intro to government assignment bureaucracy chapter 15 of american government

Question 1

A bureaucracy is an administrative group of ______ officials charged with carrying out functions connected to a series of policies and programs.

	international
	senior

	nonelected
	elected

Question 2

____ are the individuals who work in the bureaucracy.

	Dignitaries
	Civil servants

	Functionaries
	Paper pushers

Core engineers

Question 3

All of the following is true about the bureaucracy except

	the word “bureaucracy” does not appear in the text of the Constitution
	the Founders seemed to have anticipated the bureaucracy through such constitutional sections as Article II, Section 2

	other countries’ governing documents have sections dedicated to the scope and size of the bureuacracy
	Article VI of the Constitution provides for a federal bureaucracy

Question 4

Washington’s tenure as president saw the creation of all of the following departments except

	War
	Agriculture

	State
	Treasury

Question 5

These two developments led to the growth of the bureaucracy. They were

	the spoils system and industrialization
	the establishment of the public education system and the Civil War

	modernization of agriculture and the establishment of the public education system
	industrialization and modernization of agriculture

Question 6

The ____ of 1883 effectively ended the spoils system, ensuring that the federal government’s selection, retention, and promotion practices were based on open, competitive examinations in a merit system.

	Anti-Patronage Law
	Anti-Trust Law

	Sherman Act
	Civil Service Reform Act

Roosevelt clause

Question 7

The person who is often considered the father of U.S. public administration was

	Theodore Roosevelt
	Howard Taft

	Franklin Roosevelt
	Benjamin Harrison

Woodrow Wilson

Question 8

All of the following marked great bureaucratic growth in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries except

	the Interstate Commerce Commission
	the Civil Rights Commission

	the Federal Reserve Board
	the Federal Power Commission

the Federal Trade Commission

Question 9

In the 1930s, the federal bureaucracy grew with the addition of all of the following except

	the Medicare Commission
	the Social Security Administration

	the National Labor Relations Board
	the Securities and Exchange Commission

	the Civil Aeronautics Board
	the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question 10

By 1940, approximately ____ U.S. workers were employed in the federal bureaucracy.

	600,000
	550,000

	650,000
	1,000,000

700,000

Question 11

_____ said that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

	Ronald Reagan
	Richard Nixon

	Dwight Eisenhower
	Herbert Hoover

George H.W. Bush

Question 12

The ____ Act’s main provision prohibited bureaucrats from actively engaging in political campaigns and from using their federal authority via bureaucratic rank to influence the outcomes of nominations and elections.

	Hatch
	Lloyd-La Follette

	Terry
	McCain-Feingold

Question 13

Today, the majority of all federal government jobs are NOT filled through mandatory testing.

	True
	False

Question 14

According to Figure 15.8, civil servants’ salaries can range from

	$20,623 to $200,020
	$22,941 to $113,444

	$18,343 to $133,444
	$15,420 to $250,431

Question 15

According to Max Weber, the ideal type of bureaucracy was one in which agencies are all of the following except

	run by the two major parties
	hierarchically organized

	apolitical
	governed by formal procedures

Question 16

The newest cabinet department is

	Homeland Security
	Education

	Housing and Urban Development
	Veterans Affairs

Question 17

Some prominent independent agencies include all of the following except

	the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
	the U.S. Postal Service

	the Central Intelligence Agency
	the Environmental Protection Agency

Question 18

Two examples of government corporations are

	the United Parcel Service and Fed Ex
	Greyhound and the United Parcel Service

	Amtrak and Greyhound
	the U.S. Postal Service and Amtrak

Question 19

While citizens may frequently criticize ____, these devices are really meant to ensure the bureaucracies function as intended.

	black tape
	stalemating

	boggles
	red tape

Question 20

Congress’s most powerful oversight tool of the federal bureaucracy is the

	Bureaucratic Accountability Office
	Government Sunshine Office

	Government Accountability Office
	Bureaucratic Sunshine Office

Question 21

The Freedom of Information Act of 1966 emerged during the ______ administration and provides journalists and the general public the right to request records from various federal agencies.

	Richard Nixon
	Andrew Johnson

	Franklin Roosevelt
	Theodore Roosevelt

Lyndon Johnson

Question 22

In fiscal year 2015, the government received 713,168 Freedom of Information Act requests, with the following three departments accounting for more than half of those requests.

	Justice, Education, and State
	Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice

	Homeland Security, Justice, and Education
	State, Veterans Affairs, Education

Question 23

When those in government speak of privatization, they are often refer to all of the following except

	collaborating with a private entity to finance a government program
	supplying government grants to private organizations to administer government programs

	fully divesting the government of a function and directly giving it to the private sector
	abolishing all government functions at both the state and national levels, except for policing and national security

	using contractors to supply goods and/or services
	distributing government vouchers with which citizens can purchase formerly government-controlled services on the private market

Question 24

A ____ is a person who publicizes misdeeds committed within a bureaucracy or other organization.

	whistleblower
	sunshiner

	tattletale
	snitch

Question 25

When bureaucrats encounter grey areas, many follow the federal _____ to propose a solution, that is, detailing how particular new federal policies, regulations, and /or programs will be implemented in agencies.

	common sense rule making process
	negotiated rule making process

	sunshine rule making process
	notice-and-comment rule making process

 

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