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Chapter 4. Policies of the State: Practice Quiz

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  • 1) Saudi Arabia has a traditional monarchy.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse
  • 2) The governments of developed economic systems make a considerable effort to ensure social welfare.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse
  • 3) The most basic service that most governments are expected to offer their people is _________.

    • aEducation
    • bHealth
    • cInsurance
    • dNone of the above
  • 4) States have been expanding their responsibilities and activities greatly since the early twentieth century.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse
  • 5) To measure how economically well off the average person is, GDP is not divided by the population.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse
  • 6) In a ranking of overall performance put together, the United States ranks thirty-sixth in the world.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse
  • 7) Britain’s social democratic _________ governed for only thirty of the eighty years following the Great Depression.

    • aLabor Party
    • bConservative Party
    • cNational Party
    • dNone of the above
  • 8) Britain did not show great jumps in the government’s role in the economy during both world wars.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse
  • 9) Electoral democracy results in a “bidding up” of the state’s operations.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse
  • 10) Power relationships within the state also help to determine the shape of _________.

    • aPower
    • bChoice
    • cPolicy
    • dNone of the above
  • 11) In 1979, a nonsocialist government replaced the socialists in Sweden.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse
  • 12) _________ makes people more prosperous.

    • aLiberalization
    • bIndustrialization
    • cGlobalization
    • dAll of the above
  • 13) Madagascar is a poor neighboring _________ state that spends just 8 percent of its GDP on social welfare.

    • aAfrican
    • bAsian
    • cAustralian
    • dNorth American
  • 14) The Affordable Care Act is also known as _________.

    • aObama policy
    • bObama health care
    • cObamacare policy
    • dObamacare
  • 15) Cuba and China are not communist states.

    • aTrue
    • bFalse