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WorksheetsLMS 7th SS - March Madness Week 2
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 30mins
What is a basic way citizens of a democratic nation can influence the government?
Voting
Obeying Laws
Working
Consuming Goods
In South Africa anyone over the age of 18 may vote in elections that determine the National Assembly (legislature). The National Assembly(legislature) chooses one person to be the executive leader. Based on this information, South Africa would be considered a
Federalist Confederation
Democratic Dictatorship
Presidential Dictatorship
Parliamentary Democracy
Who makes most of the important governmental decisions in an autocracy?
The ruler
The court system
The people
The elected legislature
Why do the individual voters have more power in a democracy than they do in an autocracy or an oligarchy?
Kings are always cruel rulers.
All of the power stays in the hands of the local government.
The voters get to choose the people who make laws.
Voters in democratic countries always choose qualified leaders.
Which BEST describes the government of Saudi Arabia?
Oligarchy
Democracy
Monarchy
Dictatorship
What are the three main religious groups of Southwest Asia?
Hinduism, Islam, Judaism
Christianity, Islam, Judaism
Christianity, Islam, Shamism
Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
What is the religion of most of the Arabs in Southwest Asia?
Judaism
Shia Muslim
Christianity
Sunni Muslim
Judaism, Islam, and Christianity all have what in common?
Monotheism
Atheism
Polytheism
What led to the end of the Ottoman Empire at the close of World War I?
The Ottomans were on the losing side of the war, along with Germany and Italy
The Empire spent too much money on buildings and new roads and went bankrupt.
The Ottoman government was overthrown by a revolt of factory workers who were unemployed when the war ended.
The people in the Empire were starving because a long drought had ruined agriculture.
Which describes the Holocaust?
The murder of millions of European Jews during World War II.
The destruction of all European governments during World War II.
The bombing of towns and villages in England and Germany during World War II.
The Russian policy of burning ground behind them as they retreated to stop the German invasion.
What is Zionism?
The idea that all religious groups should have their own states.
The hope that all governments will be based on religious principles.
The plan to let Arabs and Jews share the land in Palestine equally.
The belief that Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion where they had lived in biblical times.
What world organization created the new state of Israel in 1948 as a homeland for the Jews?
The United Nations
The European Union
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
The League of Nations
What was the outcome of the 1948 War between the new state of Israel and the Arabs living in and around Palestine?
The conflict ended and all Palestinian Arabs became citizens in the new State of Israel.
Israel won the war, and the new State of Israel was even larger than originally planned.
The United Nations decided to withdraw the proposal to create a State of Israel because of all the problems it caused in the area.
Almost no Jewish people were willing to go to Israel because of the country's Arab neighbors.
What generalization can be made about the relationship between national wealth and literacy?
Literacy is always higher in wealthy countries.
Literacy is usually higher in wealthy countries.
There is no relationship between a country's wealth and its literacy rate.
Countries with oil wealth always have the highest literacy rates.
How do literacy rates in Southwest Asia differ for men and women?
Women have a higher literacy rate in at least half of the countries.
There is very little difference in the literacy rates for men and women.
In nearly all the countries, women have a lower literacy rate than men.
