Question 1

All of the following aspects of Congress affect the legislative process EXCEPT

Options :

A : parties

B : committees

C : hours

D : rules

E : staff

Answer: C

Question 2

The figure above best supports which of the following sentences?

Options :

A : Defense spending accounted for the most of the increases in federal spending from 1970 to 2000.

B : Net interest payments fell faster than aid to state and local governments during the period from 1970 to 2000

C : By the year 2000, aid to state and local governments and net interest payments exceeded payments to individuals

D : Net interest payments were the second largest component of federal spending in 1970

E : In the 1990s, the greatest growth in federal spending occurred in payments to individuals.

Answer: A

Question 3

The development of enslaved Africans as the chief labor supply after Bacon’s Rebellion occurred because of

Options :

A : greater availability of slaves

B : the inability to find Europeans willing to be indentured servants

C : Indian resistance to working as laborers

D : the labor-intense nature of tobacco agriculture

E : the growing number of white landless and discontented former servants

Answer: A

Question 4

The deadweight loss associated with a monopolistically competitive market is a result of

Options :

A : operating in a constant cost industry

B : advertising costs.

C : pricing below marginal cost in order to increase market share.

D : pricing above marginal cost.

E : pricing below average total cost.

Answer: D

Question 5

According to Piagetian theory, which of the following concepts is LEAST related to the other four?

Options :

A : Adaptation

B : Assimilation

C : Accommodation

D : Schema

E : Disequilibrium

Answer: D