Unit 1 Quiz

The United States' economy operates primarily as a?

• free-market system.

• Free-market system with major elements of socialism.

• Socialist system with some free-market elements.

• Socialist system.

• None of these answers are correct.

Which best describes Americans' “unalienable rights” in the Declaration of Independence?

• Freedoms belonging to every person that cannot be legally taken away by the government.

• “God-given” rights that all people possess from birth.

• Freedom from government interference in any aspect of life.

• Freedom from religious persecution.

• The freedoms necessary to become “a perfect nation.”

What has democracy come to mean in practice?

• Majority rule through the free and open election of representatives.

• Pluralistic government through elected reps and interest groups.

• Oligarchic government through a legislature chosen by election.

• Elitist control through interest group politics.

• Pluralism via elected reps and corporate interests.

Approximately what share of Americans refused to take COVID-19 seriously?

• Less than one third.

• More than one half.

• More than one third.

• Less than one half.

• Nearly all.

A government's authority?

• Is evidenced when officials use their right to exercise power.

• Is by definition not coercive.

• Does not include the power to arrest and imprison.

• Ensures lawlessness prevails.

• Is based on pluralism.

Europeans have greater acceptance than Americans of?

• Welfare policies that relieve personal responsibility.

• Executive branch strength.

• Majoritarian government.

• Corporate special interests in legislation.

• Corporate money in elections.

U.S. firms have greater power than firms in other Western democracies over?

• Wages and working conditions.

• Stock market fluctuations.

• Interest rates.

• Bond market rates.

• Greenhouse gas emissions.

In recent years,?

• Our politics has become more divisive and heated, leaders have lied more readily, and we have come to tolerate it more.

• Politics has become more heated and divisive.

• Americans tolerate leaders slanting facts.

• Leaders lie more.

• Americans embrace truthful politicians.

Rules to keep U.S. politics peaceful include all EXCEPT?

• Autocracy.

• Democracy.

• Constitutionalism.

• Free markets.

• None of these answers are correct.

Pennycook and Rand call judging claims by source or repetition?

• “Cognitive laziness.”

• “Cognitive disconnect.”

• “Cognitive bias.”

• “Cult of personality.”

• “Cognitive dissonance.”