The S.P.C.A. is an internationally renowned organization whose primary function is the welfare of animals. What does S.P.C.A. stand for?

A) Society for the Propagation of Charity to Animals    B) Society for the Promotion of Charitable Acts           C) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals      D) Society for the Promotion of Cicilizing Animals        E) Society for the Prevention of Criminal Acts

In international trade, the concept that each nation should specialize in producing those exports that it is most qualified to do so from a cost-efficient basis is known as the:

A) Malthusian Law B) Law of Comparitive Advantage    C) Free Trade Ideal, or Liberal Trading Order D) Law of Supply and Demand (Global Level) E) Law of Voluntary Export Restraints

The practice that prevents congressional committees from interrogating executive officials without the express consent of the president is called:

A) Executive privilege B) Executive order C) Executive agreement D) Executive authority E) Extraterritoriality

The type of political system whereby political power is divided or shared between a central government and the states or other local units is termed:

A)unitary B) a confederation C) federal D) a commonwealth E) socialist

No one can be compelled to be a witness agaisnt himself or herself according to the U.S Constitution. The more popular statement-"I refuse to answer on the grounds that my answer my tend to incriminate me"-is drawn directly from which constitutional amendment? 

A) 1st B) 5th C) 8th D)14th E) 19th

The famous 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade dealt with what issue?

A) Segregation in the public schools B) A woman's right to an abortion C) Unreasonable searches and seizures D) Prayer in the public schools E) The consitutionality of the death penalty

The Communist Control Act of 1954:

A) prevented communists from running for the presidency

B) barred communists from leaving the continental United States

C) banned communist party from the U.S. political system

D) made it a crime for any American to join the communist party

E) exempted the Communist Party from the rights accorded to others legally constituted bodies or political parties

The Monroe Doctrine, enunciated by President James Monroe (1758-1831) , was primarily the work of his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams, and contained elemts contributed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Which one of the following can be best described as coming to the Monroe Doctrine?

A) The Western Hemishpere was no longer open for European colonization, and the United States would regard any European overture as a threat

B) The United States had the right to intervene in any country threatened by communism

CThe colonization of Latin America was the exclusive preserve of the United States

D) U.S. exports were to be banned from communist countries

E) If one country in Asia fell into the hands of communists, all the other would necessarily follow suit

The American army general who pledged that he would return to the Philippines after abandoning those islands to the invading Japanese in December 1941 was:

A) Dwight D. Eisenhower

B) George S. Patton

C) Omar Bradley

D) Mark Clark

E) Douglas MacArthur

According the Karl Marx, one of the founders of communism, working-class control over society is called:

A) survival of the fittest

B) dictatorship of the proletariat

C) from each according to his means, and to each according to his needs

D) the liberation of mankind

E) the greatest happiness of the greatest number

Richard M. Nixon resigned from office in 1974 before being impeached by the House of Representatives. The only American president actually to be impeached by the House and then to stand trial in the U.S. Senate was:

A) Harry S. Turman

B) James K. Polk

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) Woodrow Wilson

E) Andrew Johnson