Purpose & Forms of Government

Which of the following is NOT one of the questions it is important to ask when determining what type of government a country has?

• Who has the decision making power in the government? 

• How is power distributed geographically? 

• What type of government is indicated by the formal name of the country and its constitution?

• What is the relationship between lawmakers and law enforcement?

What type of government has power is entirely in the hands of a single ruler, or sometimes a small group of elites?

• Democratic

• Authoritarian

• Anarchy

What type of government has people as the highest authority, and citizens determine how much power and influence the government has on their everyday lives?

• Democratic

• Authoritarian

• Anarchy

Which type of government has a single ruler and passes down power within the family?

• republic

• monarchy

• oligarchy

• totalitarian state

Which form of government involves rule by a small group of elites - often aristocrats?

• monarchy

• direct democracy

• dictatorship

• oligarchy

Which type of government involves power in the hands of a single person who seized power and uses propaganda to control the population?

• dictatorship

• republic

• monarchy

• direct democracy

Which type of government involves a dictator who has (or attempts to have) complete control over what their citizens think, say, and believe, and citizens live in a state of fear and confusion?

• anarchy

• direct democracy

• dictatorship

• totalitarian state

Which type of government often makes use of secret police to monitor the population and enforce the will of the state?

• totalitarian state

• monarch

• oligarchy

• republic

Which type of democracy involves every member of the state coming together to make policy decisions?

• direct democracy

• indirect democracy

Which ancient city-state had a direct democracy as its system of government?

• Sparta

• Athens

• Rome

• Troy