Question 1:

The “Westminster” form of government was established in ________.
a) the United States
b) Canada
c) the United Kingdom
d) France
e) Australia

Question 2:

The famous book “Leviathan” was written by ________.
a) Harold Lasswell
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) John Maynard Keynes
d) Plato
e) Adam Smith

Question 3:

In basic terms, governments exist to provide ________ for citizens.
a) security and welfare
b) freedom and welfare
c) freedom and security
d) security and wealth
e) freedom and wealth

Question 4:

The two “houses” of the Canadian Parliament are the ________.
a) Commons and Executive
b) Senate and Executive
c) Senate and Cabinet
d) Cabinet and Commons
e) Commons and Senate

Question 5:

The Peace of Westphalia ended the ________.
a) Napoleonic Wars
b) English Civil War
c) Thirty Years’ War
d) American Civil War
e) First World War

Question 6:

The idea that the powers of the state should be limited to providing citizens with basic security was popularized by ________.
a) communism
b) minarchism
c) liberal democracy
d) authoritarianism
e) anarchism

Question 7:

Equalization was formalized in Canada in 1957 under Prime Minister ________.
a) Louis St Laurent
b) John Diefenbaker
c) Pierre Trudeau
d) Lester B. Pearson
e) John A. Macdonald

Question 8:

Examples of the “macro economy” include ________.
a) labour and industry policies
b) monetary and fiscal policies
c) labour and fiscal policies
d) monetary and industry policies
e) monetary and labour policies

Question 9:

The “welfare state” combines elements of ________.
a) liberalism and communism
b) liberalism and conservatism
c) socialism and conservatism
d) laissez-faire and socialism
e) conservatism and laissez-faire

Question 10:

An example of totalitarian rule is ________.
a) fascist Italy
b) the Soviet Union
c) North Korea
d) East Germany
e) all of the above

Question 11:

Canada’s constitution is made up of the Constitution Act of ________ and the Constitution Act of ________.
a) 1867; 1982
b) 1867; 1992
c) 1867; 1931
d) 1791; 1867
e) 1931; 1982

Question 12:

A Canadian constitutional “residual” clause that has come to represent Canadian society is ________.
a) peace, order, and good governance
b) peace, order, and good government
c) peace, order, and liberty
d) peace, liberty, and justice
e) liberty, justice, and freedom

Question 13:

In Greek, "kratos" means ________.
a) democracy
b) people
c) justice
d) authority
e) polity

Question 14:

Ancient Greeks saw the ________ as the potential failure for democracy.
a) limitations of authority
b) coercion of the minority
c) weakness of the ruled
d) tyranny of the majority
e) equality of political rights

Question 15:

In Canada, the role of the ________ is largely symbolic.
a) executive
b) constitution
c) monarch
d) electorate
e) bureaucracy

Question 16:

Authoritarian systems are ideologically ________.
a) left-wing
b) right-wing
c) capitalist
d) religious
e) all of the above

Question 17:

The Hungarian secret police during the Cold War were known as the ________.
a) CIA
b) MI5
c) KGB
d) HSP
e) ÁVH

Question 18:

Parliament in Canada is ________.
a) bicameral
b) bipolar
c) bipartisan
d) bicapsular
e) biannual

Question 19:

Canada is best described as a ________ system.
a) federal
b) confederal
c) quasi-federal
d) republican
e) unitary

Question 20:

According to Freedom House, most current political systems in the world are not ________.
a) liberal democracies
b) authoritarian
c) sovereign
d) constituted
e) regimes

Question 21:

Political systems include political structures and key actors that shape government action.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

In Canada, cabinet ministers cannot be members of Parliament.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Taiwan is also known as the People’s Republic of China.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

The American defence budget accounts for 19 per cent of the total yearly budget.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

Free markets and laissez-faire policies are part of a “capitalist” system.
a) True
b) False

Question 26:

The Canadian government made a one-time payment of $250 million to fund housing in northern Aboriginal communities.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

“The Republic” was written by Socrates.
a) True
b) False

Question 28:

The United Kingdom has an “unwritten” constitution.
a) True
b) False

Question 29:

Canada’s three territories have a commissioner instead of a lieutenant governor.
a) True
b) False

Question 30:

The Supreme Court must provide royal assent to federal statutes in order for them to become law in Canada.
a) True
b) False

Question 31:

The 2008 constitutional crisis in Canada was termed the “King–Byng” affair.
a) True
b) False

Question 32:

More than 90 per cent of the Canadian population lives within 160 kilometres of the US border.
a) True
b) False

Question 33:

China has been criticized for restricting information about political protests in Tibet.
a) True
b) False

Question 34:

Totalitarianism is a variant of authoritarianism.
a) True
b) False

Question 35:

The first “constitution of Canada” was the Constitutional Act of 1791.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Politics: An Introduction, Second Edition: Chapter 4