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Party Systems

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Government in which the citizens run the country and have an equal say.

a)

direct democracy

b)

representative democracy

c)

oligarchy

d)

monarchy

2.

Government in which the people vote to elect the leaders who listen to the people's concerns and make laws to help.

a)

anarchy

b)

communism

c)

dictatorship

d)

republic

3.

A single party runs a government where individual people do not own land, factories, or machinery. Instead, the government or the whole community owns these things. Everyone is supposed to share the wealth that they create.

a)

theocracy

b)

monarchy

c)

communism

d)

democracy

4.

A government in which absolute power is held by a single person or small group of people. The person or people in power are not held to account by any form of constitution or other constraints on what they can and can't do.

a)

monarchy

b)

dictatorship

c)

communism

d)

socialism

5.

Which country has communism as its government?

a)

Poland

b)

China

c)

Canada

d)

Costa Rica

6.

Which country has a republic?

a)

Iraq

b)

Somalia

c)

Egypt

d)

United States

7.

A political party is an organized group of people

who share similar political views and work to influence the government

in support of those views.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

There are countries with NO political parties.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

ALL countries have political parties.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

A few countries that are not ______ have a single-party

system with one major political party.

a)

monarchies

b)

democracies

c)

communist

d)

None of the above

11.

China is a

communist state with one political party, called the Chinese

______ Party .

a)

Social

b)

Republic

c)

Communist

d)

Christian

12.

The Chinese

government allows citizens to form parties that oppose the

CCP.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Multi-party systems where ___ or more

political parties share power.

a)

0

b)

2

c)

1

d)

3

14.

In many countries, lawmakers are usually ...

a)

selected

b)

elected

c)

appointed

d)

dictators

15.

—each party gets a number

of seats that corresponds to the amount of support the party gets from

voters.

a)

proportional representation

b)

practice representation

c)

presentation representation

d)

multi-party representation

16.

____ system with two major political parties that

hold most of the power.

a)

one party

b)

multiparty

c)

two-party

d)

communist

17.

Third parties usually win elections.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Usually third-parties focus on ____.

a)

one particular issue

b)

winning the election

c)

what other parties are doing