Question: An organization of ideologically similar people that nominates and elects its members to office is known as a political…

A. action committee.

B. party platform.

C. interest group.

D. party.

E. issue network.

Answer: Party

Question: One-party dominance in House districts tends to produce winning candidates who are…

1. more willing to work with members of the opposite party.

2. B. easy to control by House party leaders.

3. C. highly beholden to their party.

4. D. more extremely ideological.

5. E. All of these answers are correct.

6. Answer: more extremely ideological

7. Question: In recent years, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have become more…

8. A. like they were in the 1950s.

9. B. willing to promote bipartisanship.

10. C. ideologically polarized.

11. D. popular than they have been in decades.

12. E. None of these answers is correct.

13. Answer: ideologically polarized

14. Question: The Tea Party movement

15. A. started during the first administration of Ronald Reagan.

16. B. has made the Republican Party more conservative.

17. C. has much in common with both major parties.

18. D. supported President Obama’s 2009 economic stimulus plan.

19. E. All of these answers are correct.

20. Answer: has made the Republican Party more conservative

21. Question:

22. Answer: a smaller government that performs fewer social welfare functions

23. Question:

24. Answer: increasing factionalization within party ranks

25. Question: Which of these features is a characteristic of political parties?

26. A. They run candidates under a label.

27. B. They seek to govern.

28. C. They have broad concerns.

29. D. They have a special relationship with the government.

30. E. All of these answers are correct.

31. Answer: All of these answers are correct

32. Question: Generally, political parties have ________ issue concerns.

33. A. single

34. B. very narrow

35. C. somewhat narrow

36. D. somewhat broad

37. E. broad

38. Answer: broad

39. Question: Which of the following best describes the status of political parties?

40. A. quasi-public

41. B. federal

42. C. private

43. D. public

44. E. quasi-private

45. Answer: quasi-public

46. Question: Today, political parties are accessible to

47. A. powerful interest groups.

48. B. government and elected officials.

49. C. Fortune 500 corporations.

50. D. virtually everyone.

51. E. labor unions and workers’ organizations.

52. Answer: virtually everyone.