Political Context II
Quiz by Rachel Murat
Feel free to use or edit a copy
includes Teacher and Student dashboards
Measure skillsfrom any curriculum
Measure skills
from any curriculum
Tag the questions with any skills you have. Your dashboard will track each student's mastery of each skill.
With a free account, teachers can
- edit the questions
- save a copy for later
- start a class game
- automatically assign follow-up activities based on students’ scores
- assign as homework
- share a link with colleagues
- print as a bubble sheet
14 questions
Show answers
- Q1A group that seeks to elect candidates to public officepolitical party30s
- Q2there are two sidesdualistic30s
- Q3Team-up of blacks, blue collars, farmers, Jews, Catholics who help Democrats dominate politicsNew Deal Coalition30s
- Q4long-term shift in voter allegiance from one party to anotherrealignment30s
- Q5A decline in party loyalties that reduces long-term party commitment.dealignment30s
- Q6Voting for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same electionticket splitting30s
- Q7political races further down the ballotdown ballot races30s
- Q8Presidency and one chamber of Congress are controlled by the same political party.truncated government30s
- Q9Presidency is controlled by one party and the House and Senate are controlled by the other party.divided government30s
- Q10Presidency, House and Senate are all controlled by the same partyUnified government30s
- Q11An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.winner take all system30s
- Q12the most votes (but not a majority) among all those running for a political officeplurality30s
- Q13An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.single member districts30s
- Q14seats in the legislature are allocated according to a party's share of the popular voteproportional representation system30s