You should use the terms at the back of each reading and the study questions you answered in class to prepare yourself for the test. The test will be taken from those items. The questions below should give you an idea of the kinds of questions that will appear on the test.
t/f Elite behavior refers to the kind of studies involving public opinion.
t/f Political science is really just a combination of history and civics.
Which of the following is a period of political science?
a. the dark ages
b. the platonic period
c. the middle ages
d. post-modern age
What was Cicero known for?
a. his theories on the social contract
b. rule by law
c. stages of history
d. negating
What was Marcuse known for?
a. his theories on the social contract
b. rule by law
c. stages of history
d. negating
What do Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau have in common?
a. all wanted government to be run by popular majorities
b. all were English political philosophers
c. all thought that people were basically good
d. all felt that government was a human creation
How do Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau differ?
a. on whether government should be run by popular majorities
b. on their nationality
c. on the quality of human nature
d. all of the above
t/f Behavioralism resulted from political science's failure to predict world-wide chaos of the mid 1900s.
The American Political Science Association was created about when?
a. as an offshoot of the British PSA following the Revolutionary War
b. in the mid 1900s
c. in the late 1800s
d. in the early 1700s
Which of the following best defines institutions?
a. well-established patterns of relationships
b. leaders and followers
c. having a very strong person in charge
d. none of the above
t/f In a presidential system, the legislative leaders choose the executive leader.
Which of the following is NOT a goal of political science?
a. describing political events
b. explaining
c. predicting
d. all of the above are in fact goals of political science
t/f. Under apartheid, whites in South Africa forced blacks into a separate and unequal society.
t/f Systems theory explains why governments survive, but only in very general terms.
t/f Systems theory will almost perfectly predict whether the US will be successful in Iraq
t/f In order for any political system to survive, it must use its outputs of rewards and deprivations to generate sufficient demands on the input side.
t/f Organizational theory focuses on how people deal with the role stress in organizations.
What is intersubjective transmissibility?
a. the ability of politicians to communicate with constituents
b. the intercommunication among political elites
c. the seed of destruction in fuedal society
d. none of the above
t/f That "longevity is greater in the North than in the South" is a testable fact statement.
t/f That "more Southerners say they generally feel happy than northerners" is an untestable value statement.
Which of the following was a critical election?
t/f The US is long overdue for a critical election.
What is the cause of role stress?
a. having too high role expectations
b. having too few role resources
c. this test
d. both a and b
t/f Theory and ideology are really the same thing.
Dialectics refers to which of the following?
a. an ongoing process of force and counterforce creating new results
c. negation of previous stages of history by people
d. powerful ideologies that create great followings of people
d. none of the following
t/f According to Marx, feudalism was characterized by boom and bust cycles.
To whom does the proletariat refer?
a. the elite
b. the farmers
c. the capitalists
d. the workers
t/f According to Marx, even the capitalist was alienated from himself.
t/f According to Machiavelli the Prince will always be able to produce "ordini" out of chaos by doing "necessita" at the right "occasione."
t/f To become effective, followers should almost always show deference to their leaders.
t/f A real strength of normative theory is that it forces the empirical theorists to be more sensitive to the values that sneak into their work.
What is the most important value in Machiavelli's view of the world
of politics?
a. He has no values
b. necessita
c. ordini
d. entropy
e. fortuna
t/f Empirical theory cannot ever be fully tested.
t/f VO Key argued that if research was not done perfectly, it was not worth doing at all.
t/f? Machiavelli is purely and completely an empirical theorist.
t/f? Marx was most accurate in his predictions about the fate of capitalism.
t/f? Generic politics refers choices that all of us must make, whether we like it or not, about the roles assigned to us in society.
Who was most pessimistic about human nature?
a. Hobbes
b. Locke
c. Rousseau
d. Cicero
e. Machiavelli
Possible Essays. 1) Make sure you know the
lessons of the simulations
2) Make
sure that you can explain the various definitions of politics, especially
the generic definition!
To study, make sure that you understand and can apply all the review terms at the end of each reading.