- 1. Independent states that come together fora a common goal and follow a weak central government.
A) Confederation
B) Unitary
- 2. Most powers are concentrated in the hands of a central government.
A) Unitary
B) Confederation
- 3. Power is divided between one central authority and several regional authorities. States or provinces are given considerable self rule
A) Fedearl
B) Unitary
- 4. A type of government ruled by a small group of privleged people within a society.
A) democratic
B) oligarchic
- 5. This type of government allows its citizens the highest level of participation.
A) autocratic
B) democratic
- 6. The person in this type of government have supreme power.
A) autocratic
B) confederation
- 7. The European Union has increased trade by removing tariffs among member countries.
A) true
B) false
- 8. In a representative democracy citizens vote to elect members to make decisions for them.
A) true
B) false
- 9. The United Kingdom has an absolute monarchy
A) false
B) true
- 10. The two predominant forms of democracy are
A) presidential and parliamentary
B) absolute and representative
- 11. In which form of democracy is the head of government elected from within the legislature?
A) presidential
B) parliamentary
- 12. Who is the monarch for Canada, Australia and United Kingdom?
A) The Queen of Australia
B) The Queen of England
- 13. Who do the citizens vote for in the Parliamentary Democracy of the countries of Canada, Australia, and the UK?
A) only the parliament
B) only the monarch
- 14. Who do the citizens vote for in the Presidential Democracies of Germany, Russia and Mexico?
A) only the president
B) the president and legislature
- 15. What are the three basic economic questions?
A) what to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?
B) what to produce? where to produce? for whom to produce?
- 16. Countries that have a communist and autocratic form of government have which type of economy?
A) market
B) command
- 17. Democratic countries usually are on which side of the economic continuum?
A) traditional
B) market
- 18. All countries have either a pure command or pure market economy.
A) false
B) true
- 19. Countries that fall somewhere between pure market and pure command are considered which type of economy?
A) market
B) mixed
- 20. What is a traditional economy?
A) governments have complete control of the 3 basic economic questions
B) economy that is based on customs and traditions of how they have always done it.
- 21. What are the 3 basic reasons the Europeans explored and colonized new lands?
A) god, gold, glory
B) gold, gold, gold
- 22. Which present day country is the only one the Portuguese colonized in the Americas?
A) United States
B) Brazil
- 23. Prince Henry's biggest accomplishment was that
A) he opened a school for navigation
B) explored the whole west coast of Africa himself.
- 24. Why did the British colonize Australia?
A) they needed a place to send prisoners.
B) they wanted more land and were very greedy.
- 25. Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of World War I?
A) fear of the spread of communism.
B) European empire building in Africa and Asia.
- 26. What effects did the British have on the Aborigines of Australia?
A) most died of diseases they had never been exposed from
B) most died from fighting with the Brtish
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