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Use these questions both to test your detailed knowledge of each chapter. Make a note of your answers and then consult the answers page on this website. If you score less than 12 correct answers for any chapter, you probably need to spend more time re-reading and revising its contents.
CHAPTER 20: Understanding Policy: Framing Policy Controversies
1. Policy 'framing' refers to:
a) The ideological context of policy
b) The way we picture a policy issue
c) The way a policy is framed in law
2. There are:
a) Six ways in which policy can be framed in Britain
b) Ten ways in which policy can be framed
c) Limitless ways in which policy can be framed
3. The Iraq War of 2003 fits a frame of
a) War and Peace
b) Class politics
c) Man and nature
4. Before the Commons vote on deploying troops in Iraq in 2003:
a) No member of the Cabinet resigned
b) One member of the Cabinet resigned
c) Two members of the Cabinet resigned
5. The Blair Government of 2001-5:
a) Declined to hold a referendum over the proposed European Constitution
b) Announced at the start of negotiations over the Constitution that a referendum would be held
c) Originally declined to hold a referendum but later changed its mind.
6. The debates over hunting with dogs:
a) introduced issues of animal protection into British politics for the first time
b) Were the latest in a historical tradition of issues over animal protection
c) Were the latest in a string of issues over animal protection that began in the 1970s
7. The Blair government in 2005:
a) Failed in its attempt to ban hunting
b) Succeeded in banning hunting
c) Succeeded in passing a law banning hunting but delayed its implementation for three years
8. In comparative terms the anti-globalisation movement in Britain is:
a) Very strong
b) Fairly weak
c) About as strong or weak as in most other advanced industrial nations
9. A major liberalisation of the law on abortion was passed in:
a) 1957
b) 1967
c) 1997
10. Euthanasia is:
a) Illegal in the United Kingdom
b) Legal in the United Kingdom in carefully defined circumstances
c) Legal in most circumstances
11. Fathers4Justice has attracted some support from which pop star?
a) Bob Geldof
b) Sting
c) Bono
12. Who was relaxed about people becoming 'filthy rich'?
a) Peter Mandelson
b) Margaret Thatcher
c) Richard Branson
13. New Labour in power:
a) Made no contribution to lessening inequality in Britain
b) Greatly reduced inequality in Britain
c) Reduced some inequalities, but saw other inequalities grow
14. Political issues:
a) Have little power to mobilise people into political action
b) Are the only things that mobilise people into political action
c) Are one important thing mobilising people into political action
15. Government:
a) Makes no difference to the impact of policy
b) Entirely shapes the impact of policy
c) Has some effect over the impact of policy
