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1. The Party Whip is a member of Congress who is expected to:
(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:
(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
goods and services.
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3. The "direct primary" can be best described as:
(A) a statewide popular vote for electoral college delegates
(B) an electoral procedure in effect in all states except the southern
states
(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
public office
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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?
(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:
(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:
(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?
(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:
(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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