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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A government programs that distribute food, housing, or monetary assistance to people who make less than a predetermined amount of money each year.
B incentives that interest groups distribute to people who do not belong to their organizations in order to win public support for their causes.
C government programs that provide tax cuts for people at the top of the income distribution.
D incentives that interest groups make available only to those people who are members of their organizations.
Question #2
A purposive benefits
B material benefits
C solidarity benefits
D informational benefits
Question #3
A collective good.
B solidary benefit.
C free rider.
D purposive benefit.
Question #4
A collective good.
B solidary benefit.
C material benefit.
D purposive benefit.
Question #5
A it is the most conventional form of participation.
B they are an effective use of insider strategies.
C they are primary interested in material benefits.
D these types of “outsider” strategies can be quite effective.
Question #6
A campaign workers
B legal assistance
C money
D information
Question #7
A an issue network.
B a membership association.
C an iron triangle.
D the New Politics movement.
Question #8
A $50,000
B $500,000
C $500
D $5,000
Question #9
A individuals may contribute up $15,000 to any candidate for federal office in any primary or general election.
B each candidate or campaign committee is required to itemize the full name and address, occupation, and principal business of each person who contributes more than $200.
C political action committees can contribute $500,000 to any candidate for federal office in any primary or general election.
D unrestricted “soft money” donations to the national political parties would be eliminated.
Question #10
A banned the practice of lobbyists giving members of Congress an honorarium for giving speeches.
B eliminated the requirement that lobbyists register with Congress.
C allowed businesses to deduct lobbying costs as a business expense.
D lifted all limits on the number of gifts lobbyists could give members of Congress.
Question #11
A the homeless and the poor
B citizen groups
C corporate and professional groups
D government groups
Question #12
A 40 million
B 4 million
C 400,000
D $40,000
Question #13
A raise grassroots support for a particular interest.
B raise and distribute money to election campaigns.
C build better networks between interest groups and political parties.
D produce and carry out an institutional advertising campaign.
Question #14
A Lobbying involves advertising in order to create a positive image of an organization.
B Lobbyists try to exert pressure directly on government officials themselves.
C Lobbying is the only form of influence that has explicit First Amendment protection from regulation.
D Lobbying is the least expensive and the most democratic strategy of influencing government.
Question #15
A prohibited interest groups from donating to electoral campaigns but increased the amount of money 527s and Super PACs could contribute.
B prohibited 527s and Super PACs from donating to electoral campaigns but increased the amount of money interest groups could contribute.
C dramatically increased the flow of money from interest groups, 527s, and Super PACs into politics and electoral campaigns.
D dramatically decreased the flow of money from interest groups, 527s, and Super PACs into politics and electoral campaigns.
Question #16
A $2,800
B $1,000
C $5,000
D $7,500
Question #17
A Litigation
B Creating an iron triangle
C Going public
D Creating a “war room”
Question #18
A
B directly lobbying judges, using direct-mail solicitations, and making campaign contributions to members of Congress.
C engaging in institutional advertising, activating issue networks, and directly lobbying judges.
D filing amicus curiae briefs, financing lawsuits, and bringing a suit on behalf of the group.
E working with 527 committees, directly lobbying judges, and engaging in institutional advertising.
Question #19
A files formal lawsuits and amicus briefs against administrative agencies and interest groups.
B opposes the agency’s budgetary requests and the programs the interest group favors.q
C supports the agency’s budgetary requests and the programs the interest group favors.
D is legally excluded from any interactions with interest groups and administrative agencies.
Question #20
A a legislative committee, an executive agency, and the federal courts.
B a legislative committee, an interest group, and an executive agency.
C the media, a legislative committee, and the federal courts.
D
E the federal courts, the state courts, and interest groups.
Question #21
A
B requires agencies to create opportunities for public comments before implementing new rules and regulations.
C allows former agency officials to work for the industries they had regulated within six months of leaving government service.
D permits interest groups to spend an unlimited amount of money on issue advocacy during a campaign.
E extends First Amendment protection to interest groups trying to lobby executive agencies.
Question #22
A a 1961 Supreme Court decision.
B the First Amendment.
C state and federal laws dating from the 1930s.
D internal rules of Congress.
Question #23
A protesting at the White House
B lobbying the executive branch
C lobbying Congress
D litigating a case in court
Question #24
A a network of interest groups and elected officials that seek to reform a set of policies on a diverse set of issues
B a network of individuals from various business groups and interest groups, each representing different issues
C a network of individuals seeking to improve the environment that is made up of governors, environmental activists, climate change interest groups
D
E a network that attempts to raise a great deal of money from corporations, unions, and individuals to fund election candidates
Question #25
A consciousness-raising workshop
B free T-shirt
C health insurance program
D newsletter
Question #26
A the benefits of a group’s actions are broadly available and cannot be denied to nonmembers.
B members of Congress listen only to organized interest groups and not to public-opinion polls.
C the benefits of a group’s actions are available only to a specific segment of society.
D members of Congress are presented with many opportunities to amend a piece of legislation.
Question #27
A material benefits
B international benefits
C informational benefits
D purposive benefits
Question #28
A free-rider; collective goods
B free-rider; selective benefits
C principal-agent; collective goods
D principal-agent; selective benefits
Question #29
A who work in manual labor and unskilled occupations.
B who identify as Democrats.
C from the lower socioeconomic levels.
D with higher levels of income and education.
Question #30
A public
B potential
C grassroots
D citizen
Question #31
A citizen groups.
B public interest groups.
C think tanks
D government groups.
Question #32
A labor
B business
C ideological
D public interest
Question #33
A labor groups.
B public-sector groups.
C ideological groups.
D businesses and corporations.
Question #34
A labor
B ideological
C business
D public interest
Question #35
A more public funding for their activities
B more financial resources
C more grassroots members
D less need for lobbyists
Question #36
A Valerie Plame
B Paul Wolfowitz
C Karl Rove
D Jack Abramoff
Question #37
A creates a lack of talent in the recruitment of new members.
B is a resource that contributes to the group’s effectiveness.
C reduces the amount of resources the group can acquire.
D limits the ability of the group to influence policy.
Question #38
A conduct partisan politics.
B mobilize public opinion.
C pursue litigation.
D lobby officials.
Question #39
A litigation
B using material benefits to expand group numbers
C setting up a Super PAC and donating to campaigns
D lobbying a member of a regulatory agency
Question #40
A limited PAC donations to $10,000.
B banned PACs.
C did not restrict PACs in any significant way.
D prohibited any political activity from 527 committees.
Question #41
A interest groups organize to support a dark-horse presidential candidate.
B a spontaneous show of political support for a particular position manifests itself.
C an interest group buys advertisements in newspapers around the country in order to publicize an issue.
D an interest group mobilizes its members throughout the country to write their representatives in support of the group’s position.
Question #42
A New Politics movement
B American Civil Liberties Union
C Department of Justice
D Tea Party
Question #43
A Human Rights Campaign
B National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
C American Civil Liberties Union
D Congress of Racial Equality
Question #44
A files formal lawsuits and amicus briefs against administrative agencies and congressional incumbents.
B organizes grassroots mobilizations against administrative agencies and congressional incumbents.
C provides campaign contributions to members of Congress and lobbies for larger administrative agency budgets.
D is legally excluded from any interactions with congressional committees and administrative agencies.
Question #45
A reduce the number of lawsuits by encouraging interest groups to solve conflicts with administrative agencies through mediation.
B encourage administrative agencies to engage in direct and open negotiations with affected interests when developing new regulations.
C forbid lobbying of administrative agencies.
D eliminate iron triangles.
Question #46
A lobbying
B electoral politics
C protesting
D litigation
Question #47
A the act of working on a re-election campaign.
B an attempt by an individual or group to influence the passage of legislation by exerting indirect pressure, through phone calls or emails, on members of Congress or a state legislature.
C an attempt by an individual or group to influence the passage of legislation by exerting indirect pressure, through advertisements and media coverage, on members of Congress or a state legislature.
D an attempt by an individual or group to influence the passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on members of Congress or a state legislature.
Question #48
A ballot initiative.
B iron triangle.
C issue network.
D PAC.
Question #49
A a ballot initiative.
B lobbying.
C an outside strategy.
D institutional advertising.
Question #50
A solidary benefit.
B purposive benefit.
C material benefit.
D promotion offer.
Question #51
A professional accreditation.
B special services and goods.
C friendship and consciousness raising.
D information and money.
Question #52
A international benefits
B purposive benefit
C informational benefits
D material benefit
Question #53
A international benefit.
B material benefit.
C solidarity benefit.
D collective good.
Question #54
A they lack the resources, money, time, and skills required for organization.
B they lack interest in job programs or in affordable housing required for organization.
C they lack the pluralist vision and interest in policy outcomes required for organization.
D they lack interest in organization and in policy outcomes.
Question #55
A interest groups should be free to compete for governmental influence.
B that the public good should always trump individual interests.
C interest groups are factions that endanger liberty.
D that all interest groups are guaranteed political equality.
Question #56
A think tanks.
B labor.
C ideological groups.
D professional associations.
Question #57
A business
B labor
C ideological
D professional
Question #58
A 33%
B 25%
C more than 50%
D less than 1%
Question #59
A they were the first group to abandon lobbying and take up only grassroots activism.
B unlike other interest groups, their status is like that of a charity, not a political organization.
C they claim to serve the common good, not just their own particular interests.
D they were the first political associations to use the strategy of direct mailing.
Question #60
A Americans are much less likely to join political and social organizations than people in other countries, and America has far fewer organized interest groups than other countries.
B Americans are much more likely to join political and social organizations than people in other countries, and America has far more organized interest groups than other countries.
C Americans are much less likely to join political and social organizations than people in other countries, but America has far more organized interest groups than other countries.
D Americans are much more likely to join political and social organizations than people in other countries, but America has far fewer organized interest groups than other countries.