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SAMPLE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

Multiple choice questions for the CI&E contest may ask who, what, where or why. They may occasionally ask how or how much. They will never ask when. Test writers occasionally ask True/False questions.

Test writers also occasionally ask “which statement IS TRUE” or “which statement IS NOT TRUE?” It is important to read questions very carefully. For example, in a question that asks “which statement is not true,” a single fact embedded in a statement that is otherwise true may cause the choice to be untrue.

Sample Questions

1. Who is Dirk Kempthorne?
   1. Idaho governor chosen by President Bush to replace Gale Norton as Secretary of the Interior
   2. Army Ranger and former pro football star killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004. The Pentagon has directed a criminal investigation to be opened into his death
   3. President Bush's top domestic adviser who resigned in February and was arrested in March for allegedly defrauding two Washington-area department stores
   4. the former Office of Management and Budget director who replaced Andrew Card as White House chief of staff

2. Which statement IS NOT TRUE?
   1. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a U.S. citizen, Jose Padilla, who was held in military custody for more than three years as an enemy combatant.
   2. Russian diplomats passed information about American troop movements to senior Iraqi officials during the 2003 invasion, according to captured Iraqi intelligence documents.
   3. Apple Computer said it would introduce software to enable its Macintosh computers to run the Microsoft Windows operating system as well as its own.
   4. A London judge ruled that Dan Brown stole the idea for his successful thriller “The Da Vinci Code” from an earlier book.

3. Which statement about Operation Rio Grande IS NOT TRUE?
   1. The program was launched by Gov. Rick Perry to deter escalating violence and increase security from Brownsville to El Paso.
   2. The program shifts Department of Public Safety officers and state equipment to troubled border areas.
   3. Gov. Perry conceded that guarding the border is a state duty, not a federal responsibility.
   4. Perry offered no price tag for the effort, saying it will mostly shift officers and existing resources.

4. Which statement about the renewed Patriot Act IS TRUE?
   1. The White House accepted new restrictions on information gathered in terrorism investigations.
   2. According to the White House, the act balances privacy rights against the pursuit of potential terrorism.
   3. A Senate filibuster forced the White House to accept new curbs on law enforcement investigations.
   4. all of the above

5. Which statement BEST DESCRIBES the Supreme Court's reception to arguments by Democrats that the 2003 map of congressional districts approved by the GOP-dominated Texas Legislature amounted to excessively partisan politics?
   1. Justices generally appeared skeptical to claims that the map amounted to excessively partisan politics.
   2. Justices openly embraced Democratic claims that the redrawn maps disenfranchised blacks and Hispanics statewide.
   3. Justices appeared cool to Democratic claims that the map amounts to excessive partisan politics, but they seemed open to the possibility that one part of the map might have disenfranchised Hispanic voters.
   4. Both A and C

6. Researchers working in Gabon and the Republic of the Congo have identified the ______ as the long-sought animal reservoir of one of the deadliest known human pathogens, the Ebola virus.
   1. green monkey
   2. dwarf shrew
   3. fruit bat
   4. black colobus

7. Betty Friedan died in February. What was the title of her most famous book?
   1. Silent Spring
   2. Peyton Place
   3. The Feminine Mystique
   4. The American Way of Death

8. AT&T Inc. announced plans to buy ______ for $67 billion in stock in a deal that creates a telecommunications powerhouse with customers in 22 states.
   1. Verizon
   2. Sprint
   3. BellSouth
   4. Time-Warner

9. The discovery of geyser-like eruptions of liquid water on a little-known moon of __________ has added it to the small group of places in the solar system that could plausibly support life, scientists announced in March.
   1. Saturn
   2. Jupiter
   3. Neptune
   4. Uranus

10. What do Norman Kember, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden have in common?
    1. They are Christian peace activists, freed by U.S. and British soldiers after spending four months as captives of Iraqi insurgents.
    2. They are children, separated from their families for more than four months by Hurricane Katrina.
    3. They are retired generals who have called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.
    4. Each was sentenced to six months behind bars for using dogs to torment prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.

11. Who won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature?
    1. British author J. R. K. Rowling
    2. British playwright Harold Pinter
    3. American songwriter Bob Dylan
    4. Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis

12. Republican Gov. Mitt Romney signed landmark health care legislation, setting the stage for this state to be the first to provide health coverage to virtually all of its residents.
    1. New Hampshire
    2. Wisconsin
    3. Massachusetts
    4. Oregon

13. This country's glaciers are melting into the sea twice as fast as previously believed, the result of a warming trend that renders obsolete predictions of how quickly the Earth's oceans will rise over the next century, scientists said.
    1. Iceland
    2. Greenland
    3. Norway
    4. Finland

14. “IEDs” have been mentioned often in the media recently. What does the acronym “IED” stand for?
    1. improvised explosive device
    2. income equivalent domain
    3. immigration estimate debate
    4. Iraqi ethnic difference

15. An ancient Egyptian manuscript that had been lost for 1,700 years and was unveiled for the first time in early April challenges the traditional Christian belief that ______.
    1. Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross
    2. Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus
    3. Jesus never married
    4. Jesus performed miracles