10-20 quiz AP Gov

Which of the following statements about voting behavior in the United States is correct?

(A) College graduates are more likely to vote than are those who have at most a high school diploma.

Which of the following best explains how parties link citizens to the electoral process?

(A) Parties send volunteers to knock on doors to register voters.

Which of the following is most frequently reported in the media during a presidential election?

(A) Results from public opinion polls that indicate which candidates are most likely to win

Senator Hoffman is campaigning for reelection in her state. Her campaign message emphasizes how the policies she has supported have benefited her constituents. She has spotlighted job creation and an overall improvement in the standard of living in the state in the past six years. Senator Hoffman is hoping to appeal to which of the following voting behavior models?

(A) Retrospective voting

The largest amount of political coverage in newspapers during presidential campaigns is devoted to

(A) day-to-day campaign activities

The main intent of "motor voter" laws is to

(A) increase voter registration

Which of the following provides the most accurate explanation of how consumer-driven media increases partisan polarization?

(B) Consumer-driven media reinforces existing political biases in individuals.

Which of the following best characterizes the influence of the news media on public opinion in the United States?

(B) They affect which issues the public thinks are important.

A political science professor is researching the effects that the Fifteenth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments have had on the American political system. Which of the following is the most likely reason the professor is researching these amendments?

(B) To study the expansion of voting rights

In the United States, which of the following is a rule on voting found in the Constitution or its amendments?

(B) You cannot make someone pay a tax so that they can vote.

The term "horse-race journalism" refers to the tendency of the media to

(B) cover campaigns by emphasizing the relative standings of the candidates in the polls rather than the issues they discuss

The media's effect on public opinion can best be described as

(C) influencing which issues the public sees as important

Interest groups and political parties both promote United States democracy by

(C) linking citizens to the political process

Political parties serve which of the following functions in the United States? ------------ I. Informing the public about political issues ------------ II. Mobilizing voters and getting them to the polls ------------ III. Organizing diverse interests within society ------------ IV. Establishing the rules governing financial contributions to political candidates

(D) I, II, and III only

An important Senate race takes place in the state of Georgia. Rather than focus on the issue positions taken by the candidates, a 24-hour cable news station instead focuses primarily on poll results and campaign strategies using a "big board" to show the counties where each candidate has the most support. Which of the following is an effect of this type of new coverage?

(D) The electorate will be less able to accurately compare the policy platforms of candidates running in the election

Which of the following describes the potential impact on the electorate when daily media coverage of elections focuses primarily on the newest poll results?

(D) The electorate will be less able to accurately compare the policy platforms of candidates running in the election

Citizens who believe that their votes will have no effect on the outcome of an election have a

(D) low level of political efficacy

Which of the following factors best accounts for the rise of interest groups and the decline of political parties in recent years?

(E) Interest groups are better able to articulate specific policy positions than are political parties.

Which of the following statements about political parties and the United States Constitution is true?

(E) The issue of political parties is not addressed in the Constitution.

Which of the following describes a consequence of the growing concentration of ownership of the news media?

(E) There is increased similarity of network news coverage.

The agenda-setting function of the media refers to the power to

(E) decide which issues are important enough to bring to public attention

Compared to voters in a general election, voters in presidential primary elections are

(E) more likely to be affluent

Which of the following represents a barrier to third parties participating in elections

All of these

Which of the following portrays an accurate example of horse race media coverage?

News media outlets report the results of public opinion polls that show the relative popularity of candidates

In the Shaw v Reno case, the attorney general tried to get North Carolina to redo its district lines based upon the legal right of preclearance which was from

The 1965 Voting Rights Act

Baker v Carr decision was based upon

The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment

Which of the following scenarios explains how demographic factors affect voter participation in elections?

Wealthier individuals are more likely to become involved in campaigns because they believe that their actions may influence the candidates.

Each of the following are examples of linkage institutions in action EXCEPT

a. a congressional committee forces the FBI director to testify in a closed-door hearing

Which of the following statements best reflects the framers' intent when establishing the Electoral College?

a. the framers didn't trust the people to popularly elect the president

Which of the following constitutional amendments did NOT make the United States more democratic?

b. 22nd Amendment

Social media has affected how many people receive their news by

b. allowing people to selectively receive news from sources that confirm their biases

Each of the following have decreased the electoral influence of political parties EXCEPT

b. changes in congressional rules that have dictated that leadership positions are no longer determined by seniority

Which of the following examples of voting behavior is correctly identified?

b. party-line voting: Tashaun, a Democrat, votes for Don Draper because he is a Democrat, even though there are some troubling allegations about his behavior towards women

Opponents of voter photo ID laws would most likely argue that

b. the real goal of photo ID laws is to suppress minority and urban voter turnout

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were investigative journalists at the Washington Post who were instrumental in gathering evidence of Nixon's involvement in the coverup of the Watergate break-in. Which role of the media is best exemplified by this?

b. watchdog

The message of the political cartoon is that

c. Modern candidates have become reliant on Super PAC contributions

Modern political campaigns in the United States

c. involve a heavy reliance on political consultants like pollsters, strategists, and media communication professionals

Which of the following statements is true about the U.S. election system?

c. parties officially nominate a presidential candidate at the party's national convention

In Shaw v. Reno (1993), the Supreme Court held that

c. race cannot be the sole factor for creating district lines

Proponents of the Electoral College would most likely point out that

c. the Electoral College helps ensure that rural areas aren't overlooked in presidential elections

What is the most likely explanation for how a candidate can win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote?

c. the candidate won large victories in some states and lost very close races in other states

Which of the following requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to the Supreme Court case, Shaw v. Reno (1993)?

c. the requirement that states with a history of voter discrimination get approval from the federal government for any changes to their electoral policies

Which of the following statements is most consistent with this political cartoon?

c. women more often support Democratic candidates than Republican candidates

The Constitution, as it was originally made in the late 1700s,

none of these

Baker v Carr decided that

that courts had jurisdiction to determine if district population sizes were fair