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Chapter 1 Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies?
a)
Government
b)
Public Policy
c)
Supreme Court
d)
The State
2.
What refers to all of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved?
a)
Government
b)
Public Policy
c)
Squad Goals
d)
The State
3.
What is the power to make a law and to frame public policies?
a)
executive power
b)
legislative power
c)
judicial power
4.
What is the power to execute, enforce, and administer law?
a)
executive power
b)
legislative power
c)
judicial power
5.
What is the power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes within the society?
a)
executive power
b)
legislative power
c)
judicial power
6.
What is the body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and processes of a government?
a)
Constitution
b)
Declaration of Independence
c)
Amendments
7.
What is a form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority?
a)
Dictatorship
b)
Democracy
c)
Republic
d)
Parliament
8.
What is a form of government in which the supreme authority rests with the people?
a)
Dictatorship
b)
Democracy
c)
Autocracy
9.
What is a body of people living in a defined territory who have a government with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority?
a)
Government
b)
State
c)
Public Policy
10.
What refers to having supreme power within its own territory; neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority?
a)
Sovereign
b)
Ratification
c)
Delegate
11.
What is a form of government in which a single person holds unlimited political power?
a)
Autocracy
b)
Oligarchy
c)
Parliament
d)
Presidential
12.
What is a form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite?
a)
Autocracy
b)
Democracy
c)
Oligarchy
d)
Junta
13.
What is a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency?
a)
Binary government
b)
Democratic government
c)
Singular government
d)
Unitary government
14.
What is a form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments?
a)
Parliamentary government
b)
Federal government
c)
Local government
d)
National government
15.
What is the basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the U.S. between the national government and the states)
a)
Division of Powers
b)
Checks and Balances
c)
Regionalism
d)
Nationalism
16.
What is a joining of several groups for a common purpose?
a)
League of Friendship
b)
Alliance
c)
Confederation
d)
Democracy
17.
What is a form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal?
a)
Parliamentary Government
b)
Presidential Government
c)
Executive Government
d)
Republic
18.
What is a form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister & his cabinet, who are all also part of the legislative branch as well?
a)
Presidential Government
b)
Parliamentary Government
c)
Republican Government
d)
Democracy
19.
What is an adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspect of each?
a)
Ratification
b)
Delegate
c)
Compromise
20.
What is an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods?
a)
Socialism
b)
Communism
c)
Free Enterprise
21.
What is a law that states when supplies of goods and services become plentiful, prices tend to drop; when supplies become scarcer, prices tend to rise?
a)
Law of Supply and Demand
b)
Law of Labor Value
c)
Law of Relativism
d)
Law of Karl Marx
22.
What is an economy in which private enterprise exists in a combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion?
a)
Socialist Economy
b)
Free Enterprise Economy
c)
Mixed Economy
23.

What nation did we watch have fistfights in their Parliament?

a)

Ukraine

b)

United Kingdom

c)

Ireland

d)

Russia

24.

Why does the United Kingdom's Parliament get so rowdy that it requires the Speaker to constantly keep order?

a)

It is a parliamentary and unitary system of government

b)

The politicians there are just rowdier

c)

They have to keep their TV ratings up to stay in power

d)

The Speaker just likes to yell at people

25.

Which of the following nation's is ruled by dictator Kim Jong Un?

a)

Russia

b)

China

c)

UK

d)

North Korea

26.

What do we call the absence of government?

a)

Oligarchy

b)

Anarchy

c)

Democracy

d)

Dictatorship

27.

Do people on the left of the political spectrum believe in more government or less government?

a)

More Government

b)

Less Government

28.

Do people on the right of the political spectrum believe in more government or less government?

a)

More Government

b)

Less Government

29.

Who is the leader of Russia?

a)

Vladmir Putin

b)

President Xi

c)

Kim Jong Un

d)

Joseph Stalin

30.

Who is the leader of North Korea?

a)

Theresa May

b)

Vladmir Putin

c)

Boris Johnson

d)

Kim Jong Un