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QUESTION 8

1. Which statement is true regarding political elites?

   	a.	Political elites rarely seek to influence public opinion on health policy issues.
   	b.	Few Americans actually believed Republican claims that the ACA created "death panels."
   	c.	Elites depend primarily on the comparison by metaphor heuristic to influence public opinion.
   	d.	Elite efforts to manipulate policy attitudes are constrained by the public's ability to test elite claims against personal experience.

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QUESTION 9

1. Regina, a resident of Ohio, hears news reports about the emergence of a highly infectious influenza virus in Asia. In her opinion, her family is not at risk because public health officials successfully contained prior outbreaks of highly infectious conditions, such as SARS and H1N1 influenza. This is an example of opinion formation based on ____.

   	a.	comparison by analogy
   	b.	substitution
   	c.	categorization
   	d.	comparison by metaphor

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d.	Elite efforts to manipulate policy attitudes are constrained by the public's ability to test elite claims against personal experience.

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a.	comparison by analogy