GENERAL Flashcards
The top uniformed military officer in the United States is the Chairman of the:
Joint chiefs of Staff
The U.S senate is composed of:
100 members, with two senators from each state.
Which of the following officials in the departments of Justice represents the U.S federal government before the Supreme Court ?
Solicitor General
The War powers Act passed by the U.S congress in 1973, which tried to reassert congressional authority regarding the use of military intervention abroad, arose in response to American involvement in:
Vietnam
The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation is called:
Markup
The Bill of Rights is comprised of how many amendments of the U.S Constitution:
Ten
Since the early 1980s, which policy area has often been referred to as the third rail of the U.S politics because those who try to alter it or decrease its funding face significant opposition:
Social Security
James Madison’s argument for the creation of three branches of government to serve citizens of the new American republic was that separation of power ensures:
Less concentration of power in one branch.
What was the most recent cabinet-level agency added to the executive branch?
Department of Homeland Security
Article II, Section 2, of the U.S Constitution enumerates the powers of the president, including the right to make treaties with foreign governments with the advice and consent of the U.S:
Senate
Which of the following nations holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council?
France
The United States has advocated which of the following solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East?
Separate Israeli and Palestinian States
The Camp David Accords of 1978 were signed between Israel and:
Egypt
Which of the following best describes the way in which the U.S Congress responded to the Great Depression in the late 1920s and early 1930s?
Increased trade Barries, via the Smoot- Hawley Tariff, allowing for the protection of various U.S industries.
What post-World War II legislation did the most to revolutionize both the U.S system of higher education and the U.S workforce?
G.I Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)
The cooperative effort of the United States and the European Union to extend NATO membership to a large range of Eastern European countries has faced its most direct opposition from the government of which country?
Russia
What American playwright’s works include Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and the Misfits?
Arthur Miller
Books like Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives are examples of:
Dystopian fiction
Some troops from India willing to fight with the Allied Powers on the Western Front in World War I began to mutiny when Turkey entered the war because:
Turkey was a Muslim nation.
Which of the following pressure groups opposed granting President Bill Clinton the ability to negotiate fast track agreements with Latin American counties?
Labor union such as AFL-CIO
Which of the following authors published The Satanic Verses, a novel that prompted Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa against the author and that sparked protests by Muslims Worldwide?
Salman Rushdie
In the 1990s, Muslim refugees in large numbers fled militias, police, and military in:
Kosovo and Bosnia
The capital of Colombia is:
Bogota
Which Cold War U.S geopolitical rival is now the world’s third leading producer of oil?
Russia
Commercial mining in Antarctica is:
not Allowed
If real gross domestic product (GDP) rises, it can be assumed that:
The quantity of goods and services produced is rising.
Which type of investment vehicle is best positioned to profit from market turmoil?
Hedge fund
In the United States, interest rates are determined by which of the following entities?
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Only occasionally does the U.S government produce an annual budget surplus. Under whose administration did this last occur?
Bill Clinton
If the annual nominal interest rate is 10%, a government bond that promises to pay 100$ in one year without default risk will sell for approximately:
90
A teacher is analyzing the following student grades on a final exam: 88,73,91,68,85,90,88,63,80,97. Which of the following statical measures of this set of grades is likely to be the smallest in value?
Standard deviation
What is the best strategy for helping an irate person solve a problem?
Focus on the problem, not the person.
A negative behavior that has been reinforced previously may be eliminated by:
Ceasing to reinforce the behavior
For Feedback to be an effective in an organization, there must be a focus on:
Two-way communication
A manager is facing excessive employee conflict and wants to reduce it. To find an integrative solution with the objective of merging employee insights, the manager should apply which of the following techniques?
Collaboration
Managers who create goals and standards for employees should understand that, unlike performance goals, performance standards are:
Applied to every employee who holds the same position.
The Pendleton Act, or Civil Service Act of 1883, made merit and fitness the only criteria for gaining U.S federal employment and job advancement primarily to:
end the spoils system
For a manager to serve as learning model for employees, it is most important for the manager to be viewed by employees as:
credible
The biggest risk in sandwiching negative feedback between positive opening and ending comments is that employees will tend to:
Take the negative comments less seriously than the supervisor intends.
Which of the following features of vocal communication refers to the crispness and precision with which a speaker forms words and the clear and distinct utterance of syllables and words?
Enunciation
One technique for making a speech interesting is to establish a rhythm by repeating the initial sound of closely placed words. This is called:
Alliteration
Which term refers to the study of observable characteristics in groups of people?
Demographic analysis
An effective strategy for tailoring public diplomacy programs to a specific audience is to partner with:
Opinion leaders respected by that specific audience.
Which type of peer review source typically provides expert analysis of a subject designed for an insider audience?
Journal articles
A computer software program that adds itself to another program or document and continues to copy itself on a system is known as:
Virus
In a spreadsheet, the intersection of a row and a column where either data or formulas can be entered is called a:
Cell
A small amount of data specific to a user’s particular web browser that connects to a specific Web site for purposes of personalization and ease of use is known as a:
Cookie
Which of the following terms refers to the act of sending a deliberately insulting e-mail with the intention of starting a heated exchange?
Flaming
Which of the following terms refers to the linking of small personal Web sites within a larger Web site such as Facebook or Myspace?
Social network
A hyperlink is a web page feature that allows a user to:
Go to a completely different web page.
