Unit 2
Chapter 11 - True/False Questions:
1) Political scientists believe that many of our political attitudes are grounded in our political
values.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 378-379
2) Teaching respect for the nation and its symbols in school can help counter negative attitudes
about government.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 379
3) In elementary schools, children are taught respect for their nation and its symbols.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 379
4) The number of first-year college students identifying themselves as middle-of-the-road is
increasing.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 381
5) College students are more likely to be liberal than to be conservative.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 381
6) Current American high school students know less about history and government than did
previous generations of high school students.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 382
7) While many Americans get their political information from programs such as the Daily
Show, fewer are getting their news from newspapers.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 382
8) In general, race does not appear to influence political attitudes.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 384-386
9) Women tend to have more liberal attitudes about capital punishment.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 386
10) Men are more likely to support increased funding for the war on terrorism than are women.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 386
11) Younger voters are more likely to support increased federal spending on student loans than
are older voters.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 387
12) Men tend to be greater supporters of military intervention.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 386
13) The region of the country in which you live has little effect on political attitudes.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 387
14) The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks had a large effect on the political socialization of
Americans.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 389
15) Scientific public opinion polling began in the 1800s.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 389
16) Using random sampling, the Literary Digest successfully predicted the outcome of every
presidential election from 1920 to 1948.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 390
17) The small size of the Literary Digest's sample was the main contributor to the inaccurate
prediction that Alfred Landon would beat Franklin Roosevelt.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 390
18) Straw polls, such as those used on local television newscasts, are scientifically based and
accurate.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 390
19) The question wording used in a public opinion poll can influence the validity of the results.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 392
20) When conducted properly, stratified sampling produces fairly accurate measures of public
opinion.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 393
21) Push polls are not designed to measure public opinion; they are designed to influence
election outcomes.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 395
22) For the last ten years, the Voter News Service has provided high-quality, reliable Election
Night predictions based on exit polls.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 396
23) All public opinion polls contain error.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Synthesis
Page reference: 396
24) Politicians frequently try to influence American public opinion.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 399-400
Chapter 13 - True/False Questions:
1) People who vote are generally more highly educated than those who do not.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 450
2) Voter turnout in U.S. elections is higher than in most other Western democracies.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 449
3) Over 80 percent of young citizens voted in the 2008 presidential election.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 452
4) More young people voted in 2008 than in 2004.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 452
5) Whites and African Americans vote at approximately the same rate.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 450-452
6) Hispanics are more likely to vote than whites.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 450-452
7) Minorities are less likely to vote than are women.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 450-452
8) Many voters grew up in families that were interested in politics.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 454-455
9) The United States uses a system of regional primaries during presidential elections.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 486
10) American voter registration requirements discourage some Americans from voting.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 455-456
11) Political parties are not as effective at mobilizing voters as they used to be.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 457
12) Turnout increased in states that adopted Election Day voter registration.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 457
13) Voter turnout in the 2006 midterm election reached it lowest level since 1982.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 455
14) While ticket-splitting was fairly common in the 1960s, it seldom occurs now.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 460
15) Women are more likely to support Democratic candidates.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 461
16) Some people vote against the party in power if they are dissatisfied with its track record
while in office. This is exercising retrospective judgment.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 463
17) While crossover is common, raiding is rare.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 465
18) Interest groups frequently try to influence ballot measures.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 465
19) In most Republican presidential primaries, the candidate who wins the most votes gets all of
that state's delegates.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Application
Page reference: 468
20) The United States replaced the Electoral College with a system of regional primaries to elect
the president every four years.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 473
21) All Republican governors serve as superdelegates to the Republican National Convention.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 471
22) The Electoral College was designed to select a nonpartisan president.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 473-474
23) Redistricting is often a contentious political process.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 479
24) Redistricting is often done for partisan gain.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 479
25) Reapportionment is often done for partisan gain.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 476
Chapter 14 - True/False Questions:
1) Negative campaigning is a relatively new phenomenon and was unheard of before the advent
of television in the 1960s.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 502
2) The average campaign advertisement that airs on television is 120 seconds long.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 503
3) Spin is putting the most favorable possible interpretation on any circumstance in the
campaign.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 505
4) Campaign finance laws attempt to balance the freedom of speech with the need to prevent
political corruption.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 510
5) The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 eliminated hard-money contributions to
candidates.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 510
6) John McCain was a co-sponsor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 510
7) The Federal Election Campaign Act was Congress’s first attempt to regulate campaign
finance.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 510
8) The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act’s prohibition on soft money was declared
unconstitutional in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission because it stifled the freedom
of speech of political parties and ordinary citizens.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 510
9) The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act eliminated soft-money contributions to political
parties.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 510
10) The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act emphasized a publicly funded campaign finance
system, instead of financing campaigns through private contributions.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 510
11) The United States is the only country that regulates campaign finance.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 510
12) Some nations limit the length of their campaigns.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 510
13) Political action committees can give an unlimited amount of money to candidates during an
election cycle.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 512
14) The evidence that PACs buy votes is overwhelming.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 513
15) The modern PAC era began in the 1990s.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 513
16) Individuals and political parties supply more than 60 percent of all money spent by or on
behalf of House candidates.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 513
17) U.S. Senate campaigns receive about 60 percent of their funds from PACs.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Knowledge
Page reference: 513
18) Individuals and political parties supply a majority of all money spent by or on behalf of
candidates for federal office.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 513
19) Individuals and political parties supply a greater percentage of the money spent by or on
behalf of presidential candidates than they do for congressional candidates.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 513
20) Express advocacy advertisements are banned by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 515
21) The news media usually regard political candidates with suspicion.
Answer: TRUE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 504
22) Third-party candidates for president easily qualify for public funding for their campaigns.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Comprehension
Page reference: 515
23) As the biggest source of money for campaigns, PACs threaten to destroy the legitimacy of
the election process.
Answer: FALSE
Bloom’s level: Analysis
Page reference: 513