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In the 2012 election, Mitt Romney lost the presidential election because he failed to win the majority of white voters across the country. False
2. Most people in the developing world (“Third World”) live in hard-to-get-to rural areas where access to safe water, adequate food and reliable electrical power is difficult. False
3. Compared to Japan or the United Kingdom, the United States is not as favorably endowed with natural resources to create a strong economy. False
4. According to Plato, democracy is the most practical form of government since it represents the best of what humans aspire to, namely justice and order. False
5. Augustine argued that Christians should be optimistic about influencing politics because we can create a “city of God” here on earth. False
6. Which region of the world has the largest population? Asia
7. Population projections assert that the world’s population will reach which of the following levels by the year 2050? 9 Billion
8. In his famous study Democracy in America written in the early 1800s, Alexis de Tocqueville made which of the following observations? American history is free of aristocracy
9. According to Aristotle, which form of government provides the best practicable good life? polity
For example, the city of Montreal in Canada spends the most money of all city in the world on snow removal during the winter, namely about what amount: $150 Million
1. In “Mr Smith Goes to Washington,” the main character Jefferson Smith is elected to office to serve as a Senator in Washington, DC, where he learns the true nature of how politics operates. False
2. In “Can Mr Smith Still Get to Washington?” the candidate Jeff Smith runs to represent the Democratic Party in his district, and manages to squeeze out a slim victory against a much better known and connected candidate. False
3. Adolf Hitler came to power in 1932 as the result of a military coup whereby he (& other Nazis) overthrew a democratically elected government. False
4. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. False
5. According to our text, James Madison famously fashioned a compromise in a new Constitution that strengthened the authority of a central government while preserving liberty. True
6. An example of the political game of the lion and fox is: Machiavelli
7. When the Khmer Rouge undertook the restructuring of Cambodian society, it was practicing the game of: wipeout
9. The Watergate scandal concerned the presidency of: Nixon
. Which of the following was accurate in the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq? The government of Saddam Hussein had consistently disobeyed United Nations Security Council Resolutions
1. One of the faulty assumptions associated with the US invasion of Iraq was that a modest-sized American military force can swiftly and efficiently carry out the invasion and occupation of a country like Iraq. True
2. After the US invaded Iraq in 2003, evidence was found that showed Saddam Hussein (the former leader of Iraq) had helped to organize the 9-11 attacks on America and that there close ties between the terrorist group Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government. False
3. The German republic that formed after World War I and lasted from 1919 to 1932 was known as the National Socialist government, and led by Adolf Hitler. False
4. One clear lesson from the Cuban Missile Crisis is that political leaders should never trust a small group of advisers to help make difficult decisions, especially in a nuclear age. False
5. The political game of accommodation: is marked by cooperation, bargaining, and balloting
6. James Madison’s famous argument on behalf of the “extensive republic” appears in which work? The Federalist Papers
7. Political empiricism is concerned with: What has been, what is, and what will be
8. Which of the fields of political science examines and analyzes the political systems within specific countries or regions in the world? comparitive politics
9. The change in US National Security Strategy in 2002 that presented a “preventive” war as being a viable option in US foreign policy reflects a change in what primary area of concern that political scientists attempt to understand? ideas
10. The gathering and analysis of voting results in an election to determine why citizens voted for particular candidates would be an example of which task of political science? empirical understanding
1. Thomas Hobbes argued that people make a social contract with a sovereign power (government) in order to preserve what he believed was humankind’s inherently peaceful state of nature. False
2. According to Karl Marx, communist revolutions would take place in capitalist societies and put into place strong governments ruling over the working class. False
3. As a political philosophy, liberalism (at least in its classic form) argues that the rights and freedoms of individuals are paramount. False
4. Karl Marx wrote his “Communist Manifesto” just before the Industrial Revolution took place in Europe. False
5. John Locke characterized the life of man in the state of nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” False
6. According to the text, which political philosopher held the greatest faith in the general public? Roussea
7. Which political philosopher believed that people in the state of nature enjoy certain natural, inalienable rights, especially the rights to life, liberty, and property? John Locke
8. Who is the author of On Liberty and believed that individual happiness and freedom were paramount to protect? John Stuart Mill
9. According to the text, which of the following is not an operative ideal of liberal democracy? Government by a wise elite
10. The political ideology of nationalism has, at its core, the primary goal of creating what? a nation state
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