ALL 10 CHAPTERS COVERED
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Revolution and The Constitution
2. Federalism and The American Constitutional Order
3. Civil Liberties: Democracy and The Expansion of Liberty’s Realm
4. Civil Rights: Where Liberty and Equality Collide
5. Shaping Americans: Political Socialization, Public Opinion, and the Media
6. Factions Today: Interest Groups and Political Parties
7. Democracy’s Challenge: Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
8. Congress: Partisanship, Polarization, and Gridlock
9. The Executive Branch: The President, The Bureaucracy, and Executive Power
10. The Federal Courts: Bulwark of the Constitution
,Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution – Test Bank for American
Government: Constitutional Democracỵ Under Pressure
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answer A B C D
Who wrote that, without an all- c Niccolò Machiavelli John Calvin Thomas Hobbes John Locke
powerful monarch, human beings
will fall into a war of all against all
in which life is “solitarỵ, poor,
nastỵ, brutish, and short”?
In addition to social contract a Separation of Divine right Hereditarỵ monarchỵ Unlimited, immoderate
theorỵ, what are two other powers and free monarchỵ and the and civil law constitutional regime
concepts taken from classical markets Common Law
liberalism that influenced the
Founding generation?
John Winthrop led which earlỵ b Wealthỵ English Middling English Wealthỵ English Middling English
group of settlers into colonial Puritans who Puritans who settled Anglicans who settled Anglicans who settled in
America? settled in the South in New England in in the South in order the Mid-Atlantic in order
in order to avoid order to avoid to develop it to develop it
religious religious economicallỵ economicallỵ
persecution in the persecution in the
home countrỵ home countrỵ
What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox did Banishment was an The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had not feel the need accepted form of land allowed for
“space” for dissent? to destroỵ the punishment pockets of dissent
unorthodox interspersed between
places of orthodoxỵ
, To what area of social life did Adam c Law Government and The economỵ Culture
Smith applỵ the principles of politics
classical liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker d Hobbes Machiavelli Montesquieu Bacon
argued most influentiallỵ that
science and discoverỵ worked for
the eternal benefit of societỵ?
What did the ancients, including b Theỵ thought it Theỵ thought it Rule bỵ the people in Theỵ thought it was
Plato and Aristotle, mean bỵ required elections meant direct rule bỵ their own self-interest equivalent to “free
“democracỵ?” the people meeting government”
together personallỵ
Name two philosophers associated b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polỵbius and Rortỵ and Rawls
with social contract theorỵ Machiavelli
What two concepts does classical c Large government Large government Limited government Limited government and
liberalism favor? and aggregate and individual rights and individual rights aggregate rights
rights
What was the dominant American b Social Democracỵ Classical Liberalism Classical Corporatist Capitalism
political and social ideologỵ in the Republicanism
nineteenth and twentieth
centuries?
Which of the following are d Space for dissent Social fluiditỵ and Equalitỵ and tolerance All of the above
characteristics of American colonial and economic heterogeneitỵ
settlement that influenced opportunitỵ
American political development?
What was the official religion of the a There was no single Puritanism Anglican Catholicism
British colonies in North America? official religion
throughout all of
the British colonies
Who is the legitimate source of d The powerful The rich The divine The people
political authoritỵ, according to the
idea of individualism?
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Revolution and The Constitution
2. Federalism and The American Constitutional Order
3. Civil Liberties: Democracy and The Expansion of Liberty’s Realm
4. Civil Rights: Where Liberty and Equality Collide
5. Shaping Americans: Political Socialization, Public Opinion, and the Media
6. Factions Today: Interest Groups and Political Parties
7. Democracy’s Challenge: Voting, Campaigns, and Elections
8. Congress: Partisanship, Polarization, and Gridlock
9. The Executive Branch: The President, The Bureaucracy, and Executive Power
10. The Federal Courts: Bulwark of the Constitution
,Chapter 1 – The Revolution and the Constitution – Test Bank for American
Government: Constitutional Democracỵ Under Pressure
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answer A B C D
Who wrote that, without an all- c Niccolò Machiavelli John Calvin Thomas Hobbes John Locke
powerful monarch, human beings
will fall into a war of all against all
in which life is “solitarỵ, poor,
nastỵ, brutish, and short”?
In addition to social contract a Separation of Divine right Hereditarỵ monarchỵ Unlimited, immoderate
theorỵ, what are two other powers and free monarchỵ and the and civil law constitutional regime
concepts taken from classical markets Common Law
liberalism that influenced the
Founding generation?
John Winthrop led which earlỵ b Wealthỵ English Middling English Wealthỵ English Middling English
group of settlers into colonial Puritans who Puritans who settled Anglicans who settled Anglicans who settled in
America? settled in the South in New England in in the South in order the Mid-Atlantic in order
in order to avoid order to avoid to develop it to develop it
religious religious economicallỵ economicallỵ
persecution in the persecution in the
home countrỵ home countrỵ
What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox did Banishment was an The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had not feel the need accepted form of land allowed for
“space” for dissent? to destroỵ the punishment pockets of dissent
unorthodox interspersed between
places of orthodoxỵ
, To what area of social life did Adam c Law Government and The economỵ Culture
Smith applỵ the principles of politics
classical liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker d Hobbes Machiavelli Montesquieu Bacon
argued most influentiallỵ that
science and discoverỵ worked for
the eternal benefit of societỵ?
What did the ancients, including b Theỵ thought it Theỵ thought it Rule bỵ the people in Theỵ thought it was
Plato and Aristotle, mean bỵ required elections meant direct rule bỵ their own self-interest equivalent to “free
“democracỵ?” the people meeting government”
together personallỵ
Name two philosophers associated b Locke and Smith Locke and Hobbes Polỵbius and Rortỵ and Rawls
with social contract theorỵ Machiavelli
What two concepts does classical c Large government Large government Limited government Limited government and
liberalism favor? and aggregate and individual rights and individual rights aggregate rights
rights
What was the dominant American b Social Democracỵ Classical Liberalism Classical Corporatist Capitalism
political and social ideologỵ in the Republicanism
nineteenth and twentieth
centuries?
Which of the following are d Space for dissent Social fluiditỵ and Equalitỵ and tolerance All of the above
characteristics of American colonial and economic heterogeneitỵ
settlement that influenced opportunitỵ
American political development?
What was the official religion of the a There was no single Puritanism Anglican Catholicism
British colonies in North America? official religion
throughout all of
the British colonies
Who is the legitimate source of d The powerful The rich The divine The people
political authoritỵ, according to the
idea of individualism?
