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Benchmark Terms

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Monarchy

a)

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution

b)

the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons

c)

a form of government with a monarch at the head

d)

a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god

2.

What is an Oligarchy?

a)

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution

b)

a form of government with a monarch at the head

c)

a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god

d)

the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons

3.

What is a Theocracy?

a)

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution

b)

a form of government with a monarch at the head

c)

the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons

d)

a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god

4.

What is the Thomas Hobbes social contract

a)

English philosopher and political theorist

b)

the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons

c)

elects a head of government independently of the legislature

d)

a system of political organization in which most or all of the governing power resides in a centralized government, in contrast to a federal state.

5.

Who is John Locke?

a)

counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups

b)

French philosopher born in switzerland

c)

the head of an elected government; the principal minister of a sovereign or state.

d)

English philosopher and political theorist

6.

Who is Rousseau?

(a)  

7.

What is a Unitary Government?

(a)  

8.

What is a Presidential Democracy?

(a)  

9.

What is a Parliamentary?

(a)  

10.

What is an Authoritarian?

(a)  

11.

What are the Magna Carta Rights?

(a)  

12.

What is Popular Sovereignty?

(a)  

13.

What are Checks and Balances?

(a)  

14.

What is Judicial Restraint?

(a)  

15.

What is Judicial Activism?

(a)  

16.

What is Federalism?

(a)  

17.

What was the Weaknesses of The Articles of Confederation?

(a)  

18.

What is a Prime Minister?

(a)  

19.

What is a Chief Executive?

(a)  

20.

What is a Chief of Party?

(a)