Government and Democracy: Test Questions
Exam I – Test Review
Instructions: The following are all 100 questions from the Exam I test banks (without the answer choices). The actual test will serve you 50 random questions and you will have 90 minutes to answer them on the day of the test.
Chapter 1 Questions
____ 1. _________ can best be defined as the individuals and institutions that make society’s rules and also possess the power and authority to enforce those rules.
____ 2. Generally, government serves at least three essential purposes: it resolves conflict, it defends the nation and its culture against by other nations, and it
____ 3. In a(n) _________, the power and authority of the government are in the hands of a single person.
____ 4. The divine right theory
____ 5. Most modern monarchies are constitutional monarchies in which the monarch shares governmental power with
____ 6. A dictatorship can be _________, which means that a leader or group of leaders seeks to control almost all aspects of social and economic life.
____ 7. The word democracy comes from the Greek demos, meaning _________, and kratia, meaning _________.
____ 8. The founders of the United States believed that direct democracy
____ 9. In a(n) _________, the will of the majority is expressed through small groups of individuals elected by the people to act as their representatives.
____ 10. A government that is run by members of old, noble families is referred to as a(n)
____ 11. In Greek, the term aristocracy means
____ 12. The term _________ typically refers to government systems in which the rich have a disproportionate influence.
____ 13. The term _________ is derived from the Greek words meaning “rule by the deity.”
____ 14. In writing the U.S. Constitution, the framers incorporated two basic principles of government that had evolved in England: representative government and
____ 15. Which of the following was a provision in the English Bill of Rights
Instructions: The following are all 100 questions from the Exam I test banks (without the answer choices). The actual test will serve you 50 random questions and you will have 90 minutes to answer them on the day of the test.
Chapter 1 Questions
____ 1. _________ can best be defined as the individuals and institutions that make society’s rules and also possess the power and authority to enforce those rules.
____ 2. Generally, government serves at least three essential purposes: it resolves conflict, it defends the nation and its culture against by other nations, and it
____ 3. In a(n) _________, the power and authority of the government are in the hands of a single person.
____ 4. The divine right theory
____ 5. Most modern monarchies are constitutional monarchies in which the monarch shares governmental power with
____ 6. A dictatorship can be _________, which means that a leader or group of leaders seeks to control almost all aspects of social and economic life.
____ 7. The word democracy comes from the Greek demos, meaning _________, and kratia, meaning _________.
____ 8. The founders of the United States believed that direct democracy
____ 9. In a(n) _________, the will of the majority is expressed through small groups of individuals elected by the people to act as their representatives.
____ 10. A government that is run by members of old, noble families is referred to as a(n)
____ 11. In Greek, the term aristocracy means
____ 12. The term _________ typically refers to government systems in which the rich have a disproportionate influence.
____ 13. The term _________ is derived from the Greek words meaning “rule by the deity.”
____ 14. In writing the U.S. Constitution, the framers incorporated two basic principles of government that had evolved in England: representative government and
____ 15. Which of the following was a provision in the English Bill of Rights