Exam
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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) Unlike almost every other nation, the US relies on ________ health insurance.
A) national
B) private
C) government
D) socialized
E) free
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2) About ________ of the United States is now designated as protected wilderness.
A) 4 percent
B) 24 percent
C) 12 percent
D) 17 percent
E) 35 percent
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3) Americans have ________ health care.
A) high-tech, expensive, and unequal
B) low-tech, expensive, and unequal
C) low-tech, inexpensive, and unequal
D) high tech, inexpensive and equal
E) high-tech, expensive, and equal
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4) Approximately ________ people in the US do not have private health insurance.
A) 36 million
B) 46 million
C) 100 million
D) 10 million
E) 26 million
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5) Doctors have no reason to compete with each other to offer cheaper health care expenses because
A) insurance companies and government pay for most health care expenses.
B) technology has made medical care more efficient and less costly.
C) specialization has made competition unnecessary.
D) government mandates that everyone receives equal access to health care.
E) All of the above
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6) Being on the endangered species list requires that
A) the federal government alone must enact policies to protect the habitat of the species.
B) both federal and state governments enact policies to protect the habitat of the species.
C) state governments allow taxes to be raise to protect the habitat of the species.
D) all habitats where the species may possibly reside be declared national parks.
E) the Sierra Club raise funds to help protect the habitat of the species.
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7) Organizations contracted by individuals or insurance companies to provide care for a yearly fee
are called
A) Medicaid programs.
B) Medicare programs.
C) Government insurance providers.
D) health maintenance organizations.
E) Either B or C.
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8) What is an example of the biomedical revolution?
A) Medical rationing.
B) Stem cell research
C) HMOs
D) Obesity surgery
E) Privatized health insurance
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9) What is the Superfund?
A) A series of funds that have been set aside to preserve our national park system.
B) A fund created by Congress to help elderly people afford prescription drugs.
C) A fund created by Congress to clean up hazardous waste sites.
D) A fund created to finance legal recourses against large industries that do not cover their
employee's health care.
E) A fund created to finance legal resources against large polluters.
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10) The slow rise in the Earth's temperature is referred to as
A) Kyotoism
B) The greening of the earth
C) Smog
D) Global warming
E) None of the above.
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11) Approximately what percentage of Americans are covered by HMOs or similar restricted
physician plans?
A) 20 percent
B) 80 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 10 percent
E) 40 percent
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12) Global warming refers to
A) the expectation that the Earth's atmosphere is becoming warmer due to the decreasing size
of ice masses in Antarctica.
B) the expectation that the world will share a common weather pattern by the year 2010.
C) the melting of the polar ice caps.
D) the spread of nuclear power throughout the world.
E) the expectation that the Earth's atmosphere is becoming warmer due to high levels of carbon
monoxide production.
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13) The public assistance program designed to provide health care for poor Americans, funded by
both the states and federal government, is called
A) TANF
B) Medicare
C) Social Security
D) Medicaid
E) CHIPs
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14) How much of the nation's energy sources are renewable?
A) 25 percent
B) 7 percent
C) 40 percent
D) 60 percent
E) 15 percent
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15) Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) Enrollment in HMOs tripled in the 1980s and then doubled again in the 1990s.
B) In contracting with managed care organizations, doctors accept some oversight of their
medical decisions.
C) At least three-fourths of all doctors have signed contracts with HMOs.
D) Managed care plans and health maintenance organizations cover about 60 percent of all
Americans.
E) All of the above are true.
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16) The 1970 Clean Air Act
A) limits the release of CFCs into the atmosphere.
B) charges the Department of Transportation with the responsibility of reducing automobile
emissions.
C) charges the Environmental Protection Agency with cleaning up lakes and rivers.
D) commits the Environmental Protection Agency with reducing air pollution.
E) prohibits the use of certain pesticides.
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17) Which of the following countries has the highest infant mortality rate?
A) Canada
B) France
C) United States
D) Italy
E) Japan
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18) Which three presidents' fortunes and careers were made by the oil industry?
A) Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush
B) John F. Kennedy, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush
C) Teddy Roosevelt, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush
D) Harry Truman, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush
E) Lyndon Johnson, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush
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19) The law requiring the federal government to actively protect endangered species, regardless of the
economic effect, is the
A) Prevent Extinction Act of 1973
B) Endangered Species Act of 1973
C) Environmental Protection Act of 1970
D) US Wilderness Act of 1970
E) None of the above.
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20) What percentage of Americans get their health care insurance from their employers?
A) 10 percent
B) 90 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 80 percent
E) 30 percent
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21) National health insurance
A) would provide compulsory insurance for all Americans.
B) is not available anywhere yet in the world.
C) was first proposed in the 1980s.
D) has always been strongly supported by the American Medical Association.
E) is a voluntary system of health care.
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22) The United States government finances much of the medical research done in the country through
A) the National Institutes of Health.
B) the Department of Health and Human Services.
C) the National Science Foundation.
D) the National Endowment for Medical Research.
E) Medicaid.
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23) Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) Mexico has more oil reserves than the US
B) Russia has twice as much oil as the US
C) Most of the world's oil is in the Middle East
D) Both A and C.
E) All of the above.
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24) What president is most associated with starting a general emphasis on environmental policies?
A) Jimmy Carter
B) Teddy Roosevelt
C) Bill Clinton
D) Richard Nixon
E) Franklin D. Roosevelt
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25) Which of the following is TRUE of policymaking for technological issues?
A) It has resulted in an increased scope of government, as government has headed the call for a
greater role in high-tech issues.
B) It is frequently very expensive.
C) It relies heavily on group representation.
D) Individual citizens are unlikely to have the information or resources to participate
meaningfully.
E) All of the above are true
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26) Which country is the leading producer of carbon dioxide?
A) India
B) China
C) France
D) United States
E) Japan
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27) ________ is part of the Social Security system and covers 40 million American seniors with
hospitalization insurance and other optional health insurance.
A) The Superfund
B) The National Institutes of Health
C) Medicare
D) Medicaid
E) The United States Health Service
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28) Which of the following is NOT true of coal?
A) It is responsible for the "black lung" health hazard to coal miners.
B) About 90 percent of all of America's energy resources are in coal.
C) Its use to produce electricity is linked to acid rain.
D) It is the nation's most abundant fuel.
E) It accounts for half the energy Americans use.
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29) Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) The earth's temperature is predicted to rise between 2 and 6 degrees by the 2100.
B) Today, the earth is only 5 to 9 degrees warmer than it was during the depths of the last ice
age, 20,000 years ago.
C) About 23 percent of the worlds' carbon dioxide is produced by the US.
D) The 15 warmest years on record happened since 1970.
E) All of the above are true.
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30) Which of the following statements about health care in the U.S. is FALSE?
A) The United States is among the healthiest of all countries.
B) The cost of medical care is higher in the U.S. than anywhere else.
C) Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat all patients.
D) Americans spend more on health care than people in any other nation.
E) None of the above; all are true
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31) To successfully dispose of nuclear waste, it must be isolated from the environment for ________
years.
A) 100
B) 10,000
C) 1,000
D) 5,000
E) 10
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32) Laurence J. Kotlikoff estimates that the U.S. owes ________ for its three major entitlement
programs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
A) $7,000,000
B) $7 billion
C) $700,000
D) $70 trillion
E) $7 trillion
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33) The CIA had a hand in all of the following EXCEPT
A) The coup in Guatemala in 1954.
B) The training and support of the South Vietnamese Army.
C) The coup in Iran in 1953.
D) A and B only.
E) All of the above.
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34) Curtis LeMay is noted as a military leader for
A) His cautious warnings against the rise of a military industrial complex.
B) His hesitancy to advise the use of military force.
C) His hawkish stance toward military policy.
D) His belief that the military should only be used to defend the homeland.
E) His dovish stance toward military policy.
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35) The foreign policy powers of Congress
A) Are negligible when compared with the president's.
B) Include the appointing of top military officials to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
C) Have no constitutional basis.
D) Include making treaties.
E) Include raising and organizing the armed forces.
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36) The first American president to sign a treaty to actually reduce current levels of nuclear weapons
in the United States arsenal was
A) John F. Kennedy.
B) Jimmy Carter.
C) Dwight Eisenhower.
D) Richard Nixon.
E) Ronald Reagan.
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37) Which President called the Soviet Union the "Evil Empire"?
A) Harry Truman
B) Richard Nixon
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Ronald Reagan
E) Jimmy Carter
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38) Which U.S. President first dispatched military advisers to Vietnam?
A) Dwight Eisenhower
B) Harry Truman
C) John F. Kennedy
D) Richard Nixon
E) Lyndon Johnson
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39) Foreign policy involves
A) Only questions of war and peace.
B) The way the U.S. government makes choices about relations with the rest of the world.
C) The way foreign governments lobby U.S. government officials to obtain policies they favor.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.
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40) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in what year?
A) 1949
B) 1950
C) 1945
D) 1953
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E) 1948
41) The term "gunboat diplomacy" refers to
A) The willingness of the United States to send its military around the world in order to
influence other countries.
B) The trade in military weaponry that has become associated with the United States.
C) The willingness of the United States, throughout its history, to attack hostile nations on a
regular basis.
D) The international arms reduction agreements the United States has negotiated with allies and
adversaries.
E) None of the above.
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42) NATO is an example of a regional organization based on
A) Labor rights.
B) Environmental regulation.
C) Cooperation on military force and mutual defense.
D) Free trade and commerce.
E) Opposition to Nazi Germany.
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43) Within the United Nations, real power is located in
A) The Security Council.
B) The Secretariat.
C) The Council of Ministers.
D) The General Assembly.
E) The Chamber of Deputies.
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44) Which of the following statements about the United States' use of military force is true?
A) The United States has continuously been involved in full-scale wars.
B) The United States has rarely employed military force to influence actions in other countries.
C) The United States has been involved in only a few full-scale wars.
D) All of the above are true.
E) None of the above are true.
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45) Central America and the Caribbean
A) Are areas where the United States has never engaged in military conflict.
B) Have been largely ignored by U.S. foreign policy.
C) Are beyond the U.S.'s sphere of influence.
D) Have historically been central regions for U.S. foreign policy.
E) Have been the recipients of the most U.S. foreign aid.
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46) Which of the following is true about the recent use of American military power?
A) The United States has employed military force to assist in United Nations peacekeeping
missions.
B) The United States has employed military force to oppose ethnic cleansing.
C) The United States has employed military force to aid some countries in the democratic
transfer of power.
D) All of the above are true.
E) None of the above are true.
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47) Economic tools of foreign policy include
A) Trade regulations.
B) Monetary policies.
C) Tariff policies.
D) None of the above.
E) All of the above.
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48) One of the few spots where violence and brutal government force crushed a prodemocracy reform
movement in 1989 and allowed the communist government to endure was in
A) Ho Chi Minh City.
B) East Berlin.
C) Moscow.
D) Prague.
E) Beijing.
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49) George W. Bush's proposal for lowering medical costs by encouraging health savings accounts can
best be described as
A) cheap.
B) popular.
C) egalitarian.
D) market based.
E) socialist.
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50) Medicare is
A) Provided by the states.
B) Entirely voluntary.
C) The name of America's national health insurance program.
D) Part of the Social Security system
E) Entirely compulsory.
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51) Compared to Western European nations, the United States has a ________ infant mortality rate.
A) nearly identical
B) slightly lower
C) significantly lower
D) higher
E) faster growing
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52) The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986 was designed to
A) Make it illegal for emergency rooms to turn away people without treatment.
B) Stem the problem of "patient dumping."
C) Prevent hospitals and emergency rooms from asking patients if they have health insurance.
D) All of the above.
E) Both A and B.
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53) The paradox of American health care is that
A) we have the healthiest population, but spend the smallest share of our national income on
health than other industrialized nations.
B) we spend the greatest share of our national income on health than any other industrialized
nation, but are far from having the healthiest population.
C) we have the healthiest population, and spend the smallest share of our national income on
health than any other industrialized nations.
D) we spend the smallest share of our national income on health than any other industrialized
nation, but are far from having the healthiest population.
E) none of the above.
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54) Under Bill Clinton's proposed Health Security Act, the brunt of the increased health care costs
would have fallen most directly on
A) doctors.
B) employers.
C) those who purchased tobacco, alcohol, and pornography.
D) patients.
E) employees.
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55) Approximately ________ of the entire world's carbon dioxide is produced in the United States.
A) 5 percent
B) 23 percent
C) 40 percent
D) 60 percent
E) 50 percent
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56) The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act is the formal name
of the
A) Superfund.
B) the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act.
C) the endangered species list.
D) the list of animal species that have become extinct.
E) Clean Air Act of 1970
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57) One of the first results of the doctrine of containment put into practice was
A) The Cuban Missile Crisis.
B) The secret bombing of Laos.
C) Summits with Soviet Leaders.
D) The Korean War.
E) The Vietnam War.
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58) The foreign policy doctrine that European nations should stay out of Latin America is known as
A) The Monroe Doctrine
B) The Powell Doctrine
C) The Roosevelt Doctrine
D) The Bush Doctrine
E) The Truman Doctrine
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59) Which of the following is not one of the functions of the United Nations?
A) Educational programs.
B) Programs designed to promote economic development.
C) Peacekeeping operations.
D) Programs designed to spread free trade.
E) Programs designed to promote world health.
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60) The shift in American foreign policy toward the communist world that sought to relax tensions
and provide firm guarantees of mutual security is known as
A) Containment
B) Mutual assured destruction.
C) Détente.
D) Glasnost.
E) Perestroika.
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61) What department manages the Endangered Species program?
A) The Parks Department
B) The Environmental Protection Agency
C) The US Fish and Wildlife Service
D) Congress
E) The Department of Transportation
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62) In 2007, the average family who could afford health insurance was paying approximately
________ per year for it.
A) $25,000
B) $1,000
C) $20,000
D) $5,000
E) $12,000
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63) The doctrine of preemption was used to justify
A) The use of military troops in Somalia.
B) The intervention in the Rwandan genocide.
C) The Vietnam War.
D) The War in Iraq.
E) The Korean War.
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64) Which of the following countries does NOT provide universal health care for its citizens?
A) Germany
B) Canada
C) Great Britain
D) Japan
E) None of the above
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65) What is "soft power"?
A) The ability to persuade other countries to do what the U.S. wants without force or coercion.
B) The ability to project power through threat of military force.
C) The ability to deploy a more mobile, less traditional military force.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.
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