Question 1

How is the Speaker of the House of Representatives chosen according to the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

A)   By party line voting in the House
B)   By appointment by the President
C)   By a majority vote of the members of the House of Representatives
D)   By a majority vote of the members of the Congress

Question 2

What, if anything, is the relationship between the institutional and leadership structures of the Congress?

Accepted Answer

The relationship between the institution...

Question 3

Who suggested that the power of lawmaking is supreme?

Accepted Answer

A)   Montesquieu
B)   Locke
C)   Rousseau
D)   Hobbes

Question 4

Party leaders in the Congress have exclusively partisan roles.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The power committees of the Congress are those that _______and ___.

Accepted Answer

A)   set taxing and spending levels
B)   oversee the president's application of military forces abroad
C)   determine when and if substantive financial measures come to the floor
D)   coordinate with the president to develop military policies

Question 6

Which two norms governing chamber and institutional behavior within the Congress work together?

Accepted Answer

A)   Reciprocity and specialization
B)   No two norms work together
C)   Seniority and closed committees
D)   Open committees and conference committees

Question 7

A vote of cloture in both houses of Congress stops debate and moves to a vote ___.

Accepted Answer

A)   on final passage of a proposed bill
B)   to override a presidential veto
C)   Both of the above
D)   None of the above, since both houses of Congress do not have a cloture rule

Question 8

What is the primary difference between authorizing and appropriations committees?

Accepted Answer

A)   Appropriations committees offer their recommendations regarding which policies or measures are most appropriate, while authorizing committees actually decide whether or not to authorize such recommendations
B)   Authorizing committees allocate the money for policies while appropriations committees develop the policies themselves
C)   Appropriations committees allocate the money for policies while authorizing committees develop the policies themselves
D)   None of the above

Question 9

The division of labor amongst committees in the Congress was originally instituted for what purpose?

Accepted Answer

A)   Nothing
B)   Provide access to pressure groups
C)   To distribute the workload of the Congress to stable groups of subject matter experts
D)   To distribute the electoral rewards of the victors in the last congressional election and by implication punish the congressional party losers

Question 10

The longstanding procedural right of Senators to engage in a filibuster has finally been retired as a legitimate procedure in the U.S. Senate.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

When did the House and Senate first develop a fully constituted system of permanent committees?

Accepted Answer

A)   They never did
B)   By the 1820s
C)   By the 1920s
D)   By the 1880s

Question 12

In the 116th Congress (2019-2021), some members of the House of Representatives members identify themselves as Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In comparison to the rest of the country, from what class of society do the members of Congress come?

Accepted Answer

A)   The social, economic, and educated elite
B)   The social, economic, and educated masses
C)   The educated and economic but not social elite
D)   The social elite exclusively

Question 14

The Committee of the Whole is simply the _______and all of its members operating under a set of rules that is less restrictive than the formal rules.

Accepted Answer

A)   House
B)   Senate
C)   Congress
D)   None of the above, since there is no such thing as a "Committee of the Whole"

Question 15

What was central to the development of the committee system in the Congress?

Accepted Answer

A)   The division of labor
B)   Fixed jurisdictions
C)   Seniority, specialization, and reciprocity norms
D)   All of the above

Question 16

S. Senate allows the filibuster to be used for consideration of and debate on proposed ___.

Accepted Answer

A)   legislation only
B)   executive and judicial nominees only
C)   Supreme Court nominees only
D)   None of the above, since the filibuster has been completely banned in all cases

Question 17

Differentiate the House from the Senate in as many nuanced ways as possible.

Accepted Answer

1. Composition: The House of Representat...

Question 18

In 2019 the Supreme Court declared that redistricting was an inherently political exercise in which courts should defer to ___.

Accepted Answer

A)   legislatures
B)   citizens
C)   Both of the above
D)   None of the above, since the court made no such declaration.

Question 19

The Constitution gives only to the _______the power of origination overall revenue bills.

Accepted Answer

A)   House of Representatives
B)   Senate
C)   Both of the above
D)   Neither of the above, since the Constitution makes no such provision

Question 20

Define tenure as it applies to the Congress.

Accepted Answer

A)   Tenure is an award given to members of Congress after extensive and systematic review of their records by peers and other relevant members of the governmental community
B)   Tenure is the measure of length of service, usually defined in years that members of Congress serve in the institution of the Congress itself
C)   Tenure is the measure of length of service, usually defined in years that members of Congress serve in their home districts doing constituency service
D)   Tenure is the measure of length of service, usually defined in years that members of Congress serve in the legislative branches across all levels of government in the federal system

Exam 9: Congress: Partisanship, Polarization, and Gridlock

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Differentiate the House from the Senate in as many nuanced ways as possible.

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The Committee of the Whole is simply the _______and all of its members operating under a set of rules that is less restrictive than the formal rules.

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The division of labor amongst committees in the Congress was originally instituted for what purpose?

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