Home > Student Resources > Public Opinion and Political Action > Multiple-Choice Quiz >
     
Public Opinion and Political Action
Multiple-Choice Quiz

1 .       The phrase that refers to the United States as a mixture of cultures, ideas, and peoples is [Hint]



2 .       The term "minority majority" refers to the fact that [Hint]



3 .       The Simpson-Mazzoli Act [Hint]



4 .       Reapportionment [Hint]



5 .       Nationwide, the fastest growing age group in America is composed of [Hint]



6 .       Most Americans learn about government and politics through [Hint]



7 .       One of the effects of growing older on political learning and political behavior is that [Hint]



8 .       A relatively small proportion of people who are chosen as representative of the whole is called a(n) [Hint]



9 .       A pollster using a representative sample of 1,500 Americans finds that 52 percent support candidate X and 48 percent support candidate Y. The pollster's conclusion should be that [Hint]



10 .       According to the text, public opinion polls are [Hint]



11 .       Critics of polling think [Hint]



12 .       Public opinion polls have shown that [Hint]



13 .       According to Russell Neuman, the paradox of mass politics is that the American political system works as well as it does given [Hint]



14 .       In general, liberal ideology supports [Hint]



15 .       Distrust in the American government hit an all-time low in [Hint]



16 .       The decrease in American political cynicism after September 11 [Hint]



17 .       The most common form of political participation in a democracy is [Hint]



18 .       The conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and suffer the consequences is called [Hint]



19 .       One of the reasons why the participation gap between minority groups and the national average is no longer enormous is because [Hint]



20 .       When people vote according to the nature of the times and know little about specific issues [Hint]



Some questions in this exercise may have more than one correct answer. And answer choices in this exercise are randomized and will appear in a different order each time the page is loaded.





Copyright © 1995-2010, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman Legal and Privacy Terms