Skills Check Practice Quiz 1

Which system of government is an indirect form of democracy, placing the political decision making at least one step away from the people?

• Republic

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

Which type of governmental system did the United States have in its earliest days?

• Federal

• Parliamentary

• Confederal

• Unitary

What does a authoritarian regime become at its most extreme?

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Totalitarian

Which system is largely an American invention?

• Confederal

• Federal

• Unitary

• Oligarchy

The executive and legislative branches of the government are fused in which type of government?

• Federal

• Republican

• Presidential

• Parliamentary

Which branch contains the President?

• Executive branch of government

• Regional legislatures

• Upper house of the national legislature

• National court system

Who runs the government in an Oligarchy?

• Dictator

• Monarch

• Small group of people

• Elected officials

The vast majority of the world's nations have which system of government?

• Federal

• Confederal

• Totalitarian

• Unitary

The supreme power of a state to act within its territory and have absolute authority over its internal and external affairs is called.

• Policy

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

• Legislative Power

Rulers who are seen as right and proper by key segments of their nation's population have.

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

• Policy

• Absolute power