Format

• 67 questions

• Question types

    - Multiple Choice
    - True False
    - Multiple Answer

• General question distribution

    - These may vary slightly from the actual exam
    - 67 questions
    - 37 Lecture and Extra Credit Exam 1 Questions
    - 30 Book Questions
    - Module 1 to 3 questions: 42 questions
    - Module 4 questions: 25 questions

Lecture Questions

• Topics: Modules 1 to 3

    - Module 1 Lecture: What is government? and Extra Credit Quiz (8 questions)
    - The Texas Executive (4 questions - 4 executive officials I told you to remember)
    - Ethics: Part 1 (4 question) 
    - Congressional Ethics (2 questions)
    - Ethics and the Executive (2 questions)
    - Judicial Ethics (2 questions)
    - Court Cases (4 questions) - questions provided below

• Ethics, Module 1 Lecture Questions and answers will be posted in the review section in Canvas

• Texas Executive questions and Court Cases questions are in these slides without answers

• The Extra Credit Quiz is open for you to review

Lecture Questions

• Topics: Module 4

    - Public Finance (2 questions)
    - Trade-offs in Policy (2 questions)
    - Ethics and the Citizen (5 questions)
    - Ethics and the Citizen: Decisions (2 questions)

• These will be posted separately

Book Questions

• Module 1

    - InQuizitive for We the People, 14th edition: Chapter 12. Congress (3 questions)
  
    - InQuizitive for Governing Texas, 6th edition: Chapter 7: The Legislature (3 questions)

• Module 2

    - InQuizitive for We the People, 14th edition: Chapter 13. The Presidency  (3 questions)   
  
    - InQuizitive for We the People, 14th edition: Chapter 18. Foreign Policy (2 questions)
  
    - InQuizitive for Governing Texas, 6th edition: Chapter 8: The Executive Branch (2 questions)
  
    - InQuizitive for We the People, 14th edition: Chapter 14. The Bureaucracy (2 questions)

Book Questions

• Module 3

    - InQuizitive for We the People, 14th edition:     Chapter 15. The Federal Courts (3 questions)
  
    - InQuizitive for Governing Texas, 6th edition: Chapter 9: The Judiciary (3 questions)

Book Questions: Module 4

• Module 4

    - InQuizitive for We the People, 14th edition: Chapter 16. Economic Policy (3 questions)
  
    - InQuizitive for We the People, 14th edition: Chapter 17. Social Policy (2 questions)
  
    - InQuizitive for Governing Texas, 6th edition: Chapter 10: Local Government (2 questions)
  
    - InQuizitive for Governing Texas, 6th edition: Chapter 11: Public Finance (2 questions)

Court Cases

Look up the answers in the slides, your notes, or the book

• The Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison established what principle?

• In the case McCullouch v. Maryland the Supreme Court held that states could not tax the federal government, including its national bank, because the “power to tax is the power to destroy.” This case focused on what major idea?

Court Cases

• In Dred Scott v. Sanford, Dred Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom in federal court claiming that when his owner took him to a free state he became free. The court denied his claim because:

• In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that states could satisfy the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment by providing __________________________ accommodations for blacks and whites.

Court Cases

• In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court overturned the separate but equal ruling from Plessy v. Ferguson. The court ruled that separate facilities are inherently ____________________.

Court Cases

• In Virginia v. Loving, the Supreme Court held that what is a fundamental right?

• In Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment equal protection clause and due process clause guarantee the right of ____ ____ _____ to _________. (3 words; 1 word)

Court Cases

• In the case Bush v. Gore (2000), the Supreme Court ruled that a partial recount of votes in the Florida election for President violated what clause?

• In the case Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court found that the right of married couples to use contraception (birth control) was protected by a “zone of _________” found in the Bill of Rights though not explicitly stated there.

Court Cases

• The Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that states could not prohibit what during the first trimester of pregnancy, but could regulate it during the second and third trimesters to protect specific state interests?

• In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court:

Court Cases

• In 1998, John Lawrence and Tyron Garner were arrested and convicted of violating Texas’s “Homosexual Conduct” law after Houston Police Department responded to a false report of a disturbance at Lawrence’s apartment. In 2003, the Supreme Court held in Lawrence v. Texas that state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults were:

• The Supreme Court held in ______________ v. Arizona that police must inform suspects of their rights to remain silent and be represented by an attorney before interrogation, a process referred to since as a _________________ warning. (both blanks are the same word)

Court Cases

• In Terry v. Ohio, the Supreme Court held that police stopping someone they reasonably believe to be involved in criminal activity may search the person for weapons. This became the basis for _______________ also known as Terry searches.

Texas Executive Lecture Questions

• Who is the Governor of Texas?
• Who is the Attorney General of Texas?
• Who is the Lieutenant Governor of Texas?
• Who is the Chair of the Texas Railroad Commission?

Authorship and License

Cover image created with Imagen 3.0, part of Google’s Gemini.

Do not submit to Quizlet, Chegg, Coursehero, or other similar commercial websites.

• Author: Tom Hanna

• Website: tomhanna.me

• License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.