Chapter 1: Games Politicians Play
Multiple Choice
1. An example of the political game of the lion and fox is ________.
a. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights protests
b. the crushing of the Melians by Athens
*c. Machiavelli’s advice statement on how to govern
d. the efforts of the women of Greece to make love, not war
Learning Objective: 1-2
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State, p. 21
2. Which of the following would be considered an example of
accommodation in politics?
a. The President of the United States deploying military force to stop
aggression
b. A massive public protest against capital punishment
*c. A bargained agreement on strengthening gun control passed by
Congress
d. A dictator jailing those who oppose him
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Game of Politics; The Destruction-
Accommodation-Conversion Continuum, p. 15
3. The author of the treatise On Civil Disobedience was ________.
a. Aristophanes
b. Socrates
*c. Henry David Thoreau
d. Mohandas Gandhi
Learning Objective: 1-2
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Civil Disobedience: The Politics of Morality, p. 25
4. When the Khmer Rouge undertook the restructuring of Cambodian
society and killed millions of its fellow citizens, it was practicing the
game of ________.
a. the lion and the fox
*b. wipeout
c. civil disobedience
d. none of the above
,Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Wipeout: The Politics of Destruction, p. 18
5. During the 1980s, the Solidarity Party used the game of strike to
gain concessions from the Communist Party and ultimately to
contributed to the party’s fall from power in which country?
*a. Poland
b. Czechoslovakia
c. Hungary
d. Yugoslavia
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conclusion, pp. 28–29
6. Which of the following best characterizes the lion and fox?
*a. The end justifies the means
b. The ultimate use of force in the struggle for power
c. The pursuit of political goals based on a higher moral law
d. The purposeful persecution and, ultimately, destruction of a specific
group of people
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State, p. 21
7. The tragedy of the Darfur region of Sudan beginning in 2003 is an
example of ________.
a. civil disobedience
b. the lion and the fox
*c. wipeout
d. political bargaining
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Wipeout: The Politics of Destruction, pp. 14–15
8. The Watergate scandal concerned ________.
*a. a break-in at the Democratic Party’s national headquarters and a
subsequent cover-up on the part of the Nixon administration
b. accusations that President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton
had made shady land deals in Arkansas
c. highly questionable accounting procedures and the inflated
reporting of earnings by the Enron Corporation
,d. accusations that the Reagan administration had sold weapons to
Iran to gain the release of American hostages in Lebanon and then
diverted profits from the deal to anticommunist guerrillas in Nicaragua
Learning Objective: 1-2
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State, p. 24
9. Which of the following does NOT fit with the definition of power?
a. Power is getting political actors to do what they would not normally
do.
*b. The exercise of power is always destructive.
c. Power can be used for a variety of purposes.
d. Power is central to the practice of politics.
Learning Objective: 1-3
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Game of Politics; The Destruction-
Accommodation-Conversion Continuum, p. 13
10. A perpetrator of the game of destruction in the Soviet Union was
________.
*a. Josef Stalin
b. Adolf Hitler
c. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
d. Slobodan Milosevic
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Wipeout: The Politics of Destruction, p. 14
11. Which of the following statements is NOT representative of
Machiavelli’s thinking?
a. Rulers must be adept at the “beastly” game of politics.
b. In the game of politics, the end justifies the means.
c. The prince may be obligated to act against faith, against charity,
against humanity, and against religion.
*d. Violence should never be employed because it has a tendency to
come back to haunt rulers.
Learning Objective: 1-5
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State, p. 22
12. Which of the following would be considered an example of civil
disobedience?
, *a. Intentionally being arrested and going to jail for illegally protesting
the ill treatment of illegal immigrants.
b. Assassinating a political leader and then escaping to another
country.
c. Kidnapping a relief worker and holding him or her for ransom.
d. Playing “dirty tricks” in a political campaign to affect the outcome.
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Civil Disobedience: The Politics of Morality, p. 25
13. Henry David Thoreau specifically directed his arguments for civil
disobedience against ________.
a. corporate greed sweeping the country
b. government corruption in Washington, D.C.
*c. slavery and war
d. American imperialism
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Civil Disobedience: The Politics of Morality, p. 25
14. The political game of accommodation ________.
*a. is marked by cooperation, bargaining, and balloting
b. stresses voluntary agreement and free choice
c. relies on edicts
d. was epitomized by the Watergate scandal
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Game of Politics; The Destruction-
Accommodation-Conversion Continuum, p. 15
15. Which of the following is NOT part of Machiavelli’s concept of
politics?
a. Physical power, particularly military strength, is crucial in nation-
state politics.
b. In order for political leaders to survive, the ends justify the means.
*c. Machiavelli excludes the rule of law and Christian morality.
d. The leader must seek to be both feared and loved.
Learning Objective: 1-1, 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Game of Politics; The Destruction-
Accommodation-Conversion Continuum, p. 22
Multiple Choice
1. An example of the political game of the lion and fox is ________.
a. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights protests
b. the crushing of the Melians by Athens
*c. Machiavelli’s advice statement on how to govern
d. the efforts of the women of Greece to make love, not war
Learning Objective: 1-2
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State, p. 21
2. Which of the following would be considered an example of
accommodation in politics?
a. The President of the United States deploying military force to stop
aggression
b. A massive public protest against capital punishment
*c. A bargained agreement on strengthening gun control passed by
Congress
d. A dictator jailing those who oppose him
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: The Game of Politics; The Destruction-
Accommodation-Conversion Continuum, p. 15
3. The author of the treatise On Civil Disobedience was ________.
a. Aristophanes
b. Socrates
*c. Henry David Thoreau
d. Mohandas Gandhi
Learning Objective: 1-2
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Civil Disobedience: The Politics of Morality, p. 25
4. When the Khmer Rouge undertook the restructuring of Cambodian
society and killed millions of its fellow citizens, it was practicing the
game of ________.
a. the lion and the fox
*b. wipeout
c. civil disobedience
d. none of the above
,Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Wipeout: The Politics of Destruction, p. 18
5. During the 1980s, the Solidarity Party used the game of strike to
gain concessions from the Communist Party and ultimately to
contributed to the party’s fall from power in which country?
*a. Poland
b. Czechoslovakia
c. Hungary
d. Yugoslavia
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conclusion, pp. 28–29
6. Which of the following best characterizes the lion and fox?
*a. The end justifies the means
b. The ultimate use of force in the struggle for power
c. The pursuit of political goals based on a higher moral law
d. The purposeful persecution and, ultimately, destruction of a specific
group of people
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State, p. 21
7. The tragedy of the Darfur region of Sudan beginning in 2003 is an
example of ________.
a. civil disobedience
b. the lion and the fox
*c. wipeout
d. political bargaining
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Wipeout: The Politics of Destruction, pp. 14–15
8. The Watergate scandal concerned ________.
*a. a break-in at the Democratic Party’s national headquarters and a
subsequent cover-up on the part of the Nixon administration
b. accusations that President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton
had made shady land deals in Arkansas
c. highly questionable accounting procedures and the inflated
reporting of earnings by the Enron Corporation
,d. accusations that the Reagan administration had sold weapons to
Iran to gain the release of American hostages in Lebanon and then
diverted profits from the deal to anticommunist guerrillas in Nicaragua
Learning Objective: 1-2
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State, p. 24
9. Which of the following does NOT fit with the definition of power?
a. Power is getting political actors to do what they would not normally
do.
*b. The exercise of power is always destructive.
c. Power can be used for a variety of purposes.
d. Power is central to the practice of politics.
Learning Objective: 1-3
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Game of Politics; The Destruction-
Accommodation-Conversion Continuum, p. 13
10. A perpetrator of the game of destruction in the Soviet Union was
________.
*a. Josef Stalin
b. Adolf Hitler
c. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
d. Slobodan Milosevic
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Wipeout: The Politics of Destruction, p. 14
11. Which of the following statements is NOT representative of
Machiavelli’s thinking?
a. Rulers must be adept at the “beastly” game of politics.
b. In the game of politics, the end justifies the means.
c. The prince may be obligated to act against faith, against charity,
against humanity, and against religion.
*d. Violence should never be employed because it has a tendency to
come back to haunt rulers.
Learning Objective: 1-5
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Lion and Fox: The Politics of the Nation-State, p. 22
12. Which of the following would be considered an example of civil
disobedience?
, *a. Intentionally being arrested and going to jail for illegally protesting
the ill treatment of illegal immigrants.
b. Assassinating a political leader and then escaping to another
country.
c. Kidnapping a relief worker and holding him or her for ransom.
d. Playing “dirty tricks” in a political campaign to affect the outcome.
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Civil Disobedience: The Politics of Morality, p. 25
13. Henry David Thoreau specifically directed his arguments for civil
disobedience against ________.
a. corporate greed sweeping the country
b. government corruption in Washington, D.C.
*c. slavery and war
d. American imperialism
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Civil Disobedience: The Politics of Morality, p. 25
14. The political game of accommodation ________.
*a. is marked by cooperation, bargaining, and balloting
b. stresses voluntary agreement and free choice
c. relies on edicts
d. was epitomized by the Watergate scandal
Learning Objective: 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Game of Politics; The Destruction-
Accommodation-Conversion Continuum, p. 15
15. Which of the following is NOT part of Machiavelli’s concept of
politics?
a. Physical power, particularly military strength, is crucial in nation-
state politics.
b. In order for political leaders to survive, the ends justify the means.
*c. Machiavelli excludes the rule of law and Christian morality.
d. The leader must seek to be both feared and loved.
Learning Objective: 1-1, 1-4
Bloom’s Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Game of Politics; The Destruction-
Accommodation-Conversion Continuum, p. 22
