Trivia Quiz: How Well Do You Know About Political Parties?

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    Once in office, elected officials in Europe are expected to vote and act together with other members of their party.

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This trivia quiz is designed to see How Well Do You Know About Political Parties? If you are a registered voter, you have a major say in who gets to run the country you belong to. That being said, you need above all other things to know what things each party believes in before you associate with it. Get to learn more about some of them here.

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  • 2. 

    Most Europian democracies have strong two-party systems like the U.S.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    Most europian democracies are a muliparty systems.

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  • 3. 

    For many years the laws of many states made it difficult if not impossible for the third party to get on the ballot.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 4. 

    American political parties are more effective at mobilizing voters than are parties and other democratic nations.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    Parties in other democratic nations are more effective at mobilizing voters.

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  • 5. 

    The ideological party values winning above all else.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    The ideological party puts principle above all else.

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  • 6. 

    David Mayhew suggests that traditional party organization exists in about half the states.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    It is because Mayhew sees such organization in only about 8 states.

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  • 7. 

    In 1992 Bill Clinton won 45% of the popular vote in Missouri but all of the states electoral votes.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 8. 

    Superdelegates are delegates to the national convention who are also public officials.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 9. 

    Political authority in the U.S. has of late, come to be far more centralized.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 10. 

    Primary elections are extremely competitive in Europe.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    They have become weaker and more decentralized.

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  • 11. 

    The modern republican party began as a third party.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 12. 

    Economic issues triggered the alignments of 1869 and 1932.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 13. 

    The hatch act of 1939 made it illegal for federal civil employees to work in partisan campaigns.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 14. 

    The text suggests that the hatch act of 1939 destroyed so-called "political machines".

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    The act gradually took federal employment out of political machines, but it did not end the machines.

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  • 15. 

    Most firmly ideological parties have been factions within the democratic party.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    Most have been independant "third parties"

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  • 16. 

    Our nation began without political parties.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 17. 

    Split ticket voting has been most common in the northeastern U.S.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    Split ticket voting has been most common in the south.

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  • 18. 

    In U.S., a third party has never won the presidency.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    The republican won in 1860.

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  • 19. 

    The minor parties that have endured in American politics have been ideological ones.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 20. 

    Before 1972 party leaders chose most party delegates.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 21. 

    Only about half as many people vote in the primaries as in general elections

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 22. 

    Since 1968 the democratic party has no trouble winning congretional elections

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 23. 

    Split ticket voting is on the increase in the U.S.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 24. 

    The reforms of the progressives have the effect of weakening political parties.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 25. 

    Elections where party machines were active commonly featured high voter turnout.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 26. 

    The text suggests that no third party is likely to win the presidency any time soon.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 27. 

    The authors conlcude that it is striking that we have so many minor parties.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    What is striking that we have so few minor parties.

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  • 28. 

    The founders favored parties because they enhanced communication between the government and its citizens.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 29. 

    The first political party took for a name "Republicans"

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    The founders disliked parties because they saw them as factions motivated by ambition and self-interest and worried that their critiques of the new government would be perceived as an attack on the legitimacy of the system itself.

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  • 30. 

    The followers of Hamilton founded the first political party.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. True
  • 31. 

    Today, national conventions are places where party leaders meet to bargain over the selection of their presidential candidates.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    They are instead places where delegates come together to ratify choices already made by party activists and primary voters.

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  • 32. 

    Political machines rarely supported presidential candidates who had the best chance of winning but also held contrary policy viewpoints.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    Machines were usually willing to support the candidate with the best chance of winning regardless of his policy views.

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  • 33. 

    The U.S. has never experimented with proportional representation.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    Proportional representation was used in the municipal election in ney york city at one time and is still used in Cambridge Massachusetts.

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  • 34. 

    Republican convention delegates appear to be more seperated from the opinions of most citizens than democraric convention delegates.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    The separation of convention viewpoints and public viewpoints had been somewhat more acute for democrats.

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  • 35. 

    Popular support for the federalist party was limited to sections of the country and particular classes of Americans.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    The followers of jefferson founded the first party.

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  • 36. 

    Most Americans would resent partisanship becoming a conspicuous feature of other organizations to which they belong.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    In europe there is no such thing as a primary election.

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  • 37. 

    The text concludes the election of Ronald Reagan clearly signaled a new electoral realignment.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    Reagan's election could not have been a traditional realignment because it left congress in the hands of the democrats.

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  • 38. 

    The "reforms" which followed on the 1960s resulted in a democratic national convention, that more closely affected public opinion than the republican national convention.

    • True

    • False

    Correct Answer
    A. False
    Explanation
    Democratic convention moved further away from public opinion because the traditional middle class is somewhat closer to the opinions of most citizens than is the liberal middle class.

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