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Academic Vocabulary
Exercise 4: True or False

Directions: Answer true if the statement is true. Answer false if the statement is not true.

1 .       Capitalism is an economic system in which individuals and corporations, not the government, own businesses. 

 
 


2 .       A liberal is a person who favors traditional values. 

 
 


3 .       A U.S. president may reject a bill proposed by congress with a veto. 

 
 


4 .       An incumbent is a person who currently holds a political office. 

 
 


5 .       A pacifist is a proponent of war and violence as a means of solving problems or settling disagreements. 

 
 


6 .       Fiction is a literary work that is imaginative and not factual. 

 
 


7 .       An anthology is one work by one author. 

 
 


8 .       Genre refers to a type or category of literature. 

 
 


9 .       The setting of a story is the central or dominant idea of a story. 

 
 


10 .       An example of a literary classic would be A Tale of Two Cities

 
 






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