Based on the infographic, which of the following strategies would a group seeking to increase turnout likely pursue?

Use radio ads to advocate stricter voter-ID laws
Hold a voter registration drive in public high schools
Lobby state legislatures to overturn voter-ID legislation
Lobby Congress to eliminate the Voting Rights Act

How can public opinion polling affect political participation?

Random samples leave too many people out of the poll.
It contributes to “horse-race” journalism so voters don’t engage with the real issues.
Confirmation bias makes people vote for candidates whose policies align with their own.
It predicts results so accurately that there’s little need for an actual election.

Use the images to answer the next two questions

Which of the following statements is reflected in the data in the chart?


Since 1972, Americans age 65+ have been more apathetic towards politics.
American ages 65 and older follow politics at a higher rate than 18-29 year old’s do.
Lack of political interest among young people peaked during the 1992 election.
Young people ages 18-29 are less politically engaged compared to senior citizens.

Which of the following statements is true about the data reflected in the chart?
Voter turnout increases during midterm election years.
Voter turnout among voters age 65+ has consistently been above 80% the last four decades.
Voter turnout spiked its highest level since 1972 among voters ages 18-24 during the 2008 election.
Voter turnout is completely random and it’s impossible to tell whether older Americans or younger Americans will consistently turnout to vote.

Use the passage to answer the following question
“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the wellborn, the other the mass of the people. . . . The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government.”

Alexander Hamilton, "Speech in the Constitutional Convention on a Plan of Government,” 1787

Which of the following models of democracy is the author advocating?

Direct democracy
Pluralist democracy
Participatory democracy
Elite democracy

In what way does the cartoon portray a principle of federalism?

Exemplifies how the US Department of Education and state public school systems support one another
Describes how states struggle to decide how to use grants from the government
Exemplifies how federalism can complicate the relationship between federal mandates and state public schools
Represents how state governments always specify expected student outcomes