QUIZ 1.

• Position: Election, and the candidates

Use with NATIONAL, pages 10-13

FILL IN THE BLANK/SHORT ANSWER: Write the correct answer on the line provided.

1. About how much will Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush and their parties and supporters spend on TV ads during the presidential campaign? --

2. One type of ad focuses exclusively on criticizing one's opponent. Which type of ad is that? --

3. -- ads are often targeted to appeal to a specific area or group, such as the elderly, for example, or people in a particular region of the country.

4. A TV ad for the Gore campaign criticizes George W. Bush's record on health care in Texas. The ad charges that one group of people have been denied access to health insurance. Which group? --

5. -- is a government-funded insurance program for low-income citizens.

6. A Bush ad criticizes Al Gore for alleged irregularities in the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. What activity was Gore involved in that drew fire from the Bush campaign? --

7. Bush and other critics of Vice President Gore have seized on Gore's inaccurate statement that he played a central role in the development of a high-speed information retrieval system called the --

8. Industries and organizations give millions of dollars to presidential campaigns to gain --

9. The -- and -- industries have given a total of $24.2 million to the campaigns of George W. Bush and Al Gore.

10. -- are not pleased with the Clinton administration's trade policies, but they are backing Al Gore because they regard him as friendlier to their cause than George W. Bush.

11. Donors can contribute two kinds of money to political candidates. -- money is restricted to a maximum of $1,000 per candidate, but there is no limit on the amount of -- money donors can contribute.

12. The insurance industry fears increased government regulation, especially in the field of --

    CRITICAL THINKING: Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

13. Some people have proposed that the media--principally newspapers, radio, and TV--donate space and time for major candidates' advertisements. Make one argument supporting and one argument opposing this proposal.

14. At the end of September, George W. Bush had $5.5 million in campaign cash and Al...