AP Government Test 2
Chapter 3 and 4
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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) Federalism is a way of organizing a nation so that
A) both national and state levels of government have some authority over the same land and
people.
B) there is one federal government and all regional governments are administrative subunits
of it.
C) there are three branches of government and a system of checks and balances.
D) power is centralized in the national government.
E) power is centralized in state and local government.
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2) The Constitution grants the power to directly regulate such things as drinking ages, marriage
and divorce, and sexual behavior to
A) all governments by the Bill of Rights.
B) state governments.
C) the president.
D) the national government.
E) both the state and national governments.
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3) The Tenth Amendment
A) establishes the number of electoral votes each state can cast in the Electoral College.
B) states that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited
by the states, are reserved for the states.
C) establishes the Constitution, laws of the national government, and treaties as the supreme
law of the land.
D) declares that the national government is superior to the states in every concern.
E) establishes the Supreme Court as the final arbiter in all civil and criminal disputes.
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4) The Constitution's provision that Congress has the right to "make all laws necessary and proper
for carrying into execution" its powers is often referred to as the
A) elastic clause.
B) enumerated powers.
C) privileges and immunities.
D) heart of fiscal federalism.
E) Unwritten Amendment.
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5) The main instrument the national government uses to influence state governments is
A) mandates.
B) grants-in-aid.
C) judicial review.
D) presidential decrees.
E) the Tenth Amendment.
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6) The enumerated powers of Congress and the national government are those
A) set out in the first ten amendments.
B) requiring ratification by the states.
C) not specifically spelled out in the Constitution, but nonetheless acknowledged.
D) involving taxes, spending, and fiscal policy.
E) specifically spelled out in the Constitution.
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7) The publication of statements known to be false that are malicious and tend to damage a
person's reputation is called
A) libel.
B) Symbolic speech.
C) fraud.
D) obscenity.
E) slander.
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8) The act by which government prevents material from being published is called
A) incorporation.
B) libel.
C) prior restraint.
D) free exercise.
E) slander.
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9) The incorporation doctrine involves
A) the procedures for creating a city government.
B) the interpretation of the commerce clause.
C) the extension of judicial review to state courts.
D) the government's power to regulate corporations.
E) application of the Bill of Rights to the states.
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10) The right to bear arms is provided for in the ________ Amendment
A) Second
B) First
C) Fifth
D) Fourth
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E) Third
11) In the 1992 case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion
A) must be funded by state governments when the mother cannot afford it, or it would be a
violation of the equal protection clause.
B) could be completely outlawed by individual states.
C) restrictions could be imposed by states if they did not involve "undue burdens" on the
women seeking abortions.
D) funding by any level of government was unconstitutional.
E) was a fundamental right, and any restrictions on such a right had to be judged by a "strict
scrutiny."
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12) Cruel and unusual punishment is forbidden by the
A) self-incrimination clause.
B) Sixth Amendment.
C) exclusionary clause.
D) Fifth Amendment.
E) Eighth Amendment.
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13) In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that in the third trimester of pregnancy
A) states cannot ban abortion unless the mother's life is in danger.
B) the federal government, but not the states, is prohibited from funding abortions for poor
women.
C) states are prohibited from funding the abortions of poor women.
D) states cannot ban abortion.
E) states can ban abortion except when the mother's health is in danger.
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14) The Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright
A) prohibited government officials from issuing gag orders to the media.
B) gave only those accused of capital crimes the right to counsel.
C) set guidelines for police questioning of suspects.
D) extended the right to counsel to everyone accused of a felony.
E) ruled that illegally seized evidence cannot be used in court.
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15) In the case of Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled that
A) the death penalty could be imposed for the most extreme of crimes.
B) the police must show probable cause before making an arrest.
C) police must inform any suspect of a series of rights, including the constitutional right to
remain silent.
D) illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in a trial.
E) defendants in all felony cases have a right to counsel, even if the state has to provide such
legal assistance.
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16) A shield law
A) prevents the courts from closing criminal trials to the press.
B) gives reporters the right to withhold information from the courts.
C) prevents reporters from disclosing secret government information.
D) gives judges the right to issue a gag order.
E) protects certain religious practices not covered by Supreme Court rulings.
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17) In the case of Dennis v. United States, the Supreme Court
A) overturned the convictions of Communist Party officials who had been sent to prison
because of their beliefs.
B) upheld the federal law banning the Nazi party in the United States and prohibiting its
activities.
C) overturned the federal law against burning or desecrating the American flag, arguing that
it violated free speech.
D) upheld the convictions of Communist Party officials who had been sent to prison because
of their beliefs.
E) ruled that burning a draft card was not covered under free speech.
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18) In what case did the Supreme Court rule that a newspaper, no matter how outrageous its
opinions, must be allowed to publish without prior restraint?
A) New York Times v. Sullivan
B) Wisconsin v. Yoder
C) Mapp v. Ohio
D) Miranda v. Arizona
E) Near v. Minnesota
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19) In the Lemon v. Kurtzman decision of 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that
A) aid to church-related schools is fully constitutional, and can be used for any purposes
needed by the schools.
B) spoken prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.
C) aid to church-related schools must be for secular purposes only, and cannot be used to
advance or inhibit religion.
D) devotional Bible-reading in public schools was unconstitutional.
E) any aid of any sort to church-related schools is not constitutional, because it violates
church-state separation.
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20) In free exercise cases, the Supreme Court
A) never allows the government to interfere with religious practices.
B) permits the government to interfere with religious practices.
C) prohibits the government from interfering with religious practices.
D) allows the government to interfere with religious practices as long as it is not specifically
aimed at religion.
E) prohibits prayer in public schools but permits government aid to religious schools.
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21) In the Engel v. Vitale case of 1962, the Supreme Court ruled that ________ was (were)
unconstitutional.
A) prayers done as classroom exercises in public schools
B) police search or seizure without an authorized warrant
C) prior restraint
D) the Connecticut statute barring the distribution of birth control information
E) segregation
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22) The abridgment of citizens' freedom to worship, or not to worship, as they please is prohibited
by the
A) due process clause.
B) Second Amendment.
C) Fourth Amendment.
D) full faith and credit clause.
E) free exercise clause.
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23) Government recognition of a national or official religion is prohibited by the
A) due process clause.
B) establishment clause.
C) freedom of religion.
D) Second Amendment.
E) free exercise clause.
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24) Over time, there has been a gradual change from a dual federalism to a(n) ________ federalism.
A) fiscal
B) tripartite
C) single
D) cooperative
E) unitary
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25) Beginning with the case of ________ in 1925, the Supreme Court began to rule that the Bill of
Rights applied directly to the states, as well as to the national government.
A) Barron v. Baltimore
B) Gitlow v. New York
C) United States v. Bill of Rights
D) Engel v. Vitale
E) Miranda v. Arizona
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26) The great freedoms of speech, press, religion, and assembly are contained in the
A) Second Amendment.
B) First Amendment.
C) Fourth Amendment.
D) First, Second, Third, and Fourth Amendments.
E) Third Amendment.
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27) The Defense of Marriage Act
A) prohibits states from issuing same-sex marriages or civil unions to same-sex partners.
B) requires states to issue same-sex marriages and civil unions to same-sex partners.
C) requires states to recognize same-sex marriage or civil unions issued in other states for
same-sex partners.
D) permits states to disregard same-sex marriages or civil unions of same-sex partners
issued in other states.
E) requires states to provide the same rights to same-sex couples that they provide to
heterosexual couples.
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28) Contracts between business firms can be enforced across state boundaries as part of the
constitutional provision of
A) interstate compacts.
B) full faith and credit.
C) implied powers of the states.
D) extradition.
E) privileges and immunities.
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29) The Constitution states that Congress has the power to establish post offices. This is an example
of
A) delegated powers.
B) reserved powers.
C) enumerated powers.
D) shared powers.
E) implied powers.
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30) All of the following areas prove examples of how federalism decentralizes our policies EXCEPT
A) regulation of abortion.
B) environmental protection.
C) funding of education.
D) death penalty.
E) federal income tax.
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31) In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Chief Justice Marshall argued that
A) in cases of conflict between national and state law, the national law was supreme as long
as national law was in accordance with the Constitution.
B) Maryland could not tax the national bank.
C) the national government has implied powers that go beyond those explicitly enumerated
in Article I, Section 8.
D) Congress's enumerated power to coin money, regulate its value, and impose taxes implied
the right of Congress to do whatever was necessary and proper for carrying out these
powers, including the power to create a bank.
E) All of the above
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32) In our federal system, the powers of the state governments are ultimately granted by
A) their state's Supreme Court.
B) their state legislature.
C) the United States government.
D) the people of their state.
E) the United States Constitution.
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33) The Constitution's supremacy clause
A) is vague about which level of government should prevail in a dispute involving
federalism.
B) does not apply to state and local matters.
C) makes the president supreme in any constitutional conflicts with the other two branches.
D) gives the states superiority over the national government's Constitution and laws.
E) made the Constitution, the laws of the national government, and the national
government's treaties the supreme law of the land.
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Answer Key
Testname: AP GOV TEST 2 CH 3 AND 4
1) A
2) B
3) B
4) A
5) B
6) E
7) A
8) C
9) E
10) A
11) C
12) E
13) E
14) D
15) C
16) B
17) D
18) E
19) C
20) D
21) A
22) E
23) B
24) D
25) B
26) B
27) D
28) B
29) C
30) E
31) E
32) E
33) E
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