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- 1. The Party Whip is a member of Congress who is expected to:
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- (A) raise funds for partisan purposes
- (B) preside over the House of Representatives
- (C) insure that party members are on the floor for important debates
- (D) confer regularly with the Cabinet
- (E) supervise the drafting of legislation
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- (C) The major function of the Party Whip is to advise members of Congress when
- bills will be considered on the floor and insure their attendance to vote.
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- 2. "Real income" can be defined most accurately as the:
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- (A) consumer's ability to save part of his or her income
- (B) consumer's ability to buy actual goods and services
- (C) wage earner's income before taxes
- (D) proportion of income spent on luxuries
- (E) income from earned wages as opposed to income from investments
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- (B) Real income is the consumer's purchasing power, or the ability to buy
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- 3. The "direct primary" can be best described as:
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- (A) a statewide popular vote for electoral college delegates
- (B) an electoral procedure in effect in all states except the southern
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- (C) a statewide public opinion poll
- (D) a referendum on amendments to the state constitution
- (E) an intraparty election for the purpose of choosing party candidates for
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- (E) This is a vote within a state.
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- 4. Which of the following types of government could most accurately be called
- an oligarchy?
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- (A) a state without a hereditary ruler
- (B) a state with a mixture of political systems
- (C) a state ruled by a small group of people
- (D) a state without a written constitution
- (E) a state ruled by priests
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- (C) An oligarchy is a state in which power is wielded by a small group of
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- 5. The United States used negotiation and diplomacy to solve all of the
- following disputes EXCEPT the:
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- (A) Alabama claims
- (B) Alaska boundary
- (C) Bering Sea fisheries
- (D) Mexican boundary
- (E) Venezuela boundary
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- (D) The dispute over the Mexican boundary led to the Mexican War of 1846-1848.
- All of the other conflicts were resolved by negotiation.
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- 6. All of the following served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
- Court EXCEPT:
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- (A) John Jay
- (B) Stephen A. Douglas
- (C) Salmon P. Chase
- (D) Charles Evans Hughes
- (E) William Howard Taft
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- (B) Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas was never a Chief Justice nor a
- member of the Supreme Court.
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- 7. Which of the following Supreme Court decisions stated that "separate but
- equal" facilities were constitutional?
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- (A) GIBBON v. OGDEN
- (B) MCCULLOUGH v. MARYLAND
- (C) DARTMOUTH COLLEGE v. WOODWARD
- (D) PLESSY v. FERGUSON
- (E) BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION
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- (D) PLESSY v. FERGUSON (1896) upheld a Louisiana law that required segregated
- railroad facilities. The decision stated that segregated facilities for blacks
- were constitutional.
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- 8. The MULLER v. OREGON decision of the Supreme Court in 1908:
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- (A) upheld a state law limiting the maximum working hours for women
- (B) upheld the dissolution of a major oil company
- (C) prohibited interstate shipment of the products of child labor
- (D) confirmed the constitutionality of conscription
- (E) invalidated a state law which fixed railroad rates
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- (A) The court decision upheld an Oregon maximum hours law.
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