
Interest Groups and Media
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is an important difference between interest groups and political parties?
Interest groups have more members than political parties.
Interest groups have platforms addressing all issues of public concern.
Interest groups are organized to elect their candidates to political office.
Interest groups attempt to influence government directly on particular issues.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which of the following is NOT one of the ways in which the media influence government?
by providing information to the public
by contributing to election campaign funds
by focusing public attention on particular issues
by making public officials accountable for their actions
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The diagram gives details about the American political system.
Which title completes the diagram?
How interest groups influence elections
How interest groups use publicity to win support
How interest groups monitor government activities
How interest groups lobby state and federal government
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Sarah felt very strongly about an issue in the news. She wrote to her representative in Congress and expressed her feelings on the issue. Then started a petition on the same issue, collected signatures from her neighbors and sent it off. Which statement describes Sarah's activities?
She was acting as a lobbyist
She was forming her own political party.
She was starting her own special interest group.
She was influencing government as an individual.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The graph shows where Americans obtain their news.
Based upon the information in the graph, where should a candidate in 2007 have spent the most campaign funds for advertising?
newspaper
television
Internet
radio
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Italians make the best chefs in the world." what does this statement show?
a form of media
being a watchdog
an example of bias
an example of symbolism
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The table describes four interest groups
Which of these interest groups would be mostly likely to support a ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?
Interest Group #1
Interest Group #2
Interest Group #3
Interest Group #4
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