POLI330 Week 2 Quiz Latest 2019 January (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