Students of Civics Unit 4: Political Parties

What are the two sides of the political spectrum?

• Liberals and Conservatives
• Radicals and Reactionaries
• Democrats and Republicans
• Dumb and Dumber

All of the following are functions of political parties except...

• educating the electorate
• recruiting and nominating candidates
• helping monitor poll taxes
• monitoring the actions of officeholders

Selecting people to run for office represents which job of political parties?

• Nominating
• Watchdog
• Spoiler
• Informing the public

Presidential debates are an important part of the political process.  Which function best describes the purpose of these debates?

• Helping candidates learn what is important to the opposing party
• Recruiting and nominating candidates
• Monitoring the actions of officeholders
• Educating the electorate about campaign issues

Where along the political spectrum do both political parties try to win votes in the general election?

• extreme right
• in the middle
• extreme left

How a political party feels on certain issues is stated in their...

• radio address
• mailing
• pamphlet
• platform

What is the form of government where the citizens rule?

• dictatorship
• rule of law
• Democracy
• Monarchy

Political parties inform supporters by -

• using the media 
• censoring the media
• discouraging communication
• discouraging the use of social media

A collection of all the efforts a candidate makes to win an election.

• party platform
• campaign
• public policy
• political vies

In America, a political party other than Republican or Democratic is called a - 

• Independent
• Moderate
• third party
• Federalist