Types of Government

Types of Government

Introduction

Different Types Of

Government

Different Types of

Government

Different Types of

Government

Multiple Choice

What is a government?

• an organization that keeps order, sets rules, and provides services for a society

• adding territory to a country

• a society with a culture

• a system where people produce, sell and buy goods

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a  government where a few wealthy people rule?

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Democracy 
• Communism

Multiple Choice

Government run by religious leader/leaders; no separation of church and state.

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

Multiple Choice

Example: United States; citizens vote for representatives on local, state and national levels who make laws.

• Monarchy
• Anarchy
• Theocracy
• Republic

Multiple Choice

Who makes important decisions in an oligarchy?

• king

• senators

• citizens

• small group of powerful leaders

Multiple Choice

What type of government is it if the leader inherits his/her position?

• democracy

• monarchy

• dictatorship

• oligarchy

Multiple Choice

What term describes the absence of any government?

• Anarchy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

Multiple Choice

In what system of government do individual citizens make the laws directly by voting, without electing representatives?

• Direct Democracy

• Indirect Democracy, or Constitutional Republicanism

• Anarchy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

Multiple Choice

What type of government is based primarily on religious principles?

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

Multiple Choice

What is a form of government ruled by one person who usually seized power through unlawful means?

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Parliamentary

Multiple Choice

What is a type of government in which all eligible members are able to vote on key issues and/or for elected representatives?

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Authoritarian

Multiple Choice

What type of government is ruled by one person, usually the child of the previous ruler?

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Theocracy