This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Political Science > Policy > Governance > Public Policy – Quiz 35 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Public Policy Quiz 35 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Winner-take-all" system is best described as A) The winner in a statewide election will earn all electoral votes. B) The state can split the electors between the top two candidates. C) The winner of the primary election will win the general election. D) The winner of the presidency will take all the power of the executive branch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The winner in a statewide election will earn all electoral votes. 2. Favoring one view or another A) Propaganda. B) Public opinion. C) Lobbyist. D) Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bias. 3. The largest portion of "uncontrollable spending" in the federal budget is A) Defense spending. B) Interest on the national debt. C) Entitlement spending. D) Environmental spending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Entitlement spending. 4. What are the consequences of ineffective public policy? A) Positive impact on society, economy, and environment. B) No impact on society, economy, and environment. C) Only positive impact on society. D) Negative impact on society, economy, and environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Negative impact on society, economy, and environment. 5. A group of people who seeks to control the government by winning elections A) Political Party. B) Interest Groups. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political Party. 6. What is the fourth step in the lawmaking process (the step right before the President signs or vetoes it)? A) Idea. B) Committee. C) Debate. D) Vote. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vote. 7. Unlike high-income countries, low-income countries rely most on their A) Human resources. B) Natural capital. C) Produced capital. D) Intangible capital. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural capital. 8. Individuals can influence policy in all of the following ways EXCEPT- A) Writing letters to government officials. B) Participating in a political demonstration. C) Lobbying and joining interest groups. D) Registering, but not voting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Registering, but not voting. 9. What is the term for the transfer of government functions or property into private hands? A) Organization. B) Procedural policy. C) Policy access. D) Privatization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Privatization. 10. Taking a donation to the local food pantry is a A) Private action. B) Public policy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Private action. 11. Making political contributions (donating money) A) Ways individuals influence public policy. B) Ways interest groups influence public policy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ways interest groups influence public policy. 12. When a news article can be fact checked with other reliable and accurate sources, we can say there is A) Coavailablilty. B) Copiloting. C) Collaboration. D) Corroboration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Corroboration. 13. Which of these is an International Event that LOCAL governments would respond to? A) Prince Charles is choking. B) A pandemic. C) A plane crash in Japan. D) A new president is elected in France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pandemic. 14. An autocracy is a government type where: A) Only one person holds all of the power within a country. B) The rule of law in a country is based on the Word of God and Religious Texts. C) People vote to create laws and policies. D) There is no government structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Only one person holds all of the power within a country. 15. When Black Live Matter movement started? A) 2020. B) 2013. C) 2012. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2013. 16. What is a forum? A) Place to contact elected officials. B) Place to increase the interconnected lines of business and trade. C) Place where public issues can be discussed. D) Place to campaign. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Place where public issues can be discussed. 17. What term refers to the problems that government leaders consider most important and receive the most attention? A) Public agenda. B) Public opinion. C) Interest groups. D) PAC. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Public agenda. 18. How many regional head must be filled, if the 2020 election is postponed? A) Two hundred seventy five. B) Two hundred seven two. C) Two hundred seventy. D) Two hundred seventeen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two hundred seventy. 19. Which of the following below describes a domestic policy issue? A) A president sends a diplomat to work on a trade agreement with Japan. B) Congress increases taxes to build safer highways in the U.S. C) A president asks congress to declare war against a communist country. D) The Senate approves a peace treaty proposed by the President. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Congress increases taxes to build safer highways in the U.S. 20. The large meetings where Democrat and Republican delegates choose their party's nominee are called what? A) Electoral college. B) Caucuses. C) Primaries. D) Conventions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conventions. 21. What is the meaning of "consequence" ? A) Effect. B) Postpone. C) Risk. D) Shortcut. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Effect. 22. The main goal of a lobbyist is to ..... A) Elect members of Congress. B) Increase voter turnout in an election. C) Increase public awareness of a problem facing the nation. D) Influence legislators to vote for or against a bill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Influence legislators to vote for or against a bill. 23. This theory focuses on the organization and interdependence of relationships within interacting parts. A) Systems theory. B) Communication theory. C) Information theory. D) Open theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Systems theory. 24. Which of the following statements is an opinion? A) Many eligible voters in the United States do not vote. B) The United States is currently a two-party system. C) Interest groups try to convince people to support their points-of-view. D) Special-interest groups have too much influence on laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Special-interest groups have too much influence on laws. 25. How is public policy defined? A) In terms of political ideology. B) In terms of economic growth and development. C) In terms of individual rights and freedoms. D) In terms of a common goal or purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In terms of a common goal or purpose. 26. What is the job of the judicial branch? A) To interpret the laws and determine if they are fair. B) To make the laws. C) To enforce the laws. D) To make up rules for our government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To interpret the laws and determine if they are fair. 27. What is the meaning of "shortcut" ? A) Cut-on. B) Cut-of. C) Cut down. D) Cut-off. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cut-off. 28. Stages in Process are not necessarily sequential or even distinct. The production process is rarely that systematic.True or False? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 29. Mr. Rocko is retiring soon, so his regular paycheck from the company where he works will stop coming soon. He will, however, begin to receive some income from the government. Which program is this? A) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. B) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program / Food Stamps. C) Social Security. D) Medicaid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social Security. 30. " ..... assume that all the individual involved in politics are rational and self interested."This assumption refers to ..... A) Game Theory. B) Elite Theory. C) Group Theory. D) Public Choice Theory. 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