Unit 1 Test: Intro to Government

A king claimed that God created the kingdom and that God had given him the right to rule because of his royal birth. Which theory does this scenario represent?

• a. Force Theory

• b. Evolutionary Theory

• c. Divine Right Theory

• d. Social Contract Theory

• e. Chaos Theory

In a post-apocalyptic world, a single survivor or a small group of survivors claimed control over a city and forced all other survivors within that city to submit to their rule. What theory does this scenario best represent?

• a. Force Theory

• b. Evolutionary Theory

• c. Divine Right Theory

• d. Social Contract Theory

• e. Chaos Theory

Claims the state developed naturally out of the earliest group unit, the family

• a. Force Theory
• b. Evolutionary Theory
• c. Divine Right Theory
• d. Social Contract Theory
• e. Chaos Theory

People voluntarily came together and created the state.

• a. Force Theory
• b. Evolutionary Theory
• c. Divine Right Theory
• d. Social Contract Theory
• e. Chaos Theory

A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience

• e. Unitary
• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary

A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group

• c. Oligarchy
• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• d. Parliamentary
• e. Unitary

A government in which the president is directly elected by the people

• f. Presidential
• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary

A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power

• b. Autocracy
• a. Democracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary
• e. Unitary

The supreme political authority rest with the people and the citizens themselves

• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary
• e. Unitary

An alliance of independent states

• g. Confederation
• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary