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Monday, November 29, 2010

Tomorrow's Sabato Quiz

Hi Class,


Don't forget your FRQ on Interest Groups is due at beginning of class tomorrow. If you need a little help answering this one, go to the following link and view but DON'T COPY: http://www.mtbarclay.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/1999FRQ.doc
The Sabato reading for tomorrow is pages 426-33. The quiz is as follows:

Political Parties Quiz #2

1) Who ran a political machine?
A) William Tweed
B) Andrew Jackson
C) John Fremont
D) Barry Goldwater
E) Peter Wright

2) In a direct primary system, who selects party candidates?
A) political machines
B) party bosses
C) qualified voters
D) party conventions
E) party leaders

3) Progressives embraced
A) civil service laws.
B) political machines.
C) patronage.
D) strong political parties.
E) party conventions.

4) Civil service laws require
A) compulsory voting.
B) compulsory education through the tenth grade.
C) patronage.
D) appointment based on merit.
E) ticket splitting.

5) The decline in political parties brought about by the Progressive era reforms has led to
A) party machines.
B) candidate-centered politics.
C) party realignment.
D) secular realignment.
E) logrolling.

6) A shifting of party coalition groupings in the electorate that remains in place for several
elections is known as
A) punctuated misalignment.
B) an electoral tsunami.
C) ticket splitting.
D) party realignment.
E) a coalitional government.

7) Which of the following was a critical election?
A) James Polk in 1844
B) Franklin Pierce in 1852
C) Grover Cleveland in 1884
D) Franklin Roosevelt in 1932
E) Dwight Eisenhower in 1952

8) Where can one find proportional representation?
A) in the Senate
B) in the presidency
C) in Europe
D) in the California legislature
E) in the Nebraska legislature

9) Congressional elections use a
A) winner-take-all system.
B) proportional representation system.
C) instant runoff system.
D) party machine system.
E) platform party system.

10) Who ran under the Bull Moose Party?
A) George Wallace
B) Ross Perot
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Oliver North
E) Bernie Sanders

2 comments:

  1. P.3 Jazmine Zavala
    oh!! thank gosh, i wasnt getting the FRQ geesssh i hate those..lol but thanks Mr.B for this link :)

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  2. does the interest group assignment have to be in essay format? or outline format?

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