Unit 1 AP Government Review Part 1

What is the institution through which policy is made and enforced?

• Politics
• Political Science
• Government
• Public Policy

What is a form of government in which power is vested in hereditary kings and queens who govern in the interest of all?

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Totalitarianism
• Authoritarianism

What is a government in which power resides in a leader who rules according to self-interest?

• Monarchy
• Totalitarianism
• Oligarchy
• Democracy

What is a government in which power resides in a leader who rules according to self-interest?

• Monarchy
• Totalitarianism
• Oligarchy
• Democracy

What word refers to the the rule of the people?

• Government
• Politics
• Monarchy
• Democracy

What term refers to members of a society meeting and making decisions with majority rule?

• Government
• Politics
• Direct Democracy
• Representative Democracy

What term refers to a society in which members vote for representatives who make decisions on their behalf?

• Government
• Politics
• Direct Democracy
• Representative Democracy

What term refers to a society in which members vote for representatives who make decisions on their behalf?

• Government
• Politics
• Direct Democracy
• Representative Democracy

What is another word for a representative democracy?

• Monarchy
• Republic
• Oligarchy
• Socialist state

Which philosopher believed that people had natural rights and advocated for the social contract?

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu