Complete this well-known quotation from Carl von Clausewitz (1918): War is
a. hell.
b. a thing abhorred since the beginning of time.
c. merely a continuation of politics by other means.
d. what happens when all religious approaches have failed.
Question 2How people think about an issue is called
a. propaganda.
b. irrelevant when it comes to action.
c. public opinion.
d. one-sided.
Question 3C. Wright Mills used the term _____ to refer to the top people in U.S. corporations, the military, and politics who make the country's main decisions.
a. pluralism
b. power elite
c. autocracy
d. masses
Question 4Just outside the third circle of members, and blending into it, is the _____ public.
a. hostile
b. sympathetic
c. unaware
d. disinterested
Question 5Conflict theorists take the position that _____ dominate(s) the United States.
a. lobbyists
b. functionalists
c. anarchy
d. a ruling class
Question 6The _____ is (are) a dispersed group of people outside of a group's membership, who may or may not have an interest in the issue.
a. inner core
b. gatekeepers
c. propagandists
d. public