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To get started, select one of the 14 buttons (each of which corresponds to a chapter from the text) on the left side of the screen. Then select the desired activity for that chapter: Study, Quiz, Flashcards, Exercises, Explore, Walk-throughs, or Skill Set.

The Study section for each chapter contains a chapter summary, learning objectives, and review questions. You can click on the “Answer” box following each review question, write out your response in the pop-up box, and email it to your instructor. At the top of the list of review questions, you have the option of answering multiple questions in one box and sending all of your responses in one email message.

The Quiz section allows you to test your mastery of the material via multiple-choice and true-false questions provided for each chapter. You can opt to take each quiz with immediate or summarized results. For the “immediate” path, you see correct and incorrect answers question by question; for the “summarized” path, you will answer all quiz questions and then see correct and incorrect answers at the end, replicating a more realistic testing environment. After completing the quiz, you will see your “detailed results” which include your percentage grade for the quiz and outline your results by question type (e.g., conceptual, factual, and vocabulary) and by chapter section. You can also click on “see all answers” to see each of your responses. And please click on “email” to send your quiz results to your instructor.

The Flashcards allow you to review the key terms from the book. You can view terms and click for definitions, or vice versa, view definitions and click for terms. You can mark terms you would like to return to for further study, as well as shuffle and reset the cards.

The Exercises draw on a wealth of information (such as CQ’s Politics in America). Research why a member of Congress may have voted a particular way, track presidents’ daily schedules, or check out who’s giving money to whom for campaign contributions. You can click on the “Answer” box following each exercise question, write out your response in the pop-up box, and email it to your instructor. At the top of the exercises page, you have the option of answering multiple questions in one box and sending all of your responses in one email message.

The News Updates section features annotated links to recent news stories that update material in the book as well as highlight important concepts and themes. Older news articles are archived with bibliographic information and the annotation intact so you can find an article of interest after it has become unavailable on a news source’s website.

The Explore section offers links and images so you can observe Congress in action, listen in on White House conversations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, or compare today’s tabloid journalism with the yellow journalism of another era.

The Walk-throughs section offers a series of brief PowerPoint slide shows that walk you through conceptual ideas in the book such as prisoner’s dilemma, tragedy of the commons, and principal-agency to reinforce material in the text and in lectures.

In the Skill Set section, improve your analytical and interpretive skills with these interactive exercises.

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