1. As a volunteer for a political campaign, a policy advocate can:
a. Distribute leaflets.
b. Campaign for and against propositions.
c. Build grassroots support for issues.
d. All of the above.

2. Which is not a part of a useful policy practice framework:
a. Places policy advocacy in its contextual setting
b. Identifies the values, ideology, interests, and goals of stakeholders in specific policy situations
c. Discusses patterns of participation
d. Identifies tasks that policy advocates undertake in their work
e. Identifies what is best for the citizens of the county, state, or locality

3. Persons with a vested interest in a specific policy or issue being contested are called:
a. Corrupt
b. Politicians
c. Greedy
d. Stakeholders
e. Policy Advocates

4. Gathering information about the prevalence and geographic location of specific problems is part of which of the Eight Tasks of a Policy Advocate?
a. Agenda Setting
b. Problem Analyzing
c. Policy Enacting
d. Policy Assessing
e. Proposal Writing

5. Identifying and ranking relevant principles when engaging in policy practice is which of the Four Skills that Policy Practitioners need?
a. Analytic Skills
b. Political Skills
c. Interactional Skills
d. Value Clarification Skills

6. If policies are deemed extremely difficult to change, you should:
a. Work to change the context or to focus on alternative policy changes
b. Complain to the media
c. Continue to submit your proposal as written
d. Keep a positive attitude about your efforts and chances

7. Having conversations with strategically placed persons or working with a coalition or advocacy group to pressure decision makers to take an interest in their issue is considered:
a. Softening the context
b. Activating change
c. Diagnosing the context
d. Hobnobbing

8. When diagnosing the context, policy advocates must analyze:
a. Streams of problems and solutions
b. Recent professional decisions and trends
c. Political realities
d. All of the above

9. Factors that suggest policy innovation will be difficult to achieve include all the following except:
a. The extent to which you believe in principles you are espousing
b. The magnitude of the proposed policy change
c. Whether the issue is already politicized
d. Whether persons with power believe that policy change will harm their economic, professional, or political self-interest
e. Whether the reform will be expensive or difficult to implement

10. Tactics, such as timing, coupling, negotiating, assembling early sponsors and supporters, and routing, are often used in this stage of Agenda Building:
a. Diagnosing Stage
b. Softening Stage
c. Activating Stage
d. Implementing Stage

11. When a specific policy ranks high on some criteria but lower on others, advocates often face:
a. Moral dilemmas
b. Trade-offs
c. Obstruction
d. Ultimatums

12. Not-for-profit agencies differ from for-profit agencies since:
a. They are not owned by shareholders or private owners.
b. They keep their profits rather than returning them to shareholders.
c. They place far less emphasis on fiscal considerations when they make decisions.
d. They encourage profit gains as part of the decision-making process.

13. The two-step process that determines the level funding for a given public program involves:
a. Ear-marking and allocation.
b. Authorization and competition for funds.
c. Authorization and appropriation.
d. Determination and appropriation.

14. A common way to ration resources is:
a. To place a limit on the duration of the service.
b. To allow clients to enter on a first-come, first-served policy.
c. Selective outreach.
d. All of the above are ways of rationing resources.

15. Feasibility criteria relate to:
a. Political and administrative practicality of specific policy options.
b. Relative cost of competing options.
c. Client-based policy options.
d. A social workers’ ability to navigate complex policy issues.

16. When researchers emphasize occupational, economic, familial, peer, and neighborhood factors they are using which perspective?
a. Radical
b. Ecological
c. Medical
d. Intrapsychic

17. What is a grant proposal?
a. A policy proposal.
b. A legislative proposal.
c. A proposal seeking resources and funding.
d. An explanation of the goals of an agency.

18. Influencing the tenor, tempo, or scope of conflict of deliberations in order to get a specific proposal enacted is:
a. Process power.
b. Indirect power.
c. Person-to-person power.
d. Substantive power.

19. Deciding whether to focus advocacy efforts at the state, local or federal level is part of which of the Eight Tasks of a Policy Advocate
a. Agenda Setting
b. Deciding What is Right and Wrong
c. Navigating Policy Advocacy Systems
d. Policy Enacting
e. Policy Implementation

20. Policy advocates develop power resources by:
a. Building personal credibility.
b. Learning to network.
c. Creating links with groups.
d. All of these choices

21. Force field analysis is:
a. The analysis of political strategy with respect to specific issues.
b. The selecting of policy objectives with respect to specific issues.
c. The analysis of the distribution of power with respect to specific issues.
d. The application of political force.

22. Developing solutions to a problem is what part of the Eight Tasks of the Policy Advocate?
a. Proposal Writing
b. Policy Assessing
c. Deciding What is Right and Wrong
d. Agenda Setting

23. A creative strategist will:
a. Make a firm political strategy in order to enact specific policy proposals.
b. Pursue the most ambitious scenario.
c. Develop a few possible scenarios to help reach their goals.
d. Make up a strategy as they go along

24. Building a common strategy and organizing proponents into a cohesive unit is an example of:
a. Coalition building.
b. Agenda building.
c. Goal setting.
d. Establishing a style.

25. An analysis of the existing law, a description of a proposed legislation, why change is necessary, and likely objectives are all included in:
a. An agenda.
b. A strategy.
c. A policy brief.
d. Policy research.

26. If a policy advocate suggests a change of policy within an agency, it is more likely to be accepted if:
a. It advances the central goals of the agency.
b. It will benefit the clients.
c. It will generate revenue.
d. All of the above choices.

27. The magnitude of social problems are measured by:
a. Rates
b. Prevalence
c. Incidence
d. All of the above

28. Which of the following is NOT one of the four policy advocacy skills?
a. Value-clarifying skills.
b. Interactional skills.
c. Analytic skills.
d. Active listening skills

29. Stakeholders may include:
a. Leaders and members of interest groups
b. Legislators and their aides
c. Governmental agencies
d. Consumers or beneficiaries
e. All of the above

30. Candidates’ odds of winning increase when:
a. The candidate is an incumbent.
b. The candidate shares the voters’ ideological preferences.
c. The candidate is able to raise significant resources.
d. All of these choices.

31. What is a value issue?
a. An economic problem.
b. An idea for raising funds.
c. A tactic that poses ethical questions.
d. A decision that is made based on morals.

32. Policy innovations that are relatively difficult to implement are ones that:
a. Adhere to traditional practices.
b. Are non-controversial.
c. Propose major changes in existing policy.
d. None of these

33. True or False Most social problems are complex phenomena that do not lend themselves to one-size-fits-all solutions

34. True or False Policy Advocates only focus on one of their eight tasks at a time

35. True or False Particularly in agency settings, policy problems and solutions are talked about in passing for a long time but nothing is done until they finally are placed on a policy agenda

36. True or False Proposals are always ambitious and involve major changes in policy

37. True or False Social workers who wish to help their clients have a professional duty to try to reform those policies that cause or worsen clients’ problems

38. True or False Many pieces of legislation go to multiple committees because they pose issues that cut across committee divisions

39. True or False Decision makers usually view prevention programs positively

40. True or False Fads and trends can powerfully shape the prognosis of a policy reform

41. True or False Interest groups with scant resources can augment their power by building a reputation for the quality of the technical information they give legislators

42. True or False Priorities are chosen rationally

43. True or False Many issues never reach the agenda because opposing groups successfully use tactics to keep them off

44. True or False All legislation introduced in a session will be put on the agenda

45. True or False Issues are often placed on agendas without empirical studies and when there are studies, they often are ignored

46. True or False Those who want decision makers to take their problem seriously have to convince them that it is a problem and not merely a condition

47. True or False Policy advocates should take leading roles in promoting social policies that are premised on a simple analysis of social problems

48. True or False Research shows that decision makers will often support major changes in existing policy

49. True or False Assessment of the social reforms of prior eras suggests that they often did not work because advocates lacked sufficient knowledge about the problems addressed by the reforms

50. True or False Policy tasks must be performed one at a time, in the correct order.