Question 1

Today,the nation's 54 million African Americans represent about 17 percent of the U.S.population,the largest single minority group.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Britons tend to have a higher sense of civic duty,compared to Americans.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Americans are more likely to believe in equality of results than in equality of opportunity.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Americans have generally become more tolerant,yet most believe there should be limits to tolerance.What,then,explains the tremendous amount of liberty enjoyed by groups sometimes feared by the majority?

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Question 5

The dominant religious tradition in the early United States was

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A)   Catholicism. 
B)   Protestantism, especially Presbyterianism. 
C)   Protestantism, especially Puritanism. 
D)   Protestantism, especially Lutheranism. 
E)   nonexistent; the United States had no dominant religious tradition.

Question 6

During the 1730s and 1740s,the political life of the American colonies was transformed by

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A)   an economic depression. 
B)   war with France. 
C)   a religious revivalist movement, called the First Great Awakening. 
D)   a fight over trade between the North and South. 
E)   a call for political independence.

Question 7

Which principle of American political culture holds that people should generally be able to do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt other people?

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A)   Liberty 
B)   Equality 
C)   Civic duty 
D)   Democracy 
E)   Capitalism

Question 8

Civil society is used to describe

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A)   commercial groups. 
B)   government agencies. 
C)   quasi-public corporations. 
D)   private, voluntary groups. 
E)   None of these are correct.

Question 9

Social policy in the United States is dominated by a common belief among Americans in the

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A)   ethic of self-reliance. 
B)   value of group harmony. 
C)   need to protect all citizens. 
D)   value of preferential hiring. 
E)   sense of community.

Question 10

The culture war in America is primarily a war over

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A)   opportunity. 
B)   liberty. 
C)   status. 
D)   money. 
E)   values.

Question 11

From one generation to the next,the importance of religion in America

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A)   is fluctuating unpredictably. 
B)   remains constant. 
C)   is increasing. 
D)   is declining. 
E)   cannot be measured.

Question 12

Compare and contrast political culture in America and in Japan.

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∙Americans emphasize individualism; comp...

Question 13

When the South seceded from the Union,its new government

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A)   was radically different from the Constitution. 
B)   was closely modeled after the Constitution. 
C)   was not a democracy. 
D)   replaced republicanism with slavery. 
E)   could not have survived peacetime.

Question 14

Donald Kinder and David Sears view Americans strong belief in economic individualism as "symbolic racism"-a kind of plausible camouflage for anti-black attitudes.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

A classic study of America,Germany,Great Britain,Italy,and Mexico found that citizens of __________ had the highest sense of civic duty and civic competence.

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A)   Italy 
B)   Germany 
C)   Mexico 
D)   Great Britain 
E)   the United States

Question 16

Although the proportion of people who say they trust the government in Washington to do the right thing has steadily declined since the 1950s,it should be remembered that

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A)   surveys on this particularly topic are notoriously unreliable. 
B)   the numbers were even lower in the 1920s. 
C)   more was expected of the government in the 1950s. 
D)   they are talking about government officials, not the system of government. 
E)   the proportion of people who trusted the government was never very high.

Question 17

In thinking about trends in popular trust of government,it is important to consider that

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A)   levels of trust may have been abnormally high in the 1950s. 
B)   little was expected of government in the 1990s. 
C)   polling techniques were not perfected until the 1970s. 
D)   few Americans understand government or pay attention to it. 
E)   people are more trusting of other institutions today.

Question 18

Most Americans believe that public officials are

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A)   primarily interested in winning elections. 
B)   generally honest but incompetent. 
C)   generally competent but dishonest. 
D)   primarily interested in advancing the common good. 
E)   None of these are correct.

Question 19

Since de Tocqueville's visit to the United States over 175 years ago,Americans' love for democracy has

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A)   remained strong. 
B)   risen dramatically. 
C)   lessened significantly. 
D)   lessened slightly. 
E)   been replaced by a thirst for authoritarianism.

Question 20

In the culture wars,a progressive is more likely to

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A)   value personal freedom as much as traditional rules. 
B)   hold that morality is independent of individual preferences. 
C)   believe that moral rules derive from the commands of God. 
D)   believe that notions about right and wrong are clear and unchanging. 
E)   believe that moral rules are more important than self-expression.

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Donald Kinder and David Sears view Americans strong belief in economic individualism as "symbolic racism"-a kind of plausible camouflage for anti-black attitudes.

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