Chapter 10 Electronic Test (Multiple Choice)
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1. Approximately what portion of the world's countries hold regular, free elections in which the people may choose among rival candidates?
a. 10 percent b. 25 percent c. 50 percent d. 70 percent
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2. The average voter turnout in the nine presidential elections from 1960 through 1992 was about
a. 25 percent b. 41 percent c. 56 percent d. 73 percent
3. During the first several decades after the women's suffrage amendment was ratified in 1920, men voted more than women; by 1992,
a. that trend continued unchanged b. the percent of women who voted was about 2 percent higher than that of men c. the percent of women who voted was about 20 percent higher than that of men d. women voters became a key bloc in the Republican Party's electoral coalition
4. According to a New York Tirnes/CBS News poll, the most common reason given for not voting in the 1988 election was
a. not liking the candidates b. being ill or disabled c. not being registered to vote d. having no way to get to the polls
5. In the 1994 congressional elections, the Republican party gained large numbers of House seats in
a. the South b. the Midwest c. the West d. all of the above
6. Voting is one of the privileges and immunities of national citizenship that the states may not abridge under the
a. First Amendment b. Fifth Amendment c. Tenth Amendment d. Fourteenth Amendment
7. Which constitutional amendment made it unconstitutional to deny any citizen the right to vote on account of sex?
a. the Fifteenth Amendment b. the Seventeenth Amendment c. the Nineteenth Amendment d. the Twenty-sixth Amendment
8. In states using primaries, the most common form is the
a. closed primary b. open primary c. split-ticket primary d. Australian primary
9. Which form of registration prevails in all but a few states?
a. periodic registration b. permanent registration c. systematic registration d. retrospective registration
10. The party-column ballot, or Indiana ballot, encourages
a. fraud b.reelection of incumbents c. ticket-splitting d. straight-ticket voting
11. If no candidate for president receives a majority of the electoral votes, the selection of a president is made by
a. the House of Representatives b. the Senate c. the cabinet d. a run-off election held the following January
12. The reason that electors are chosen in each state by popular vote is
a. custom b. it is specified in Article I of the Constitution c. it is specified in the Bill of Rights d. it was ordered by the Supreme Court in the case of Adams v. Jefferson
13. In the 1962 case of Baker v. Carr, the Supreme Court ruled that
a. it ought not to enter the "political thicket" of reapportionment b. voters in Tennessee were justified in challenging the malapportionment of their legislature c. the Fourteenth Amendment required that seats in both houses of a state legislature be based on population d. the "motor voter" bill was unconstitutional have been made of the electoral college?
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Chief Justice Richard Barajas Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics Cathedral High School, El Paso, Texas Last updated: January 1, 2000
