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Unit 1 Pre Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are four things that governments do?

a)

Control Media Outlets, Provide Public Services, Expand International Power, and Make Economic Decisions

b)

Maintain Social Order, Provide Public Services, Provide National Security, and Make Economic Decisions

c)

Maintain Social Order, Re-educate the Population, Provide National Security, and Sabotage Rival Nations

d)

Oppress the People, Provide Public with PS5's, Provide National Security, and Make Cakes with Your Aunt Linda

2.

What kind of Power does the President Have?

a)

Legislative Power

b)

Executive Power

c)

Judicial Power

d)

Unlimited Power

3.

What kind of Government does the US have where the powers are divided between central government and regional governments.

a)

Unitary Government

b)

Confederation

c)

Federal Government

4.

Who holds the power in an Autocracy?

a)

The People

b)

A small group of powerful people

c)

One person

d)

A magic conch

5.

Which states supported the Virginia Plan?

a)

Large States with large populations

b)

Small States with small populations

6.

What are two types of Government where one person rules above all?

a)

Anarchy & Democracy

b)

Monarchy & Dictatorship

c)

Dictatorship & Republic

d)

Monarchy & Oligarchy

7.

What kind of Government existed in Apartheid South Africa where a few powerful minority rule over the weaker majority?

a)

Anarchy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Dictatorship

8.

What form of government has all power belong to a single central agency? (Like Japan, England, or Spain)

a)

Federal Government

b)

Confederation

c)

Unitary Government

9.

Which philosopher developed the Social Contract?

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

JJ Rousseau

10.

What was one weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

a)

Congress had no power to open up a small deli on the lower East Side

b)

Congress had no power to print paper money nor tax

c)

Couldn't bench press 90lbs

d)

Kryptonite

11.

Which thinker believed it was our right to rebel if the government didn't uphold their end of the Social Contract

a)

JJ Rousseau

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

John Locke

d)

John Wick

12.

Who drafted the Declaration of Independence

a)

George Washington

b)

Alexander Hamilton

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Benjamin Franklin

13.

Did the Declaration of Independence end slavery?

a)

True

b)

False

14.

What was the 3/5 Compromise about?

4 lines
15.

Which group wanted a Bill of Rights included in the Constituion?

a)

Federalists

b)

Anti-Federalists