Chapter 5 Test Questions

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. This plays a significant role in death penalty decisions and policy-making:

Legislator's personal beliefs correct incorrect

Judge's personal beliefs correct incorrect

Public opinion correct incorrect

Justice's personal beliefs correct incorrect

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. This is the only president in recent history who has not nominated at least one Supreme Court Justice during his term:

Ronald Reagan correct incorrect

George W. Bush correct incorrect

Richard Nixon correct incorrect

Jimmy Carter correct incorrect

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. This assumes that judicial decisions are the primary result of individual ideological attitudes:

Political adjustment hypothesis correct incorrect

Attitudinal model correct incorrect

Expression of public opinion correct incorrect

Social solidarity correct incorrect

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. This assumes that judges are willing to step outside of their belief systems in order for the Court to maintain a positive public image:

Political adjustment hypothesis correct incorrect

Attitudinal model correct incorrect

Expression of public opinion correct incorrect

Social solidarity correct incorrect

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. Which president's administration was the first to ask Congress to abolish the death penalty?

President Reagan's administration correct incorrect

President Bush's administration correct incorrect

President Johnson's administration correct incorrect

President Clinton's administration correct incorrect

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. According to the Gallup poll, these decades marked the highest level of public support for capital punishment:

1950s-1960s correct incorrect

1960s-1970s correct incorrect

1970s-1980s correct incorrect

1980s-1990s correct incorrect

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. When the question in the Gallup poll was changed from the traditional either-or question of supporting the death penalty to choosing between the death penalty or life without the possibility of parole:

There was no difference in public support correct incorrect

The gap grew smaller between those for the death penalty and those against it correct incorrect

The gap grew larger between those for the death penalty and those against it correct incorrect

The number of undecided votes grew larger than those against the death penalty correct incorrect

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. One of Marshall's Hypotheses is:

People educated about the death penalty would not support it correct incorrect

People educated about the death penalty would still support it correct incorrect

Education does not play a part at all in people's decisions to support the death penalty correct incorrect

None of the above correct incorrect

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. Another one of Marshall's Hypothesis is:

If a person's underlying belief is rehabilitative in nature, then proper education would do little to change his/her position correct incorrect

If a person's underlying belief is in deterrence, then proper education would do little to change his/her position correct incorrect

If a person's underlying belief in the death penalty is retributive in nature, then proper education would do little to change his/her position correct incorrect

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. The United States is the only developed western country to still have the death penalty.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect