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WorksheetsUnit 5 Review
Total questions: 58
Worksheet time: 29mins
Which statement best defines a social movement in U.S. politics?
A temporary campaign that focuses only on electing a specific candidate
Groups that educate the public and put pressure on policymakers to bring about societal change
A formal government agency that enforces existing laws without public input
A private business coalition that seeks profit through market competition
Which constitutional amendment granted black males the right to vote?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
Pair each amendment to the group whose voting rights it expanded: 15th Amendment; 19th Amendment.
15th—women; 19th—black males
15th—black males; 19th—women
15th—property owners; 19th—non-citizens
15th—former slaves only; 19th—men without property
A state proposes a law to restrict women from voting in primary elections. Which amendment would most directly conflict with this proposal?
15th Amendment
17th Amendment
19th Amendment
24th Amendment
What barrier to voting did the 24th Amendment specifically remove?
Literacy tests
Residency requirements
Poll taxes
Party registration
Which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
22nd Amendment
23rd Amendment
24th Amendment
26th Amendment
A policy proposal suggests raising the voting age back to 21. Which amendment would it conflict with unless the Constitution were amended again?
First Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Which statement best defines political efficacy?
Feeling satisfied with election outcomes regardless of participation
Believing that your vote matters and that you can make effective political change
Trusting only national elections and ignoring local ones
Supporting a specific political party without voting
A person with high political efficacy is most likely to do which of the following?
Avoid political discussions
Assume elections are predetermined
Participate in voting because they believe it can create change
Refuse to register to vote
According to the voter demographics listed, which group is MOST likely to vote?
Women over the age of 60 who are educated
Men under 25 with no college education
New voters who recently turned 18
People who dislike politics
Which combination reflects the listed demographics most likely to vote?
Male, young, less educated
Female, older than 60, educated
Female, under 25, not educated
Any gender, middle-aged, uneducated
What does the term GOTV most directly refer to in U.S. elections?
Counting ballots after polls close
Mobilization of voters (getting people to vote)
Designing campaign advertisements
Registering political parties
Which scenario best illustrates GOTV in action?
A news outlet reports election results on TV.
Volunteers call registered citizens to remind them to vote and offer rides to the polls.
A candidate drafts a new policy platform.
Officials draw new district boundaries.
Which statement best defines Rational Choice Voting as presented?
Voting strictly based on party identification
Voting for a candidate you believe will benefit you personally
Voting for the incumbent regardless of issues
Voting randomly to protest the system
Party line (straight ticket) voting primarily involves which action?
Choosing candidates after evaluating personal benefits
Splitting the ticket between multiple parties
Choosing all candidates that align with your party
Abstaining from voting in down-ballot races
A voter selects a candidate because that candidate’s policies would directly reduce the voter’s taxes. Which voting behavior type does this illustrate?
Rational Choice Voting
Party Line/straight ticket voting
Random-choice voting
Retrospective voting
A voter marks the ballot for every candidate from the same political party without reviewing individual positions. Which voting behavior type does this illustrate?
Rational Choice Voting
Party Line/straight ticket voting
Split-ticket voting
Issue-based independent voting
Which phrase best defines prospective voting?
Judging a candidate by their past performance in office
Voting based on party identification alone
Voting based on what you believe the candidate will be able to do once elected
Choosing the incumbent because of name recognition
A voter supports a challenger because they expect the candidate to lower taxes if elected. Which voting behavior is this an example of?
Retrospective voting
Prospective voting
Split-ticket voting
Party-line voting
Which statement best captures retrospective voting?
Voting based on future promises and expectations
Voting based on what the candidate has done in elected office
Voting based on media endorsements
Voting based on opinion polls before Election Day
A voter evaluates the incumbent’s record on job growth and decides to vote against them. What type of voting is being used?
Prospective voting
Compulsory voting
Retrospective voting
Strategic voting
Which statement expresses a key criticism of the Electoral College highlighted in the lesson?
It guarantees the national popular vote winner becomes president.
It sometimes allows the popular vote winner to lose the electoral vote (the presidency).
It requires a national runoff election in every state.
It allocates electoral votes equally to all states regardless of population.
In the U.S. Electoral College, what does the Winner Take All system mean at the state level?
Electoral votes are divided proportionally among candidates.
Only third-party candidates can receive electoral votes.
The candidate with the plurality of a state’s popular vote receives all that state’s electoral votes.
A candidate must win a national majority to receive any electoral votes.
Which scenario best illustrates the criticism discussed about the Electoral College?
A candidate wins the most electoral votes and the most popular votes.
A candidate wins the national popular vote but loses the presidency due to fewer electoral votes.
Two candidates tie in both the popular and electoral votes.
A candidate wins a state by a large margin but receives only half of its electoral votes.
Which statement about the Winner Take All system is accurate according to the definition provided?
It awards all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who wins a plurality in that state.
It splits a state’s electoral votes among all candidates who receive at least 10% of the vote.
It requires a candidate to win a majority nationwide before any electoral votes are assigned.
It eliminates the difference between the popular vote and electoral vote.
Which definition best matches the term Swing State?
A state that consistently votes for one party by a large margin
A state where levels of support for the parties are similar and elections swing back and forth between Republicans and Democrats
A state that is not allowed to vote in federal elections
A state that always decides elections because it has the most electoral votes
Which statement best defines a Battleground state?
A state where one party dominates every election
A state where the election results are very close between the two parties
A state that holds primary elections only
A state with no electoral college votes
A campaign has limited resources and must choose one type of state to visit first to potentially change the outcome. Based on the definitions provided, which type should they prioritize?
Safe state
Swing state
Nonvoting territory
Single-party state
If recent polls show nearly equal support for both major parties and the final tally is expected to be extremely close, how would this state most accurately be categorized?
Battleground state
One-party stronghold
Safe Democratic state
Safe Republican state
Which Supreme Court case held that corporations have First Amendment free speech protections in the context of political spending?
Buckley v. Valeo
McCutcheon v. FEC
Citizens United v. FEC
Shaw v. Reno
According to the material, what did the Citizens United ruling help enable?
The abolition of all campaign finance limits
The creation of Super PACs
Public financing for all federal candidates
Direct corporate donations to candidates
Which statement best defines a Super PAC?
A committee that can coordinate directly with a candidate's campaign
An independent expenditure committee that can spend unlimited money on ads but cannot coordinate with a candidate
A traditional PAC that gives limited amounts directly to candidates
A government agency that enforces election laws
Which of the following is prohibited for corporations, labor unions, and associations under the rules described?
Funding independent expenditures
Giving directly to a candidate
Purchasing political advertisements
Advocating for policy positions in public
Which structural feature of U.S. elections makes it hard for third parties to win seats?
Proportional representation in multi-member districts
Winner-take-all, single-member congressional districts
Mandatory public financing for all candidates
Open-list party ballots
Which barrier listed is an informal (not structural) obstacle for third parties?
Winner-take-all rules
Single-member congressional districts
Difficulty fundraising
Ballot access laws written into state statutes
A voter says, "I won’t vote for a third-party candidate because they can’t win here." Which informal barrier does this illustrate?
Main parties absorb their issues
Lack of media attention
Wasting their vote
Single-member districts
Under winner-take-all, single-member congressional districts, what is the typical outcome for third-party candidates in most races?
They gain seats proportional to their vote share
They win the second-place seat
They often receive votes but win no representation
They automatically qualify for televised debates
Which statement best defines a party platform in U.S. politics?
The official list of party leaders for the next election cycle
A set of positions and policy objectives that members of a political party agree to
A fundraising plan used during campaigns
A list of laws passed by a party while in office
When and where is a party platform regularly updated?
Every 2 years during midterm elections
Every presidential election year at the National Convention
Only when a party wins the presidency
At the start of each congressional session
Which statement best defines the Elite theory of democracy as presented?
Power is rotated randomly among citizens each year.
The wealthy class holds a disproportionate amount of economic and political power.
Government power is evenly shared among many competing groups.
Citizens directly vote on every law without representatives.
According to the Pluralist Theory of Democracy, why can no single group grow too powerful?
Courts automatically dissolve large groups.
Elections remove groups after one term.
Political power is distributed among many competing groups.
All power is concentrated in the wealthy elite.
Which scenario best illustrates Participatory Democracy as described?
A small circle of wealthy donors sets policy priorities in private meetings.
Multiple interest groups compete, making compromise likely.
Citizens influence policymaking through involvement in civil society.
A monarch consults nobles before issuing decrees.
Which theory most directly emphasizes the role of wealthy individuals in shaping political outcomes?
Participatory Democracy
Elite theory of democracy
Pluralist Theory of Democracy
If a policymaking process features many interest groups competing so none dominates, which democratic theory is being demonstrated?
Elite theory of democracy
Pluralist Theory of Democracy
Participatory Democracy
Authoritarianism
Which core idea is shared by both the Pluralist Theory of Democracy and Participatory Democracy?
Political power is concentrated in the wealthy class.
Citizen or group involvement helps shape policy outcomes.
Military leaders should control the government.
Only direct votes on laws are legitimate.
Which statement best defines linkage institutions in U.S. politics?
Organizations that write and pass laws directly
Structures that connect the people to the government
Private businesses that fund government agencies
Courts that interpret the Constitution
Which of the following is included as a linkage institution?
The Supreme Court
Political parties
The Federal Reserve Board
Cabinet departments
Which example shows how elections function as a linkage institution?
Judges issue rulings on constitutional cases
Voters choose representatives to express their preferences to government
Congress holds closed-door committee meetings
The president issues an executive order
What is the defining feature of candidate-centered campaigns?
Parties fully control messaging and fundraising
Candidates rely primarily on endorsements from party elites
Candidates develop their own strategies and raise money with less party influence
Campaigns focus only on local issues decided by city councils
According to the vocabulary bank, what is the main goal of political parties?
To enact any policy they favor directly
To get their candidates elected into office
To organize voluntary associations
To regulate elections without candidates
Which statement best defines interest groups as presented in the vocabulary bank?
Government agencies that run elections
Voluntary associations aiming to get policies they favor enacted
Organizations that nominate candidates for office
Courts that interpret policies after passage
Which outcome would most directly indicate a political party achieved its primary objective?
A favored bill is enacted into law
Its candidate wins an election and takes office
A new association of members forms
A court upholds an existing policy
A group of citizens forms an organization to push for a specific environmental policy to be passed. Based on the vocabulary bank, this organization is best described as which of the following?
A political party
An interest group
A government agency
A court
Which statement best defines a free rider in the context of interest groups?
A person who pays dues to an interest group but does not attend meetings
An individual who enjoys the collective goods and benefits from the actions of interest groups without joining
A member who receives extra perks for volunteering
An activist who organizes group protests
Selective benefits are best described as which of the following?
Benefits available to everyone affected by an issue
Benefits available only to those who join the interest group
Benefits provided by the government regardless of membership
Benefits given to nonmembers to encourage free riding
Which scenario illustrates the free rider problem?
Only dues-paying members receive the group's magazine
A resident enjoys cleaner air after an interest group wins stricter pollution laws but never joins the group
Members receive discounted training workshops
An interest group limits access to its research library to members
Interest groups often offer selective benefits primarily to:
Reward nonmembers for supporting the cause informally
Discourage membership growth
Overcome the free rider problem by incentivizing people to join
Provide collective goods to the general public
Voting exclusively for the candidates of one party, is (a)
