In Brazil's open list proportional representation system

In Brazil's open list proportional representation system
 
  a. the number of seats is allocated to parties in proportion to the number of votes each receives.
  b. voters cast their ballots for individuals not parties.
 c. candidates emphasize their personal qualities, rather than their party identification
 d. there are few limits on how many individuals and parties may run in the same district.
 e. All of these.

 Q. 2

Personal and corporate income taxes are
 
  a. generally the most attractive revenue alternative based on yield, elasticity, and ease of administration.
  b. strongly opposed by liberals as confiscatory and inhibiting economic growth necessary to provide socialservices.
 c. adopted by the thirty-five largest states.
  d. reserved by all states for their use and thus not available to local governments.

 Q. 3

Terrorism embraces all of the following goals EXCEPT
 
  a. promoting chaos and change.
  b. provoking the government into repressive acts.
  c. satisfying a love of violencea blood lust.
  d. undermining confidence in the government.
  e. promoting an overvalued idea..

 Q. 4

Brazil has a weak party system because of all of the following EXCEPT
 
  a. its historical circumstances, such as the corporatism of the New State era making the formation of independent political parties difficult.
  b. the country's open list proportional representation system that creates incentives for politicians to ignore party labels because voters can easily cross party lines.
  c. party loyalty is weak among both voters and politicians.
  d. candidates could easily shift their party affiliation until 2007, even in the midst of an election.
  e. corruption within Brazil's political parties has led to the citizenry to reject party labels and loyalty.

 Q. 5

Taxing Internet sales
 
  a. remains insignificant to most states because it is too complicated for the stores to keep track of all 50 statelaws on sales taxes. Sales on the Internet have been declining significantly in recent years.
 b. would generate close to 5 billion a year of additional sales tax revenues through online catalogue sales andperhaps 23 billion from Internet sales overall.
 c. has been a significant source of revenue since 1998 for forty-six states after the U.S. Supreme Court allowedNorth Dakota to become the first state to impose a tax on Internet sales.
 d. may never be a source of revenue for the states because the U.S. Congress passed a law that forbids stateand local government from ever imposing a tax on sales transactions that occur on the Internet.

 Q. 6

What are terrorist weapons of choice?
 
  a. Nuclear weapons
  b. Automatic weapons
  c. Remote controlled, electronic weapons
  d. Biological weapons
  e. Crude and cheap small arms

 Q. 7

In Brazil, constitutional amendments
 
  a. must be passed by a simple majority vote in each chamber of the legislature or by a simple majority in a special constituent assembly.
  b. must be passed twice by two-thirds of the votes in both chambers of the legislature and subsequently ratified by three-fourths of state governments.
  c. can be only passed by a special constituent assembly that is created by the president and both chambers of Congress.
  d. must be passed twice by three-fifths of the votes in both chambers of the legislature or by an absolute majority of a special constituent assembly created by the president and both chambers of Congress.
  e. must be passed twice by three-quarters of the votes in both chambers of the legislature and subsequently approved by the president.