Verified Test Bank Domestic And Foreign Policy Ch.10

Chapter 10: Domestic and Foreign Policy

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Public policy can be defined as ______.

a. a government plan of action to solve a social problem

b. a ruling made by the Supreme Court that addresses a social problem

c. an agreement among the president, Congress, and the Supreme Court to take a certain course of action

d. a government plan of action passed only by legislatures

Answer Location: 10.1: Introduction to Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

2. Someone who would be in favor of a policy that would provide health care for everyone regardless of employment status would MOST likely identify as ______.

a. a Republican

b. a Libertarian

c. a Democrat

d. a Federalist

Answer Location: 10.1: Introduction to Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

3. Redistributive policies are relatively rare because ______.

a. the United States is not a socialist country

b. there is little need for them

c. those who are the beneficiaries do not want them

d. those who must pay for them are much better equipped to fight political battles than are potential beneficiaries

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

4. What is the president’s role in making public policy?

a. to create new laws based on constituent and interest group preferences

b. to put an issue on the public agenda or include it in the budget proposal

c. to lobby for certain bills to be passed

d. to rule on what the government can or cannot do

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

5. Why are distributive policies popular?

a. The costs are spread across taxpayers, but targeted groups receive them.

b. The costs are generally low.

c. The projects supported by such spending are rarely of questionable value.

d. They often benefit the needy.

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

6. Which group is MOST likely to benefit from a distributive policy?

a. veterans

b. all Americans

c. the wealthy

d. foreign countries

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

7. Which is an example of a distributive policy?

a. welfare

b. emissions regulations

c. a law restricting the use of the death penalty

d. farm subsidies

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

8. Which statement regarding the formation of public policy is accurate?

a. The role of Congress in making policy is relatively small compared to the role of the president.

b. The Supreme Court holds most of the power when it comes to proposing and making policy.

c. Solutions to public problems often generate new problems.

d. National policies can be best thought of as packages made by Congress alone.

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

9. Which type of policy limits and controls the actions of individuals or groups?

a. regulatory

b. redistributive

c. foreign

d. distributive

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

10. ______ is the second step in making policy.

a. Policy evaluation

b. Policy formulation

c. Policy implementation

d. Policy adoption

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

11. Government agencies have their largest role in ______.

a. agenda setting

b. policy adoption

c. policy implementation

d. policy formulation

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

12. Policies that are aimed at improving the quality of life for those in need are known generally as ______.

a. lending-hand policies

b. group-effort policies

c. distributive policies

d. social policies

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

13. Anita participates in a government program that requires her to submit a pay stub and other documents in order to receive income assistance. This is an example of ______.

a. a distributive program

b. a means-tested program

c. a social insurance program

d. a public policy

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

14. Public policy that seeks to meet the basic needs of people who are unable to provide for themselves is ______ policy.

a. civil rights

b. social welfare

c. regulatory

d. distributive

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

15. What was the primary purpose of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program?

a. to make sure poor families could support their children

b. to make sure children could eat school lunch

c. to make sure families with more than one child could afford basic needs

d. to make sure single mothers could care for their children

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

16. What are social insurance policies?

a. programs funded by only one group of taxpayers that are distributed only to noncitizens

b. programs that protect people from losing their homes during a natural disaster

c. government programs that offer benefits in exchange for contributions

d. programs designed to restrict or change the behavior of certain groups or individuals

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

17. Most social welfare policies can be categorized as ______.

a. entitlement programs

b. regulatory policies

c. private policies

d. redistributive policies

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

18. Which is a way the Social Security trust fund could be made sustainable?

a. lowering the retirement age

b. increasing taxes

c. increasing benefit levels

d. eliminating means-testing

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

19. A federal program that guarantees benefits to all qualified recipients is known as ______.

a. a welfare program

b. a mandate program

c. a means-tested program

d. an entitlement program

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

20. Financial incentives given by the government to corporations, individuals, or other governments for the purpose of encouraging certain activities or behaviors are ______.

a. entitlements

b. subsidies

c. welfare programs

d. grants

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

21. How did the Great Depression impact American public policy?

a. The government realized that it had to eliminate environmental restrictions on businesses to help them prosper, which set back efforts to pass stronger environmental policies.

b. It was the first time that education subsidies were provided to the middle class.

c. For the first time, people began to view poverty as a problem requiring government action.

d. The government put more pressure on churches and businesses to help eradicate poverty.

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

22. Which was a major criticism of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program?

a. It had no work requirements.

b. Families were able to receive aid only for a short period of time.

c. The aid to most families was not sufficient to meet basic needs.

d. Too many poor people received no aid.

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

23. ______ is a welfare program of block grants to states that encourages recipients to work in exchange for time-limited benefits

a. Aid to Families with Dependent Children

b. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families

c. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

d. Social Security

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

24. ______ is an example of a social insurance program.

a. Aid to Families with Dependent Children

b. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families

c. Medicare

d. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

25. Prior to the health care reform that was passed in 2010, the government’s role in health care was limited to ______.

a. Medicare and Medicaid

b. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families

c. United State Universal Healthcare

d. the Patient Protection Act

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

26. The federal government’s insurance program for the elderly and disabled is called ______.

a. AFDC

b. Medicaid

c. Medicare

d. AARP

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

27. Which is likely the strongest ideological argument against a system of universal health care in the United States?

a. Such a system has not been adopted in an industrialized country like the United States.

b. The American public is generally satisfied with the current system.

c. The costs of Medicare and Medicaid would skyrocket under such a system.

d. A universal health care policy runs against the American economic system and gives the government too much control.

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

28. What type of policy addresses the problem of economic security for society as a whole?

a. social welfare

b. economic

c. private

d. social insurance

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

29. The basic principles that regulate the economic market and influence the price of a good are known as laws of ______.

a. antitrust policy

b. supply and demand

c. production and consumption

d. monetary policy

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

30. Fiscal policy refers to ______.

a. the government’s use of taxing and spending powers to regulate the economy

b. the use of interest rates to control the money supply in order to regulate the economy

c. policies designed to regulate business, labor, and trade

d. regulations designed to regulate business, labor, and trade

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

31. The manipulation of interest rates to control the money supply in order to regulate the economy is known as ______ policy.

a. budgetary

b. monetary

c. fiscal

d. regulatory

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

32. Monetary policy is ______ policy.

a. a distributive

b. a redistributive

c. a regulatory

d. a fiscal

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

33. A tax levied on returns from capital investments, such as profits from the sale of real estate, is ______ tax.

a. a capital gains

b. an excise

c. a consumption

d. a value-added

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

34. The policy that says the United States should put its interest first and not interfere in global concerns is known as ______.

a. the Reagan Doctrine

b. manifest destiny

c. “One Hemisphere”

d. isolationism

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

35. Which is an example of an intergovernmental organization?

a. the United Nations

b. Greenpeace

c. the U.S. State Department

d. General Motors

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

36. Foreign policy that lays out a country’s basic stance toward international actors or issues is ______.

a. foreign economic policy

b. structural defense policy

c. crisis policy

d. strategic policy

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

37. The Cold War policy of the United States seeking to prevent the spread of communism is an example of ______.

a. isolationism

b. roll-back

c. containment

d. the domino theory

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

38. The State Department is the executive department responsible for managing ______.

a. military affairs

b. foreign affairs

c. Medicaid and Medicare

d. parks and forests

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

39. The Department of Defense is responsible for ______.

a. manufacturing expensive and secret weapons

b. managing the country’s military personnel, equipment, and operations

c. conducting espionage

d. advising the president on how to execute his powers as commander-in-chief

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

40. The ______ was Congress’s attempt to limit the president’s ability to use troops in hostilities without congressional approval

a. War Powers Act

b. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

c. National Defense Act

d. Helms-Burton Act

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

True/False

1. Distributive policies are popular because their costs are not noticed as they are spread among all taxpayers, but their benefits go to a specific group who knows they are benefitting.

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

2. Government agencies have their largest role in policy evaluation.

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

3. Public policy that seeks to meet the basic needs of people who are unable to provide for themselves is social welfare policy.

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

4. A federal program that guarantees benefits to qualified recipients is an entitlement program.

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

5. Economic policy addresses the problem of economic security for the benefit of the wealthiest members of society.

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

6. Tax policy is a regulatory policy.

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

7. The system of 12 banks run by a board of governors with a chair who is appointed by the president is known as the Federal Reserve.

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

8. U.S. foreign policy is almost always carried out for the good of American citizens or in the interest of national security.

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

9. According to the concept of isolationism, in order for the United States to be safe, the country must be actively engaged in shaping the global environment and be willing to intervene.

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

10. Nike and Apple are examples of multinational corporations.

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Easy

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

Short Answer

1. What are the five steps of policy making?

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

2. Describe the function of means-tested programs.

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

3. What is the difference between social welfare policies and social insurance policies?

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

4. Historically, what has the attitude been toward the government and its relationship to economic policy?

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

5. What is isolationism?

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Medium

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

Essay

1. Define redistributive, distributive, and regulatory policies. Who benefits from each type of policy? Who is responsible for paying for each type of policy?

Answer Location: 10.2: Making Public Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.1: Understand how public policy is made

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

2. What was the original New Deal policy that many think of when they think “welfare”? What were some criticisms of that policy? Which policy was adopted in its place?

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

3. How are Medicare and Medicaid similar? How are they different?

Answer Location: 10.3: Social Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.2: Understand what is involved in social policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

4. What is economic policy? What are three main types of economic policy? Define each type and describe what kind of economic problem each one solves.

Answer Location: 10.4: Economic Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.3: Understand the ins and outs of economic policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies

5. Define intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and multinational corporations. What are some examples of each?

Answer Location: 10.5: Foreign Policy

Cognitive Domain: Application

Learning Objective: 10.4: Understand the often hard-to-understand issues of foreign policy

Difficulty Level: Hard

SAGE Course Outcome: Analyze the development and impact of important governmental policies