Which of the following is not identified in the text as one of the reasons that fiction is useful for politics?
A. By viewing events through the eyes of fictional characters, we can more easily set aside our own personal preferences, ideologies, and experiences.
B. By living through the characters in novels, we can get a taste of political situations that we, as individuals, might never be able to experience in the real world.
C. Fiction is more interesting than politics.
D. The use of fiction can support and, in some cases, instigate an active approach to learning.
C. Fiction is more interesting than politics.
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The press secretary heads a large staff that
A. meets with reporters. B. briefs the president on questions he is likely to be asked C. attempts to control the flow of news from cabinet departments to the press D. arranges briefings for out-of-town editors. E. All of these are correct.
The key to analyzing data from a matched-subjects design is to
A) maintain the ordering of data all the way through to the end of the study. B) enter the data in a random order so as not to introduce an order confounding. C) analyze the data in the same way as a one-way ANOVA. D) avoid the use of a repeated-measures ANOVA.
Early debates among members of Washington’s administration and their attempts to rally others to their cause formed the nuclei of America’s first ______.
a. political parties b. interest groups c. divided government d. lobbyists
Congress finds it difficult to make policy that solves national problems because ______.
a. constituents reward them for taking care of their individual interests b. they are in debt to special interests c. government is inefficient d. they are too interested in scoring political points