African Government: Review Unit

In an autocracy, who makes most of the important government decisions?

• the courts

• the people

• an individual leader

• an elected legislature

Why do the individual voters have more power in a democracy than they do in an autocracy?

• Kings are always cruel leaders

• The people play a role in deciding who rules

• All of the power stays in the hands of the local governments

• Voters in democratic countries always choose qualified leaders

Which branch of government is responsible for making and carrying out the laws in a parlimentary and presidential system of government?

• courts

• monarch

• president

• legislature

Which BEST describes the two predominant forms of a democratic government?

• distatorship and republican

• presidential and dictatorship

• presidential and confederate

• parliamentary and presidential

Which BEST describes a head of state in a parliamentary government system?

• person who has no role in government

• ceremonial figure without much actual power

• the most powerful person in the national government

• one who can veto or cancel laws passed by the legislature

In a presidential system of government, how is a president chosen?

• separately from the legislature

• by a decision of the national courts

• by a majority vote of the legislature

• by the political party with the most representatives in the legislature

A form of government in which political power rests with a single leader.

• vote

• autocracy

• citizen

• democracy

A form of government in which the political power rests with a nation's citizens.

• vote

• autocracy

• democracy

• citizen

A form of government in which citizens vote for the leader of the government AND the legislature.

• presidential democracy

• autocracy

• parliamentary democracy

• democracy

A form of government in which citizens vote for the legislature, then the legislature chooses the leader of the government.

• presidential democracy

• autocracy

• parliamentary democracy

• democracy