Unit 1 Test: Forms of Government and Economic Systems

What is a way that you can participate in government?

• contact your representatives

• vote

• become more educated

• all of the above

Which form of government does the United States have?

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

• Representative Democracy or Republic

• Direct Democracy

Which form of government is rule by ONE?

• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Anarchy
• Democracy

Which form of government is rule by the people?

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

Which word means the absence of government...nobody is in charge?

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

In which type of government is there rule by a king or queen, where the power to rule is inherited?

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

In which type of government do people elect leaders to run the government and make laws on their behalf?

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

A ____________________ is a form of government where one leader has absolute and total control over every aspect of citizens' lives, and that power is often taken by force.

• democracy

• theocracy

• dictatorship

• monarchy

Saudi Arabia has a king. It's constitution is also based off of Islam and it's holy test, the Qur'an. What two forms of government does Saudi Arabia have?

• monarchy and anarchy

• monarchy and theocracy

• direct democracy and representative democracy

• oligarchy and theocracy

This way of distributing power within government places all power in a single, central agency. Local governments only have those powers that central government chooses to give them.

• federal

• unitary

• confederal