Civics and Types of Government

What type of government is characterized by the rule of a small number of elite people?

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Parliamentary

What type of government is based primarily on religious principles?

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

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

What term describes the absence of any government?

• Anarchy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

The people have the power

• Unitary
• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Oligarchy

What type of government elects representatives to make all government decisions?

• Republic
• Direct Democracy
• Dictatorship
• Monarchy

What type of government has a king or queen that holds all the power?

• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Direct Democracy
• Republic

The word democracy means:

• rule of one
• rule by few
• rule by the people
• rule by the wealthy

Which government receives its power from the people?

• Oligarchy
• Republic
• Dictatorship
• Totalitarian 

What do a republic and a direct democracy have in common?  

• rule by a single political party
• a small group of leaders 
• rule by the people
• a single leader