Political Behavior Quiz 13 (16 MCQs)

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1. Conservatives are related to which political party?

Correct Answer: A) Republican.

2. A minor party that is based on a set of beliefs

Correct Answer: B) Ideological.

3. What system is used to elect the President and Vice President of the United States?

Correct Answer: C) Electoral College System.

4. Voters' perceptions of the party, candidates, and issues

Correct Answer: B) Psychological Factors.

5. Which alternative plan for the Electoral College's winner take all model at the State level would not have the problem of gerrymandering?

Correct Answer: A) Popular Proportional.

6. George Washington suggested that political parties would lead to which of the following in America?

Correct Answer: C) Division among Americans.

7. Describes people choosing to go along with the rest of the crowd

Correct Answer: A) Bandwagon.

8. A political analyst, commentator, or columnist who usually works for a newspaper or magazine, or in broadcasting.

Correct Answer: A) Pundit.

9. "Everyone else is doing it, you should too!"

Correct Answer: D) Bandwagon.

10. Amendment that granted suffrage rights to women

Correct Answer: B) 19th.

11. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law in what year?

Correct Answer: A) 1965.

12. Which one of the following is an action that does not involve participation in the political process?

Correct Answer: B) Reading about politics in the newspaper.

13. Having no choices in political parties is a disadvantage of which political system?

Correct Answer: A) One-party system.

14. The Presidential Election elects:

Correct Answer: A) The President.

15. What affects a person's voting behavior?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

16. What two mediums of mass media have become extremely important in electoral politics?

Correct Answer: D) TV and Internet.