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