Choose the correct answer for each question.

1. The framers of the United States Constitution made no provision in the governmental structure for the functioning of political parties because they believed that ...? (You may collect information here)

   1.   ?    ... parties were a source of corruption and they influence people badly!
      
   2.   ?    ... parties are unnecessary!
      
   3.   ?    ... parties would come into being on their own!
   4.   ?    ... different parties only would have the same ideologies.

2. How many major parties do exist in the United States?

   1.   ?    3
      
   2.   ?    2
      
   3.   ?    4
   4.   ?    5

3. What are the names of these 2 parties?

   1.   ?    Democratic-Republican Party and Federalist Party
   2.   ?    Liberals and Conservatives
   3.   ?    Democrats and Republicans
      
   4.   ?    National Republicans and Democratic Republicans
      

4. Which of the parties is considered to be liberal?

   1.   ?    Democratic Party
      
   2.   ?    Republican Party
   3.   ?    None of them
   4.   ?    Both
      

5. Who has established the New Republican Party?

   1.   ?    Alexander Hamilton
   2.   ?    Thomas Jefferson
   3.   ?    Abraham Lincoln
      
   4.   ?    Andrew Jackson
      

6. Which Party members called their own Party the "Whig Party"?

   1.   ?    Federalist Party
   2.   ?    Socialist Labor Party
   3.   ?    Democratic Party
   4.   ?    National Republicans
      
      

7. History question: For which time period did the Democratic-Republican Party hold power?

   1.   ?    5 years
   2.   ?    12 years
   3.   ?    17 years
   4.   ?    28 years

8. How many of the 434 seats of the U.S. House belong to the Democrats?

   1.   ?    211
   2.   ?    222
      
   3.   ?    205
      
   4.   ?    230
      

9. How many percent of Americans are strong Democrats (according to an survey of the American National Election Study)?

   1.   ?    10 %
      
      
   2.   ?    19 %
   3.   ?    35 %
      
   4.   ?    4 %
      

10. Who is the present candidate of the Democrats for the presidential election in 2004?

    1.   ?    Calvin Coolidge
       
    2.   ?    George W. Bush
       
    3.   ?    Woodrow Wilson
       
    4.   ?    John Kerry
       

11. Which of the following presidents was a member of the Republican Party?

    1.   ?    Dwight David Eisenhower
       
    2.   ?    William Jefferson Clinton
       
    3.   ?    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
       
    4.   ?    Richard Milhous Nixon