POLI330 2019 January Week 2 Quiz Latest (All Correct)

  

Question 1
(TCO 6) What tool enables branches of government to resist any illegitimate expansion of power by other branches?
                Dual federalism
                Checks and balances
                Supremacy Clause
                Bicameralism
                Brokered democracy
 
 
Question 2
(TCO 6) Which of the following is false?
                Marx saw economics as the key to utopia.
                Plato saw philosophy as the key to utopia.
                Orwell saw politics as the key to utopia.
                Bacon saw science as the key to utopia.
                Skinner saw psychology as the key to utopia.
 
 
Question 3
(TCO 6) Which of the following is an idea inherent in a constitutional democracy?
                The majority always gets its way.
                Government should be responsive, limited, and effective.
                Ineffective government is an unavoidable side-effect.
                There should be a popularly elected head of state.
                The majority is never morally correct.
 
 
Question 4
(TCO 6) What term describes the concept of a form of government ruled by active citizens rather than elected/appointed officials?
                Constitutional democracy
                Republic
                Direct democracy
                Segmented democracy
                Tyranny of the majority
 
 
Question 5
(TCO 6) In The Republic, what common theme is explored throughout Socrates’ text?
                Power
                Social class
                Intellectual merit
                Justice
                Liberty
 
 
Question 6
(TCO 6) What did Marx believe would happen once private property was eliminated?
                Proletariat upheaval
                The beginning of revolution in the form of armed conflict
                The emergence of a technologically-driven society
                The end of social inequality
                New models for human behavior
 
 
Question 7
(TCO 6) Which of the following leaders was the biggest champion of majority rule?
                Thomas Jefferson
                James Madison
                Alexander Hamilton
                George Washington
                John C. Calhoun
 
 
Question 8
(TCO 6) What was the legislative body of the United States was designed to be?
                Tyranny of the majority
                Parliamentary
                Bicameral
                Cosmopolitan Democracy
                Unicameral
 
 
Question 9
(TCO 6) With its emphasis on science, education and toleration, what word would best describe Bacon’s society?
                Moderate
                Libertarian
                Restrictive.
                Serendipitous
                Progressive
 
 
 
Question 10
(TCO 6) Which of the following terms best describes the U.S. government today?
                Participatory democracy
                Pluralist democracy
                Presidential democracy
                Developmental democracy
                Protective democracy