Test Bank for American Government Political Development and
Institutional Change, 13e Cal Jillson (All Chapters)
1
,Chapter 1 Test Bank in Word for 13e
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answer A B C D
A custom, practice, or organization, b A policy An institution A legal procedure A rule
often embedded in rule of law, is
called: ^ .^
The rule of an elite few for their d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
own interests.
According to Plato, who should a A philosopher-king A political science- The few wisest None of the above
rule king citizens
a properly constituted polis?
Which of these b Aristocracy is a Democracy is a Tyranny is any All of the above
statements accurately government government government that is
defines a type of organized around organized around oppressive to the
government according to a few men who are many men who are people.
Aristotle’s typology? primarily primarily motivated
motivated by their by the broad
narrow private and public interest.
class interests.
Before it was an empire, what was c It was always an It was a democracy. It was a republic. It was a polity.
ancient Rome? empire.
Which theorists made the first and a Polybius and Cicero Socrates and Plato St. Augustine and Thomas Hobbes and
most influential efforts to explain St. Thomas Aquinas John Locke
how mixed governments can work
in practice?
2
,According to the Pro and Con b The people met in A deep respect for Slaves and resident All citizens were given
section, which of the following was the Assembly to the individual rights aliens (three-fifths of one vote in the
not a characteristic of the discuss and decide and liberties of all the population) were Assembly
“Athenian democracy?” major issues city residents denied citizenship
What is the temporal world? c The world of the The world of the The world of peoples The otherworldly
sacred politically powerful and nations and
human history
Who wrote that, without an all- c Niccolo Machiavelli John Calvin Thomas Hobbes John Locke
powerful monarch, human beings
will fall into a war of all against all
in which life is “solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish, and short.”
Who was the founder of the c Martin Luther Thomas Hobbes Martin Luther John Winthrop
Protestant Reformation? King, Jr.
In addition to social contract c Nothing else was There is nothing Separation of powers Unlimited, immoderate
theory, what are two other taken besides social and free markets constitutional regimes
concepts taken from classical contract theory in
liberalism that influenced the classical liberalism
Founding generation?
Who were the Pilgrims? b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
Puritans who Puritans who Anglicans who Anglicans who settled
settled in the settled in New settled in the South in the Mid-Atlantic in
South in order to England in order in order to develop it order to develop it
avoid religious to avoid religious economically economically and in
persecution in the persecution in the some cases to avoid
home country home country religious persecution in
the home country
3
, In the population of the American a The English The Irish The Germans The Dutch
colonies in 1765, which ethnic
group was the largest?
What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox Banishment was an The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had did not feel the accepted form of land allowed for
“space” for dissent? need to destroy punishment pockets of
the acceptability
unorthodox
interspersed
between places of
orthodoxy
What was political participation like a It was very It was oligarchic but It was oligarchic and It was aristocratic and
in the early colonies? democratic in still modestly hence not very hence not very
nature democratic in democratic at all in democratic at all in
nature nature nature
Which of the statements below c The British The British The British None of the above
accurately describes differences colonials were colonials were less colonials were more
between the populations in British more heterogeneous heterogeneous
colonies and those in French heterogeneous regarding religion, regarding religion,
Canadian colonies? regarding religion, language, and language, and
language, ethnicity and were ethnicity and were
ethnicity but were larger in numbers larger in numbers
fewer in overall overall
numbers overall
To what area of social life did c Law Government and The economy Culture
Adam Smith most extensively politics
apply the
principles of classical liberalism?
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Institutional Change, 13e Cal Jillson (All Chapters)
1
,Chapter 1 Test Bank in Word for 13e
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answer A B C D
A custom, practice, or organization, b A policy An institution A legal procedure A rule
often embedded in rule of law, is
called: ^ .^
The rule of an elite few for their d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
own interests.
According to Plato, who should a A philosopher-king A political science- The few wisest None of the above
rule king citizens
a properly constituted polis?
Which of these b Aristocracy is a Democracy is a Tyranny is any All of the above
statements accurately government government government that is
defines a type of organized around organized around oppressive to the
government according to a few men who are many men who are people.
Aristotle’s typology? primarily primarily motivated
motivated by their by the broad
narrow private and public interest.
class interests.
Before it was an empire, what was c It was always an It was a democracy. It was a republic. It was a polity.
ancient Rome? empire.
Which theorists made the first and a Polybius and Cicero Socrates and Plato St. Augustine and Thomas Hobbes and
most influential efforts to explain St. Thomas Aquinas John Locke
how mixed governments can work
in practice?
2
,According to the Pro and Con b The people met in A deep respect for Slaves and resident All citizens were given
section, which of the following was the Assembly to the individual rights aliens (three-fifths of one vote in the
not a characteristic of the discuss and decide and liberties of all the population) were Assembly
“Athenian democracy?” major issues city residents denied citizenship
What is the temporal world? c The world of the The world of the The world of peoples The otherworldly
sacred politically powerful and nations and
human history
Who wrote that, without an all- c Niccolo Machiavelli John Calvin Thomas Hobbes John Locke
powerful monarch, human beings
will fall into a war of all against all
in which life is “solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish, and short.”
Who was the founder of the c Martin Luther Thomas Hobbes Martin Luther John Winthrop
Protestant Reformation? King, Jr.
In addition to social contract c Nothing else was There is nothing Separation of powers Unlimited, immoderate
theory, what are two other taken besides social and free markets constitutional regimes
concepts taken from classical contract theory in
liberalism that influenced the classical liberalism
Founding generation?
Who were the Pilgrims? b Wealthy English Middling English Wealthy English Middling English
Puritans who Puritans who Anglicans who Anglicans who settled
settled in the settled in New settled in the South in the Mid-Atlantic in
South in order to England in order in order to develop it order to develop it
avoid religious to avoid religious economically economically and in
persecution in the persecution in the some cases to avoid
home country home country religious persecution in
the home country
3
, In the population of the American a The English The Irish The Germans The Dutch
colonies in 1765, which ethnic
group was the largest?
What drove the idea behind the d The orthodox Banishment was an The vastness of the All of the above
notion that the Americans had did not feel the accepted form of land allowed for
“space” for dissent? need to destroy punishment pockets of
the acceptability
unorthodox
interspersed
between places of
orthodoxy
What was political participation like a It was very It was oligarchic but It was oligarchic and It was aristocratic and
in the early colonies? democratic in still modestly hence not very hence not very
nature democratic in democratic at all in democratic at all in
nature nature nature
Which of the statements below c The British The British The British None of the above
accurately describes differences colonials were colonials were less colonials were more
between the populations in British more heterogeneous heterogeneous
colonies and those in French heterogeneous regarding religion, regarding religion,
Canadian colonies? regarding religion, language, and language, and
language, ethnicity and were ethnicity and were
ethnicity but were larger in numbers larger in numbers
fewer in overall overall
numbers overall
To what area of social life did c Law Government and The economy Culture
Adam Smith most extensively politics
apply the
principles of classical liberalism?
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