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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A granting pardons
B making treaties
C declaring war
D receiving foreign ambassadors
Question #2
A help set the president’s agenda
B placate a symbolic constituency
C ensure that the president’s party will have a good chance of winning the next presidential election
D mentor the president
Question #3
A presidential powers to conduct war
B the Electoral College
C presidential and vice presidential succession and disability
D the president’s powers to negotiate treaties
Question #4
A The White House staff is composed of policy specialists who have little personal loyalty to the president.
B The White House staff is a loose collection of bureaucrats who are loyal to executive agencies.
C The White House staff is the link between executive agencies in the bureaucracy and Congress.
D The White House staff is composed of advisers who do whatever is in the best interest of the president.
Question #5
A when they oppose the president’s agenda
B in times of relative peace and prosperity
C in times of economic crisis
D during presidential election years
Question #6
A Rally events tend to temporarily increase presidential approval ratings, providing presidents with a window of opportunity to press their agenda.
B Rally events cause a long-term increase in presidential approval ratings, practically guaranteeing reelection.
C Rally events make presidents more politically cautious.
D Rally events lead to drops in presidential approval ratings, making passage of their agendas more difficult.
Question #7
A The vice presidency has become a prerequisite for the presidency.
B The vice president is no longer trusted as he once was.
C The vice president has been more involved in the policy making process in recent years than in the past.
D The vice president recently has been locked out of the policymaking process.
Question #8
A Modern presidents are more subservient to the will of Congress than the Framers originally intended.
B Modern presidents are considerably less democratic than the Framers originally intended.
C Modern presidents have considerably less power as leaders of their political parties than the Framers originally intended.
D Modern presidents are much more influential in the legislative process than the Framers originally intended.
Question #9
A to administer the armed forces
B to keep the president and first family secure
C to provide the president with national security policy advice from the opposing party’s perspective
D to link the president’s foreign and military policy advisers
Question #10
A the cabinet
B White House staff
C Office of Administration
D Executive Office of the President
Question #11
A debts and deficits
B campaign spending
C levels of executive privilege
D approval ratings
Question #12
A approval rating
B electoral mandate
C executive agreement
D executive order
Question #13
A determining the Supreme Court’s docket
B establishing the jurisdiction of the federal courts including the Supreme Court
C determining the constitutionality of judicial acts
D nominating federal judges
Question #14
A secretary of commerce
B Office of Management and Budget
C secretary of the treasury
D chief of staff
Question #15
A to enact the president’s budget
B to assess budget proposals for Congress
C to suggest programs that should be scaled back or curtailed because they use tax dollars inefficiently
D to advise the president on economic policy
Question #16
A Vice presidents started taking the lead in the budgeting process.
B Presidents are more likely to use their vice presidents as close policy advisers.
C Vice presidents started to preside over the Senate.
D Presidents are more likely to select ideologically moderate vice presidents to expand their electoral appeal.
Question #17
A head of state
B commander in chief
C chief executive
D chief legislator
Question #18
A because the Constitution establishes a system of shared powers
B because Congress cannot debate legislation without approval from the president
C because the Constitution does not give the president any powers to influence public policy
D because the president has diminishing power over the course of his or her administration
Question #19
A requires that presidents be natural-born citizens
B requires the president to be at least 35 years old
C requires the president to be a resident of the United States
D limits the president’s terms of office
Question #20
A vice president of the United States
B president of the United States
C Senate majority leader
D Speaker of the House