AMERICAN POLITICS TODAY
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS SET
FULL QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTION
●● Public relations efforts aimed at improving the public image of an
industry or group are called
Answer: climate control.
●● Key factors to an interest group's success include all of the following
EXCEPT
Answer: sponsorship by a major political party.
●● Legislators and government officials are often more impressed by
contacts from
Answer: constituents than interest groups
●● In some states, __________, it is prohibited to bargain with public
sector unions.
Answer: mostly in the South
●● Lobbying reforms made in 1995 and 1996, both through legislation
and congressional rules, included
, Answer: All of these options are true.
●● The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Answer: represents millions of domestic businesses to the U.S.
government.
●● All of the following are techniques used by interest groups to involve
the general public EXCEPT
Answer: violently protesting so officials will know the unhappiness of
the public.
●● people who become members of interest groups for solidary
incentives are joining
Answer: for a sense of belonging to the group.
●● The age of automation and the rise of the service sector have
Answer: led to attempts to unionize migrant farm workers, service
workers, and public employees.
●● What can be said of agricultural interest groups in the United States?
Answer: Although farmers represent less than 1 percent of the
population, they have very strong interest groups.
●● All of the following are true of social movements EXCEPT that they
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS SET
FULL QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
SOLUTION
●● Public relations efforts aimed at improving the public image of an
industry or group are called
Answer: climate control.
●● Key factors to an interest group's success include all of the following
EXCEPT
Answer: sponsorship by a major political party.
●● Legislators and government officials are often more impressed by
contacts from
Answer: constituents than interest groups
●● In some states, __________, it is prohibited to bargain with public
sector unions.
Answer: mostly in the South
●● Lobbying reforms made in 1995 and 1996, both through legislation
and congressional rules, included
, Answer: All of these options are true.
●● The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Answer: represents millions of domestic businesses to the U.S.
government.
●● All of the following are techniques used by interest groups to involve
the general public EXCEPT
Answer: violently protesting so officials will know the unhappiness of
the public.
●● people who become members of interest groups for solidary
incentives are joining
Answer: for a sense of belonging to the group.
●● The age of automation and the rise of the service sector have
Answer: led to attempts to unionize migrant farm workers, service
workers, and public employees.
●● What can be said of agricultural interest groups in the United States?
Answer: Although farmers represent less than 1 percent of the
population, they have very strong interest groups.
●● All of the following are true of social movements EXCEPT that they
