CHAPTER 01: Gateways to American Democracy
Multiple Choice
1. According to your textbook, a gateway is defined as
a. politics.
b. a means to gain power.
c. an avenue for participation.
d. a way for elected officials to connect with citizens.
e. a path for being elected to political office.
ANSWER: c
REFERENCES: 4
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.1 - LO1
NOTES: Factual
2. What country has the oldest written constitution in the world?
a. England
b. France
c. Greece
d. United States
e. Venezuela
ANSWER: d
REFERENCES: 4
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.1 - LO1
NOTES: Factual
3. Through citizen involvement, which one of the following has the United States NOT achieved?
a. The nation and institutions are amazingly stable.
b. Citizens are able to petition government and criticize it.
c. Americans enjoy substantial freedom and are protected from abuses of power by the government.
d. A society has been created with high voter turnout.
e. People from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds have been elected President.
ANSWER: d
REFERENCES: 4-5
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.1 - LO1
NOTES: Conceptual
4. __________ is rule by and for the people.
a. Aristocracy
b. Democracy
c. Monarchy
d. Autocracy
e. Oligarchy
ANSWER: b
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REFERENCES: 6
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.2 - LO2
NOTES: Factual
5. Which British philosopher and politician wrote that a “perfect democracy is… the most shameless thing in the world”?
a. Edmund Burke
b. Harold Joseph Laski
c. John Cotton
d. John Adams
e. Adam Smith
ANSWER: a
REFERENCES: 7
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.3 - LO3
NOTES: Factual
6. John Adams and many others who would end up writing the founding documents of America believed in a system,
which is known as a __________, where the people would set up and agree upon the basic rules and procedures that
would govern them.
a. minority right
b. rule of law
c. constitutional system
d. social contract
e. faction
ANSWER: c
REFERENCES: 7
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.3 - LO3
NOTES: Conceptual
7. What ancient British legal principle holds that all people are equal before the law, all are subject to it, and no one is
above it?
a. rule of law
b. stare decisis
c. positivism
d. human rights
e. habeas corpus
ANSWER: a
REFERENCES: 7
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.3 - LO3
NOTES: Factual
8. The Framers drew on the ideas of the British political philosophers __________ in perceiving the relationship between
government and the governed as a social contract.
a. Charles Darwin and William Montague
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b. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Niccolò Machiavelli
c. Michel Foucault and Herbert Marcuse
d. Thomas Aquinas and Alexis de Tocqueville
e. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
ANSWER: e
REFERENCES: 10
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.3 - LO3
NOTES: Factual
9. The right to life, liberty, and property, according to John Locke, are__________ rights, rights so fundamental that
government cannot take them away.
a. alienable
b. constitutional
c. human
d. natural
e. worldwide
ANSWER: d
REFERENCES: 10
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.3 - LO3
NOTES: Factual
10. At the time of American independence, the closest actual model for self-government was ancient __________, where
the people had governed themselves in a direct democracy.
a. Athens
b. Britain
c. Florence
d. Rome
e. Sparta
ANSWER: a
REFERENCES: 10
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: GTDM.GEER.16.1.2 - LO2
NOTES: Factual
11. Unlike Athens, the early United States had a population of nearly 4 million people, which made direct democracy
impractical. Instead, the Framers created a
a. dictatorship.
b. direct democracy.
c. representative democracy.
d. socialist government.
e. monarchy.
ANSWER: c
REFERENCES: 10
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