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Test Bank and Solutions For We The People 14th Edition By Thomas Patterson
Test Bank and Solutions for We The
People 14th Edition By Thomas
Patterson
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MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
1) Which of the following best characterizes Americans' knowledge of public affairs
today?
A) Millennialsare better informed than older generations by a wide margin.
B) Americans are consistently shown to be among the most well-informedcitizens when
compared to other democracies.
C) Most Americans today are far better informed than previous generations, though
knowledge levels are still rather low.
D) Misinformation is now at its highest level in the history of polling.
E) Baby boomers have been shown to be the most well-informed generation, while
younger generations know little about public affairs.
2) Critical thinking is best described as
A) the process of forming an opinion after weighing the relevant facts.
B) discounting the news from ordinary media outlets.
C) rejecting the accounts of bureaucrats and finding alternative versions online.
D) assuming that all news are lies until alternative truths present themselves.
E) trusting your instincts on the way the world works.
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3) Approximately what share of Americans refuses to believe that Russia interfered in the
2016 elections?
A) 6 percent
B) 13 percent
C) 25 percent
D) 33 percent
E) 60 percent
4) What type of government suppresses individuality, forcing people to think and act in
prescribed ways or risk punishment?
A) communist
B) socialist
C) authoritarian
D) egalitarian
E) republican
5) Which of the following has most recently proven to serve as a significant obstacle to
critical thinking?
A) changes in the media landscape
B) political partisanship
C) television
D) newspapers
E) the coastal elites
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6) What do behavioral scientists Gordon Pennycook and David Rand call the habit of
judging the accuracy of a claim on the basis of who's saying it or whether we've heard it before?
A) "cognitive laziness"
B) "cognitive disconnect"
C) "cognitive bias"
D) "the cult of personality"
E) "cognitive dissonance"
7) In recent years,
A) American politics has become more heated and divisive.
B) Americans have become more tolerant of leaders slanting facts.
C) American leaders have become more willing to lie.
D) Americans have embraced more truthful politicians.
E) our politics has become more divisive and heated, leaders have lied more readily, and
we have come to tolerate it more.
8) Which of the following is an example of politicians' deliberate slanting of facts?
A) calls for tax increases to fund infrastructure
B) debates over immigration policy and amnesty for current undocumented immigrants
C) the claim that free trade is the cause for the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs
D) the insistence that President Barack Obama is a citizen and born in Hawaii
E) the claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections
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