CIVICS TEST #2

This word is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation, or to choose governing officials to do so

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• None of the Above

A Parliamentary Democracy is…

• A  form of government where the king and queen have absolute power over

  everything.

• A parliamentary system, democratic form of government in which the party with the greatest representation in the parliament

• a regime, one where the government has total control

The judiciary branch of the government is responsible for what?

• Passing laws

• Developing laws

• Interpreting laws

• All the above

The Executive Branch is made of the Prime Minister, the _________________ and the Federal Government Departments.

 

• Judges

• Cabinet Minsiters

• Monarrch

Canada’s Head of State is who?

 

•   Queen Elizabeth II

•   Justin Trudeau

• Mary Simon

• Doug Ford

The House of Commons is made up of 338 candidates from?

• Capital cities

• Ridings

• Countries

• Towns

To help make these decisions, Canadian citizens normally _________ someone to represent them at different levels of government.

• assign

• look for

• elect

• point at

The terms left-wing and right-wing date back to ______________________

 

• The dark ages

• The French Revolution

• WW2

• WW3

What party is currently the official opposition in Canada? (The party with close to as many votes as the liberals but not as many)

 

• Green Party

• Sunshine Party

• Conservative Party

• NDP

  Socialism is a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

• FALSE

• TRUE