The Public And Foreign Policy Complete Test Bank Chapter 11

Test Bank

Chapter 11: The Public and Foreign Policy

Multiple Choice

1. According to the traditional wisdom, public opinion ______.

a. has an impact on the policymaking process, but not the government

b. has huge impact on the government and the policymaking process

c. has little impact on the government and the policymaking process

d. has an impact on the government, but not the policymaking process

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Traditional Wisdom

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The Almond-Lippman consensus concluded that public opinion was ______.

a. structured

b. of great significance

c. imperative to government functions

d. volatile

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Traditional Wisdom

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Which of the following types of beliefs is considered to be the most specific?

a. political socialization

b. political culture

c. public opinion

d. political ideology

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The New Consensus: A More Complex and Consequential Public

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Which of the following types of beliefs is considered to be broader values and ideas?

a. political socialization

b. political culture

c. public opinion

d. political ideology

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The New Consensus: A More Complex and Consequential Public

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Which of the following is considered to be the broadest orientation about values and norms about society, government, American self-image, and national style abroad?

a. political socialization

b. political culture

c. public opinion

d. political ideology

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The New Consensus: A More Complex and Consequential Public

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. ______ refers to the informal process of human interaction by which Americans acquire their political beliefs.

a. Political socialization

b. Political culture

c. Public opinion

d. Political ideology

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The New Consensus: A More Complex and Consequential Public

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. According to the authors, the public exercises influence most indirectly through ______.

a. polls

b. participation in elections

c. group politics

d. political socialization

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The New Consensus: A More Complex and Consequential Public

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Which of the following is an example of a “public”?

a. culture

b. elite

c. opinion

d. ideology

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The New Consensus: A More Complex and Consequential Public

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. The traditional wisdom tends to focus predominantly on ______.

a. political socialization

b. political culture

c. public opinion

d. political ideology

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The New Consensus: A More Complex and Consequential Public

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The ______ public is a small portion of the population with the means and the interest to participate in and shape politics.

a. elite

b. mass

c. attentive

d. uninformed

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Elite, Attentive, and Mass Publics

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Which of the following are considered the opinion leaders?

a. the uninformed

b. the attentive

c. the mass

d. the elite

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Elite, Attentive, and Mass Publics

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Which of the following is more likely to be an opinion leader?

a. a stay-at-home mom

b. a kindergarten teacher

c. a first-year college student

d. a tenured professor

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Elite, Attentive, and Mass Publics

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. The ______ public includes people who are also relatively attentive and informed about national and international affairs but whose views are not as widely disseminated as those of opinion leaders.

a. elite

b. mass

c. attentive

d. uninformed

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Elite, Attentive, and Mass Publics

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. The attentive public tends to be visible at what level?

a. national

b. regional

c. community

d. peer

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Elite, Attentive, and Mass Publics

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Which of the following types of public were identified as the local mediators?

a. elite

b. uninformed

c. attentive

d. mass

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Elite, Attentive, and Mass Publics

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The segment of the American population emphasized by the traditional wisdom is the ______ public.

a. elite

b. mass

c. attentive

d. informed

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Elite, Attentive, and Mass Publics

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. ______ refers to the attitudes held by Americans generally toward specific issues and topics, expressed primarily through polls and periodically through voting.

a. Public attitudes

b. Public opinion

c. Political socialization

d. Political culture

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: A Range of “Opinion”

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. ______ represent(s) broader viewpoints held by the public that do not require specific knowledge of the world or current events.

a. Public attitudes

b. Public opinion

c. Political socialization

d. Political culture

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: A Range of “Opinion”

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. ______ refer(s) to beliefs about the preferred ends and means of society.

a. Public attitudes

b. Political ideology

c. Political socialization

d. Political culture

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: A Range of “Opinion”

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Liberty, equality, representative government, etc. are closely tied to ______.

a. public attitudes

b. public opinion

c. political socialization

d. political ideology

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: A Range of “Opinion”

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Which of the following refers to “self-identity” and how people see themselves and their country relative to the rest of the world?

a. political culture

b. political ideology

c. public attitudes

d. public opinion

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: A Range of “Opinion”

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Which of the following plays the broadest, most subtle, role of all?

a. political ideology

b. public opinion

c. political culture

d. public attitudes

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: A Range of “Opinion”

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. ______ argued that the United States needed to limit its involvement to those areas of the world where it really has vital interests.

a. Neo-conservatives

b. Semi-internationalists

c. Non-internationalists

d. Cold War internationalists

Learning Objective: 11-4: Compare the nature and dynamics of political ideologies and foreign policy orientations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Rise of Non-Internationalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. The non-internationalist perspective was most prevalent among the ______ public.

a. attentive

b. mass

c. elite

d. uninformed

Learning Objective: 11-4: Compare the nature and dynamics of political ideologies and foreign policy orientations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Rise of Non-Internationalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. ______ believed that the major global threat to the security of the United States and global order was communism directed by the Soviet Union.

a. Neo-conservatives

b. Semi-internationalists

c. Non-internationalists

d. Conservative-internationalists

Learning Objective: 11-4: Compare the nature and dynamics of political ideologies and foreign policy orientations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Growth of the Right and Conservative Internationalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

26. ______ stressed the preeminence and hegemony of the United States as the world’s dominant power.

a. Conservative internationalists

b. Non-internationalists

c. Neo-conservatives

d. Liberal internationalists

Learning Objective: 11-4: Compare the nature and dynamics of political ideologies and foreign policy orientations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Growth of the Right and Conservative Internationalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

27. ______ saw a conflict-ridden, bipolar world that pitted the Soviet Union and communism against the United States and democracy.

a. Post-Cold War internationalism

b. Cold War internationalism

c. Liberal internationalism

d. Non-internationalism

Learning Objective: 11-4: Compare the nature and dynamics of political ideologies and foreign policy orientations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Cold War Years of Anti-Communism and the Liberal-Conservative Consensus

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. Which of the following views laid the basis for the national security ethos to thrive during the cold war years in which US foreign policy revolved around a strategy of containment of Soviet expansionism?

a. Post-Cold War internationalism

b. Non-internationalism

c. Liberal internationalism

d. Cold War internationalism

Learning Objective: 11-4: Compare the nature and dynamics of political ideologies and foreign policy orientations.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Cold War Years of Anti-Communism and the Liberal-Conservative Consensus

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Studies of American political culture typically portray Americans as ______ people.

a. confident

b. aggressive

c. passive

d. pessimistic

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. ______ is consistent with the isolationist sentiments that have played a dominant role in US foreign policy.

a. American benevolence

b. American exceptionalism

c. American innocence

d. American protectionism

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. According to the American ______ view, Americans have not been introspective and concerned with nation building and with serving as a “city on a hill” for other people and countries to emulate.

a. protectionism

b. innocence

c. benevolence

d. exceptionalism

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. The premise of American ______ means that Americans do not become involved in war, for example, solely to defend themselves.

a. protectionism

b. innocence

c. benevolence

d. exceptionalism

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. According to the American ______ view, the United States enters wars in order to rid the world of evil and promote peace and freedom for all.

a. innocence

b. protectionism

c. exceptionalism

d. benevolence

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

34. Which of the following reflects an American sense of “manifest destiny”?

a. American benevolence

b. American exceptionalism

c. American innocence

d. American protectionism

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

35. According to the authors, American exceptionalism translates into a powerful sense of ______.

a. effectiveness

b. equity

c. efficacy

d. efficiency

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

36. Westward expansion is recalled in terms of ______.

a. collectivism

b. free trade

c. frontier spirit

d. democracy

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Foreign Policy Implications

Difficulty Level: Easy

37. ______ is often a positive force; it helps promote a strong sense of community among members of society in support of a common effort.

a. Patriotism

b. Nationalism

c. Exceptionalism

d. Protectionism

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Foreign Policy Implications

Difficulty Level: Easy

38. Which of the following terms has become sacrosanct in the American mind and interwoven with the “United States of America”?

a. frontier spirit

b. ruggedness

c. individualism

d. freedom

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Foreign Policy Implications

Difficulty Level: Medium

39. Which of the following is evidence during periods of national emergency and war?

a. tolerance

b. intolerance

c. pessimism

d. optimism

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Foreign Policy Implications

Difficulty Level: Medium

40. Which of the following neither seek public input nor require public support?

a. delegates

b. executors

c. pragmatists

d. guardians

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Public Opinion and Foreign Policymaking

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. The Almond-Lippman consensus view continues to be held by many observers of US foreign policy, as well as part of the general public.

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Traditional Wisdom

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Most Americans are a part of the elite or attentive publics.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Elite, Attentive, and Mass Publics

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Most Americans are relatively uninformed about national and international affairs.

Learning Objective: 11-3: Explain the patterns of public opinion in the mass public.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Major Patterns in Public Opinion

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Ideological beliefs do not readily fluctuate; they tend to resist change for they are formed early in life through the process of political socialization.

Learning Objective: 11-4: Compare the nature and dynamics of political ideologies and foreign policy orientations.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Political Ideology and Foreign Policy Orientations

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Innocence, benevolence, and exceptionalism are uniquely American beliefs.

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. What did the Almond-Lippman consensus conclude?

Learning Objective: 11-1: Identify the differences between the traditional wisdom and the new consensus about public opinion and its impact.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Traditional Wisdom

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Identify and discuss the two contradictory consequences of direct and immediate impact on foreign policy.

Learning Objective: 11-2: Understand the major features of the public, its views and opinions, and their influence.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Direct and Immediate Impact

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Explain the major patterns in public opinion.

Learning Objective: 11-3: Explain the patterns of public opinion in the mass public.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Major Patterns in Public Opinion

Difficulty Level: Hard

4. Explain how American innocence, benevolence, and exceptionalism contribute to American political culture.

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Innocence, Benevolence, and Exceptionalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Identify and discuss the four categories that president fall into. Choose a president and identify the category that you believe they belong in.

Learning Objective: 11-5: Describe the nature and influence of political culture and American national style.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Public Opinion and Foreign Policymaking

Difficulty Level: Medium