Civics Pretest

 Out of these, the best example of an oligarchy is:

• China

• The United States

• France

• Africa

Power is held strictly by the people in this form of government

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Parlimentary

This form of government, one individual holds unlimited power

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

• Unitary

  Written by Thomas Jefferson and led to separation of church and state and served as a model for the 1st Amendment.

• Leviathan

• English Bill of Rights

• Social Contract

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

Document signed by Charles I of England that further limited the powers of the English monarch.

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Petition of Rights

• Leviathan

• Social Contract

The rights of “life, liberty, and property” that John Locke argued for

• Natural Rights

• Human Rights

• Bill of Rights

• Individual Rights

Enlightenment-era work by Thomas Hobbes in which he expresses his ideas on government.

• English Bill of Rights

• Social Contract

• Petition of Right

• Leviathan

In Ancient Greece, Athens had the first ___ which greatly influenced the US government.

• Republic

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Mason

What are the two sides of the political spectrum?

• Republicans & Democrats

• Liberals & Conservatives

• Radicals & Revolutionaries

• Federalists & Republicans