Test Bank for Krause’s Food & Nutrition Therapy 12th Edition

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CHAPTER 1: POLITICS: WHO GETS WHAT, AND HOW?



Multiple Choice
1. Politics is defined in your text as ______.
a. the ability to get others to do what you want
b. who gets what, when, and how
c. the way we organize and live our collective lives
d. the process by which societies resolve, reduce, or eliminate conflict
e. a system or organization for exercising authority over a body of people
Ans: B
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the role that politics plays in determining how
power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Politics?
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations
of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important
documents and achievements.

2. Politics is determined by “______” gets power and resources in society and “______”
they get them.
a. where; how
b. how; where
c. who; how
d. what; where
e. what; how
Ans: C
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the role that politics plays in determining how
power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Politics?
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations
of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important
documents and achievements.

3. Power is defined in your text as ______.
a. a type of totalitarianism
b. the ability to get other people to do what you want
c. the use of force to obtain desired goals
d. the essential quality of leadership
e. the use of military, paramilitary, or police forces to control people

,Ans: B
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the role that politics plays in determining how
power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Politics?
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations
of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important
documents and achievements.

4. ______ refers to a particular view of how we ought to organize and live our collective
lives.
a. Authority
b. Politics
c. The rules
d. Social order
e. Authoritarianism
Ans: D
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the role that politics plays in determining how
power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: What Is Politics?
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations
of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important
documents and achievements.

5. ______ can be described as a system or an organization for exercising authority over
a body of people.
a. Political partisanship
b. Federalism
c. Power
d. Force
e. Government
Ans: E
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the role that politics plays in determining how
power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Politics and Government
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations
of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important
documents and achievements.

6. In the relationship between politics and government, ______.
a. politics is the system for exercising authority over people, whereas government is the

, process through which power is gained and lost
b. politics is the process or activity through which power is gained and lost, whereas
government is a system for exercising authority over a body of people
c. politics is merely a narrow self-interested activity, whereas government is solely an
institution for serving the needs of the people
d. politics is democratic, whereas government is authoritarian
e. politics is whatever politicians do, whereas government is whatever bureaucrats do
Ans: B
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the role that politics plays in determining how
power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Politics and Government
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations
of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important
documents and achievements.

7. Which of the following are tacit guidelines that help determine acceptable political
behavior?
a. rules
b. political narratives
c. norms
d. authority
e. social order
Ans: C
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the role that politics plays in determining how
power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Rules and Institutions
Difficulty Level: Easy
TOP: SAGE Learning Outcomes for American Government: Articulate the foundations
of American government, including its history, critical concepts, and important
documents and achievements.

8. How do rules fit into the concept of “who gets what, and how”?
a. rules can be thought of as the “what”
b. rules are not relevant
c. rules can be thought of as the “who”
d. rules define the “getting”
e. rules can be thought of as the “how”
Ans: E
KEY: Learning Objective: 1.1: Describe the role that politics plays in determining how
power and resources, including control of information, are distributed in a society.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Rules and Institutions
Difficulty Level: Easy