Question 1

The first national parks in the United States were created by

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A)   George Washington.
B)   Abraham Lincoln.
C)   Theodore Roosevelt.
D)   Franklin Roosevelt.
E)   John Kennedy.

Question 2

A milestone in the modern environmentalist movement was the publication of the book Silent Spring, by

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A)   John Muir.
B)   John Audubon.
C)   Rachel Carson.
D)   Ralph Nader.
E)   James Watt.

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of a policy whose benefits and costs are both widely distributed?

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A)   Social Security
B)   funding for public schools
C)   air pollution controls
D)   agriculture subsidies
E)   tax policy

Question 4

Which of the following statements about poverty in the United States is LEAST accurate?

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A)   The poverty rate in 2016 was less than half of what it was in the 1950s.
B)   The group with the highest absolute numbers of people living in poverty is white adults between the ages of 18 and 64.
C)   The 2016 poverty threshold for a family of four was $24,563.
D)   There are far more adults over the age of 64 living in poverty than adults below the age of 64.
E)   The highest rates of poverty occur among children, minorities, and urban populations.

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of a policy whose benefits are widely distributed but whose costs are concentrated?

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A)   Social Security
B)   funding for public schools
C)   air pollution controls
D)   agriculture subsidies
E)   tax policy

Question 6

Discuss the role of the Federal Reserve in the American economy. What are the Fed's specific functions? What are the tools at its disposal? How did the Fed originate and how is it staffed? Should an institution that is not controlled by the people, and which is not fully an instrument of government, be allowed to wield as much influence as the Fed does?

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The Federal Reserve, often referred to a...

Question 7

Following the 2010 BP oil spill, the president, Congress, and various government agencies had difficulty deciding on the correct actions to deal with the problem. This indicated a problem with

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A)   problem recognition.
B)   agenda setting.
C)   policy formation.
D)   policy adoption.
E)   policy evaluation.

Question 8

What is the first step in the policymaking process?

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A)   policy formation
B)   agenda setting
C)   problem recognition
D)   policy adoption
E)   policy evaluation

Question 9

Which of the following is an example of a policy whose benefits and costs are both concentrated?

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A)   Social Security
B)   funding for public schools
C)   air pollution controls
D)   agriculture subsidies
E)   tax policy

Question 10

The Affordable Care Act

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A)   requires only those actually employed to have health insurance.
B)   provides financial assistance to those who cannot afford insurance premiums.
C)   does not involve state governments in its implementation.
D)   was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2012.
E)   was supported by most Republicans in Congress.

Question 11

Describe the measures the federal government has adopted to protect the environment. How do these measures distribute costs and benefits? Do they place onerous burdens on American businesses or do they allow those businesses too much latitude? Can local governments adequately address environmental problems, or do these problems require international solutions?

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The federal government has adopted sever...

Question 12

Welfare payments to needy families exemplify public policies that

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A)   widely disperse both costs and benefits.
B)   concentrate both costs and benefits.
C)   concentrate benefits while widely dispersing costs.
D)   concentrate costs while widely dispersing benefits.
E)   achieve widely dispersed benefits without levying any substantial cost.

Question 13

Which of the following statements about America's federal monetary policy is LEAST accurate?

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A)   The officials most responsible for determining America's monetary policy are neither elected by the people nor accountable to its elected bodies.
B)   Every bank chartered by the federal government or by a state must belong to the Federal Reserve System.
C)   Banks that join the Federal Reserve receive access to a number of benefits, including the right to borrow money at attractive rates.
D)   The Federal Reserve controls the supply of money in the American economy, increasing it to combat recession, and shrinking it in response to inflationary trends.
E)   The Federal Reserve System has a complex structure that includes a seven-member board of governors and twelve regional banks.

Question 14

Social safety net entitlement spending currently constitutes approximately what percentage of the federal budget?

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A)   90 percent
B)   81 percent
C)   66 percent
D)   52 percent
E)   24 percent

Question 15

Which of the following is an example of a policy whose costs are widely distributed but whose benefits are concentrated?

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A)   Social Security
B)   investment bank regulations and investigations
C)   air pollution controls
D)   public colleges
E)   tax policy

Question 16

Which of the following statements about the Federal Reserve is most accurate?

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A)   It rarely has any contact with Congress or any other representative body.
B)   It was created during the Great Depression as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program.
C)   It was created shortly after the ratification of the Constitution.
D)   It is one of the few branches of government fully controlled by the people.
E)   It is better equipped to respond to inflation than to reverse a recession.

Question 17

Discuss the challenges presented by an increasingly global economy. Should the United States commit itself to free trade, or should it provide protections for the domestic industries on which its citizens depend? How much say should international organizations such as the WTO have in determining America's economic policies? Do the trends of economic globalization and possible environmental catastrophe make it inevitable that the United States will have to forfeit some degree of its sovereignty in the near future?

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The challenges presented by an increasin...

Question 18

Which of the following definitions most completely expresses the meaning of the term public policy?

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A)   government actions that have a direct and tangible effect on a wide variety of citizens
B)   anything the government chooses to do or not to do
C)   government policies directed toward specific economic or social goals
D)   any government policy that draws the support of the majority of the American people
E)   government actions designed to benefit all the American people, not just particular interest groups

Question 19

Under which of the following presidents did the federal government actually have a government surplus?

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A)   Ronald Reagan, a Republican
B)   George H. W. Bush, a Republican
C)   Bill Clinton, a Democrat
D)   George W. Bush, a Republican
E)   Barack Obama, a Democrat

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