Origins and Forms of Government Quiz

What is the purpose of government?

• To maintain social order, provide public services, protect national security, and provide leadership

• To make economic decisions, maintain social order, and provide public services

• To protect national security, provide leadership, and make economic decisions

• To provide public services, protect national security, and maintain social order

What is the Force Theory of Government?

• When a person or a group of people take control of an area and make everyone follow their rules and beliefs

• The belief that rulers derive their authority directly from god

• The belief that people are free and equal by natural right

• Heads of families become the government

What is the Divine Right Theory of Government?

• When a person or a group of people take control of an area and make everyone follow their rules and beliefs

• The belief that rulers derive their authority directly from god

• The belief that people are free and equal by natural right

• Heads of families become the government

What is the Social Contract Theory of Government?

• When a person or a group of people take control of an area and make everyone follow their rules and beliefs

• The belief that rulers derive their authority directly from god

• The belief that people are free and equal by natural right

• Heads of families become the government

What is the Evolutionary Theory of Government?

• When a person or a group of people take control of an area and make everyone follow their rules and beliefs

• The belief that rulers derive their authority directly from god

• The belief that people are free and equal by natural right

• Heads of families become the government

What is the purpose of economic decisions in government?

• To decide what goods and services to produce, how to produce them, how much to produce, and how to distribute them to people

• To maintain social order and provide public services

• To protect national security and provide leadership

• To make decisions that affect economics and provide public services

What is the role of government in maintaining social order?

• To maintain social order, provide public services, protect national security, and provide leadership

• To make economic decisions, maintain social order, and provide public services

• To protect national security, provide leadership, and make economic decisions

• To provide public services, protect national security, and maintain social order

What is the definition of democracy?

• A political system in which voters chose a president to lead the government as head of the executive branch

• A political system in which voters elect representatives to a law making body called parliament

• A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens

• A form of government characterized by submission to authority

An Autocracy is when:

• People participate in the running of their own government by voting.

• a small military group takes over a country

• a single person has all of the power

• religion is used to justify power

Which form of government is governed by a King or Queen?

• Anarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy