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Chapter 11 Post Test

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

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