SS6CG1: Governments of Latin America

Which form of government would have the MOST amount of citizen participation?

• democracy

• oligarchy

• autocracy

• anarchy

Which form of government would have the LEAST amount of citizen participation?

• democracy

• autocracy

• oligarchy

• beaucracy

How might the form of government affect the role of the citizen in Cuba?

• Cuba has a dictatorship, which limits the voting rights of the citizens.

• Cuba has a dictatorship, which allows for greater voting rights of the citizens.

• Cuba has a federal-republican system, which limits the voting rights of the citizens.

• Cuba has a federal-republican system, which allows for greater voting rights of the citizens.

In which system of government do the citizens elect members of the legislature and then legislature elects the executive leader of the government?

• autocracy

• oligarchy

• presidential democracy

• parliamentary democracy

The Mexican government functions using a democratic system, while the Cuban government functions using which type of system?

• parliamentary

• fascist

• anarchist

• dictatorship

What is the title of the political leader with the most power in the countries of Brazil and Mexico?

• prime minister

• president

• king

• chairman

Which country allows citizens to vote but only allows one political party (Communist Pary) to run for office?

• Mexico

• Cuba

• Brazil

• Turkey

ARTICLE 53.

"Citizens have freedom of speech and of the press in keeping with the objectives of socialist society."

This passage is from the 1992 Constitution of a Caribbean country that went through a violent revolution in the late 1950s. The country is the

• Republic of Cuba

• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

• Federative Republic of Brazil

• Unitary States of Colombia

Which BEST describes how a parliamentary democracy differs from a presidential democracy?

• The legislative branch in the presidential system is always unicameral.

• In a parliamentary democracy, the head of the government is a member of the legislature.

• In a presidential democracy, political power is shared between state and federal governments.

• In a parliamentary democracy there are usually two main political parties; in the presidential system there is only one.

-- Federal system

-- Voting is REQUIRED by citizens aged 18-70

-- Presidential democracy

-- National Congress and Chamber deputies is bicameral legislature

-- President is elected to a single 4-year term

What Latin American country is being described here?

• Brazil

• Cuba

• India

• Germany