For- American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change 12th Edition by Cal Jillson, All Chapters 1
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American Government Political Development and Institutional Change By Cal Jillson
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Chapter 1 Test Bank in Word for 12e x x x x x x x
Single-Select Multiple Choice x x
Question Answer A B C D
A custom, practice, or
x x x b policy institution legal procedure
x rule
organization, often embedded
x x x
in rules and law, is called a
x x x x x x x
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Which of these terms refers to x x x x x d Monarchy Polis Democracy Oligarchy
the rule of an elite few for their
x x x x x x x x
own interests? x
According to Plato, who should x x x x a A philosopher-
x A political science-
x x The few wisest
x x None of these x x
rule a properly constituted
x x x king
x king
x citizens
x
polis?
x
According to Aristotle’s typology x x x d Oligarchy is a x x Democracy is a x x Tyranny is any x x All of these
x x
of governments, which of these
x x x x x xgovernment government
x government that is
x x x
statements accurately defines a
x x x x xorganized around x organized around
x x oppressive to the
x x x
type of government?
x x x xa few men who
x x x many men who
x x x people.
x
xare primarily
x are primarily
x x
xmotivated by x motivated by the
x x x
xtheir narrow
x broad public
x x
xprivate and class x x interest.
x
interests.
Which one of the following pairsx x x x x c Paris and London
x x Berlin and Madrid
x x Athens and Rome x x Oslo and Copenhagen
x x
of cities formed the centers of
x x x x x
,the two greatest European
x x x
societies of the ancient world?
x x x x x
Before it was an empire, what
x x x x x c It was always an
x x x It was a
x x It was a republic.
x x x It was a polity.
x x x
was ancient Rome?
x x x xempire. xdemocracy.
Which theorists made the first
x x x x a Polybius and x Plato and Aristotle x x St. Augustine and St.
x x x Thomas Hobbes and x x
and most influential efforts to
x x x x x xCicero Thomas Aquinas
x x John Locke
x x
explain how mixed governments
x x x x
can work in practice?
x x x
According to the Pro & Con x x x x x b The people met
x x A deep respect for Slaves and resident
x x x x x All citizens were given
x x x
section, which of the following
x x x x x in the Assembly
x x x the individual
x x aliens (three-fifths x x one vote in the
x x x x
was not a characteristic of
x x x x x to discuss and
x x x rights and liberties of the population)
x x x x x x Assembly
x
“Athenian democracy?” x decide major x of all city residents were denied
x x x x x
issues
x citizenship x
What is the temporal world?
x x x x c The world of the
x x x The world of the
x The world of x x x x The otherworldly
x
sacred
x politically peoples and nations x x
powerful
x and human history x x x
Who wrote that, without an all-
x x x x x c Niccolò John Calvin x Thomas Hobbes x John Locke x
powerful monarch, human
x x x Machiavelli
x
beings will fall into a war of all
x x x x x x x x
against all in which life is
x x x x x x
“solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, x x x
and short”? x
Who was the founder of the
x x x x x c Martin Luther x Thomas Hobbes x Martin Luther x John Winthrop x
Protestant Reformation?
x x King, Jr.
x x
In addition to social contract
x x x x c Nothing else was x x There is nothing Separation of
x x x Unlimited, immoderate x
xtheory, what are two other x x x x taken.
x besides social
x powers and free
x x x x constitutional regimes
x x
xconcepts taken from classical x x x contract theory in markets
x x x x
xliberalism that influenced the x x x classical liberalism.
x x
Founding generation? x
, Who were the Pilgrims?
x x x b Wealthy English x Middling English x Wealthy English x Middling English x
Puritans who
x x Puritans who
x x Anglicans who
x x Anglicans who settled
x x x
settled in the
x x x settled in New
x x x settled in the South
x x x x in the Mid-Atlantic in
x x x x
South in order to
x x x x England in order
x x x in order to develop
x x x x order to develop it
x x x x
avoid religious
x x to avoid religious
x x x it economically
x x economically and in
x x x
persecution in
x x persecution in
x x some cases to avoid
x x x x
their home
x x their home
x x religious persecution in
x x x
country country their home country x x
In the population of the
x x x x a The English x The Irish x The Germans x The Dutch x
xAmerican colonies in 1765, x x x
xwhich ethnic group was the x x x x
xlargest?
What drove the idea behind the
x x x x x d The orthodox did
x x Banishment was x The vastness of the
x x x All of thesex x
xnotion that the Americans had x x x x not feel the need
x x x x an accepted form
x x x xland allowed for x x
x“space” for dissent? x x to destroy the
x x x of punishment.
x x xpockets of x
unorthodox.
x xacceptability
xinterspersed
xbetween places of x x
orthodoxy.
What was political participation
x x x a It was very
x x It was oligarchic
x x It was oligarchic and
x x x It was aristocratic and
x x x
like in the early colonies?
x x x x x xdemocratic in x xbut still modestly
x x xhence not very x x xhence not very x x
xnature. xdemocratic in x xdemocratic at all in x x x xdemocratic at all in x x x
nature. nature. nature.
To what area of social life did
x x x x x x c Law Government and x The economy x Culture
xAdam Smith most extensivelyx x x xpolitics
xapply the principles of classical
x x x x
liberalism?
Which Enlightenment thinker x x d Thomas Hobbes x Niccolò Baron de x Francis Bacon x
xargued the earliest and most x x x x Machiavelli
x Montesquieu
x
xinfluentially that science and x x x
discovery worked for the eternal x x x x