American Government Exam Practice Tests
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American Government explores the foundations, structure, and functions of the United States government. The course covers the Constitution, federalism, the branches of government, civil rights and liberties, the electoral process, political parties, and public policy. Students analyze the roles of citizens and institutions, the dynamics of national and state relations, and contemporary political issues, fostering an understanding of how government decisions affect society and individuals.
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Administrative Law Bureaucracy in a Democracy 6th Edition by Daniel E. Hall
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Which type of administrative agency's head answers to the president and may be disciplined or terminated at the president's will?
A) Independent agency
B) Executive agency
C) Public service agency
D) Social welfare agency
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is not a factor for the growth of administrative agencies?
A) Increased mobility
B) Increased interdependence of people
C) Expectation that government will provide more services and benefits
D) Fiscal conservative policies
Answer: D
Q3) Administrative law defines the powers,limitations,and procedures of administrativeagencies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Bureaucracy and Democracy
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Q1) A written law enacted by a legislative body is called a(n)_____.
Answer: statute
Q2) Borrowing money is an exclusive federal power.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) According to decisions of the Supreme Court,all federal employees are considered"officers" of the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The Attorney General of the United States is appointed by the _____. Answer: President
Q5) The concept of separation of powers is based on a _____ division of power. Answer: horizontal
Q6) Under the Commerce Clause,the federal government may compel a state to enact or administer a federal regulatory program.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Agency Discretion
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Q1) Under the APA,declaratory orders are subject to ____ review by the courts for abuses of discretion.
Answer: judicial
Q2) A declaratory order is a(n)_____ equivalent of a judicial declaratory judgment.
Answer: administrative
Q3) Which type of dispute resolution involves a process of having the parties to a dispute present their evidence and arguments to a neutral third party for decision?
A) Mediation
B) Conciliation
C) Arbitration
D) Mini-trial
Answer: C
Q4) Formal rulemaking is known as the "lifeblood of the administrative process."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) After denial of a claim by agency officials,a dissatisfied claimant for government benefits may have a hearing before a(n)____.
Answer: administrative law judge
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Chapter 4: The Requirement of Fairness
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Q1) Under the rational relationship test,a law must bear a rational relationship to a _____governmental interest.
Q2) Discuss the different questions to determine what must be done to satisfy due process in the cost-benefit analysis before a life,liberty,or property interest may be taken by the government.
Q3) Requirements that a law be related to a governmental purpose are described as:
A) procedural due process
B) substantive due process
C) practical due process
D) substantial due process
Q4) The Equal Protection Clause is implicitly applied to federal government actionsthrough the Fifteenth Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following is a consideration in due process cost-benefit analysis?
A) Where the hearing is held
B) When the hearing is held
C) What type of hearing is held
D) All of the above
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Chapter 5: Delegation
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Q1) Peretz v.United States established that:
A) the defendant in a criminal action may demand that an Article III judge preside over B) the defendant in a criminal action may waive the right to have an Article III judge C) the defendant in a criminal action may demand or may waive the right to have an Article III judge preside over critical stages of the proceedings D) none of the above
Q2) Within two years of President Franklin D.Roosevelt's inauguration,the U.S.SupremeCourt had invalidated several pieces of New Deal legislation.In response,President Roosevelt proposed to Congress that it enlarge the Supreme Court by permitting a new appointment for every justice over the age of 70.What if the current U.S.President proposed to Congress that it enlarge the Supreme Court by permitting a new appointment for every justice over the age 70 today? Would the court uphold the validity of expanding the number of justices on the U.S.Supreme Court? Explain your position.
Q3) In Schechter Poultry Corp.v.United States and Panama Refining Co.v.Ryan,the U.S.Supreme Court invalidated two delegations created by Congress during the Great ____ to confront the serious economic crisis quickly.
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Chapter 6: Agency Rulemaking
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Q1) Explain the difference between rulemaking and adjudication.
Q2) The FDA does not have the authority to regulate tobacco and tobacco products.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When is formal rulemaking required? Explain whether formal or informal rulemaking is used more frequently.
Q4) Justice Holmes defined _____ as a process that investigates,declares,and enforces liabilities as they stand on present or past facts and under laws supposedalready to exist.
Q5) Quasi-legislative authority is adjudicative in nature.
A)True
B)False
Q6) "Notice and comment" rulemaking is known as _____ rulemaking.
Q7) Interpretive rules have the force of a statute.
A)True
B)False
Q8) When acting in its quasi-legislative capacity,its behavior is referred to as _____.
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Q9) Explain the differences between formal and informal rulemaking.
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Chapter 7: Agency Investigations and Information Collection
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Q1) In the U.S.Supreme Court case _____,the court held that blood and urine testing isinvasive of a person's privacy but that the regulation was valid because the governmentalinterest in protecting the employees and the public from a disaster outweighed theprivacy interests of the employees.
Q2) Conducting a blood,urine,or breath test is considered a search under whichamendment to the U.S.Constitution?
A) First
B) Second
C) Fourth
D) Fifth
Q3) In Skinner v.Railway Labor Executive Ass'n,the court determined that:
A) drug and alcohol testing was not subject to Fourth Amendment requirements because
B) any time that a test is invasive of a person's privacy, the Fourth Amendment
C) if testing is being conducted by a private party, the government is said not to be D) the Fourth Amendment imposes probable cause requirements on searches whether they
Q4) What are the APA's requirements regarding recordkeeping and reporting?
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Chapter 8: Formal Adjudications
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Q1) The level or degree to which a case must be proven is called the burden of persuasion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The decision of an ALJ is final.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The process in which a nonparty to a case claims an interest in the outcome andbecomes a party is called:
A) interdiction
B) insurrection
C) intervention
D) inclusion
Q4) The fact that administrative agencies may perform the functions of all three branchesof government is called:
A) separation of functions
B) unification of functions
C) combination of functions
D) congruence of functions
Q5) There is no findings requirement for ____adjudications (hearings).
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Chapter 9: Accountability Through Reviewability
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Q1) Congressional authority to provide for review of agency actions extends to each of thefollowing except:
A) setting time limitations on review
B) determining the method of review to be utilized
C) precluding review altogether
D) providing for review of actions committed to the agency discretion
Q2) A writ issued by a superior court to an inferior court ordering that some act be done iscalled a writ of mandamus.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Article III of the U.S.Constitution requires an actual case or _____ before federal courts have jurisdiction over a dispute.
Q4) The APA specifically requires that courts applying the substantial evidence testconsider the entire agency record.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The _____ Act requires that the form of a lawsuit be as provided for by statute.
Q6) Explain the common law writs for review.
Q7) Time limitations established by Congress are _____enforced by federal courts.
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Chapter 10: Accountability Through Accessibility
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Q1) Which of the following is not an exception to the Privacy Act nondisclosurerequirements?
A) Disclosures to satisfy court orders
B) Disclosures to the president
C) Disclosures that may occur for routine use
D) Disclosures to either body of Congress
Q2) The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)provides that no fee can be charged for thefirst ___ hours of search time or for the first 100 pages of copying,except for commercialrequesters.
Q3) Discuss whether you think parole hearings should be open to the public under the Government in the Sunshine Act.Explain your position.
Q4) Lawsuits brought by submitters of records to agencies to prevent the disclosure ofinformation are known as _____ FOIA actions.
Q5) It is the obligation of the party seeking to review a document to prove that thedocument does not fall within an FOIA exception prohibiting its review.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A fundamental tenet of democracy is____ of government.
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Chapter 11: Accountability Through Liability
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Q1) The police generally do not have a duty to individuals to prevent crime.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Tucker Act gives the U.S._____Court jurisdiction over any claim for damages against the United States that is founded on the Constitution,statutes,or regulations of the United States.
Q3) The most common form of privatization involves the jettisoning of a service by agovernment body or agency,with said service then taken on completely by privateindustry.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which amendments to the U.S.Constitution require the government to pay justcompensation to the property owner for takings?
A) Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
B) Fifth and Fifteenth Amendments
C) Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
D) Fourth and Tenth Amendments
Q5) Sovereign immunity makes a government free from liability but not suit.
A)True
B)False
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