Question: Which concept refers to efficient policymaking?
Answer Choices:
Rationality, Policy accountability, Implementation, Systemic agenda
Answer: Rationality
Question: The Texas Comptroller predicts declining receipts in the tobacco settlement account due to fewer cigarette purchases.
Answer Choices:
True, False
Answer: True
Question: What does the “three strikes” law require?
Answer Choices:
knock before entry, officer suspension, three misdemeanors = life, three felonies = life
Answer: A person convicted of three felonies (or in some cases two felonies) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
Question: How many jurors are in Texas felony and misdemeanor cases?
Answer Choices:
9;6, 6;12, 12;5, 12;6
Answer: 12; 6
Question: “Beyond a reasonable doubt” applies to what cases?
Answer Choices:
misdemeanor, both felony and misdemeanor, felony, civil
Answer: both felony and misdemeanor cases
Question: What group does Supplemental Security Income (SSI) aid?
Answer Choices:
orphaned children, returning combat veterans, people who are disabled or the elderly with low incomes, long-term unemployed
Answer: people who are disabled or the elderly with low incomes.
Question: The majority of Texas’s federal fund expenditures go toward health and human services and education.
Answer Choices:
True, False
Answer: True
Question: Funds that are not designated for a specific purpose and can be used for any type of expenditure are called what?
Answer Choices:
Special Funds, Miscellaneous Funds, General Funds, Trust Funds
Answer: Miscellaneous Funds
Question: Which region in Texas has the highest poverty rate?
Answer Choices:
the Dallas–Fort Worth area, the area north of San Antonio, the Austin area, the area along the border
Answer: the area along the border
Question: Money from Texas’ State Highway Fund can be used to acquire rights of way for roadways.
Answer Choices:
True, False
Answer: True
Question: Which agency monitors land crossings between Texas and Mexico?
Answer Choices:
Texas Border Enforcement Agency, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Border Enforcement Agency, Texas Border Patrol
Answer: U.S. Border Patrol
Question: What term refers to the legislative authorization to spend money for a specific purpose?
Answer Choices:
appropriations, expenditures, budgets, obligations
Answer: appropriations
Question: What is one challenge to the 60x30TX plan?
Answer Choices:
finding qualified faculty, lack of agreements, overenrollment, funding issues
Answer: finding qualified faculty to teach at Texas colleges and universities
Question: Which U.S. department maintains the standard for measuring poverty?
Answer Choices:
Agriculture caloric intake index
Treasury income inequality index
Health and Human Services poverty index
Labor unemployment index
Answer: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services poverty index.
Question: In Ruiz v. Estelle (1972), the court ruled that:
Answer Choices:
Punishment matched crimes.
Inmates’ rights were violated.
Treatment met U.S. guidelines but not Texas’s.
Treatment was ethical.
Answer: inmates’ constitutionally guaranteed rights had been violated in Texas prisons.
Question: Which case guarantees the right to counsel if you cannot afford one?
Answer Choices:
Betts v. Brady, Ruiz v. Estelle, Miranda v. Arizona, Gideon v. Wainwright
Answer: Gideon v. Wainwright
Question: Parole is decided by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Answer Choices:
True, False
Answer: True
Question: Which office is responsible for auditing state agencies in Texas?
Answer Choices:
the state auditor’s office, the comptroller’s office, the governor’s office, the legislature
Answer: the state auditor’s office
Question: Which of the following is a major source of revenue for the state of Texas?
Answer Choices:
federal grants, sales taxes, taxes paid by oil and gas companies, property taxes
Answer: taxes paid by oil and gas companies
Question: An assigned counsel is a private attorney appointed by a judge.
Answer Choices:
True, False
Answer: True