Straighterline American Government Exam Q&A

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Q&A

Based on his conception of responsible citizenship, John Stuart
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Mill felt that the best form of government was:
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a. Authoritarianism
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b. Anarchism
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c. Communism
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d. Democracy
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e. Socialism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Democracy
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According to the Declaration of Independence, governments get
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their "just powers" from:
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a. God Almighty
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b. the consent of the governed
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c. the various factions
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d. the teachings of Jesus Christ
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e. the benevolence of a just king - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the
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consent of the governed |\ |\ |\




Which of the following is NOT one of the core values of American
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political culture: |\




a. individualism
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b. equality
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,c. cooperation
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d. liberty
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e. self-government - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔cooperation
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Prussian-military theorist Carl von Clausewitz referred to politics |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


as:
a. like making sausage
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b. the burden of citizens
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c. a means to an end
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d. war by other means
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e. a necessary evil - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔war by other means
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The Bill of Rights:
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a. reduced the restrictiveness of constitutionalism
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b. enhanced the powers of the executive
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c. further checked the power of the majority
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d. enhanced the majoritarian nature of government
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e. restricted the power of corporate influence in the government -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔further checked the power of the
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majority


Roughly two-thirds of all lobbyists in the nation's capital
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represent:
a. activist organizations
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b. labor unions
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,c. business firms
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d. foreign-based political action groups
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e. nonprofit organizations - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔business
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firms


The United States has certain rules in place to keep politics
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within peaceful bounds. These rules include all of the following
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EXCEPT:
a. autocracy
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b. democracy
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c. constitutionalism
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d. free markets
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e. none of these answers is correct - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔autocracy


Compared to two decades ago, contemporary Americans are, on
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average:
a. far better informed about political affairs
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b. at about the same level of being informed about political
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affairs
c. getting most of their news from traditional media sources such
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as newspapers
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d. much more knowledgeable about the functioning of America's
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political institutions |\




e. paying more attention to news sources that have an obvious
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ideological bias - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔paying more attention |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


to news sources that have an obvious ideological bias
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, Which of the following is an accurate description of the
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prevalence of college education in the United States? |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




a. Among adults twenty-one years of age and older, roughly half
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are college graduates
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b. Among adults twenty-one years of age and older, roughly one
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in four is a college graduate
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c. Every US state has at least twenty colleges or universities
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within its borders |\ |\




d. Despite having a much higher rate of colleges and universities
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per capita than European countries; the US has a lower rate of
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college graduation per capita |\ |\ |\




e. Although the US has a lower number of colleges and
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universities per capita than Europe, it has a much higher rate of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


college graduation per capita - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Among
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adults twenty-one years of age and older, roughly one in four is a
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college graduate
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To the framers, the great danger of democratic government was
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the risk of:
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a. tyranny of the majority
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b. elite rule
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c. special-interest politics
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d. a weak presidency
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e. judicial imperialism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔tyranny of the
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majority


President John Adams publicly indicated that: |\ |\ |\ |\ |\