Political Institutions Quiz 16 (20 MCQs)

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1. The leadership in charge of running the state at the current time.

Correct Answer: D) Government.

2. How are the prices of goods determined in a socialist economic system?

Correct Answer: B) The government determines the prices.

3. A bill must pass through both houses of Congress before being submitted to the President.

Correct Answer: A) True.

4. What is a junta?

Correct Answer: B) Small group seizes power from previous government by force.

5. Compulsory marriage in their own village, community, ethnic, social or religious group.

Correct Answer: A) ENDOGAMY.

6. How many parties does the party system of Kazakhstan have?

Correct Answer: D) 6.

7. Which country has a head of government who has veto power?

Correct Answer: A) Mexico.

8. Congress consists of two houses, the 100-member Senate and the 435-member House of Representatives.

Correct Answer: B) US.

9. Which house has the power to ratify presidential treaties with a 2/3 vote?

Correct Answer: A) Senate.

10. ..... in 1830 authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi river to lands in the west.

Correct Answer: C) Indian Removal Act.

11. Which of the following is a political attitude towards change that is most supportive of reform and gradual change?

Correct Answer: B) Liberalism.

12. TRUE or FALSE:Legal-rational authority is based on long-established customs and traditions.

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

13. How long is the term for members of the House of Representatives?

Correct Answer: A) 2 years.

14. Which group of countries all have a federal system of government?

Correct Answer: C) Mexico, Russia, and Nigeria.

15. Which description of the expedition's encounters with American Indians is most accurate?

Correct Answer: A) Most encounters were friendly.

16. Most bills that are introduced in either house never make it out of committee.

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. This political system divides the power between the central-government and sub-units, and regional bodies have significant powers.

Correct Answer: B) Federal system.

18. Is the process that encourages states to pool their sovereignty in order to gain political, economic, and social clout.

Correct Answer: D) Integration.

19. A form of government that spreads the power among many sub-units and has a weak central government

Correct Answer: C) Confederal system.

20. The most typical type of authority in modern societies.

Correct Answer: B) Legal-Rational Authority.