Sample test ?s

Here are some samples of questions written when I taught another class. I hope that this gives you an idea of my writing style.

3. John Locke’s idea that people establish government to help protect their rights and that people agree to accept government authority to protect life, liberty, and property.
a. Natural law
b. Minimal governmental involvement
c. State of nature
d. Social contract

4. Which is NOT an elite threat to democracy?
a. Narrow visions of the common good
b. Willingness to sacrifice social values for relative advantage
c. No external check on power
d. Very vulnerable to appeals to intolerance

5. The principal where every person has only one vote is known as: (
a. Political equality
b. Majority rule
c. Minority rights
d. Legal equality

25. Which of the following was NOT one of the positions held by Anti-Federalists? (Dye, 53)
a. Criticized the absence of a bill of rights
b. Thought that people should govern through direct popular participation
c. Attacked the secrecy of the Constitutional Convention
d. Asserted that national government was not representative of the people

26. The attempt to return power and responsibility to states through general revenue sharing is known as what type of federalism? (Dye, 393)
a. New
b. Dual
c. Cooperative
d. Centralized