Quiz Questions Review

Question 1

What is an income qualification program that determines whether one is eligible for benefits under government programs reserved for lower-income groups called?

Answer 1

A means test

Question 2

What type of politics are consumer and environmental protection laws considered to be?

Answer 2

Entrepreneurial Politics

Question 3

What is the main reason for the American divide over global warming and climate change?

Answer 3

Many prominent Republicans have questioned global warming

Question 4

Which federal health insurance program covers U.S. residents aged sixty-five and older and is paid for by a tax on wages and salaries?

Answer 4

Medicare

Question 5

Medicare became a cornerstone of what program promoted by Lyndon Johnson?

Answer 5

The Great Society

Question 6

Who was the author of The Jungle, which dramatized the frightful conditions in meat-packing plants in the early 1900s and helped pave the way for the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?

Answer 6

Upton Sinclair

Question 7

What book raised public awareness about the pesticide DDT?

Answer 7

Silent Spring

Question 8

What made the passage of the Medicare bill possible?

Answer 8

A Democratic landslide in the 1964 elections

Question 9

Welfare policies in which relatively few people benefit but almost everyone pays are characterized by which kind of politics?

Answer 9

Client Politics

Question 10

What president created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?

Answer 10

Richard Nixon

Question 11

In a 2020 study by the Pew Research Center, what percentage of Republicans and Democrats said the environment should be a top priority for the president and Congress?

Answer 11

85% of Democrats and 39% of Republicans

Question 12

What body adjudicates disputes between labor and management over the interpretation of labor laws?

Answer 12

The National Labor Relations Board

Question 13

Which organizations have the primary responsibility of implementing the Endangered Species Act of 1973?

Answer 13

The Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Question 14

What is the shared federal and state health insurance program for low-income individuals called?

Answer 14

Medicaid

Question 15

What type of politics is best illustrated by automobile emission control regulations?

Answer 15

Majoritarian Politics

Question 16

The Constitution calls for the government to “promote the general Welfare” and “provide for the … general Welfare” in what two sections of the document?

Answer 16

Preamble, Article 1 Section 8

Question 17

What type of politics tends to discourage any truly far-reaching reforms in American domestic policy?

Answer 17

Majoritarian Politics

Question 18

Agriculture subsidies are an example of what type of politics?

Answer 18

Client Politics

Question 19

Welfare policies in which nearly everyone benefits and nearly everyone pays are characterized by which kind of politics?

Answer 19

Majoritarian Politics

Question 20

Under which circumstances do regulatory agencies tend to be more powerful?

Answer 20

When the laws are vaguely worded

Question 21

What are the three primary domestic policy domains?

Answer 21

1. Social Welfare
2. Business Regulation
3. Environmental Protection

Question 22

In part, what did the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act do?

Answer 22

Made illegal certain union practices, such as closed shop and secondary boycotts

Question 23

What policy entrepreneur’s book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile led to new regulations on the safety of automobiles?

Answer 23

Ralph Nader

Question 24

Which of the following descriptions of Medicaid is accurate?

Answer 24

It is a joint state-federal program that provides medical care for the poor

Question 25

In what landmark case did the Supreme Court rule that Congress has broad discretion to tax and spend “in the aid of the ‘general welfare’”?

Answer 25

Helvering v. Davis

Question 26

What are the two main federal bureaucracies responsible for social welfare policies and programs?

Answer 26

1. U.S Department of Health and Human Services
2. U.S Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Question 27

What group was the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program created to help?

Answer 27

The children of women whose husbands had perished in disasters

Question 28

Much of the antitrust legislation passed in this country has been the result of what type of politics?

Answer 28

Majoritarian Politics

Question 29

How is Medicaid different from Medicare?

Answer 29

It provides medical assistance to the poor

Question 30

Which of the following programs is the federal health care program that covers U.S. residents over the age of sixty-five?

Answer 30

Medicare

Question 31

On the subject of social welfare, a key difference between Americans and the citizens of many European democracies is that Americans are more worried about what issue?

Answer 31

Whether beneficiaries of government air “deserve” it

Question 32

What type of politics is best illustrated by the acid rain controversy?

Answer 32

Interest group politics

Question 33

Which of the following statements is true about domestic policy once it has been put in place?

Answer 33

Political support for keeping it can come together more strongly than proposals to change it

Question 34

The environmental movement was launched, in part, in reaction to what event?

Answer 34

An oil spill on the beaches of Santa Barbara, California

Question 35

What factor primarily determines the nature and degree of federal antitrust enforcement efforts?

Answer 35

The political ideology of the administration in power