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,Test Bank For Cengage Advantage Books: Analyzing PoliticsChapter 1
Chapter 1
Introduction
TEST BANK
TRUE/FALSE
1. According to the United Nations, by the early months of 2013, the number of Syrian refugees had
climbed to 1 million.
ANS: T REF: 1
2. While comedians like Stephen Colbert speak extensively about politics, political scientists have
found that programs like The Colbert Report have virtually no political impact and can basically
be ignored by political candidates and political party leaders.
ANS: F REF: 4
3. The term smog was coined in the 1970s by the Environmental Protection Agency.
ANS: F REF: 6
4. Political decisions affect life expectancies.
ANS: T REF: 7
5. As recently as the 1960s, in some places in the United States, it was illegal for African-Americans
and whites to get married to each other.
ANS: T REF: 10
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The City of the Dead is indicative of a trend showing
a. movement away from cities and into rural areas as the year 2030 approaches.
b. a sharp decline in the number of slums in the twenty-first century.
c. both A and B.
d. none of the above.
ANS: D REF: 2
2. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
a. was recently elected as Liberia’s first woman president.
b. is the first woman to be elected president of Chile.
c. was the first woman court-martialed for refusing to serve in the Iraq war.
d. has been a leader in the movement to abolish the provisions allowing poor countries to seek
assistance under the Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative.
ANS: A REF: 3
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,Test Bank For Cengage Advantage Books: Analyzing Politics
Chapter 1
3. Political scientist Harold Laswell taught that
a. political decisions include making rules over the use of resources.
b. politics rarely involves change.
c. politics primarily concerns private life, not common life.
d. All of the above are true.
ANS: A REF: 5
4. According to Aristotle,
a. humans have little or no need for politics.
b. humans are essentially political creatures.
c. authoritarianism is the best form of government.
d. change occurs in private life, but not in public (political) life.
ANS: B REF: 7
5. Art works by artists like Renee Cox
a. have been supported by conservatives but not by liberals.
b. have elicited opposition from political groups and, thus, have illustrated that politics
appears to be connected to questions of artistic taste.
c. were praised by David Easton.
d. None of the above is true.
ANS: B REF: 8
ESSAY
1. Identify the individual discussed in chapter 1 whom you would most like to meet and talk with
about politics. Explain your answer by logically addressing: (a) what you find most interesting
about the individual you selected, and( b) how the experiences of the person you selected differ
most explicitly from your experiences.
ANS: Answers may vary.
2. Identify and discuss five issues concerning U.S. citizens at the turn of the last century. Are these
concerns relevant today? Explain
ANS: Answers may vary.
3. It can be argued that the world of politics is a world of ceaseless change, a world of rule-making
over life and death questions of access to resources, and a world of decision making about
common life. Explain and give one example of each of these three aspects of politics.
ANS: Answers may vary.
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, Test Bank For Cengage Advantage Books: Analyzing Politics
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Political Science and
Scientific Methods
In Studying Politics
TEST BANK
TRUE/FALSE
1. Political scientist A sets out to study a country by conducting research on its laws and institutions
and hopes to obtain normative insights on how to improve these laws and institutions whereas
political scientist B wants to study the same country but focuses on collecting empirical data on
the voting behavior of its citizens and has no interest in including normative questions in her
research project. Therefore, political scientist A is a traditionalist and political scientist B is a
behavioralist.
ANS: True REF: 15
2. Postbehavioralism argues that behavioralism is, in and of itself, a value statement.
ANS: True REF: 18
3. Does the existence of correlation necessarily imply also the existence of causation?
ANS: False REF: 22
4. In survey research, patterns are always identical to groups.
ANS: False REF: 28
5. The answers given by Marco Rubio to interviewers would be a more interesting topic of study to
a political scientist using a traditionalist approach rather than a behavioralist approach.
ANS: False REF: 43
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
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