WorksheetsGovernment unit 1
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 9hrs 0mins
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support a constitutional amendment banning all abortions?
liberals
conservatives
libertarians
independents
Which of the following individuals would be most likely to vote in a Republican primary?
A 55-year-old African American saleswoman from Georgia who has a master's degree
A 65-year-old Hispanic male from California who is retired and lives on social security
A 45-year-old white businessman from South Carolina who attends church weekly
A 35-year-old female secretary from New York with an associate's degree who is a devout Catholic
The electoral college system generally allocates electoral votes on the basis of
majority rule
candidate performance in each county within a state
winner-take-all
proportional representation.
A voter's decision to support the incumbent president in an upcoming election is based on recent economic growth and record low unemployment. Which of the following models of voting behavior best characterizes this voter's decision?
Prospective voting
Party-line voting
Retrospective voting
Rational choice voting
The process by which an individual acquires his/her political orientations is known as political:
indoctrination
demography
orientation
socialization
In the past, some states limited voting rights by
Eliminating literacy tests
Overruling grandfather clauses
Passing political socialization laws
Charging a poll tax
Which of the following scenarios is most related to the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
An eighteen-year-old votes in a presidential election.
An interest group purchases a television ad prior to an election.
A primary election is held to determine the candidate who will run as the Republican for the United States Senate.
A woman votes in a local election.
Which of the following is NOT a trait of a liberal democracy?
Holding regular, frequent, and competitive elections
Having a lively and free press
Achieving income equality
Protecting minority rights
The most loyal Democratic voters in presidential elections are:
Baptists
Jews
African Americans
Hispanics
Which of the following concepts refers to the beliefs about government and politics that people in the United States hold most deeply?
Policy attitude
Party identification
Group identity
Political culture
Which of the following is TRUE about American elections over the past 50 years?
Suffrage has narrowed, and the turnout has decreased.
Suffrage has broadened, and the turnout has increased.
Suffrage has broadened, and the turnout has decreased.
Suffrage has narrowed, and the turnout has increased.
Senator Hoffman is campaigning for reelection in her state. Her campaign message emphasizes how the policies she has supported have benefited her constituents. She has spotlighted job creation and an overall improvement in the standard of living in the state in the past six years. Senator Hoffman is hoping to appeal to which of the following voting behavior models?
Prospective voting
Party-line voting
Rational-choice voting
Retrospective voting
Which of the following is true about voting behavior in the United States?
During the twentieth century, the proportion of African Americans who voted was approximately the same as the proportion of White Americans who voted.
College graduates are more likely to vote than are those who have at most a high school diploma.
Since 1920, the proportion of women who have voted is approximately the same as the proportion of men who have voted.
Voters under the age of 25 are more likely to vote than are those in any other age group.
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 was designed to
reduce the number of qualifications for voting
prevent states from denying suffrage to convicted felons
eliminate voter registration
increase voter turnout
All of the following are traditional political values held by most Americans EXCEPT
representative democracy
equality of outcome
due process of law
individual freedom
A political science professor is researching the effects that the Fifteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments have had on the American political system. Which of the following is the most likely reason the professor is researching these amendments?
To study the expansion of due process rights
To study the expansion of the right to equal protection under the law
To study the expansion of federal authority over states
To study the expansion of voting rights
A person votes for Democratic candidates based on the belief that the policies of the Democratic Party will be personally beneficial. This type of voting matches which of the following voting behavior models?
Retrospective voting
Rational-choice voting
Split-ticket voting
Prospective voting
If voters are acting according to the retrospective model of voting, which of the following will be the most important consideration in their decision?
The party affiliations of the candidates
The campaign promises made by the candidates
The effect of recent economic conditions on the voters
Whether the candidates will act in the best interest of the voters if elected
The party's vice-presidential nominee is chosen
by party caucuses.
through a competitive roll-call vote on the final day of the convention.
on the basis of the second largest number of delegates at the convention.
on the basis of the presidential nominee's recommendation.
Typically, presidential candidates implement their campaign strategies by
ignoring the electoral college, because more states are moving away from the winner-take-all system
focusing on larger, competitive states, because they might tip the balance of the electoral college
focusing on small states, because these states have proportionally more electoral votes than more populous states have
applying their resources evenly among the states, because they must win popular votes in a majority of the states to be elected
The electoral college system leads presidential candidates of both parties to
raise money from a diverse mix of states
mobilize poor voters in urban areas
lobby state legislatures for their support
focus their campaigns on competitive swing states
Which of the following statements about voting behavior in national elections is most accurate?
Senior citizens are more likely to vote than are college students.
Men are more likely to vote than are women.
Democrats are more likely to vote than are Republicans.
Those with less than a high school education are more likely to vote than are college graduates.
The purpose of front loading is for
political parties to have a smooth nominating process
presidential candidates to save money that they might need in the general election
states to have a chance to nominate favorite son candidates
states to have greater influence in choosing the presidential nominees
Political socialization can be defined as
Allegiance to a family or school
Learning how to be a politician
The process by which each person acquires political opinions
The choosing of a political party
When party members meet and move around the room to nominate a candidate for office, they participate in which of the following?
Closed primary
Open primary
Caucus
General election
Which of the following describes an effect of the Twenty-Fourth Amendment?
It eliminated poll taxes
It assured equal access to places of public accommodation regardless of race
It increased the importance of the Speaker of the House of Representatives
It reduced barriers to political participation on the basis of gender.
A citizen who uses the rational choice model of voting behavior selects candidates for office based on
the recent performance of the candidates running for office
the label of the party running for office
predictions of how a candidate will perform in the future
what is thought to be in the citizen's own self-interest
A major reason for America's level of voter turnout compared to other industrialized countries is
the use of compulsion penalties in the US
a more cumbersome registration process in the United States
greater interest in democracy in the United States
Americans' high sense of political efficacy.
Voter turnout tends to be highest among
working-class voters
college-educated voters
young voters
low-income voters
Which of the following is true of voter turnout in the United States?
The South votes in larger numbers than does any other region of the country.
Three-fourths of the electorate votes in a presidential election
The voter-participation rate is one of the lowest of any industrialized nation.
Men vote in larger numbers than do women.
The greater one's sense of political efficacy, the
lesser one's chance of winning an election
more likely one is to be an independent
more likely one is to be politically apathetic.
more likely one is to vote.
The most widely performed act of political participation in the United States is
voting in presidential elections
contributing money to political candidates
attending local party meetings
voting in local elections
Which question is asked if an individual is engaging in retrospective voting?
What have the candidates done while in office?
Which political party is the candidate aligned with?
Who is the more attractive candidate?
Who will be lowering taxes?
Party identification in the United States is most successfully transmitted by which of the following?
Family
Workplace
Church
The media
When people vote for candidates from only one party, it is called
dealignment
republicanism
party line voting
ticket splitting
Gender gap refers to
greater poverty of women compared to men
greater success of men than women in winning public office
a pattern where women are more likely than men to vote Democratic
difference in wages between men and women.
