Answer Options:
A. is sexual harassment.
B. is gender discrimination.
C. violates Title VII.
D. violates the Civil Rights Acts of 1964.
E. is considered illegal if engaged in by a private corporation but acceptable if engaged in by the government.
Answer: B. is gender discrimination.
Question: Oversight is the process by which Congress:
Answer Options:
A. votes to overturn any law it has enacted.
B. follows up on the laws it has enacted.
C. supervises the activity of the judicial branch.
D. passes legislation.
Answer: B. follows up on the laws it has enacted.
Question: All of the following statements are true about gerrymandering except:
Answer Options:
A. the term of gerrymandering has been repealed.
B. the term originally came into use to signify a government of Massachusetts named Gerry.
C. the tactic of gerrymandering is used to create districts to the advantage of one political party or another.
D. the use of gerrymandering has been used for racial discrimination.
E. the practice can cause excessive manipulation of the shape of a district.
Answer: A. the term of gerrymandering has been repealed.
Question: As your textbook explains, ethnocentrism means ______.
Answer Options:
A. holding that Socrates was a speaker’s frame of reference
B. agreeing with the values and practices of other groups and cultures
C. recognizing that listeners are interested in how a topic relates to them
D. showing respect to other groups and cultures
E. believing one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures
Answer: E. believing one’s own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures
Question: A poll tax was used to:
Answer Options:
A. prevent northern immigrants from moving to the South and voting in local elections.
B. determine who was intelligent enough to vote.
C. dissuade African Americans and poor whites from voting.
D. force individuals to buy property in order to be eligible to vote.
E. raise funds for voter registration among the minority community.
Answer: C. dissuade African Americans and poor whites from voting.
Question: The Bill of Rights:
Answer Options:
A. protects individual religious freedom.
B. allows state government to regulate religion.
C. allows the national government to regulate religion.
D. provides for an official state religion.
E. provides protection for state drug use in religious ceremonies.
Answer: A. protects individual religious freedom.
Question: A matching bell tower usually detached from a cathedral is a…
Answer Options:
A. Campanile.
B. Choir.
C. Refectory.
D. Vestibule.
Answer: A. Campanile.
Question: The Guilds main purpose was to…
Answer Options:
A. Control the military.
B. Recruit priests and nuns.
C. Emphasize learning and knowledge.
D. Control their crafts.
Answer: D. Control their crafts.
Question: A signing statement:
Answer Options:
A. is a written declaration that a president may make when signing a bill into law.
B. notifies the public to pieces of the law that the president thinks may be unconstitutional.
C. must accompany treaties submitted to the Senate by the president when seeking advice and consent.
D. Options A and B are true.
Answer: D. Options A and B are true.
Question: This term loosely translates as “fool [or deceive] the eye.”
Answer Options:
A. Verisimilitude
B. Trompe l’oeil
C. Mise-en-scène
D. Di sotto in sù
Answer: B. Trompe l’oeil
Question: When reaching the age of majority:
Answer Options:
A. a person is entitled to handle one’s own affairs without parental interference.
B. an individual is not legally liable for contracts signed.
C. a person may be subject to more severe penalties for crimes committed.
D. an immigrant is eligible to become an American citizen.
E. Options A and C are true.
Answer: A. a person is entitled to handle one’s own affairs without parental interference.
E. Options A and C are true.
Question: After a bill has been introduced and referred to a committee, the committee:
Answer Options:
A. on which a bill has been referred is required to pass the bill on to the entire house.
B. is not allowed to make changes in the wording of the bill.
C. may hold hearings and discussions to explore the merits of the bill.
D. may give some bills a subcommittee, although the Constitution requires that subcommittee involvement in legislation not exceed 25 percent of the total congressional workload.
E. is required by the Constitution to consult with the president of the United States or the president’s officially designated legislative liaison.
Answer: C. may hold hearings and discussions to explore the merits of the bill.
Question: The tendency to see the beliefs, values, and customs of one’s own culture or group as “right” or “natural” is called ______.
Answer Options:
A. ethnocentrism
B. egocentrism
C. ethnicity
D. exclusivity
E. essentialism
Answer: A. ethnocentrism
Question: The power of judicial review:
Answer Options:
A. is not specifically listed in the Constitution.
B. is the judicial power to review the constitutionality of laws or actions by other branches of government.
C. was claimed by the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison.
D. All of the above.
E. None of the above.
Answer: D. All of the above.
Question: The impeachment process begins with charges in _________ and concludes with a trial in _________.
Answer Options:
A. the House of Representatives; the Senate
B. the Senate; the House of Representatives
C. both houses of Congress; the Supreme Court
D. the Supreme Court; the Senate
E. the Supreme Court; the House of Representatives
Answer: A. the House of Representatives; the Senate
Question: A sizable majority of _______ who run for reelection are _______.
Answer Options:
A. House members; defeated in party primaries.
B. Senators; defeated in general elections.
C. incumbents; defeated in party primaries.
D. incumbents; successful.
Answer: D. incumbents; successful.
Question: Since the Twenty-Sixth Amendment expanded the right to vote to all citizens over eighteen years, turnout rates among young voters have:
Answer Options:
A. been about the same as older voters.
B. been much lower than older voters.
C. been much higher than older voters.
D. slowly moved from very high to very high.
E. slowly declined from very high to very low.
Answer: B. been much lower than older voters.