Types of Government Quiz

Rule by one

• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Autocracy
• Anarchy

Rule by none

• Anarchy
• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

Supreme power rests with a single and usually hereditary figure.

• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Monarchy
• Anarchy

• Supreme power rests with a single figure who grants much power to a democratic body.

• Absolute Monarchy
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Direct Democracy
• Oligarchy

Supreme power rests in a single figure. Power can be acquired by inheritance or force.

• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship

• Anarchy

Supreme power rests with a person who says they are divinely guided.

• Monarchy
• Democracy
• Theocracy
• Oligarchy

Rule by a group

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Autocracy
• Anarchy

• Supreme power rests with one single political party which does or does not have elections.

• Monarchy
• Democracy
• One-party system
  (Communism)

• Anarchy

• Supreme power rests with a group who advocates total control to promote the ancestral and cultural values.

• Democracy
• Communism
• Fascism
• Capitalism

• Supreme power rests with the rich or elite group.

• Plutocracy/Aristocracy

• Theocracy

• Democracy
• Monarchy