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Name _______________________________________________ Date _____________________ Period _______
UNIT 5 TEST REVIEW:
The Executive Branch and Public/Foreign Policy
60 questions on test
Directions: Using your notes, class activities, class notes, and text book answer the following questions in preparation for
your upcoming unit test.
QUESTIONS
1. Which Article of the US Constitution establishes the
executive branch?
2. According to the Constitution, identify formal
qualifications for the President.
ANSWERS
3. In case the President is disabled, the way the Vice
President becomes President is determined by the…
4. According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947,
which of these officers follows the Vice President in the
line of presidential succession?
5. Identify the formal duties assigned to the Vice
President according to the Constitution.
6. What is the primary function of the executive branch?
7. Identify what makes up the executive branch.
8. Identify the advisors of the Executive Office of the
President.
9. What are the functions of employees working in the
White House Office?
10. What is the Cabinet?
11. Identify the departments of the Cabinet.
12. The _____ appoints Cabinet members ______.
13. Identify the criteria for a President when choosing a
Cabinet member.
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14. What is the title typically given to one who serves as
cabinet department head?
15. Identify the purpose of the National Security Council.
16. Identify how the power of the presidency has been
cause for debate.
17. The chief executive regularly sends what messages to
Capitol Hill each year.
18. Identify which of the responsibilities of the President
has the greatest effect on public policy.
19. The Constitution requires the President to execute all
federal laws, but what can the President do if he or she
has a fundamental disagreement with a particular
federal law?
20. The President’s power to execute the law covers which
type of law?
21. How has presidential power changed over time?
22. Identify the actions a President may take upon receipt
of a bill.
23. As chief legislator, how may the President influence
Congressional actions?
24. Identify reasons that the President would call a special
session of Congress.
25. Identify executive orders and why they may be created.
26. When President Obama visited Europe and Africa to
discuss foreign policy and represent the United States
at ceremonial gatherings with European and African
leaders, what two presidential roles was he fulfilling?
27. Identify the various roles a President may fulfill.
28. Identify how the executive branch may check the power
of the judicial branch.
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29. Identify how the executive branch may check the power
of the legislative branch.
30. Which presidential power is unchecked by the other
two branches of government?
31. What is the primary job of the federal bureaucracy?
32. Identify the ways that bureaucracies carry out public
policy.
33. What describes the action the government takes to
address issues and meet the needs and wishes of the
citizens?
34. Identify the level of bureaucracy at the national level.
35. Identify the ways that interest groups and lobbyist
influence public policy.
36. Identify the participants who influence public policy.
37. How may participants shape public policy?
38. What is the purpose of the Office of Management and
Budget? What function do they serve?
39. How may individuals express opinions to influence
public policy?
40. Identify the differences between a treaty and executive
agreements.
41. Identify the department responsible for infrastructure
protection and emergency preparedness and response.
42. Identify the key role of the Secretary of State.
43. Identify the key role of the Secretary of Defense.
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44. Identify the major responsibility of the State
Department.
45. Who has a key role in creating US military policy?
46. The President sends military troops into Iran to seize
and dismantle its nuclear power plants. Which of the
following agencies would help to implement this foreign
policy?
47. Which historic world event finally ended the US
commitment to a policy of isolationism?
48. Identify the challenges that have shaped American
foreign policy in the post-Cold War world.
49. Identify what American foreign policy, since the end of
the Cold War, has recognized.
50. Identify the region, since the end of the Cold War,
which has shaped American foreign policy.
51. Identify the current foreign policy goals of the US.
52. Identify methods used to protect American interests
and to promote national security.
53. Describe the contrasting foreign policies of the US that
followed WWI and WWII.
54. Define foreign aid.
55. Identify the departments and agencies that play key
roles in foreign policy.
56. What trade organization administers trade agreements
and handles disputes among its member nations?
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