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True/False Quiz



This activity contains 17 questions.

Question 1.
The right to vote in elections is important, but not necessarily fundamental to democracy.


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Question 2.
The first of the freedom schools was founded in McComb, Mississippi, by a remarkable young man named Robert Parris Moses.


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Question 3.
Democracy is a good standard for evaluating political life.


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Question 4.
Democracy can be defined as a system of rule by the people, characterized by the existence of popular sovereignty, political equality, and political liberty.


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Question 5.
In direct democracies, elected officials, such as members of Congress and a president, make political decisions on behalf of the citizens.


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Question 6.
Popular sovereignty means, essentially, that the ultimate source of all public authority is the people and the government does what the people want it to do.


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Question 7.
Because so few people in America vote, the U.S. is not a democracy.


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Question 8.
Determination of the popular will requires the availability of accurate political information, insightful interpretations, and vigorous debate.


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Question 9.
The denial of citizenship rights to African-Americans in the South before the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is an example of the struggle for political equality.


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Question 10.
Political equality is unrelated to economic equality.


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Question 11.
Political liberty is a necessary condition of popular sovereignty.


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Question 12.
Individual liberty and majority rule are incompatible and do not exist together in any country today.


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Question 13.
The authors of the text argue that the American public as a collective body is poorly informed and politically illiterate.


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Question 14.
"Jim Crow" policies and procedures were used primarily in the North to discriminate against African-Americans.


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Question 15.
In order to better understand what is going on in government, we should look at actors and influences in four different categories: government, government action, political linkage, and structure.


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Question 16.
The major actors and influences comprising structure factors are political elites, such as the president, Congress, and the courts.


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Question 17.
There is seldom, if ever, a single cause that explains a government decision or policy. Instead, decisions and policies generally have multiple causes.


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