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• What did Aristotle mean by a "polity?"

(A)A political community in which the institutions of oligarchy and democracy were mixed to produce political stability (B)A political community that is no larger than a city unless part of a confederacy (C)The worst possible form of government (D) None of the above Answer: (A) A political community in which the institutions of oligarchy and democracy were mixed to produce political stability

• What is an aristocracy?

(A)Rule by the many in the interest of the entire community (B)Rule of the few in their own self-interest (C)Rule by the few in the interest of the entire community (D) Both b & c

Answer: (C) Rule by the few in the interest of the entire community

• What is a polis?

(A)Greek term for political community on the scale of a city (B)Latin term for political community on the scale of a city (C)Greek term for political community on the scale of a state (D) Latin term for political community on the scale of a country

Answer: (A) Greek term for political community on the scale of a city

• What was the official religion of the British colonies in North America?

(A)There was no single official religion throughout all of the British colonies.(B)Puritanism (C)Anglican (D) Catholicism Answer: (A) There was no single official religion throughout all of the British colonies.

• Which of these statements most accurately describes democratic political participation in

the early colonies?(A)In New England colonies, most white men were allowed to actively participate in local democratic governance.(B)In southern colonies, most white men were allowed to actively participate in local democratic governance.(C)In all colonies, most white men were allowed to actively participate in local democratic governance.(D) In all of the colonies, active participation in governance was limited to a few white men.Answer: (D) In all of the colonies, active participation in governance was limited to a few white men.American Government Political Development and Institutional Change, 6e Cal Jillson (Test Bank All Chapters, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade) 1 / 4

• John Locke was a "giant" during which stage of the Western intellectual tradition?

(A)The Ancient World (B)Modernity (C)The Middle Ages (D) The Renaissance

Answer: (B) Modernity

• Which of the following are characteristics of American colonial settlement that influenced

American political development?(A)Space for dissent and economic opportunity (B)Social fluidity and heterogeneity (C)Equality and tolerance (D) All of the above

Answer: (D) All of the above

• What was the dominant American political and social ideology in the Nineteenth and

Twentieth Centuries?(A)Social Democracy (B)Classical Liberalism (C)Classical Republicanism (D) Corporatist Capitalism

Answer: (B) Classical Liberalism

10 Who was the founder of the Protestant Reformation?(A)Martin Luther King, Jr.(B)Thomas Hobbes (C)Martin Luther (D) John Winthrop

Answer: (C) Martin Luther

11 Who wrote that, without an all powerful monarch, human beings will fall into a war of all against all in which life is "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short." (A)Niccolo Machiavelli (B)John Calvin (C)Thomas Hobbes (D) John Locke

Answer: (C) Thomas Hobbes

12 What is the temporal world?(A)The world of the sacred (B)The world of the politically powerful (C)The world of peoples and nations and human history (D) The otherworldly 2 / 4

Answer: (C) The world of peoples and nations and human history

13 According to the Pro and Con section, which of the following was not a characteristic of the "Athenian democracy?"

(A) The people met in the Assembly to discuss and decide major issues.(B) A deep respect for the individual rights and liberties of all city residents (C) Slaves and resident aliens (3/5 of the population) were denied citizenship.(D) All citizens were given one vote in the Assembly.

Answer: (B) A deep respect for the individual rights and liberties of all city residents

14 Which theorists made the first and most influential efforts to explain how mixed governments can work in practice?

(A) Polybius and Cicero (B) Socrates and Plato (C) St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas (D) Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Answer: (A) Polybius and Cicero

15 Before it was an empire, what was ancient Rome?

(A) It was always an empire.(B) It was a democracy.(C) It was a republic.(D) It was a polity.

Answer: (C) It was a republic.

16 What does secular mean?

(A) Religious (B) Otherworldly (C) Non-religious (D) Selfish

Answer: (C) Non-religious

17 Who is the legitimate source of political authority, according to the idea of individualism?

(A) The powerful (B) The rich (C) The divine (D) The people

Answer: (D) The people

18 What is social contract theory?

(A) An argument that the legitimate origin of government is in the agreement of a free people (B) An argument that the legitimate origin of government rests with the "divine right of kings" (C) An argument that the non-legitimate origin of government is in the agreement of a free people (D) An argument that power rests exclusively with those best suited to exercise it

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Answer: (A) An argument that the legitimate origin of government is in the agreement of a free people

19 According to Aristotle's three forms of government, monarchy will ultimately degenerate into ___

Answer: Tyranny

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21 Contrast the six basic types of government as laid out by Aristotle. Then, describe his preferred complex (or mixed) regime. Why did he think this regime could be more stable than any of the basic types?

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22 What does the notion that there was a natural "openness" of America entail?

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23 As completely yet succinctly as possible, discuss the major concepts associated with classical liberalism.

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24 In deciding how to form and establish government in America, were the Founding Fathers influenced more by the ideas of medieval thinkers, such as Aquinas, or of Ancient thinkers, such as Plato and Aristotle?

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25 What role, if any, did religion play in the colonial settlement of America?

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26 In no more than two sentences, briefly describe the most important (negative) lesson that colonial Americans learned from the medieval period.

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27 In no more than one sentence, list and/or describe the important political idea that Aristotle and Polybius both endorsed.

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28 In one or two sentences, describe how Martin Luther and John Calvin viewed religious and political hierarchy.

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29 Match the hero with the secret identity

(A) Batman (a) Erik Lenshire (B) Superman (b) Clark Kent (C) Hawkman (c) Peter Parker (D) Spiderman (d) Bruce Wayne (E) Magneto (e) Carter Hall

Answer: (A) Batman=> Bruce Wayne

(B) Superman=> Clark Kent (C) Hawkman=> Carter Hall (D) Spiderman=> Peter Parker

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