American Government Exam 1 Multiple
Choice 2025 Questions and Answers
Public Goods - ANSWER✔✔-What goods are available to all without direct payment?
a. private goods
b. public goods
c. common goods
d. toll goods
Oligarchy - ANSWER✔✔-In which form of government does a small group of elite people hold
political power?
a. direct democracy
b. monarchy
c. oligarchy
d. totalitarian
wealthy, politically powerful people control government, and government has no interest in meeting
the needs of ordinary people - ANSWER✔✔-The elite theory of government maintains that
______________.
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,a. special interest groups make government policy
b. politicians who have held office for a long time are favored by voters
c. poor people and people of color should not be allowed to vote
d. wealthy, politically powerful people control government, and government has no interest in
meeting the needs of ordinary people
governments policy is formed as a result of the competition between groups with different goals and
interests - ANSWER✔✔-According to the pluralist theory of government, ____________.
a. government does what the majority of voters want it to do.
b. governments policy is formed as a result of the competition between groups with different goals
and interests
c. ordinary people acting on their own have a significant influence on government
d. wealthy people decide what government policy will be, and politicians have no interest in pleasing
anyone else
Partisanship - ANSWER✔✔-Supporting the actions of the Democratic Party simply because one
identifies oneself as a member of that party is an example of __________________.
a. partisanship
b. ideology
c. latent preference
d. social capital
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, latent preferences - ANSWER✔✔-When a person is asked a question about a political issue that he
or she has little interest in and has not thought much about, that person's answer will likely reflect
________________.
a. ideology
b. partisanship
c. intense preferences
d. latent preferences
John Locke - ANSWER✔✔-British colonists in North America in the late seventeenth century were
greatly influenced by the political thought of ________________.
a. King James II
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. John Locke
d. James Madison
The Social Contract - ANSWER✔✔-The agreement that citizens will consent to be governed so
long as government protects their natural rights is called ___________________.
a. the divine right of kings
b. the social contract
c. a bill of rights
d. due process
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Choice 2025 Questions and Answers
Public Goods - ANSWER✔✔-What goods are available to all without direct payment?
a. private goods
b. public goods
c. common goods
d. toll goods
Oligarchy - ANSWER✔✔-In which form of government does a small group of elite people hold
political power?
a. direct democracy
b. monarchy
c. oligarchy
d. totalitarian
wealthy, politically powerful people control government, and government has no interest in meeting
the needs of ordinary people - ANSWER✔✔-The elite theory of government maintains that
______________.
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,a. special interest groups make government policy
b. politicians who have held office for a long time are favored by voters
c. poor people and people of color should not be allowed to vote
d. wealthy, politically powerful people control government, and government has no interest in
meeting the needs of ordinary people
governments policy is formed as a result of the competition between groups with different goals and
interests - ANSWER✔✔-According to the pluralist theory of government, ____________.
a. government does what the majority of voters want it to do.
b. governments policy is formed as a result of the competition between groups with different goals
and interests
c. ordinary people acting on their own have a significant influence on government
d. wealthy people decide what government policy will be, and politicians have no interest in pleasing
anyone else
Partisanship - ANSWER✔✔-Supporting the actions of the Democratic Party simply because one
identifies oneself as a member of that party is an example of __________________.
a. partisanship
b. ideology
c. latent preference
d. social capital
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, latent preferences - ANSWER✔✔-When a person is asked a question about a political issue that he
or she has little interest in and has not thought much about, that person's answer will likely reflect
________________.
a. ideology
b. partisanship
c. intense preferences
d. latent preferences
John Locke - ANSWER✔✔-British colonists in North America in the late seventeenth century were
greatly influenced by the political thought of ________________.
a. King James II
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. John Locke
d. James Madison
The Social Contract - ANSWER✔✔-The agreement that citizens will consent to be governed so
long as government protects their natural rights is called ___________________.
a. the divine right of kings
b. the social contract
c. a bill of rights
d. due process
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