TEST BANK
** All Chapters included
** MCQs & True/False
,Table of Contents are given below
Chapter 1 THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINCIPLES
Chapter 2 THE REVOLUTION AND THE CONSTITUTION
Chapter 3 FEDERALISM AND AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 4 POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION AND PUBLIC OPINION
Chapter 5 THE MASS MEDIA AND THE POLITICAL AGENDA
Chapter 6 NTEREST GROUPS: THE POLITICS OF INFLUENCE
Chapter 7 POLITICAL PARTIES: WINNING THE RIGHT TO GOVERN
Chapter 8 VOTING, CAMPAIGNS, AND ELECTIONS
Chapter 9 CONGRESS: PARTISANSHIP, POLARIZATION, AND GRIDLOCK
Chapter 10 THE PRESIDENT: EXECUTIVE POWER IN A SEPARATION OF
POWERS REGIME Chapter 11 BUREAUCRACY: REDESIGNING GOVERNMENT
FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Chapter 12 THE FEDERAL COURTS: BULWARK OF THE CONSTITUTION?
Chapter 13 CIVIL LIBERTIES: ORDERED LIBERTY IN AMERICA
Chapter 14 CIVIL RIGHTS: WHERE LIBERTY AND EQUALITY COLLIDE
Chapter 15 GOVERNMENT, THE ECONOMY, AND DOMESTIC POLICY
Chapter 16 AMERICA’S GLOBAL ROLE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
,Chapter 1 Test Bank in Word for 13e
Note: Questions in bold also appear in a self-test quiz for students on the student resources website
routledgelearning.com/americangovernment
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answer A B C D
A custom, practice, or b a policy an institution a legal procedure a rule
organization, often embedded
in rules and law, is called ^___.^
Which of these terms refers to d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
the rule of an elite few for their
own interests?
According to Plato, who should a A philosopher-king A political The few wisest None of these
rule a properly constituted science-king citizens
polis?
According to Aristotle’s typology d Oligarchy is a Democracy is a Tyranny is any All of these statements
of governments, which one of government government government that is accurately define a
these statements accurately organized around organized around oppressive to the type of government.
defines a type of government? a few men who many men who people.
are primarily are primarily
motivated by their motivated by the
narrow private broad public
and class interests. interest.
Which one of the following pairs c Paris and London Berlin and Madrid Athens and Rome Oslo and Copenhagen
of cities formed the centers of
the two greatest European
societies of the ancient world?
, Before it was an empire, what c It was always an It was a It was a republic. It was a polity.
was ancient Rome? empire. democracy.
Which two theorists made the a Polybius and Plato and St. Augustine and Thomas Hobbes and
first and most influential efforts Cicero Aristotle St. Thomas Aquinas John Locke
to explain how mixed
governments can work in
practice?
According to the Pro & Con b The people met in A deep respect Slaves and resident All citizens were given
section, which of the following the Assembly to for the individual aliens (three-fifths one vote in the
descriptions was not a discuss and decide rights and of the population) Assembly
characteristic of “Athenian major issues liberties of all city were denied
democracy?” residents citizenship
What is the temporal world? c The world of the The world of the The world of The otherworldly
sacred politically peoples and nations
powerful and human history
Who wrote that, without an all- c Niccolò John Calvin Thomas Hobbes John Locke
powerful monarch, human Machiavelli
beings will fall into a war of all
against all in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish,
and short”?
Who was the founder of the c Martin Luther Thomas Hobbes Martin Luther John Winthrop
Protestant Reformation? King, Jr.
In addition to social contract c Nothing else was There is nothing Separation of Unlimited,
theory, what are two other taken. besides social powers and free immoderate
concepts taken from classical contract theory markets constitutional regimes
liberalism that influenced the in classical
liberalism.
** All Chapters included
** MCQs & True/False
,Table of Contents are given below
Chapter 1 THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINCIPLES
Chapter 2 THE REVOLUTION AND THE CONSTITUTION
Chapter 3 FEDERALISM AND AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 4 POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION AND PUBLIC OPINION
Chapter 5 THE MASS MEDIA AND THE POLITICAL AGENDA
Chapter 6 NTEREST GROUPS: THE POLITICS OF INFLUENCE
Chapter 7 POLITICAL PARTIES: WINNING THE RIGHT TO GOVERN
Chapter 8 VOTING, CAMPAIGNS, AND ELECTIONS
Chapter 9 CONGRESS: PARTISANSHIP, POLARIZATION, AND GRIDLOCK
Chapter 10 THE PRESIDENT: EXECUTIVE POWER IN A SEPARATION OF
POWERS REGIME Chapter 11 BUREAUCRACY: REDESIGNING GOVERNMENT
FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Chapter 12 THE FEDERAL COURTS: BULWARK OF THE CONSTITUTION?
Chapter 13 CIVIL LIBERTIES: ORDERED LIBERTY IN AMERICA
Chapter 14 CIVIL RIGHTS: WHERE LIBERTY AND EQUALITY COLLIDE
Chapter 15 GOVERNMENT, THE ECONOMY, AND DOMESTIC POLICY
Chapter 16 AMERICA’S GLOBAL ROLE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
,Chapter 1 Test Bank in Word for 13e
Note: Questions in bold also appear in a self-test quiz for students on the student resources website
routledgelearning.com/americangovernment
Single-Select Multiple Choice
Question Answer A B C D
A custom, practice, or b a policy an institution a legal procedure a rule
organization, often embedded
in rules and law, is called ^___.^
Which of these terms refers to d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
the rule of an elite few for their
own interests?
According to Plato, who should a A philosopher-king A political The few wisest None of these
rule a properly constituted science-king citizens
polis?
According to Aristotle’s typology d Oligarchy is a Democracy is a Tyranny is any All of these statements
of governments, which one of government government government that is accurately define a
these statements accurately organized around organized around oppressive to the type of government.
defines a type of government? a few men who many men who people.
are primarily are primarily
motivated by their motivated by the
narrow private broad public
and class interests. interest.
Which one of the following pairs c Paris and London Berlin and Madrid Athens and Rome Oslo and Copenhagen
of cities formed the centers of
the two greatest European
societies of the ancient world?
, Before it was an empire, what c It was always an It was a It was a republic. It was a polity.
was ancient Rome? empire. democracy.
Which two theorists made the a Polybius and Plato and St. Augustine and Thomas Hobbes and
first and most influential efforts Cicero Aristotle St. Thomas Aquinas John Locke
to explain how mixed
governments can work in
practice?
According to the Pro & Con b The people met in A deep respect Slaves and resident All citizens were given
section, which of the following the Assembly to for the individual aliens (three-fifths one vote in the
descriptions was not a discuss and decide rights and of the population) Assembly
characteristic of “Athenian major issues liberties of all city were denied
democracy?” residents citizenship
What is the temporal world? c The world of the The world of the The world of The otherworldly
sacred politically peoples and nations
powerful and human history
Who wrote that, without an all- c Niccolò John Calvin Thomas Hobbes John Locke
powerful monarch, human Machiavelli
beings will fall into a war of all
against all in which life is
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish,
and short”?
Who was the founder of the c Martin Luther Thomas Hobbes Martin Luther John Winthrop
Protestant Reformation? King, Jr.
In addition to social contract c Nothing else was There is nothing Separation of Unlimited,
theory, what are two other taken. besides social powers and free immoderate
concepts taken from classical contract theory markets constitutional regimes
liberalism that influenced the in classical
liberalism.
