapp v. Ohio.
  • Weeks v. U.S.
  • Miranda v. Arizona.
  • McCleskey v. Zant.

Questão 8

Questão
The power to regulate car emissions comes from Congress's authority
Responda
  • as enumerated in the Constitution.
  • under the necessary and proper clause.
  • to make the federal budget.
  • to approve presidential appointments.
  • under the power to tax clause.

Questão 9

Questão
Which 1857 Supreme Court decision set the stage for the Civil War by mobilizing the abolitionist movement?
Responda
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • Lochner v. Ellison
  • Loving v. Virginia

Questão 10

Questão
Setting the time, place, and manner of elections is a concurrent power.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 11

Questão
Legal proceedings properly recorded in a court of law in California are generally deemed admissible in a court of law in Texas, or in any other state. This is an example of
Responda
  • an ex post facto law.
  • full faith and credit.
  • a bill of attainder.
  • equal protection.
  • a writ of habeas corpus.

Questão 12

Questão
Federal judges cannot be removed from office for any reason because they have lifetime appointments.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 13

Questão
The existence of two schools on opposite sides of town-one for Caucasian students and the other for African American students-would have been deemed constitutional after the Supreme Court's ruling in which of the following cases?
Responda
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Civil Rights Cases
  • Bradwell v. Illinois
  • Reed v. Reed
  • Brown v. Board of Education

Questão 14

Questão
Using slurs toward a transgendered individual is an illegal act under
Responda
  • the direct incitement test.
  • Schenck v. U.S.
  • the Second Amendment.
  • the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Act.
  • the fighting words test.

Questão 15

Questão
The ________ is empowered by the Constitution to make all federal laws.
Responda
  • judicial branch
  • executive branch
  • legislative branch
  • Electoral College
  • federal bureaucracy

Questão 16

Questão
All Senators run for re-election at the same time.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

Questão
According to the George W. Bush Administration
Responda
  • public telephones cannot be tapped without a court order.
  • some Bill of Rights guarantees can be suspended in a time of war.
  • civil liberties can never be abridged.
  • the FBI must show probable cause to investigate citizens exercising freedom of speech.
  • Muslim detainees must be treated in accordance with their religious beliefs.

Questão 18

Questão
Moderates
Responda
  • created the Tea Party movement.
  • comprise over half of the U.S. population.
  • are most aligned with the views of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
  • believe that a temperate view is the best approach to politics.
  • largely support an overhaul of the welfare system.

Questão 19

Questão
Over time, Americans' expectations of government have generally
Responda
  • decreased.
  • not been measured.
  • increased.
  • remained the same.
  • been eliminated.

Questão 20

Questão
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment lowered the national voting age to eighteen.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 21

Questão
Which Article of the Constitution establishes the legislative branch?
Responda
  • Article II
  • Article I
  • Article V
  • Article IV
  • Article III

Questão 22

Questão
The United States has a unitary system of government.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 23

Questão
The Constitution did not empower the national government to
Responda
  • make all laws necessary and proper to govern the new nation.
  • conduct foreign relations.
  • levy a national income tax.
  • enforce its laws on the states.
  • abolish slavery.

Questão 24

Questão
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits businesses from making discriminatory hiring decisions based on which inherent characteristics?
Responda
  • age and disability
  • race, color, and sex
  • religion and national origin
  • sexual orientation
  • ace, color, sex, religion, and national origin

Questão 25

Questão
Why did southern states want slaves to be counted as part of their population?
Responda
  • It would increase southern representation in the House of Representatives.
  • It would ensure that slaves would receive certain inalienable rights.
  • Northerners were advocating for the deportation of slave labor.
  • Slaves could then be forced to serve in the military.
  • The South would then have a greater number of voters.

Questão 26

Questão
The Tenth Amendment provides for
Responda
  • concurrent state and federal powers.
  • enumerated federal powers.
  • taking private property for public purposes.
  • states' implied powers.
  • states' reserve or police powers.

Questão 27

Questão
Colleges and universities use affirmative action policies to ensure a student body that is diverse in
Responda
  • race.
  • color.
  • economic status.
  • place of origin.
  • race, color, economic status, and place of origin.

Questão 28

Questão
When secular law conflicts with religious beliefs, freedom of religion is
Responda
  • suppressed.
  • allowed, but only after a court order is obtained.
  • always upheld.
  • guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
  • sometimes denied.

Questão 29

Questão
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments are collectively known as the
Responda
  • Civil Liberties Amendments.
  • Frederick Douglass Amendments.
  • Civil War Amendments.
  • Bill of Rights.
  • Susan B. Anthony Amendments.

Questão 30

Questão
Constitutionalism places
Responda
  • limits on government through a written document.
  • limits on government through oral agreements.
  • limits on individuals' powers over government.

Questão 31

Questão
Which of the following did NOT lead to American settlement in the seventeenth century?
Responda
  • The split from the Church of England
  • Hobbes and Locke's social contract theories
  • Belief in self-government
  • Questioning the divine right of kings
  • Belief in intelligent design

Questão 32

Questão
The difference between libel and slander is that
Responda
  • libel is spoken, and slander is written.
  • libel only occurs with public figures, and slander can occur with private individuals.
  • libel is written, and slander is spoken.
  • libel is legal, and slander is illegal.
  • libel is illegal, and slander is legal.

Questão 33

Questão
In an oligarchy, rule is by
Responda
  • one person.
  • the many.
  • all people.
  • people who own property.
  • the few.

Questão 34

Questão
The power to tax is a concurrent power in the U.S. federal system.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 35

Questão
Categorical grants
Responda
  • often involve state matching funds.
  • are given to states without conditions.
  • are virtually identical to block grants.
  • are a remnant of the New Deal.
  • ere at the core of Ronald Reagan's devolution revolution.

Questão 36

Questão
In Plessy v. Ferguson, a majority of the Supreme Court argued that the Constitution should be colorblind.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 37

Questão
Critics charge that the USA Patriot Act expands civil liberties needlessly in a time of war.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 38

Questão
The division of authority among the three branches of government is called
Responda
  • federalism.
  • compromise.
  • pluralism.
  • separation of powers.
  • gridlock.

Questão 39

Questão
All of the following are generally state issues EXCEPT
Responda
  • child custody.
  • marriage age.
  • divorce.
  • currency circulation.
  • death penalty.

Questão 40

Questão
The difference between civil liberties and civil rights has often been simplified to
Responda
  • "freedom to" and "freedom from."
  • equality and equity.
  • make them synonymous.
  • a carrot and a stick.
  • "freedom of" and "freedom for."

Questão 41

Questão
Why was indirect democracy a necessary alternative to direct democracy?
Responda
  • The people were deemed too ignorant to be involved directly with government.
  • It became increasingly difficult to bring all the colonists together in the decision-making process.
  • The wealthier and more educated citizens changed the system so they could wield more power.
  • The colonies sought to follow the teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
  • The religious tendencies of the colonists caused them to rebel against the Greek model of democracy.

Questão 42

Questão
Libertarians would likely advocate for the USA PATRIOT Act.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 43

Questão
The mass movement for Mexican American civil rights, of which Cesar Chavez was a leader, is known as
Responda
  • the Latino Movement.
  • LULAC.
  • the Chicano Movement.
  • NALEO.
  • the Lambda Legal Movement.

Questão 44

Questão
Gays and lesbians have, on average, far lower incomes than other groups.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 45

Questão
In New York Times v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that
Responda
  • prior restraint was constitutional.
  • false or negligent speech was not protected by the First Amendment.
  • actual malice must be proved to support a claim of libel made by a public figure.
  • newspaper reporters must divulge their confidential sources of information.
  • libel and slander were constitutionally protected forms of speech.

Questão 46

Questão
The U.S. Supreme Court consistently has found that
Responda
  • the disabled can sue local governments that do not make public buildings accessible to the disabled.
  • public buildings must always be accessible to the handicapped.
  • failure to hire pilots who wear classes can be grounds for a discrimination claim.
  • the Americans with Disabilities Act must be interpreted liberally.
  • workplaces must make accommodations for learning disabilities.

Questão 47

Questão
Anti-Federalists would most likely align themselves with today's libertarians, who decry the extent of the powers wielded by the national government.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 48

Questão
In Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
Responda
  • gay marriage represented an issue best left to the states.
  • the equal protection clause prohibits discrimination against gay Americans.
  • a Texas law criminalizing sexual behavior was unconstitutional.
  • there was a homosexual agenda in the United States.
  • the Boy Scouts could prevent homosexuals from becoming troop leaders.

Questão 49

Questão
American political culture embodies many key concepts including I. absolute personal liberty. II. political equality. III. majority rule. IV. individualism.
Responda
  • II and III
  • I
  • II, III, and IV
  • I and II
  • I, II, and III

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