Part II: Multiple Choice (One point each)

1. According to the institutional approach, which of the following institutions or frameworks affect party development?

a) responsible government

b) the electoral system

c) constitutional conventions

d) constitutional law

e) all of the above *

2. "Sober Second Thought" refers to

a) Royal Assent

b) the senate's review of legislation *

c) judicial review

d) provincial-legislative review

e) the report stage

3. The Speech from the Throne is delivered by

a) the Queen

b) the speaker

c) alternating ministers

d) the Prime Minister

e) the Governor General *

4. The responsibility of deciding when an election may be called falls to the:

a) Prime Minister's Office

b) Executive

c) Prime Minster *

d) inner cabinet

e) Chief Electoral Officer

5. The method used in federal and provincial elections in Canada is best described as:

a) ordinal choice

b) simple preference *

c) run-off

d) differential rationality

e) party list

6. "First past the post" is the same as

a) proportional representation

b) transferable voting systems

c) single member proportional system

d) plurality voting systems *

e) local-provincial integration system

7. Proportional Representation is associated with

a) wasted ballots

b) the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act

c) provincial elections

d) majority governments

e) none of the above *

8. Controversy over the single-member plurality system has tended to focus on which of the following factors?

1) the tendency to translate imperfectly the votes cast for a party into the share of seats it wins *

2) the tendency to produce minority governments

3) the tendency to promote single issue parties

4) the absence of a real link between MP's and constituents

5) the tendency to produce "wasted ballots"

a) 1 and 2

b) 1 and 5 *

c) 3 and 4

d) 2, 3, and 4

e) none of the above

9. According to The Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (1964), the deviation limit for federal constituencies is:

a) 5%

b) 10%

c) 15%

d) 25%

e) 0%

10. The courts have become more active in electoral boundary disputes because of the rights guaranteed in the Charter under sections:

a) 10 and 11

b) 10 and 33

c) 3 and 15 *

d) 1 and 2

e) none of the above

11. In Canada, "durable partisans" comprise about

a) one quarter of the electorate

b) one third of the electorate *

c) one half of the electorate

d) two thirds of the electorate

e) three quarters of the electorate

12. The five long-term components of Canada's party system do not include

a) Quebec nationalists

b) right-wing western populists

c) the Liberal Party

d) the Reform Party *

e) a social democratic party

13. A cadre party is

a) centred in the legislature *

b) the extra-parliamentary wing of a party

c) a mass party

d) a party with more seats in the Senate than the House of Commons

e) none of the above

14. Which of the following are brokerage parties?

a) Liberals and PC's *

b) Liberals and NDP

c) the Marijuana Party and the Green Party

d) BQ and the Canadian Alliance

e) PC's and NDP

15. The party most disadvantaged by the electoral system in the 1993 election was the:

a) Progressive Conservative Party *

b) Bloc Quebeqois

c) Reform Party

d) Liberal Party

e) Cape Breton Liberation Front (CBLF)

16. The first federal party to choose its leader in a leadership convention is was the _________

in_________.

a) Conservatives, 1867

b) Alliance, 2000

c) Conservatives, 1927

d) CCF, 1933

e) Liberals, 1919 *

17.One of the common results of a proportional representation voting system is :

a) minority governments elected with a majority of votes

b) majority governments elected with a minority of votes

c) coalition governments	*

d) wasted votes

e) all of the above

18. The "simple preference" electoral ballot allows the voter to

a) rank candidates in order of preference

b) chose only one of several candidates *

c) choose from a party list

d) transfer votes

e) none of the above

19. The Senate

a) has legislative power exactly equal to that of the Commons

b) cannot veto bills that have passed the House of Commons

c) is non-partisan

d) all of the above

e) none of the above *

20. Which of the following is NOT a factor in Cabinet appointments?

a) regionalism

b) gender

c) policy expertise *

d) language

e) ethnicity

21. What does "fragment theory" claim?

a) Political parties develop according to a country's political culture *

b) Party systems fragment when class divisions are deep

c) Party systems fragment when class divisions are weak

d) Political culture has little to do with the development of political party systems

e) none of the above

22. The Canadian parliament consists of

a) the Governor General, the House of Commons (including the cabinet) and the Senate *

b) the Senate, the House of Commons (including the cabinet), and the Chiefs of Staff

c) the House of Commons and the Senate

d) the House of Commons excluding the Cabinet

e) the Governor General, the House of Commons (excluding the Cabinet) and the Senate

23. The "senatorial floor rule" states:

a) no province can lose seats in the House of Commons

b) no province can have fewer MP's than Senators *

c) the Governor General cannot enter the Senate Chamber

d) legislation must pass in the senate before it has the force of law

e) that deceased senators must vacate their senate seats at earliest convenience

24.A brokerage party

a) is flexible in its policy positions

b) attempts to represent the represent the dominant ideology

c) strives to appear national in scope

d) all of the above *

e) none of the above

25. The first period of party politics in Canada (1867-1917)

a) was driven primarily by influence from the United States

b) was driven primarily by class divisions

c) was driven primarily by brokerage politics

d) was driven primarily by patronage *

e) was driven primarily by post-materialist values

26. The "Grandfather Clause" guarantees

a) No province can lose seats in the House of Commons *

b) No province can have fewer MP's than senators

c) The federal government can infringe on provincial jurisdiction during economic crises

d) The speaker of the house in non-partisan

e) The deviation in constituencies in the territories can exceed the standard

27. The Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (1964)

a) Guarantees precise equal representation by population

b) took the right to draw electoral boundaries away from Parliament *

c) gave the right to draw electoral boundaries to a new, multi-partisan body

d) all of the above

e) none of the above

28. In Canada, before party leaders were chosen by conventions, they were chosen by the

a) House of Commons

b) out-going leader

c) party caucus *

d) senate

e) none of the above

29. The third period in the history of federal Canadian political parties (1963-1988) is remarkable because:

a) of the institutionalization of regional parties

b) parties were forced to adopt to a new electoral system

c) of the virtual absence of regional parties *

d) of the identification (by political parties) of class as the primary societal cleavage

e) parties garnered support primarily by using patronage

30. Which traditional voting pattern was upset in the 1984 Canadian federal election?

a) Class was a major determinant in voting behaviour

b) The Reform Party took votes from the PC Party in Alberta

c) Western Canadians preferred the Liberal Party to the Conservative Party

d) French Canadians preferred the PC Party to the Liberal Party *

e) all of the above

31. The New Democratic Party was formed in _________ from the _____________.

a) 1961, United Farmers Party

b) 1961, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation *

c) 1933, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation

d) 1933, United Farmers Party

e) 1933, Progressive Party

32. In the appointment of the Prime Minister, the Governor General is obliged to take the advice of

a) the retiring Prime Minister

b) the executive

c) the Cabinet

d) the Queen

e) none of the above *

33. Which of the following statements are false? Members of the federal cabinet:

a) are selected by the Prime Minister

b) are appointed by the Governor General

c) must hold a seat in the House of Commons*

d) are responsible for a portfolio

e) none of the above (all of the above statements are true)

34. Which of the following statements about party discipline in Canada is false?

a) Party discipline strengthens cabinet

b) Party discipline is enforced partly by the promise of patronage

c) Party discipline is weaker in Britain

d) Party discipline allows the government to pass legislation fairly easily

e) none of the above (all of the above statements are true) *

35. A mass party:

1) is financed primarily by its membership

2) is unconcerned with the size of its membership

3) is financed primarily by corporate donations

4) gives party members a role in policy development

5) gauges support (party) by the size of its membership

a) 3 only

b) 2, 3 and 4

c) 2 and 3

d) 5 only

e) 1, 4, and 5 *

36. Which of the following is NOT a feature of responsible government?

a) confidence votes

b) Ministers are responsible for the actions of their subordinates

c) The cabinet answers to the legislature

d) The cabinet committee system *

e) None of the above (they are all features of responsible government)

37. "Formal Executive" refers to:

a) the Cabinet

b) the Governor General *

c) both the Governor General and the Cabinet

d) the Governor General, the House of Commons (including the Cabinet), and the Senate

e) the Governor General, the Cabinet, and the Senate

38. Which body or position does the Constitution Act, 1867 create to advise the Governor General?

a) the Senate

b) the position of the Prime Minister

c) the position of the Lieutenant General

d) the Privy Council*

e) the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

39. Which of the following is not a power of the Prime Minister?

a) Advising the Governor General in the appointment of senators

b) Chairing Cabinet

c) Advising the Governor General in the appointment of Supreme Court Justices

d) Advising the Governor General on the dissolution of Parliament

e) Advising the Governor General on the drawing of electoral boundaries *

40. The Prime Minister derives most of his powers from

a) the Constitution Act 1867

b) the Constitution Act 1982

c) constitutional conventions *

d) the Royal Proclamation

e) intrastate federalism

41. Which of the following is not a formal power of the Governor-General

a) appointing the Prime Minister

b) dissolution

c) representing the Queen

d) appointing the official opposition *

e) dismissing a Prime Minister that has lost confidence

42. Cabinet solidarity in the parliamentary tradition requires:

a) MPs in the party uphold cabinet decisions in their votes, even when they disagree *

b) during question period, all cabinet ministers be present to defend the government's record

c) cabinet ministers have a seat in the House of Commons

d) none of the above

e) all of the above

43. In the King-Byng affair of 1926, which reserve (or prerogative) power did the Governor General exercise in his own judgement against the advice of the PM?

a) to sign an order-in-council

b) to give royal assent to legislation

c) to appoint a cabinet minister

d) all of the above

e) none of the above *

44. In Canada, the senate is also known as the

a) Executive

b) lower chamber

c) ad hoc committee

d) House of Lords

e) none of the above *

45. The federal cabinet is a committee of the

a) Privy Council of Canada *

b) The House of Commons of Canada

c) Parliament of Canada

d) The Privy Council of Great Britain

e) none of the above

46. Which of the following most accurately describes the party composition of Parliamentary committees

a) a majority of opposition members

b) and equal number of Government and Opposition members

c) a majority of Government members *

d) no fixed rule; it depends on how many MPs want to sit on a particular committee

47. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE about parliamentary sessions?

a) sessions divide up parliament

b) the end of the every third session is followed by an election *

c) sessions begin with a Speech from the Throne

d) bills must be passed during the session they are introduced

e) none of the above (all of the above statements are true)

48. A bill becomes an Act of Parliament upon:

a) committee approval

b) third reading

c) royal assent	*

d) senate approval

e) judicial review

49. Representation in the Senate was/is meant to reflect the:

a) regionalist vision *

b) equal provinces vision

c) two nations vision

d) Guevara Formula

e) categorical imperative

50. The region most over-represented in the Senate (based on rep-by-pop) is:

a) Atlantic Canada *

b) Quebec

c) Ontario

d) the West