Chapter 11.4 Pages 410 to 415

1) Who are interviewed in exit polls?
A) voters who are leaving their polling place
B) likely voters on the day before an election
C) potential voters right before they leave for work
D) those who voted in the last election
E) nonvoters

2) How did the 2000 election underscore problems with using exit polls?
A) They were biased in favor of Republicans.
B) They were manipulated by the Republican Party to make it appear as if Bush had won
the election.
C) They led to premature media reports regarding the winner of the 2000 election.
D) They hampered the recount because the media had already taken the ballots to conduct
their exit polls.
E) All of the above.

3) Which of the following groups is most likely to be underrepresented in public opinion polls?
A) Republicans
B) men
C) the poor
D) the middle class
E) Protestants

4) Measures of public opinion are less likely to be accurate if
A) a stratified sample is used.
B) there is a small margin of error.
C) citizens do not care about the issue being measured.
D) questions are carefully worded to be neutral.
E) they are collected by the National Election Study.

5) Americans are more likely to support policies that
A) benefit them personally.
B) benefit society as a whole.
C) contribute to a sense of community.
D) increase taxes.
E) are collectivist.

6) Which of the following is true?
A) African Americans are more likely to support strong civil rights laws.
B) College students are more likely to support government-sponsored retirement
programs.
C) Taxpayers typically support higher taxes.
D) Older Americans typically support privatizing health care.
E) African Americans are less likely to support affirmative action programs.

7) Conservatives typically favor
A) smaller government.
B) social welfare programs.
C) government regulation of business.
D) legalized abortion.
E) same-sex marriage.

8) According to a Roper Center poll, Americans were mostly likely to label themselves as
A) liberals.
B) conservatives.
C) socialist.
D) moderate.
E) populist.

9) Which of the following was a reason George W. Bush was successful at urging Congress to
pass the USA Patriot Act?
A) The USA Patriot Act expanded Americansʹ civil liberties.
B) The USA Patriot Act was needed to fund the war on terror.
C) The USA Patriot Act was needed to fund the war in Iraq.
D) The USA Patriot Act expanded Congressional authority at a time when Congress was
weak.
E) President Bush enjoyed strong approval ratings in the wake of the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks.

10) Why did George W. Bush do little hands-on campaigning on behalf of 2006 Republican
congressional candidates?
A) He was too busy fighting the war in Iraq.
B) He thought it was undignified for a sitting president to engage in traditional
campaigning.
C) His approval rating was relatively low.
D) He was on an Asian foreign policy tour.
E) Because he was a lame duck, he did not care about the election outcome.