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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A receiving foreign ambassadors
B granting pardons
C making treaties
D declaring war
Question #2
A placate a symbolic constituency
B mentor the president
C help set the president’s agenda
D ensure that the president’s party will have a good chance of winning the next presidential election
Question #3
A the president’s powers to negotiate treaties
B presidential and vice presidential succession and disability
C the Electoral College
D presidential powers to conduct war
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 the link between executive agencies in the bureaucracy and Congress.
C The White House staff is a loose collection of bureaucrats who are loyal to executive agencies.
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 during presidential election years
D in times of economic crisis
Question #6
A Rally events make presidents more politically cautious.
B Rally events lead to drops in presidential approval ratings, making passage of their agendas more difficult.
C Rally events tend to temporarily increase presidential approval ratings, providing presidents with a window of opportunity to press their agenda.
D Rally events cause a long-term increase in presidential approval ratings, practically guaranteeing reelection.
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 recently has been locked out of the policymaking process.
D The vice president has been more involved in the policy making process in recent years than in the past.
Question #8
A Modern presidents are much more influential in the legislative process than the Framers originally intended.
B Modern presidents are more subservient to the will of Congress than the Framers originally intended.
C Modern presidents are considerably less democratic than the Framers originally intended.
D Modern presidents have considerably less power as leaders of their political parties than the Framers originally intended.
Question #9
A to keep the president and first family secure
B to provide the president with national security policy advice from the opposing party’s perspective
C to link the president’s foreign and military policy advisers
D to administer the armed forces
Question #10
A White House staff
B Executive Office of the President
C Office of Administration
D the cabinet
Question #11
A campaign spending
B debts and deficits
C levels of executive privilege
D approval ratings
Question #12
A electoral mandate
B executive order
C approval rating
D executive agreement
Question #13
A determining the Supreme Court’s docket
B determining the constitutionality of judicial acts
C nominating federal judges
D establishing the jurisdiction of the federal courts including the Supreme Court
Question #14
A chief of staff
B secretary of the treasury
C secretary of commerce
D Office of Management and Budget
Question #15
A to enact the president’s budget
B to advise the president on economic policy
C to assess budget proposals for Congress
D to suggest programs that should be scaled back or curtailed because they use tax dollars inefficiently
Question #16
A Vice presidents started taking the lead in the budgeting process.
B Vice presidents started to preside over the Senate.
C Presidents are more likely to use their vice presidents as close policy advisers.
D Presidents are more likely to select ideologically moderate vice presidents to expand their electoral appeal.
Question #17
A chief executive
B head of state
C chief legislator
D commander in chief
Question #18
A because the president has diminishing power over the course of his or her administration
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 Constitution establishes a system of shared powers
Question #19
A requires the president to be a resident of the United States
B requires the president to be at least 35 years old
C limits the president’s terms of office
D requires that presidents be natural-born citizens
Question #20
A Senate majority leader
B vice president of the United States
C president of the United States
D Speaker of the House