This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Institutions > Government > Political Institutions – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Political Institutions Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is considered the most powerful person in Russia? A) The Prime Minister. B) The President. C) The Monarch. D) The Supreme Leader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The President. 2. Which house has the power to impeach officials of the federal government? A) House of Representatives. B) Senate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) House of Representatives. 3. Who appoints the cabinet in China? A) The President. B) The Premier. C) The Supreme Leader. D) The Monarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Premier. 4. An absolute monarchy is one in which the head of state (king, queen) makes all the decisions. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Which sociological view focuses on how the institution brings about social change? A) Functionalist. B) Complex societies. C) Conflict theorist. D) Societies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict theorist. 6. Forces that tear people apart like ethnicity are known as A) Fragmentation. B) Globalization. C) Nationalism. D) Centripetal Forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fragmentation. 7. Which of the following authority is based on a system that have always existed? A) Legitimacy. B) Traditional Authority. C) Charismatic Authority. D) Legal-Rational Authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traditional Authority. 8. What is the significance of the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Marbury v Madison? A) It established the power of judicial review. B) It established the separate, but equal doctrine. C) It established federal supremacy over the states. D) It established citizens have a right to privacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It established the power of judicial review. 9. Which model states political power is reserved for the privileged? A) Pluralist model. B) Power-elite model. C) Interest groups. D) Political models. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Power-elite model. 10. When power is exercised through the people A) Authority. B) Legitimacy. C) Democracy. D) Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Democracy. 11. What makes power illegitimate? A) It is not with the consent of the people. B) If you can exercise the power, it's legitimate. C) From the government. D) From strain theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is not with the consent of the people. 12. Person A has the capacity to make Person B do something that he would not do otherwise. What does person A has? A) Legitimacy. B) Sovereignty. C) Power. D) Authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Power. 13. The United States is what form of democracy? A) Representative democracy. B) Constitutional congress. C) Constitutional monarchy. D) Authoritarian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Representative democracy. 14. Legislative Assembly of Kazakhstan A) Unicameral. B) Bicameral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bicameral. 15. What is power gained based on fear? A) Legitimacy. B) Rational-legal authority. C) Authority. D) Coercion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coercion. 16. Kinship is traced through both ancestral lines of the mother and father. A) MATRILINEAL DESCENT. B) BILATERAL DESCENT. C) PATRILINEAL DESCENT. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BILATERAL DESCENT. 17. A defining characteristic of all states is their power to A) Hold a monopoly over the legitimate means of force. B) Draft and adopt constitutions. C) Provide education and other social expenditures to their citizens. D) Schedule elections are regular intervals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hold a monopoly over the legitimate means of force. 18. Which statement about the "Trail of Tears" is accurate? A) President Andrew Jackson opposed the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia. B) Large numbers of Cherokee were forced to relocate during the winter months. C) Chief Justice John Marshall ordered the Cherokee Indians to move westwards. D) The Cherokee were moved because they lacked a written alphabet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Large numbers of Cherokee were forced to relocate during the winter months. 19. "Nation" is synonymous with the word "State" A) Yes. B) No. C) Maybe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 20. What is the term for a system where separate election processes are used in the selection of the president and the national legislature, and the president serves as head of state and selects the head of government, with the legislature's approval, to shape policies and implement the legislature's laws? A) H. Semi-Presidential Systems. B) N. Bicameral. C) D. Parliamentary hybrid. D) O. Presidential Systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) H. 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