Government Topic 1 and 2 Test

Match the branch of government to the power that they hold.

• Judicial Branch

• The power to make and frame public policies, laws.

• Executive Branch

• The power to execute, enforce, and administer laws.

• Legislative Branch

• The power to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise within society.

Select all of the ways someone can stay engaged in government and politics.

• Stay informed on the news.

• Staying quiet on what you believe in.

• Volunteer for various organizations, attend city meetings, run for office.

• Vote!

The process by which a society decides how power and resources will be distributed within that society is known as...

• Politics

• Government

• Public Policies

• Laws

True or False: There have been no governments that are or were ever exactly alike.

• True

• False

Select the three characteristics that help classify governments.

• Who can participate in the governing process.

• The geographic distribution of governmental power within the state.

• The relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government.

• The relationship between the legislative and judicial branches of government.

• The social class distribution of governmental power within the state.

Match the following types of governments to its definition.

• Autocracy

• Sovereign power is held by those eligible to vote, but political power is exercised by representatives chosen by and held responsible to those citizens.

• Republic

• A form of government in which a single person holds unlimited power.

• Direct Democracy

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

• Theocracy

• A legal system of a state is based on religious law.

• Oligarchy

• A type of democracy where every individual gets to participate directly in the democratic process.

Match the following types of governments to its definition.

• Parliamentary Government

• A form of government in which the executive branch is made up of a prime minister/premier and their cabinet, but they are also part of the legislature.

• Indirect Democracy

• A system of shared powers in which the executive and legislative branch have separate powers.

• Presidential Government

• A type of democracy where people vote for representatives to participate in the democratic process for them.

• Dictatorship

• Those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.

True or False: Rome was the first city-state to have the first democracy.

• True

• False

When the Romans overthrew their monarchy, they replaced their government with a(n)...

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Emperor

Match the following terms to their respective definitions.

• Consuls

• The common folk in the Roman Republic.

• Plebeians

• This group proposed laws in the Roman republic, could veto power over any acts of assemblies or consuls, and advised consuls and assemblies.

• Patricians

• Rich upper class, landowning aristocrats of the Roman Republic.

• Senators (Roman)

•  The chief executives of government in the Roman Republic, commanders of the army in wartime, conducted foreign affairs, and presided over the Senate and enforced its decrees.