AP Chapter 1 Quiz

Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. e. Sren Kierkegaard. 1. By authority, the authors mean a. the right to use power. 7. Representative democracy is sometimes b. the manner in which power is spread. disapprovingly referred to as the ____ theory of c. the use of power for good causes. democracy. d. the desire to have power. a. limited e. the desire to give power to others. b. aristocratic c. economic 2. Formal authority refers to a right to exercise power d. authoritarian that is derived from a(n) e. elite a. official ceremony. b. majority vote. 8. When the Framers of the Constitution wrote c. consensus. republican form of government, they were d. popular consensus. referring to e. governmental office. a. direct democracy. b. democratic centralism. 3. The primary source of legitimate political authority c. mob rule. in the United States is the d. town meetings. a. Bill of Rights. e. representative democracy. b. will of the people. c. U.S. Constitution. 9. The Founders assumed that representative d. concept of civil liberty. democracy would e. notion of civil rights. a. prevent sweeping changes in policy. b. allow persons with higher levels of education to 4. The text suggests that in the United States, no exercise more power. government at any level would be considered c. result in decisions that were generally efficient legitimate if it were not in some sense and timely. a. democratic. d. often proceed slowly. b. altruistic. e. A and D c. humanitarian. d. elitist. 10. The text suggests that the writings of e. aristocratic. ______________ were a decisive influence on the Founders. 5. The term participatory democracy applies most a. Thomas Moore accurately to which of the following societies? b. Sir Edward Frothingham a. Greece in the fourth century B.C. c. Richard Wilmington b. Modern China d. Thomas Hobbes c. The United States since 1787 e. John Locke d. The Soviet Union between 1917 and 1990 e. The southeastern United States before the Civil 11. Locke argued that the desire for ___________ will War lead people to want a government. a. wealth 6. Democracy was defined as the competitive struggle b. self-preservation for peoples votes by c. property a. Joseph Stalin. d. justice b. Joseph Schumpeter. e. equality c. Max Weber. d. Karl Marx.

12. Hobbes believed the answer to the all-out war that

existed in the state of nature was a. an all-powerful government. b. a sense of political justice. c. an equal division of property and wealth. d. democratic institutions with limited power. e. a system of organized, state-sponsored religion.
13. A city council representative faces an important vote

on how much, if any, money to spend on a new school. The representative relies on a poll of her constituents to make a decision. This is in keeping with the form of politics known as a. participatory politics. b. majoritarian politics. c. pluralist politics. d. elitist politics. e. reciprocal politics.
14. According to Tocqueville, Americans are fond of

explaining their actions in terms of a. self-interest. b. moral precepts. c. religious commitments. d. disinterested and spontaneous impulses. e. philosophical skepticism.
15. The trouble with trying to infer the distribution of

political power from examining the laws on the books is that a. laws may be enacted in a great variety of circumstances. b. laws are made to be broken. c. legislative codes may be so obscure as to defy anyone's comprehension. d. many congressional enactments never get recorded at all. e. the judicial branch is rarely independent from the legislative branch. 16. One of Lockes fundamental principles is: a. a major goal of government is the pursuit of happiness. b. governments are established to serve the elite. c. all persons should be treated equally by government. d. once established, governments cannot be dissolved. e. that equality is only gained once earned by the people. 17. In the state of nature, the execution of the law of nature is:

in the hands of the executive. in the hands of the legislature. in the hands of the judiciary. in every persons hands. in no ones hands. 18. According to John Locke, a primary end of government is: a. the preservation of equality among all citizens. b. to guarantee all citizens happiness. c. economic prosperity. d. the protection of public property. e. the protection of private property. 19. Private property is, according to Locke, inadequately protected in a state of nature because: a. the law of nature is not plain and intelligible to all rational persons. b. persons do not agree that the protection of private property is a fundamental right. c. persons in a state of nature are constantly at war with each other. d. the state of nature lacks an impartial judge and an executive capable of upholding judicial decisions protecting property rights. e. the law of nature is plain and intelligible to all rational persons. 20. In a state of nature a person: a. has no power. b. exerts whatever powers are necessary to preserve himself, and to punish crimes committed against natural law. c. is in a state of war. d. has no respect for property rights. e. exerts no power at all over anyone.

a. b. c. d. e.

AP Chapter 1 Quiz Answer Section MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. A E C A A B E E E E B A B A A C D E D B