POLS 101 Introduction to Political Science FALL 2014 Mid-Term
Instructor: Assistant Prof. Dr. Umut Özkaleli
There are 40 questions in this exam. Each question has ONE correct
answer. Please select the most appropriate answer. You have 50 minutes.
GOOD LUCK
BOOKLET A
1) Politics is derived from the word polis. Polis means
a. Government
b. Governance
c. City-state
d. Decision
2) Power is…
a. Having the legitimacy to influence the behaviors of others
b. Traditional
c. The ability to influence the behaviors of others
d. Authority
3) In class, the instructor ordered you to stand up. This demonstration was
made as a part of explaining difference between
a. Power and choice
b. Power and authority
c. Authority and authoritarianism
d. None of the above
4) According to Weber if a leader gets his/her authority from set of
impersonal rules this is ________________ authority, while if s/he gets it from
his/her personality it is__________________ authority.
a. Traditional, charismatic
b. Legal, charismatic
c. Rational, charismatic
d. Both b and c are correct answers
5) You are the representative of government and I am an advocate of
immigrant children in a civil society organization. We have been
negotiating and bargaining what rights of these children the government
will recognize. If we reach a decision, this is called
a. Procedural consensus
b. Substantive consensus
c. Procedural negotiations
d. Substantive negotiations
6) “Formal and institutional processes that operate at the national level to
maintain public order and facilitate action” is the definition of
a. Governance
b. The governed
c. Government
d. Government and Governance
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7) A plan of action that is formed by formal and authoritative decisions is
called
a. Politics
b. Policy
c. Values
d. Science
8) According to Aristotle which of the following political systems reduce the
citizens to the status of slaves?
a. Anarchy
b. Monarchy
c. Aristocracy
d. Tyranny
9) In class George Orwell book 1984 was mentioned as an example to what
type of regime?
a. Totalitarian
b. Authoritarian
c. Democracy
d. Majoritarian Democracy
10) We are in conflict when
a. When we dislike each other
b. When we hate each other
c. When we are different from each other
d. When we think our interests are in clash
11) According to Aristotle politics is
a. Corruption
b. Misery
c. Ethical Activity
d. Manipulative Activity
12) Which of the statements below is incorrect?
a. Governance is related only to government
b. Governance is ways that social life is coordinated
c. Markets, hierarchies and networks are closely related to
governance
d. Governance reflects the development of new forms of public
management
13) The aphorism “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely” focuses on which of the following?
a. Politicians are usually liars
b. Politics is done badly
c. There is no way to stop politicians to use power badly
d. Political power should be limited
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14) What is the name of the author of the book for your Introduction to
Politics class?
a. Hannah Arendt
b. Francis Fukuyama
c. George Orwell
d. Andrew Haywood
15) Which of the below statements is correct about the two views of
public/private divide?
a. In one view public is accepted as the state, the government and in
the other as public realm, politics, commerce, work etc.
b. In one view private is accepted as civil society in other it is
accepted as personal realm
c. Private sphere includes businesses, trade unions, and clubs.
d. All of the above are correct statements.
16) _______________ commonly is distinguished from the state, and the term is
used to describe institutions that are ‘private’ in that they are
independent from government and organized by individuals in pursuit of
their own ends.
a. Politics
b. Civil Society
c. Community
d. Privatization
17) Aristotle wrote the book titled,
a. Politics
b. The Master Science
c. The Political Animal
d. Government
18) Which of the following is a correct statement about Marx’s view of
politics?
a. Politics was not used in the sense that refers to the apparatus of
the state.
b. Politics is part of a superstructure together with law and
culture
c. Superstructure does not reflect the economic base
d. Politics is the most concentrated form of the legal system.
19) Which of the following is correct about “regimes”?
a. Political regime is a smaller term than government
b. Political system is a larger system and social system is subsystem
c. A regime is a 'system of rule' that endures despite the fact that
governments come and go
d. Regimes can be changed by some kind of revolutionary upheaval
from within
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20) According to Aristotle’s six forms of government which of the following
systems benefits the rulers?
a. Monarchy, Oligarchy and Democracy
b. Tyranny, Aristocracy and Polity
c. Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy
d. Tyranny, Oligarchy and Democracy
21) Which of the following is incorrect about political thinker Montesquieu
a. He proposed some of the defining futures of liberal democracy
b. He is one of the early thinkers of social democracy
c. He introduced the separation of powers
d. Individual liberty is important to be protected
22) Which of the following is incorrect about totalitarian system
a. There is a strong official ideology
b. There is a monopoly of means of mass media
c. State has a loose control of economic life
d. There usually is a one party one leader
23) “I believe we can create a society where students will never cheat on an
exam even if there is no proctor in the classroom. This can happen if
people’s consciousness and ethical standards reach at a point where
harmony and equality of people is seen the most important part society.
This is what we should aspire”. What is the most accurate word to define
this statement?
a. Dream
b. Fantasy
c. Utopia
d. Liberal Democracy
24) Who calls politics as “the master science”?
a. Hanna Arendt
b. Aristotle
c. Machiavelli
d. Plato
25) “Universal suffrage” in liberal democratic ideal means
a. Representative democracy
b. Direct democracy
c. Democracy accepted by everyone
d. All citizens having the right to vote
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26) When the police asks me to stop on the traffic, I pull my car over because
the police has ________________ . If my employer asks me to do something
illegal and if I follow his/her order, I do so because s/he has _______________.
(Please choose the correct answer respectively-in the order that is asked
to you).
a. Power / authority over me
b. Authority / power over me
c. Ability to ask me / legitimate power over me
d. Both a and c
27) According to Aristotle’s six forms of government in a tyranny
a. One person rules and ruler benefits from the system
b. One person rules and all benefit from the system
c. The few rules and the few benefits from the system
d. The few rules and all benefits from the system
28) Hannah Arendt’s definition of political power is “acting in concert”. In
class we discussed that this definition stresses that
a. Politics should be treated like a music concert
b. People should avoid conflict at all costs
c. Even though conflict is inevitable there needs to be search for
cooperation
d. We need to find ways to manipulate people to do what we want
them to do.
29) If we define politics as “what takes place within a polity, a system of
social organization centered upon the machinery of government” which of
the following statements is correct?
a. It is a definition that includes wide range of aspects of political life.
b. This definition is compatible with the term “governance”.
c. This definition accepts businesses, educational institutions and
families as political.
d. This definition is restrictive as people can be political without
being part of the government.
30) Which of the following is incorrect about “regimes”?
a. Political regime is a broader term than government
b. Regime changes when ideologically different party becomes
government
c. Political system is a subsystem of the larger social system
d. Regimes can be changed by military intervention from without or
by some kind of revolutionary upheaval from within.
31) What is ethnocentrism?
a. Caring only one’s own values and culture
b. Positively respecting ethnic groups
c. Filed of study that focuses on ethnicity
d. Ethnographic study of groups
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32) Which of the following is incorrect about philosopher John Locke
a. Gives importance to individual right to property
b. He is an early socialist thinker
c. He believed in the importance of constitutional government
d. He argues that individual is important
33) _________________is the principle that political authority stems ultimately
from the consent of people.
a. Liberalism
b. Conservatism
c. Republicanism
d. Socialism
34) __________________ is the total financial value of final goods and services
produced in an economy over one year
a. Economic produce
b. Gross domestic product
c. Economic and service produce
d. Per capita product
35) A system of government in which the executive is drawn from and
accountable to the assembly or parliament.
a. Westminster model
b. Consociational model
c. Exceptional model
d. Semi-democratic model
36) Which of the following is correct about consensual/pluralistic systems:
a. There is almost always single party government
b. System has unitary and centralized government
c. They are also called majoritarian systems
d. There is power sharing and a close association amongst
political parties.
37) Who coined the term “poliarchy”?
a. Aristotle
b. Arendt and Weber
c. John Locke
d. Dhal and Lindblom
38) Aristotle criticized popular rule on the grounds that the masses would
resent the wealth of the few, and too easily fall under the sway of a
_______________________
a. Tyrant
b. Dictator
c. Demagogue
d. Liar
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39) In class along with 1984, your instructor gave a movie as an example to a
depiction of a totalitarian system. What was this movie?
a. Fight Club
b. V for Vendetta
c. Dear Hunter
d. Hair
40) ______________ defined politics as 'power- structured relationships,
arrangements whereby one group of persons is controlled by another'. Her
Feminists can therefore be said to be concerned with 'the politics of
everyday life'.
a. Kate Millett
b. Simone de Beauvoir
c. Hannah Arendt
d. Hypatia
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