Read the following description of Kurds to answer the question that follows: “The Kurds are an ethnic group indigenous to a region often referred to as Kurdistan, an area that includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.”

Which of the following terms best classifies the Kurds?

Read the passage from “Mexico in Transition” below and use the information in the passage and your knowledge of political systems to answer the two questions that follow.

...The dictatorship was drowned in blood in the revolution of 1910, in which more than a million people died. This led to a constitution modeled on that of the United States and passed in 1917. But by 1929 the party known as the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) had shaped a system that looked like a democracy but worked like a dictatorship. Freedoms of speech and press were severely limited, and elections were controlled. Voters at some polls were handed “taco ballots” – several ballots stuffed into one – so they could cast multiple votes. This is an example of corruption. Loyalists were bussed from place to place to vote repeatedly...

The Mexican Government under the PRI would best be classified as

Read the passage from “Mexico in Transition” below and use the information in the passage and your knowledge of political systems to answer the two questions that follow.

...The dictatorship was drowned in blood in the revolution of 1910, in which more than a million people died. This led to a constitution modeled on that of the United States and passed in 1917. But by 1929 the party known as the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) had shaped a system that looked like a democracy but worked like a dictatorship. Freedoms of speech and press were severely limited, and elections were controlled. Voters at some polls were handed “taco ballots” – several ballots stuffed into one – so they could cast multiple votes. This is an example of corruption. Loyalists were bussed from place to place to vote repeatedly...

All of the following from the passage indicate a dictatorship except:

“The king combines legislative, executive, and judicial functions. As prime minister, he presides over the Council of Ministers (Majlis al-Wuzarāʾ). The council is responsible for such executive and administrative matters as foreign and domestic policy, defense, finance, health, and education, which it administers through numerous separate agencies. Appointment to and dismissal from the council are prerogatives of the king.”

The above description of the Saudi King’s duties indicate that Saudi Arabia is a (an) ______________

A group of people in a particular area and have a strong sense of unity based on a set shared beliefs is a

Read the passage from “Change Comes to Iran” below and use the information in the passage and your knowledge of political systems to answer the question that follows.

...Twenty years after Ayatollah Khomeini and his devoted followers overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and installed a religious government, many of Iran’s 64 million people are fed up. Iran has been undergoing a second revolution, one that seeks to soften the overbearing rule of the religion-based government...

According to the passage above, Iran would best be classified as

Which of the following statements best describes direct and indirect democracies?

Korea is a good example of a

Which of the following is a strong result of being a landlocked state?

One of Europe’s partially recognized sovereign states is _________

Which of the following characteristics would most likely lead a sovereign state to be considered a “fragile/failed state?”

Use the graph to the right for the following question:

The largest number of countries in the world are

Use the graph to the right for the following question:

Which of the following statements is true?