This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ideologies > Political > Political Ideologies – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Political Ideologies Quiz 12 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A claim for government funds that cannot be abridged without violating the rights of the claimant; for example, social security benefits or payments on a contract. A) Entitlements. B) Mandatory Spending. C) Discretionary Spending. D) Pork-Barrel Legislation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Entitlements. 2. As you move away from the center of the political spectrum your want of change becomes: A) Greater. B) Less. C) Indifferent. D) Inconsequential. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greater. 3. This political ideology believed that absolute leadership and elite rule are natural and desirable A) Liberalism. B) Socialism. C) Anarchism. D) Fascism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fascism. 4. A small group rules the country A) Democracy. B) Anarchy. C) Oligarchy. D) Dictatorship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oligarchy. 5. Which of the following is a mere or less coherent set of ideas that provides a basis of organized political action, whether ideas are intended to preserve=, modify, or overthrow the existing power structure? A) Social science. B) Political science. C) Anthropology. D) Political ideology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Political ideology. 6. Right side IDEOLOGY of the Political spectrum= A) Liberal. B) Conservative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conservative. 7. Advocate for the protection of private property rights and are generally skeptical of radical social experiments. A) Anarchism. B) Socialism. C) Liberalism. D) Conservatism. E) Fascism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conservatism. 8. Sees the state as a neutral arbiter among competing interests and groups in society, a vital guarantee of social order. A) Conservatism. B) Liberalism. C) Communism. D) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liberalism. 9. Targets military they view as oppressive, but leaves civilians alone. A) Political Activism. B) Terrorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political Activism. 10. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government, promoting a free market economy, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an absence of regulation in moral, economic, and social life. A) Liberalism. B) Conservatism. C) Environmental. D) Libertarianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Libertarianism. 11. What is a Political Party Platform? A) The various layers and levels of party leadership with the highest elected office holder at the top. B) The physical structures used by candidates in the various states when campaigning. C) The collection of a Party's values, ideologies, issues and possible actions to be supported by its members. D) The physical structures that bind the party together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The collection of a Party's values, ideologies, issues and possible actions to be supported by its members. 12. Is a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state. A) Socialism. B) Communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Communism. 13. What is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence? A) Science. B) History. C) Mathematics. D) Philosophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Philosophy. 14. An political and economic structure where private operators manage the nation's trade and industry for profit. A) Conservatism. B) Capitalism. C) Liberalism. D) Right Wing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capitalism. 15. It values individual rights, freedom, and equality A) Leftist idea. B) Rightist idea. C) Centrist idea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leftist idea. 16. Which of the following is NOT a function of political ideology? A) It creates laws in order to achieve a perfect society. B) It offers an account of existing order by examining what works and whatdoes not work. C) It outlines how political change or the desired social order can be achieved. D) It provides a model of a desired social order, a vision of Good Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It creates laws in order to achieve a perfect society. 17. When it comes to the economy and taxes, conservatives want ..... and liberals want ..... A) Lower taxes and less government involvement; higher taxes on wealthy and more government involvement. B) Higher taxes on middle class and more government regulation; lower taxes and less government regulation. C) Full government regulation; minimal government regulation. D) Control of economy by corporations; control of economy by citizens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lower taxes and less government involvement; higher taxes on wealthy and more government involvement. 18. Moderate A) Right. B) Left. C) Center. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Center. 19. Who believes humans are born poor, nasty, brutish and short? A) John Locke. B) Thomas Hobbes. C) The English Monarchy. D) Sir William Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Hobbes. 20. How can citizens get involved in the legislative process? A) Contacting their representatives. B) Attending committee hearings. C) Joining advocacy groups. D) All of the above. 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