AP US Government & Politics Unit 5 Test

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This is a 20 question AP US Government and Politics Unit 5 (Political Participation ) Practice Test. You have 30 minutes to complete this test.

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1. Which of the following would be considered the most reliable Republican voter? *

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A Jewish woman from a large urban area.

A wealthy immigrant who is not a citizen.

A rural man who goes to church every week.

A young liberal college student.

2. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the platform of American Democrats and Republicans *

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Pro-Choice___________________________________________Pro-LIfe

Pro-Right to Bear Arms_______________________________Anti-Second Amendment

Pro-Supreme Court___________________________________Anti-Supreme Court

Low tax and low regulation___________________________High tax and high regulation

3. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of open and closed primaries? *

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Public statement of vote choice_____________________Secret Ballot protects annonymity

Members of any party can vote______________________Only members of certain party can vote

Use for Presidential elections________________________Midterm Election

Only for Republican voters__________________________Only for Democratic voters

The following two questions refer to the beautiful map below.

2016 Campaign Stops in General Presidential Election

4. Which of the following is an accurate statement based on the information from the chart above? *

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Campaign stops are evenly split between states

Solidly Republican states have the most campaign stops

The larger a state's population the more campaign stops

Most campaign stops occur in swing states

5. Which of the following is the most direct cause of the distribution of campaign stops? *

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Recent Supreme Court rulings regarding election spending

The closing time of polling places on the West coast.

The Voting Rights Act restricts the number of stops in certain states

The way the electroal college allocates electoral votes

The following two questions refer to the chart below.

6. Which of the following is an accurate statement based on the information from the chart above? *

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There are more House members now than there were in 2000

A majority of Americans are Democrats

On average, House members are older than Senators

Every election year since 2000 a majority of the Congressional candidates who outspent their opponent won

7. Which of the following Supreme Court cases has been the biggest factor in increasing electoral spending? *

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Citizens United v. FEC

Engel v. Vitale

Shaw v Reno

Baker v. Carr

8. Which of the following is an accurate comparison of Interest Groups and Political Parties? *

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Work with government to advance their agendas___Organize diverse factions to try to win elections

Outlawed in Citizens Untied v. FEC_________________After elections are not connected to government

Madison prasied them in Federalist No. 10_________Foucs of a number of Amendments in Bill of Rights

Are directly voted on in elections__________________Are banned from raising money for elections

9. Which of the following is the most common news source for Americans? *

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Newspapers

Television

Radio

Social Media

The next two questions refer to the following excerpt.

“Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

10. The author of the passage would most likely be interested in studying which of the following? *

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Interest Groups and their influence on legislation

Incubency advantage in elections

The impact of social media on voting patterns and elections

Freedom of Speech and of the Press

11. Which of the following historical events best illustrates the theme of the passage above. *

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The passage of the Civil Rights Act

The ruling in Brown v. Board

The Kennedy Nixon debate

The Federalist Papers

12. Which of the following is true of political action committees (PACs)? *

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They are legal to operate at the state level but not on the national level

They are the fundraising arms of interest groups

They have little impact on presidential elections

They were outlawed by Citizens Untied v. FEC

The next three wonderful questions refer to the following excerpt:

"By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."

13. This quotation comes from which of the following sources? *

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The Declaration of Indpendence

The ruling in Brown v. Board of Education

Federalist No. 10

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

14. One of the main themes of the excerpt above is a warning against *

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groups that don't necessarily represent the good of the majority

the ratification of the Constitution

giving colonists too much freedom of religion

the right to vote

15. Which of the following scenarios would probably concern the author of the passage above *

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the rise of social media

the passage of voting restrictions for minorities

the ability of powerful interest groups to subvert the will of the people

Russian interference in the election

16. What do political scientists call voters who make decisions based on what is perceived to be in the citizen's best interest? *

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Retrospective voters

Split-ticket voters

Candidate centered campaign

Rational choice voters

17. Which of the following Amendments to the U.S. Constitution most increased women's voting rights? *

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15th

19th

24th

17th

18. Of the following factors, which most influences how a person votes? *

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Political Affiliation

Age

Race

Income

The following two questions refer to the data contained in the two images below.

19. Which of the following is an accurate statement based on the information from the chart above? *

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Midterm elections turnout rates are always above 50%

The 2018 midterm turnout rate was higher than the 2016 presidential election turnout rate

Midterm election rates are generally lower than presidential election rates

Election rates are increasing every election year

20. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for the trend you identified in the data? *

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Picture indentification is needed only in midterm elections

Media coverage is much higher in presidential elections

There are primaries before presidential elections but not before midterm elections

Less people are eligible to vote in presidential elections than in midterm elections

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