Civics Test Part 3

Civics Test Part 3

American Government: System of Government: Section A

Name one branch or part of the government.

• Any of these are correct answers:

• Legislative Branch (Congress)

• Executive Branch (President)

• Judicial Branch (Supreme Court)

What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

• These are both methods that stop one branch from become too powerful:

• checks and balances

• separation of powers

Who is in charge of the executive branch?

• Only one possible answer this time:

• the President

Who makes federal laws?

• These could all be answers:

• the Congress

• the Senate and the House of Representative (the two parts of Congress)

• the US or National Legislature (Congress)

What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?

• It takes both to give a correct answer:

• the Senate

• AND

• the House of Representatives

Multiple Choice

Name one branch or part of the government.

• the Legislative Branch

• the Monarchy

• the Dictator

• Totalitarianism

Multiple Choice

What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

• checks and balances

• elections

• kindness and hope

• nothing

Multiple Choice

Who is in charge of the executive branch?

• the Congress

• the King

• the President

• the Supreme Court

Multiple Choice

Who makes federal laws?

• the King

• the President

• the Congress

• the Supreme Court

Multiple Choice

What are the two parts of the Congress?

• the President and the King

• the Supreme Court and the Senate

• the President and the House of Representatives

• the Senate and the House of Representatives