This is homework No. 5. It includes information from chapter 9 & 10. All notes, PowerPoint, slides and course
books can be used to aid you in completing the homework. Kindly complete it onyourown not in group work. Note,
the questions and answers are randomized so don’t copy them for your classmates. The material will be available on
your study guide for Exam #2. The homework is to be completed in1.5 hours.This homework has 20 points total.
Each question is gives 1 point a piece.
1. Reported voter turnout as age .
a. increases; increases
b. increases; decreases
c. stabilizes; increases
d. stabilizes; decreases
e. decreases; increases
2. The entry of a person's name into the list of eligible voters is called
a. filing.
b. registration.
c. suffrage.
d. enfranchisement.
e. participation.
3. The Australian ballot
a. is no longer used in the United States because it does not allow a secret ballot to be cast.
b. is an attempt to reduce partisan voting by not allowing candidates to list their party.
c. is a form of balloting that has been disallowed in the United States because it is discriminatory.
d. is secret and is prepared, distributed, and tabulated by government officials.
e. was subject to great suspicion because it was a foreign innovation.
4. The number of members each state will have in the Electoral College
a. cannot exceed fifty members.
b. cannot be changed without a Constitutional amendment.
c. changes every four years.
d. is determined by the number of representatives and senators a state has in Congress.
e. is identical so that each state plays an equal role in selecting the president.
5. Women could vote in all states with the ratification of the __ Amendment in 1920.
a. Eighteenth
b. Nineteenth
c. Twentieth
d. Twenty-first
e. Twenty-second
6. The most recent amendment extending the voting franchise to eighteen years and older was the Twenty-
sixth Amendment ratified in the
a. 1950s.
b. 1960s.
c. 1970s.
d. 1980s.
e. 1990s.
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