GOVERNMENT MODULE 12 • QUIZ 1 GRADE:

Name: __________________________________________________________________ Period:

___________ Date: _______/_______/_______

1. Who did George Washington hire as

Department heads in 1789?
7. The New Deal:
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. Alexander Hamilton a. was implemented by FDR
c. Henry Knox b. created many new agencies and social programs
d. All of the above. c. was built around the ideas of recover, relief, and reform
d. All of the choices are correct
2. The Constitution speci es the role, size, and
scope of federal departments. 8. Which is not a part of the Iron Triangle of policy
making?
a. True
b. False a. Interest groups
b. The bureaucracy
3. The spoils system was: c. Congress
a. replaced by a merit based civil service following the d. The judiciary
assassination of President Gar eld.
9. Parkinson’s law suggests that:
b. a form of patronage that rewarded political support with
appointments a. the federal government is more ef cient than state
c. undone by the Pendleton Act of 1883 governments.
d. All choices are correct. b. bureaucracies shrink over time through legislative
mandates.
4. Max Weber was: c. work expands to ll the time available for its
a. the inventor of the printing press used to print the completion.
Federal Register. d. state governments manage better than the federal
b. a German sociologist who described how government
bureaucracies function. 10. America’s bureaucracy is often called the
c. the originator of the spoils system. “fourth branch of government.”
d. A French theorist who fought against bureaucracy in
France. a. True
b. False
5. Which of the following is not a distinct feature
of the American bureaucracy?
a. State bureaucracies that share functions and
responsibilities with federal counterparts
b. Rapid expansion in the twentieth century
c. Departments that engage in economic production
d. Division at the federal level between the legislative and
executive branches

6. Who published The Study of Administration in

1887?
a. Grover Cleveland
b. Woodrow Wilson
c. Karl Marx
d. Max Weber

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