Chapter 5 Practice Quiz

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. The formal executive consists of:

the monarch and appointed representatives correct incorrect

the first minister and cabinet correct incorrect

the minister and deputy minister correct incorrect

the first minister and inner cabinet correct incorrect

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. Who is head of government at the federal level in Canada?

Governor general correct incorrect

Monarch correct incorrect

Prime minister correct incorrect

Premier correct incorrect

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. Who appoints premiers?

Prime ministers correct incorrect

Lieutenant governors correct incorrect

Commissioners correct incorrect

Governors general correct incorrect

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. Which of the following units consists of partisan staff and is designed to advance the political interests of the federal cabinet?

Privy Council Office correct incorrect

Council of the Federation correct incorrect

Treasury Board correct incorrect

Prime Minister's Office correct incorrect

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. Which of the following roles is not filled by a member of the legislature assigned to support the government and ministers of the Crown?

Minister of state correct incorrect

Parliamentary secretary correct incorrect

Deputy minister correct incorrect

House leader correct incorrect

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. Which of the following are responsibilities of the Treasury Board Secretariat?

Coordinating government spending correct incorrect

Human resource management correct incorrect

Information management and technology correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is considered to be the most powerful cabinet committee at the federal level?

Agenda, Results and Communication correct incorrect

Operations correct incorrect

Treasury Board correct incorrect

Open Transparent Government and Parliament correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is the highest ranked public servant in the federal bureaucracy?

Deputy minister correct incorrect

Deputy prime minister correct incorrect

President of the Treasury Board correct incorrect

Clerk of the Privy Council correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not a central agency?

Treasury Board Secretariat correct incorrect

Department of Defense correct incorrect

Department of Finance correct incorrect

Prime Minister's Office correct incorrect

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. What is the term that refers to a group of opposition party members responsible for holding ministers of the Crown to account for their actions?

Kitchen cabinet correct incorrect

Backbencher correct incorrect

Shadow cabinet correct incorrect

Inner cabinet correct incorrect

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. Which of the following statements is true regarding deputy ministers?

They are considered to be partisan public servants. correct incorrect

They consist of elected members of the cabinet. correct incorrect

The deputy minister is considered to be the political head of a department. correct incorrect

A deputy minister is a public servant and not a politician. correct incorrect

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. Who is considered the highest ranked public servant in a province?

Lieutenant governor correct incorrect

Clerk of the Executive Council correct incorrect

Premier correct incorrect

Minister correct incorrect

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. Which of the following best describe the Privy Council Office (PCO)?

Members of the political executive who hold its most important portfolios correct incorrect

A subgroup of cabinet members correct incorrect

Most senior body of public servants who support cabinet correct incorrect

Partisan staff who work in the Prime Minister's Office correct incorrect

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. Presidentialization refers to:

the concentration of power in Ottawa at the expense of the provinces correct incorrect

the concentration of power in the first minister's office at the expense of cabinet correct incorrect

the concentration of power within the public service at the expense of the legislature correct incorrect

the concentration of power within the head of state at the expense of the head of government correct incorrect

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. Which of the following statements about ministerial responsibility is false?

It requires ministers must resign in the face of controversy correct incorrect

It means ministers are responsible for the actions of public servants serving in their ministry correct incorrect

It often involves ministers responding to questions in the legislature correct incorrect

It requires ministers to speak for decisions undertaken by previous ministers in their portfolio correct incorrect