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Question 1

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The president's constitutional roles, such as chief executive and commander in chief,
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  • are based on very precise constitutional grants of power.
  • are rooted in tradition only; they have no basis in the language of the Constitution.
  • are not subject to check by Congress.
  • have expanded in practice to be more powerful than the writers of the Constitution intended.
  • are absolute powers under the Constitution.

Question 2

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Congress has formally declared war ________ times in U.S. history.
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  • 2
  • 5
  • 55
  • 200
  • 6,500

Question 3

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The Whig theory holds that the presidency
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  • is a shared office where the president and the cabinet are equally powerful.
  • is a limited office whose occupant is confined to the exercise of expressly granted constitutional powers.
  • is the office most representative of the people.
  • should provide strong leadership in the area of foreign policy but not in domestic policy.
  • is subordinate to the Supreme Court.

Question 4

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The president's role in foreign policy increased largely because
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  • Congress proved so inept in foreign affairs that the American people demanded a change.
  • America became more of a world power.
  • of the need to coordinate national economic policy and foreign policy, a task to which the presidency was well suited.
  • of the desire of U.S. business to expand into Latin America and Asia, which required executive action at the highest level.
  • of attitudes held by the American public.

Question 5

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Which of the following is true of the vice presidency?
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  • Presidents in the nineteenth century paid more attention to their vice presidents and granted them more authority.
  • The Constitution assigns no executive authority to the vice president.
  • Jimmy Carter reduced the power of the vice presidency by removing the vice president's office from the White House.
  • The constitutional powers of the vice presidency have been increased by Congress twice during U.S. history.
  • Daniel Webster and Henry Clay accepted nominations to the vice presidency as stepping stones to the presidency.

Question 6

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The primary election as a means of choosing presidential nominees
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  • was introduced during the Jacksonian era.
  • is used in Europe as well as in the United States.
  • has been used more extensively in recent decades, such that the candidate who dominates the primaries can usually expect to receive the nomination.
  • is designed to strengthen the political parties.
  • was introduced during the Cleveland era.

Question 7

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Candidate strategy in the early presidential nominating contests (such as New Hampshire's primary) is designed chiefly to gain
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  • momentum.
  • the support of the party's organizational leaders.
  • the support of the party's congressional leaders.
  • the endorsement of the mass media.
  • the support of partisan rivals.

Question 8

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The selection of the vice presidential nominee at the national convention is based on the
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  • results of the primaries and caucuses; the candidate who places second in these contests is nominated as the running mate of the candidate who finishes first.
  • convention delegates' judgment as to the candidate who would make the best vice president.
  • results of public opinion polls taken just before the convention begins.
  • presidential nominee's choice of a running mate.
  • None of these answers is correct.

Question 9

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President Obama's failure in his early months in office to enact policies to combat global warming, despite his determination to do so, is reflective primarily of
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  • the two-presidency problem.
  • fear of impeachment.
  • blocking by Congress.
  • lack of sufficient executive authority.
  • poor circumstance related to the economy.

Question 10

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The Executive Office of the President (EOP) was created in ________.
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  • 1789
  • 1804
  • 1865
  • 1888
  • 1939

Question 11

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The presidential advisory unit that, as a whole, has declined significantly as an advisory resource for the president in the twentieth century is the
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  • Council of Economic Advisers.
  • Office of Management and Budget.
  • White House Office.
  • National Security Council.
  • the Cabinet (as a whole).

Question 12

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Which of the following did the framers want from a president?
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  • national leadership
  • administration of the laws
  • statesmanship in foreign affairs
  • command of the military
  • All these answers are correct.

Question 13

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The presidency was created by Article ________ of the U.S. Constitution.
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  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Question 14

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According to the U.S. Constitution, if no one candidate receives a majority vote of the Electoral College, who chooses the president?
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  • the U.S. Senate
  • the U.S. House of Representatives
  • both the Senate and House in joint session
  • the Supreme Court
  • the people, in a runoff election

Question 15

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Under which president did the Electoral College selection process change to a popular vote?
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  • George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Martin Van Buren

Question 16

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Which of the following presidents failed to win an electoral majority, but still won the presidency by decision of the House of Representatives?
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  • John Quincy Adams
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • George W. Bush
  • All these answers are correct.

Question 17

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After which party convention did the Democrats force major changes in the presidential nominating process?
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  • 1948
  • 1960
  • 1968
  • 1984
  • 1992

Question 18

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Which of the following states gives one Electoral College vote to the winner of each congressional district and two Electoral College votes to the statewide winner?
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  • Texas
  • Maine
  • New York
  • New Hampshire
  • Iowa

Question 19

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Which one of the following did NOT serve as a state governor prior to being president?
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  • Ronald Reagan
  • Bill Clinton
  • John Kennedy
  • George W. Bush
  • Jimmy Carter

Question 20

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Which of the following is part of the Executive Office of the President?
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  • Office of Management and Budget
  • National Economic Council
  • National Security Council
  • Office of Legislative Affairs
  • All these answers are correct.

Question 21

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Which of the following is a formal constitutional requirement for becoming president?
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  • must be at least 40 years of age
  • must be a resident in the United States for at least 10 years
  • must be a natural-born citizen
  • must be a white male
  • must be a Protestant

Question 22

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Which of the following is NOT true of the 2004 presidential election?
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  • Howard Dean did not accept federal matching funds in the primaries.
  • John Kerry accepted federal matching funds in the primaries.
  • George W. Bush did not accept federal matching funds in the primaries.
  • None of the three candidates (Dean, Kerry, and Bush) accepted federal matching funds in the primaries.
  • None of these answers is correct.

Question 23

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Whereas today candidates rely on the media, previously they based their campaigns on the
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  • work of grass-roots organizers.
  • party organizations.
  • mass mailing of campaign literature.
  • staging of personal appearances.
  • efforts of friendly civilian and corporate group efforts.

Question 24

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Which of the following is true of the president's veto power?
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  • Presidents are limited in their use of the veto on legislation directly affecting national security or economic policy.
  • The threat of a veto has never proven to be enough to make Congress bend to the president's demands.
  • Congress can usually muster the two-thirds majority in each chamber required to override a presidential veto.
  • The veto is as much a sign of presidential weakness as of strength, because it arises when Congress refuses to accept the president's ideas.
  • President Bush used the veto less and less during the course of his presidency so as not to cause his popularity to fall.

Question 25

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Which of the following is a reason that the nation did not routinely need a strong president during most of the nineteenth century?
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  • the small policymaking role of the federal government
  • the sectional nature of the nation's major issues
  • the U.S. government's small role in world affairs
  • all of these factors: the small policymaking role of the federal government; the sectional nature of the nation's major issues; and the U.S. government's small role in world affairs
  • None of these answers is correct.

Question 26

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Which of the following happened in the presidential election of 2000?
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  • George W. Bush won the popular vote.
  • Ralph Nader won Florida by 537 votes.
  • Al Gore won a slim majority of votes in the Electoral College.
  • Al Gore received 550,000 more votes nationally than Ralph Nader.
  • Ralph Nader received 3 percent of the popular vote.

Question 27

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Which of the following was a provision of the War Powers Act?
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  • It prohibits the president from sending troops into combat.
  • It requires hostilities to end within sixty days unless Congress extends the period.
  • It requires Congress to consult with the president whenever feasible before passing measures that will restrict president-ordered military action.
  • It requires the president to inform Congress within one month of the reason for the military action.
  • It removes from Congress the power to restrict the timing or size of president-initiated military actions.

Question 28

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The presidency is an
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  • extraordinarily strong office with sufficient powers to enable the president to control national policy under virtually all circumstances.
  • inherently weak office, in that presidents have almost no capacity to influence the major directions of national policy.
  • office in which power is conditional, depending on whether the political support that gives force to presidential leadership exists or can be developed.
  • office where power depends almost entirely on its occupant; strong leaders are always successful presidents, and weak ones never succeed.
  • office where power is fairly constant, regardless of the occupant or the circumstances.

Question 29

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A president's accomplishments have largely depended on
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  • the margin of victory in the presidential campaign.
  • whether circumstances favor strong presidential leadership.
  • the president's ability to come up with good ideas.
  • the president's skill at balancing the demands of competing groups.
  • mid-term elections.

Question 30

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The honeymoon period occurs during
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  • a president's second term only.
  • the first part of a president's term.
  • the period of a president's term immediately following a successful foreign policy initiative.
  • the period of a president's term immediately following a successful domestic policy initiative.
  • the State of the Union address.
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