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,Chapter 1 Test Bank in Word for 12e t t t t t t t
Single-Select Multiple Choice t t
Question Answer A B C D
A custom, practice, or
t t t b policy institution legal procedure
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organization, often embedded
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^ .^
Which of these terms refers to t t t t t d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
the rule of an elite few for their
t t t t t t t t
own interests? t
According to Plato, who should t t t t a A philosopher-
t A political science-
t t The few wisest
t t None of these t t
rule a properly constituted
t t t king
t king
t citizens
t
polis?
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According to Aristotle’s typology t t t d Oligarchy is a t t Democracy is a t t Tyranny is any t t All of these
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of governments, which of these
t t t t t tgovernment government
t government that is
t t t
statements accurately defines a
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t t oppressive to the
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type of government?
t t t ta few men who
t t t many men who
t t t people.
t
tare primarily
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t t
tprivate and class t t interest.
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interests.
Which one of the following pairst t t t t c Paris and London
t t Berlin and Madrid
t t Athens and Rome
t t Oslo and Copenhagen
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of cities formed the centers of
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,the two greatest European
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societies of the ancient world?
t t t t t
Before it was an empire, what
t t t t t c It was always an
t t t It was a
t t It was a republic.
t t t It was a polity.
t t t
was ancient Rome?
t t t empire.
t democracy.
t
Which theorists made the first
t t t t a Polybius and t Plato and Aristotle t t St. Augustine and St.
t t t Thomas Hobbes and t t
and most influential efforts to
t t t t t Cicero
t Thomas Aquinas
t t John Locke
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explain how mixed governments
t t t t
can work in practice?
t t t
According to the Pro & Con t t t t t b The people met t t A deep respect for
t t t Slaves and resident t t All citizens were given
t t t
section, which of the following
t t t t t in the Assembly
t t t the individual
t t aliens (three-fifths
t t one vote in the
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was not a characteristic of
t t t t t to discuss and
t t t rights and liberties
t t t of the population)
t t t Assembly
t
“Athenian democracy?” t decide major t of all city residents
t t t t were denied t
issues
t citizenship
t
What is the temporal world?
t t t t c The world of the
t t t The world of the
t t t The world oft t The otherworldly
t
sacred
t politically peoples and nations t t
powerful
t and human history
t t t
Who wrote that, without an all-
t t t t t c Niccolò John Calvin t Thomas Hobbes t John Locke t
powerful monarch, human
t t t Machiavelli
t
beings will fall into a war of all
t t t t t t t t
against all in which life is
t t t t t t
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, t t t
and short”? t
Who was the founder of the
t t t t t c Martin Luther t Thomas Hobbes t Martin Luther t John Winthrop t
Protestant Reformation?
t t King, Jr.
t t
In addition to social contract
t t t t c Nothing else was t t There is nothing Separation of
t t t Unlimited, immoderate t
theory, what are two other
t t t t t taken.
t besides social
t powers and free
t t t t constitutional regimes
t t
concepts taken from classical
t t t t contract theory in markets
t t t t
liberalism that influenced the
t t t t classical liberalism.
t t
Founding generation? t
, Who were the Pilgrims?
t t t b Wealthy English t Middling English t Wealthy English t Middling English t
Puritans who
t t Puritans who
t t Anglicans who
t t Anglicans who settled
t t t
settled in the
t t t settled in New
t t t settled in the South
t t t t in the Mid-Atlantic in
t t t t
South in order to
t t t t England in order
t t t in order to develop
t t t t order to develop it
t t t t
avoid religious
t t to avoid religious
t t t it economically
t t economically and in
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persecution in
t t persecution in
t t some cases to avoid
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their home
t t their home
t t religious persecution in
t t t
country country their home country t t
In the population of the
t t t t a The English t The Irish t The Germans t The Dutch t
American colonies in 1765,
t t t t
which ethnic group was the
t t t t t
largest?
t
What drove the idea behind the
t t t t t d The orthodox did
t t Banishment was t The vastness of the
t t t All of theset t
notion that the Americans had
t t t t t not feel the need
t t t t an accepted form
t t t land allowed for
t t t
“space” for dissent?
t t t to destroy the
t t t of punishment.
t t pockets of
t t
unorthodox.
t acceptability
t
interspersed
t
between places of
t t t
orthodoxy.
What was political participation
t t t a It was very
t t It was oligarchic
t t It was oligarchic and
t t t It was aristocratic and
t t t
like in the early colonies?
t t t t t democratic in
t t but still modestly
t t t hence not very
t t t hence not very
t t t
nature.
t democratic in
t t democratic at all in
t t t t democratic at all in
t t t t
nature. nature. nature.
To what area of social life did
t t t t t t c Law Government and t The economy t Culture
tAdam Smith most extensively t t t politics
t
tapply the principles of classical
t t t t
liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker t t d Thomas Hobbes t Niccolò Baron de t Francis Bacon t
targued the earliest and most t t t t Machiavelli
t Montesquieu
t
tinfluentially that science and t t t
discovery worked for the eternal t t t t
