Political Process Quiz 95 (20 MCQs)

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1. WHICH ONE IS ROLE OF MASS MEDIA?

Correct Answer: A) IDENTIFYING CANDIDATES, BROADCASTING, PUBLISHING.

2. What influencing techniques uses images or pictures to convey a message?

Correct Answer: A) Symbolism.

3. The United States has a ..... party political system.

Correct Answer: B) Two.

4. Recruit

Correct Answer: A) To convince someone to join your party.

5. What strategy would you use to evaluate this statement for accuracy? Joe Biden would make a great president-a 5 year old kid

Correct Answer: C) Evaluating sources.

6. What court case gave the Supreme Court the power of judicial review?

Correct Answer: B) Marbury vs. Madison.

7. How do electors vote in presidential elections?

Correct Answer: A) According to the popular vote in most states.

8. What is the most important thing the delegates do at the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention?

Correct Answer: B) Formally nominate their party's candidate for President.

9. If a choose to sue someone, I am the

Correct Answer: A) Plaintiff.

10. Which of the following is the second step in the process to amend the U.S. Constitution?

Correct Answer: C) Ratification by the States.

11. What does Horse Race coverage mean?

Correct Answer: A) Focus on who is winning, not the issues.

12. True/False:Republicans and Democrats are the only political parties in the U.S.

Correct Answer: B) False.

13. Electorate is .....

Correct Answer: C) A large group of people who are entitled to vote.

14. Where along the political spectrum do both political parties try to win votes in elections?

Correct Answer: B) Moderate (Political Center).

15. True or False:The power of judicial review gives the court system the ability to review if a law or action is constitutional.

Correct Answer: A) True.

16. An area organized into a independent political unit is a

Correct Answer: D) State.

17. In order to vote a person must be a citizen, 18 years old, and .....

Correct Answer: A) Registered.

18. What is a territory settled and ruled by people from another land

Correct Answer: A) Colony.

19. Washington, D.C. is a part of Virginia but they get their own electors

Correct Answer: B) False.

20. What court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?

Correct Answer: A) Brown vs. Board of Education.