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Different Types of Government

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of government is ruled by one person, usually the child of the previous ruler?

a)

Monarchy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Democracy

d)

Theocracy

2.

What type of government is characterized by the rule of a small number of elite people?

a)

Oligarchy

b)

Monarchy

c)

Democracy

d)

Parliamentary

3.

What is a type of government in which all eligible members are able to vote on key issues and/or for elected representatives?

a)

Democracy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Dictatorship

e)

Authoritarian

4.

What is a form of government ruled by one person who usually seized power through unlawful means?

a)

Dictatorship

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Democracy

d)

Parliamentary

5.

What is a form of government wherein the eligible voters elect representatives to pass and implement the laws?

a)

Indirect Democracy, or Constitutional Republicanism

b)

Direct Democracy

c)

Oligarchy

d)

Monarchy

6.

What type of government is based primarily on religious principles?

a)

Theocracy

b)

Democracy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Oligarchy

7.

What type of system is governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate?

a)

Unitary

b)

Federal

c)

Confederate

d)

Parliamentary

8.

In what government system is power mainly held in local jurisdictions?

a)

Confederate

b)

Federal

c)

Unitary

d)

Monarchy

9.

In what government system is there a balance of powers between national and local levels?

a)

Federal

b)

Confederate

c)

Unitary

d)

Oligarchy

10.

In what type of government does the state, usually headed by a single ruler, control every business and even the private lives of its citizens?

a)

Totalitariansm

b)

Unitary

c)

Federal

d)

Parliamentary

11.

In what system of government do individual citizens make the laws directly by voting, without electing representatives?

a)

Direct Democracy

b)

Indirect Democracy, or Constitutional Republicanism

c)

Anarchy

d)

Monarchy

e)

Oligarchy

12.

What term describes the absence of any government?

a)

Anarchy

b)

Monarchy

c)

Oligarchy

d)

Democracy

e)

Republic

13.

In what category of government do the majority of citizens have very little or no political input?

a)

Authoritarian

b)

Direct Democracy

c)

Indirect Democracy

d)

Republic