Foreign Policy Bureaucracy State Chapter 4 Test Bank

Test Bank

Chapter 4: Understanding the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy: The Department of State

Multiple Choice

1. The ______ is an administrative organization responsible for carrying out the day-to-day business of government.

a. bureaucracy

b. court

c. legislature

d. presidency

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Which of the following institutions is often referred to as the “fourth branch”?

a. legislative

b. judicial

c. executive

d. bureaucracy

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. According to the text, career employees who bring to and develop expertise in their jobs and serve policymakers regardless of their political party affiliation are referred to as ______.

a. bureaucrats

b. staffers

c. politicians

d. civilians

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Which of the following characteristics of a bureaucracy involves a top-down division of authority in which every official occupies a particular role and answers to a superior?

a. specialization

b. hierarchy

c. organization

d. routinization

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Which of the following characteristics of a bureaucracy involves differentiated roles, tasks, and perspectives?

a. specialization

b. hierarchy

c. organization

d. routinization

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Positions in the bureaucracy become increasingly specialized as ______.

a. people move up the bureaucratic hierarchy

b. people move down the bureaucratic hierarchy

c. people remain in the same place within the hierarchy

d. people move away from the bureaucratic hierarchy

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Developing repertories or standard processes for engaging in their duties is an example of ______.

a. routinization

b. specialization

c. formality

d. hierarchy

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Competing senses of mission and subcultures can result in ______.

a. cultural relativism

b. racism

c. ethnocentrism

d. parochialism

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Who is considered to be the chief administrator of the bureaucracy?

a. the Vice President

b. the President

c. the Speaker of the House

d. the Supreme Court justices

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Size

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The largest of all executive branch organizations is the ______.

a. Central Intelligence Agency

b. Department of State

c. Department of Homeland Security

d. Department of Defense

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Size

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Which of the following independent agencies or governmental corporations regulates waterborne domestic and foreign commerce?

a. Environmental Protection Agency

b. Federal Maritime Commission

c. National Endowment for Democracy

d. Department of Transportation

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Size

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Which of the following bureaucratic characteristics highlights the complexity of the bureaucracy?

a. routinization

b. hierarchy

c. formalization

d. specialization

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Complexity

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Which of the following has contributed to the fading distinction between foreign and domestic policy?

a. hierarchy

b. specialization

c. routinization

d. globalization

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Complexity

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Which of the following is considered to be an intermestic policy?

a. education

b. transportation

c. welfare

d. health care

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Complexity

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. The growth in domestic and economic agencies within the bureaucracy was a result of ______.

a. the War on Terrorism

b. the Cold War

c. the New Deal

d. the Great Society programs

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Historical Development of the Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Which of the following departments was created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

a. Department of Justice

b. Department of Transportation

c. Department of Defense

d. Department of Homeland Security

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Historical Development of the Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Since World War II, the foreign policy process has become ______.

a. State-Department centered

b. White-House centered

c. Congress centered

d. Citizen centered

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Functions of the Department of State

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Members of the State Department are known as ______.

a. cabinet officials

b. congressional staffers

c. foreign service officers

d. federal agents

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Functions of the Department of State

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Weighing the interests and concerns of a foreign service officers–assigned country more heavily than those of the United States is referred to as ______.

a. nepotism

b. parochialism

c. clientelism

d. favoritism

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Functions of the Department of State

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. The ______ is the chief officer responsible for governing and managing the State Department for the president.

a. secretary of state

b. deputy secretary of state

c. undersecretary of state

d. assistant secretary of state

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: At Home

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. ______ are each responsible for supervising a broad area, such as public affairs or civilian security, among others.

a. Deputy assistant secretaries

b. Assistant secretaries

c. Undersecretaries

d. Deputy secretaries

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: At Home

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Which of the following individuals is considered to be the chief of mission, the highest representative of the United States stationed abroad?

a. deputy secretary

b. ambassador

c. deputy chief of mission

d. undersecretary

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Abroad

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Which of the following bureaus is considered to be the most prestigious?

a. European

b. Western Hemisphere

c. South and Central Asian

d. African

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Abroad

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. The US Agency for International Development is housed within the ______.

a. Department of Commerce

b. Department of Defense

c. Department of State

d. Department of Interior

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The US Agency for International Development

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. Which of the following terms is defined as a common set of goals and norms acquired by individuals within a group or organization?

a. specialization

b. behavior

c. subculture

d. identify

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Foreign Service Subculture

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Culture is to an organization what ______ is to an individual.

a. education

b. genetics

c. personality

d. appearance

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Foreign Service Subculture

Difficulty Level: Hard

27. Which of the following is an example of how rules and norms can be informally enforced?

a. implementing a promotion system

b. instituting personnel evaluations

c. disseminating department guidelines

d. peer interaction

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Foreign Service Subculture

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. Which of the following is considered to be a characteristic of the foreign service subculture?

a. an emphasis on the policy instruments of diplomacy and negotiation

b. a tendency to be pluralist

c. a preference for domestic experience

d. a tendency to be specialists

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Foreign Service Subculture

Difficulty Level: Hard

29. The entrance into the foreign service was historically based on ______.

a. merit

b. talent

c. pedigree

d. experience

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Foreign Service Subculture

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. Prior to the existence of the airplane and telephone, communication between American officials was conducted via ______.

a. postal service

b. diplomatic pouch

c. telegram

d. cable

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Global Communications Revolution

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. The effort to confine the Soviet empire to Eastern Europe and China was considered to be a ______.

a. détente strategy

b. containment strategy

c. consolidation strategy

d. engagement strategy

Learning Objective: 4-4: Assess and explain key patterns in the role and influence of the Department of State in US foreign policymaking.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Increasing Reliance on Force

Difficulty Level: Easy

32. It has often been argued that the State Department is ______.

a. responsive

b. slow

c. transparent

d. open to change

Learning Objective: 4-4: Assess and explain key patterns in the role and influence of the Department of State in US foreign policymaking.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Consequences for Presidential Reliance on State

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. Overall, the perception of the State Department has been ______.

a. significantly positive

b. negative

c. slightly positive

d. neutral

Learning Objective: 4-4: Assess and explain key patterns in the role and influence of the Department of State in US foreign policymaking.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Consequences for Presidential Reliance on State

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. Mike Pompeo’s bond with President Trump is comparable to that of ______.

a. Clinton and Obama

b. Kissinger and Nixon

c. Rice and Bush

d. Powell and Bush

Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the role of the secretary of state.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Secretary of State

Difficulty Level: Easy

35. Mike Pompeo’s approach to the Secretary of State role emphasized which side of the insider–outsider dilemma?

a. insider orientation

b. outsider orientation

c. neither the insider nor outsider orientation

d. a bit of both the insider and outsider orientations

Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the role of the secretary of state.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Secretary of State

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. According to the text, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attempted to focus on downsizing the State Department to improve ______.

a. effectiveness

b. equity

c. transparency

d. efficiency

Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the role of the secretary of state.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Secretary of State

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. According to the text, Rex Tillerson positioned himself at what end of the inside–outside dilemma?

a. He took on the insider orientation.

b. He took on the outsider orientation.

c. He never managed to position himself either end of the dilemma.

d. He engaged his staff, while maintain a relationship with the president.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the role of the secretary of state.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Secretary of State

Difficulty Level: Hard

38. Where did Hillary Clinton, President Obama’s secretary of state, stand on the insider–outsider dilemma?

a. Clinton took on the insider orientation.

b. Clinton took on the outsider orientation.

c. Clinton never managed to position himself either end of the dilemma.

d. Clinton engaged her staff, while maintaining a relationship with the president.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the role of the secretary of state.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Secretary of State

Difficulty Level: Hard

39. Where did Condoleezza Rice, President Bush’s secretary of state, stand in the insider–outsider dilemma?

a. She remained connected to her staff, the foreign service officers.

b. She remained connected to the White House.

c. She had an equal connection to both her staff and the White House.

d. She did not have a successful connection with neither the White House nor her staff.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the role of the secretary of state.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Secretary of State

Difficulty Level: Hard

40. Which of the following was identified as the “heart and soul” of the contemporary State Department?

a. postal service

b. diplomatic pouch

c. telephone

d. cable traffic

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Global Communications Revolution

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Virtually every department and agency in the executive branch contains an international component.

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bureaucratic Size

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. An important function of the State Department is to represent the US government overseas.

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Functions of the Department of State

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Historically, membership in the foreign service consisted of men who were White Anglo-Saxon Protestants from wealthy, urban families who often attended Ivy League schools.

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Foreign Service Subculture

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. America’s growing global role during World War II and the Cold War decreased president power in the making foreign policy.

Learning Objective: 4-4: Assess and explain key patterns in the role and influence of the Department of State in US foreign policymaking.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rise of American Power

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The president always turns to the State Department for information, advice, and management of the national security process.

Learning Objective: 4-5: Describe the role of the secretary of state.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Future?

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. What do bureaucratic agencies do?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Identify the three characteristics that form the foundation of bureaucratic structure and processes?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 4-1: Know the nature, purpose, and main characteristics of bureaucracy.

Answer Location: Understanding Bureaucracy

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. What are the five major purposes or missions for which the State Department was created?

Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the functions, structures, and processes of the US Department of State.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Functions of the Department of State

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Why are foreign service officers more likely to be generalists than specialists?

Learning Objective: 4-3: Identify the foreign service subculture and its consequences.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Foreign Service Subculture

Difficulty Level: Hard

5. What are some of the common complaints regarding the State Department?

Learning Objective: 4-4: Assess and explain key patterns in the role and influence of the Department of State in US foreign policymaking.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Consequences for Presidential Reliance on State

Difficulty Level: Medium