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Total number of questions: 35 Percent correct: 54%
Question 1: Participation that involves assembling crowds to confront a government or other official organization is considered Student answered: b) a grassroots mobilization. Correct answer: c) protests.
Question 2: Voter turnout is HIGHEST for which level of government? Student answered: c) National elections Correct answer: c) National elections
Question 3: In general, voter turnout over the last 50 years has Student answered: b) risen. Correct answer: a) declined.
Question 4: After Hurricane Katrina, President Bush's approval rating among blacks Student answered: b) fell to nearly 15 percent. Correct answer: d) was only at 2 percent.
Question 5: The Constitution was amended to allow women the right to vote in all public elections in Student answered: c) 1920. Correct answer: c) 1920.
Question 6: Registration requirements were instituted in the early twentieth century Student answered: a) in order to increase the number of voters. Correct answer: d) to make voting more difficult, to reduce multiple voting and other corruption, as well as to reduce lower-class voting.
Question 7: Which of the following does NOT reduce voter turnout in the US today? Student answered: b) Poll taxes Correct answer: b) Poll taxes
Question 8: Americans are taught to equate citizenship with Student answered: a) paying taxes. Correct answer: b) voting.
Question 9: In terms of mobilizing their constituents, political parties Student answered: b) are beginning to reemphasize direct voter mobilization. Correct answer: b) are beginning to reemphasize direct voter mobilization.
Question 10: What was the effect of the Motor Voter Registration Act in the first Presidential election after it passed? Student answered: a) Voter registration rose, but voter turnout did not. Correct answer: a) Voter registration rose, but voter turnout did not.
Question 11: ___________ is the strategy by which organized interests seek to influence the passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on members of the legislature. Student answered: b) Grassroots mobilization Correct answer: d) Lobbying
Question 12: As Americans are becoming more educated, we are seeing Student answered: a) a moderate increase in political participation. Correct answer: c) an overall tendency for political participation to decline.
Question 13: Which country has higher voter turnout than the United States? Student answered: d) All of the above. Correct answer: d) All of the above.
Question 14: Which of the following is MOST likely to vote? Student answered: b) A 70-year-old middle-class retired person Correct answer: b) A 70-year-old middle-class retired person
Question 15: When income and education are taken into account, Latinos and African Americans vote at Student answered: a) the same rate as white ethnics. Correct answer: b) the same rate or slightly higher than white ethnics.
Question 16: American women got the right to vote in Student answered: b) 1920. Correct answer: b) 1920.
Question 17: Which group is most likely to vote for Republican candidates? Student answered: c) Whites Correct answer: c) Whites
Question 18: What tendency of Americans did the nineteenth-century writer Alexis de Tocqueville identify as distinctive of our democratic culture? Student answered: b) the tendency to form associations Correct answer: b) the tendency to form associations
Question 19: In the United States, voter participation by the unemployed is Student answered: b) very low. Correct answer: b) very low.
Question 20: Over the years, the power of labor leaders and machine politicians has Student answered: a) declined. Correct answer: a) declined.
Question 21: Checkbook democracy arises when Student answered: b) fund raising becomes the most important task for political organizations. Correct answer: d) All of the above.
Question 22: The phenomenon called the 'gender gap' refers to the fact that Student answered: c) in families, it is usually man who determine how the family votes.
Student answered: c) checkbook democracy. Correct answer: c) checkbook democracy.
Question 34: Which is not an obstacle to voting in the United States? Student answered: b) voting bans for convicted felons Correct answer: c) vote by mail
Question 35: Registering to vote in the United States is Student answered: a) easier than in Europe. Correct answer: d) harder than in Europe.
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