Political Science Q & A 1
11/22/2015 Module 1: Mastery Exercise | Schoology
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Introduction to Political Science: FALL15 ...
Module 1: Mastery Exercise
Question 1 (1 point)
The tragedy that occurred in the Darfur region of Sudan beginning in 2003 is an example of which political game?
a wipeout
b civil disobedience
c the lion and the fox
d accommodation
Question 2 (1 point)
Who was a perpetrator of the game of destruction in the Soviet Union?
a Josef Stalin
b Adolf Hitler
c Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
d Slobodan Milosevic
Question 3 (1 point)
What crime was Socrates accused of?
a murder
b plagiarism
c corruption of the youth of Athens
d treason
Question 4 (1 point)
The advisory body that was central to aiding President John F. Kennedy in dealing with the Cuban missile crisis was __________.
a the Council on Foreign Relations
b the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
c the Emergency Response Team of the US Army
d the ExCom
Question 5 (1 point)
Which political philosopher is known for his assertion that the end justifies the means?
a Machiavelli
b Socrates
c Locke
d Marx
Question 6 (1 point)
The Watergate scandal concerned ________.
a a breakin at the Democratic Party’s national headquarters and a subsequent coverup on the part of the Nixon administration
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b accusations that President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton had made shady land deals in Arkansas
c highly questionable accounting procedures and the inflated reporting of earnings by the Enron Corporation
d accusations that the Reagan administration had sold weapons to Iran to gain the release of American hostages in Lebanon and then diverted profits from the deal to anticommunist guerillas in Nicaragua
Question 7 (1 point)
James Madison’s famous argument on behalf of the “extensive republic” appears in which work?
a The Declaration of Independence
b The Articles of Confederation
c The Federalist
d Second Treatise on Civil Government
Question 8 (1 point)
Which of the following was accurate in the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
a Iraq had a viable Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) program in 2003.
b The government of Saddam Hussein had consistently flouted United Nations Security Council Resolutions.
c There was a mountain of evidence linking Iraq to Al Qaeda.
d The invasion would be over quickly and American forces would be able to return home in a relatively short period of time.
Question 9 (1 point)
An example of the political game of the lion and fox is ________.
a Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights protests
b the crushing of the Melians by Athens
c Machiavelli’s advice statement on how to govern
d the efforts of the women of Greece to make love, not war
Question 10 (1 point)
According to the authors, which of the following is not a common element of games?
a players
b stakes
c rules
d leaders and followers
e strategies and tactics
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