Question  1The Department of Defense, the National Security Council, and the Central Intelligence Agency arose as a result of conclusions drawn by policy makers in the aftermath of:World War IIthe Korean WarStalin’s deaththe East Berlin uprising of 1953Question 2 In the United States, there are primarily two levels of law: 1) the U.S. Constitution and 2):laws enacted by elected legislatorspresidential recess decreesSupreme Court rulingslocal initiatives carried by a majority voteQuestion 3The military academies at West Point and Annapolis require candidates to obtain a nomination for admission from what U.S. government official?PresidentMember of the Chief of Staff’s officeFederal district court or circuit court judgeCongressional representativeQuestion 4During the Clinton administration, the Congressional Black Caucus received credit for which of the following foreign policy actions?Establishing in New York City the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaBlocking the President’s initiative to exclude Haiti from the North American Free Trade AgreementPressuring the President to use force to restore the elected president of HaitiIncreasing the priority assigned by the U.S. military to missions other than warQuestion 5To justify military action without congressional approval, Presidents Harry S. Truman, George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton relied on a resolution from which of the following organisations?Organisation of American StatesNorth Atlantic Treaty OrganisationUnited Nations Security CouncilEuropean UnionQuestion 6The aphorism that the United States cannot have 535 Secretaries of State refers to the idea that Congress should defer to the President on foreign policy because it:has too great a diversity of viewsis too isolationistacts too slowlyis too committed to domestic issuesQuestion 7The U.S. Constitution forbids national and state governments from enacting which of the following criminal statutes because it is retroactive and would work to the disadvantage of an individual?Bills of attainderEx post facto lawsHabeas corpusExclusionary rule lawsQuestion 88. In the early 20th century, reformers committed to using journalism to expose corporate and urban corruption were commonly known as:monkeywrenchersmuckrakersbossesboodlersQuestion 9The Cabinet-level agency with primary responsibility for managing the federal resources of the United States, including national parks and American Indian lands, is the Department of:CommerceHomeland Securitythe InteriorAgricultureQuestion 1010. The War Powers Resolution places which of the following time limits on the U.S. President’s commitment of troops to hostilities without congressional authorisation?Fourteen daysSixty daysSix monthsOne yearQuestion 11The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was established in 1975 for the purpose of:stabilising oil prices for U.S. consumersproviding emergency supplies in the event of disruptionproviding storage in the event of domestic overproductioncreating an energy self-sufficient nationQuestion 12The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Roe v Wade was celebrated as a victory mostly for:the women’s movementsingle parentsthe Catholic Churchthe civil rights movementQuestion 13In an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, one of the grievances against the King of England was his responsibility for the horrors of the slave trade. Which of the following reasons best explains why the authors and signers omitted this grievance in the final draft of the Declaration?Slavery was not important enough to the colonies’ economy to emphasise the slave tradeSlavery was not a principal grievance because it was gradually ending alreadyOpposing the slave trade would prevent France from coming to the colonies’ aid in a warThe colonies could not all agree to sign if the phrase about slavery remained in the documentQuestion 14The most enduring legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal is that the policies:ended unemployment and pulled the United States out of a depressionstrengthened private organisations that provide relief to those in needexpanded the role of the federal government through the creation of new government agenciesadvanced the cause of civil rights by ending segregation in the U.S. armed forcesQuestion 15Which U.S. President made a surprise visit to Communist China in 1972, which prepared the way for establishing formal diplomatic relations?Gerald FordJimmy CarterRichard NixonRonald ReaganQuestion 16Which doctor’s influential book changed child-rearing practices after World War II?Dr Alfred KinseyDr Jonas SalkDr Benjamin SpockDr Carl Sagan Question 17Known for such novels as This Side Of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, which American author coined the phrase ‘the jazz age’ to describe the 1920s?Willa CatherRobert Penn WarrenWilliam SaroyanF. Scott FitzgeraldQuestion 18Which country is the world’s largest illegal drug marketplace in terms of revenue?HollandThe United StatesChinaThe United KingdomQuestion 19In response to the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Eastern European states organised a formal military alliance known as the:Eastern European Treaty OrganisationCouncil for Mutual AssistanceWarsaw PactCominternQuestion 20 ‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’ is a passage from:Common Sense by Thomas PaineThe Declaration Of Independence by Thomas JeffersonThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsDeclaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen by Olympe de GougesQuestion 21The lesson most U.S. policy makers took from Neville Chamberlain’s meeting with Hitler at Munich was that:Great Britain was an unreliable allyVichy France was an unreliable allyappeasement of an aggressor leads to more aggressioninternational institutions like the United Nations were essential to preserve the peaceQuestion 22In 1998, a peace agreement resolved a long-standing border dispute between Ecuador and which of the following countries?Question 23The largest numbers of Palestinian refugees reside in which of the following countries?Question 24The 1994 genocide of Tutsis by Hutus occurred in what country?Question 25 If consumers believe that the supply of bread will decrease in the next few months, the most likely effect will be:an increase in demand, resulting in a higher price for breada decrease in demand, resulting in a lower price for breadan increase in supply, resulting in a lower price for breada decrease in supply, resulting in a higher price for breadSource: The US Department of State Note: This is only the first 25 questions in the test, which also has other sections, including an essay section which is not available to practise on due to the high cost of marking them.