Types of Government

What form of government gives the most power to the people?

• absolute monarchy

• communist

• autocracy

• representative democracy

Which intellectual movement promoted democratic ideas about government?

• the Renaissance

• the Scientific Revolution

• the Enlightenment

• the Cultural Revolution

A government ruled by a hereditary king is a

• republic

• monarchy

• oligarchy

• constitution

A person that has full political rights is a

• subject

• alien

• immigrant

• citizen

When the leader has sole control over all the branches of government, this is an example of

• oligarchy

• autocracy

• democracy

• monarchy

The type of government first described by Karl Marx in which there is a one party dictatorship is

• communism

• republicanism

• democracy

• fascist

Which of these have been led by communist governments?

• The USA, Canada and Great Britain

• Japan, China and India

• Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran

• The Soviet Union, North Korea and Cuba

Which of these originated in ancient Greece and means "rule by the people"?

• oligarchy

• tyranny

• democracy

• meritocracy

Which of these Enlightenment philosophers promoted the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu

The three branches of government are

• legislative, executive and judicial

• legislative, bureaucratic and cabinet

• legislative, presidential and state

• federal, state and local