When it comes to confirming judicial nominees

1) When it comes to confirming judicial nominees, the president has to deal with which chamber
of Congress?
A) House of Representatives
B) Senate
C) A and B
D) None of the above
2) Over the last fifty years, the length of the judicial nomination process has __.
A) Decreased
B) Increased
C) Stayed the same
D) None of the above
3) Over the last fifty years, the overall rejection rate of judicial nominations has __.
A) Decreased
B) Increased
C) Stayed the same
D) None of the above
4) The rejection rates of appellate court nominations __.
A) Are not spread evenly across the appellate courts.
B) Are steady.
C) Have all decreased
D) All of the above.
5) “Senatorial courtesy” and “blue slips” are generally used for which level of the federal courts?
A) Supreme Court
B) The People’s Court
C) District courts
D) None of the above
6) Identify what is causing the increase in delays and higher rates of rejecting judicial
nominations.
A) Polarization
B) Divided government
C) Presidential elections
D) All of the above 7) Between 1961 and 2008, the Senate confirmed 84 percent of appellate court nominees during
periods of __ but only 66 percent during periods of __.
A) unified government; divided government
B) unified government; no government
C) divided government; unified government
1 D) ignorance; bliss
8) True or False: “Vacancy hoarding” – such as when Democrats confirmed only 10 of President
Bush’s 24 appellate court nominees in the Fall of 2008 or Republicans refusing to hold hearings
for President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland – is likely to occur during
presidential elections.
A) True
B) False
9) Modern US federal courts, especially compared to the 19th century courts, are more likely to
empower which branch of government on issues of foreign policy, war powers, and
administrative powers.
A) Legislative Branch
B) Executive Branch
C) Olive Branch
D) None of the above.
10) Crenson and Ginsberg argue that the federal courts empower the presidency at the expense of
Congress because__.
A) The federal courts do not empower the presidency.
B) Today’s judges have extensive legislative experience.
C) Today’s judges are recruited primarily from executive and judicial positions, not from
legislatures.
D) A and B
11) True or False: The relationship between presidents and the press is one of cooperation and
conflict.
A) True
B) False
12) For political news, identify the branch of government that the media is more likely to use as
a source.
A) Legislative
B) Executive
C) Judicial
D) The three branches are used equally as sources. 13) Identify information biases of the news media.
A) Personalization
B) Dullness
C) Dramatization
D) A and C
2 14) In the golden age of presidential news, presidents were more likely to __.
A) Go public
B) Go long
C) Go local
D) B and C
15) In the post-golden age of presidential news, presidents are more likely to __.
A) Go public
B) Go away
C) Go local
D) None of the above
16) The two television programs the Obama 2012 reelection team aired political advertisements
at a bargain rate while targeting swing voters were:
A) Mad Men and Breaking Bad
B) Judge Joe Brown and The Insider
C) Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Chelsea Lately
D) Gilmore Girls and X Games
17) Four patterns of social media campaigning include:
A) Knocking on doors, creating a geocities website, microtargeting, Twitter
B) Twitter, personalization, Obamacare, Facebook
C) Creating a website, interactivity, Twitter, sustained engagement
D) Microtargeting, personalization, interactivity, sustained engagement
18) How has the news media incentivized the process for more negative political advertising?
A) Positive ads generate more news coverage compared to negative ads.
B) The media has not incentivized the process for more negative ads.
C) Negative ads generate more news coverage compared to positive ads.
D) None of the above.
19) According to the US Constitution, which branch (or branches) of government have the power
to declare war?
A) Judicial Branch and Executive Branch
B) Executive Branch and Legislative Branch
C) Legislative Branch
D) None of the above 20) Identify two theories of presidential power related to foreign policy.
A) Theories of presidential power do not exist.
B) Stewardship and prerogative
C) Persuasion and non-persuasion
D) All of the above
3 21) True or False: The Constitution grants the president more foreign policy powers and
responsibilities than Congress.
A) True
B) False
22) Presidential war powers include the following:
A) The president’s power of war is purely defensive and strictly limited to attacks against
the United States.
B) Declaring war and sole responsibility for national security and war.
C) Finance and regulate the military.
D) All of the above.
23) True or False: According to the Constitution, the majority of the president’s foreign policy
powers and obligations are shared with at least with one chamber of Congress.
A) True
B) False
24) The trajectory of many controversial policies related to post-9/11 US foreign policy and
national security __.
A) has seen more continuity than change between the Bush and Obama administrations.
B) has largely been influenced by President Franklin Roosevelt.
C) None of the above
D) A and B
25) Why would the Obama administration favor drone warfare as a counterterrorism strategy?
A) It has decimated the al-Qaeda associated with 9/11.
B) It is unpopular with a majority of the American public.
C) It is considered to be a more humane form of mass violence.
D) A and C 4