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WorksheetsPolling Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is public opinion?
What people feel about issues
What people believe about public policies
The attitudes people express on political issues
What the public thinks about any subject or topic
Why are polls useful?
Polls provide the public with information that is useful during elections
Polls provide candidates and campaigns relevant information about their performance
Polls provide information to policy-makers about important public policy issues
All the above
What are straw polls?
Sample populations that are not demographically stratified
Sample populations that are not randomly selected
Sample populations that do not represent the general population
All the above
Which poll uses randomly selected and stratified sample populations to predict the voting behavior of a large population?
Online polls
Focus groups
Scientific polls
None of the above
What kind of bias is produced in polls when people refuse to participate in polling calls?
Apathetic bias
Alienated bias
Nonresponsive bias
Response bias
What polls are really rumor mills?
Tracking polls
Push polls
Pull polls
Bias polls
Which technique is used to find the preferences of a particular demographic group?
Focus groups
Online polls
Push polls
None of the above
What is the purpose of polling?
To predict political behavior by sampling public attitudes
To help politicians in campaigns by identifying political trends
To provide the public with information
All the above
What is the viewed as an acceptable margin-of-error in political polling?
(+/-) 3-4%
(+/-) 4-5%
(+/-) 2-3%
(+/-) 2-6%
What is the optimal sample population size?
1000
800
1400
2500
Which poll is not scientific?
Straw polls
Focus groups
Push-polls
All the above
What does everybody have which enables them to participate in politics to one extent or another?
A sense of patriotism
Ideological beliefs
Political resources
$$$
What term describes the process of creating a public value system?
Public indoctrination
Political socialization
Political acculturation
None of the above
Which answer contains an agency of socialization?
The cable news, social media, and schools
Religions, social class, place of residency
Peer groups, gender, and race
All the above
What socialization factor has the most influence in determining a person’s degree of political participation?
Family
Religion
Education
Peers
What are the social components of political efficacy?
Knowing democratic principles
Knowing how government and the political system works
The individual knowing her or his stake in the political process
All the above
