Chapter 14: The Presidency T/F

37 Questions | By Ashley_Cross | Last updated: Mar 21, 2022 | Total Attempts: 173

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These days especially, everyone and their mother has an opinion on the American Presidency, for good or for bad. In this quiz we aim to test your knowledge purely on the facts, however, in a simple True or False format to see how much you know about presidency in the USA.

Questions and Answers

1.

The popularly elected president is an American invention.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
2.

Democratic president Jimmy Carter could not get the Democratic-controlled Senate to ratify his strategic arms limitation treaty.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
3.

In a typical presidential election, one half of all voters will vote for one party's candidate for president and the other party's candidate for Congress.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
4.

The general assumption of the Framers of the Constitution was that George Washington would be the first president.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
5.

Presidential elections have never been decided by the House of Representatives.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
6.

The Framers expected that the House of Representatives would frequently select the President.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
7.

George Washington limited himself to two terms.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
8.

George Washington was a strong supporter of political parties.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
9.

Congress decided no president's image would appear on currency until after his death.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
10.

The Nation's early presidents made extensive use of the veto power.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
11.

Although he had been elected as a military hero, Andrew Jackson had also been a member of both the House and the Senate.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
12.

Abraham Lincoln praised Andrew Jackson's exceptional use of executive authority.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
13.

Lincoln raised an army and spent money without prior approval of Congress.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
14.

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation Act without prior congressional approval.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
15.

The Clean Air Act (1990) and the Welfare REform Act (1996) were both bill deigned by Congress, not by the president.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
16.

From the Eisenhower years through the Reagan administration, Congress often took the lead in setting the legislative agenda.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
17.

The text suggests presidents like to pretend the White House is not the large bureaucracy that it in fact has become.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
18.

President Carter employed the pyramid structure for organization of personal staff.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
19.

There are ten major executive departments headed by cabinet officers.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
20.

A president rarely knows more than a few of the people that he appoints.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
21.

According to the text, much of Eisenhower's bumbling, incoherent manner of speaking was a strategic "public disguise."
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
22.

Richard Nixon thrived on personal confrontation and face-to-face encounters with other politicians.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
23.

Presidents have made fewer and fewer impromptu remarks in the years since Franklin Roosevelt held office.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
24.

President Roosevelt failed to "purge" members of Congress who opposed his program.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
25.

Some presidents have not experienced a "honeymoon" in the sense of initially high levels of public support and congressional compliance.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False