The term original six refers to

The term original six refers to
 
  a. the United Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy.
  b. France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain.
 c. France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
 d. France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy.
 e. France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, and Belgium.

 Q. 2

After the colonial experience with royal governors, the evolution of the governorship can be characterized as a struggle to provide the state executive with necessary powers to meet the demands of the office.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

 Q. 3

What was the real purpose of Gorbachev's glasnost program?
 
  a. Revitalize central planning
  b. Establish new ties with the United States
  c. Give the public access to the media
  d. Make workers more productive
  e. Expose government incompetence and corruption

 Q. 4

Early debates about European integration involved which three groups of people?
 
  a. Federalists, intergovernmentalists, and integrationists
 b. Federalists, integrationists, and those who wanted to preserve the sovereignty of European states
  c. Federalists, republicans, and democrats
 d. Federalists, intergovernmentalists, and those who wanted to preserve sovereignty of European states
  e. Federalists, integrationists, and republicans

 Q. 5

The state treasurer
 
  a. is elected in a majority of states and is the official trustee and manager of state funds.
  b. is elected in all fifty states because it is believed he is the guardian of the state funds and should beindependent of the governor.
 c. manages state funds but is legally divorced from responsibility for their investment.
  d. is found in only a few states where the management of state pension funds is his or her sole responsibility.

 Q. 6

What term was used to describe the Soviet elite, who enjoyed a privileged life of luxury apartments, specialty shops, vacation resorts, private health spas, and hospitals?
 
  a. Blat
  b. Glasnost
  c. Nomenklatura
  d. Duma
  e. Politburo

 Q. 7

The European Union has sought to foster a sense of European identity by all of the following EXCEPT
 
  a. having an EU flag.
 b. having an EU anthem.
 c. establishing an EU passport.
  d. subsidizing efforts by European students to study outside their own countries to deepen European-ness.
  e. promoting a national (i.e. common) language for use across all EU states.