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  • 1. Independent states that come together fora a common goal and follow a weak central government.
A) Unitary
B) democratic
C) oligarchic
D) Confederation
  • 2. Most powers are concentrated in the hands of a central government.
A) oligarchic
B) democratic
C) Unitary
D) Confederation
  • 3. Power is divided between one central authority and several regional authorities. States or provinces are given considerable self rule
A) Autocratic
B) Fedearl
C) Oligarchic
D) Unitary
  • 4. A type of government ruled by a small group of privleged people within a society.
A) democratic
B) confederation
C) unitary
D) oligarchic
  • 5. This type of government allows its citizens the highest level of participation.
A) autocratic
B) oligarchic
C) democratic
D) confederation
  • 6. The person in this type of government have supreme power.
A) democratic
B) confederation
C) autocratic
D) oligarchic
  • 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) false
B) true
  • 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
C) presidental and vice presidential
D) absolute and supreme
  • 11. In which form of democracy is the head of government elected from within the legislature?
A) absolute monarchy
B) dictatorship
C) presidential
D) parliamentary
  • 12. Who is the monarch for Canada, Australia and United Kingdom?
A) The Queen of England
B) only the UK has a Monarch.
C) The Queen of Australia
D) The Queen of Canada
  • 13. Who do the citizens vote for in the Parliamentary Democracy of the countries of Canada, Australia, and the UK?
A) the parliament and the monarch
B) only the parliament
C) only the monarch
D) the parliament and prime minister
  • 14. Who do the citizens vote for in the Presidential Democracies of Germany, Russia and Mexico?
A) only the president
B) only the legislture
C) the president and legislature
D) only the president and vice president
  • 15. What are the three basic economic questions?
A) what to produce? how much to produce? for what country to produce?
B) what to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?
C) what to produce? where to produce? for whom to produce?
D) When to prodcue? how to produce? how much to produce?
  • 16. Countries that have a communist and autocratic form of government have which type of economy?
A) command
B) traditional
C) market
  • 17. Democratic countries usually are on which side of the economic continuum?
A) traditional
B) market
C) command
  • 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) command
B) traditional
C) mixed
D) market
  • 20. What is a traditional economy?
A) there are no traditional economies in the world.
B) economy that is based on customs and traditions of how they have always done it.
C) governments have complete control of the 3 basic economic questions
D) the people decide what to produce and how much they will charge
  • 21. What are the 3 basic reasons the Europeans explored and colonized new lands?
A) god, gold, glory
B) land, power, wealth
C) gold, gold, gold
D) god, goods, glory
  • 22. Which present day country is the only one the Portuguese colonized in the Americas?
A) United States
B) Brazil
C) Canada
D) Mexico
  • 23. Prince Henry's biggest accomplishment was that
A) he opened a school for navigation
B) he was the most famous explorer ever.
C) he is the one that founded Brazil.
D) explored the whole west coast of Africa himself.
  • 24. Why did the British colonize Australia?
A) they wanted to kill the Aborigines.
B) They lost their homeland to Spain and needed a new place to live.
C) they wanted more land and were very greedy.
D) they needed a place to send prisoners.
  • 25. Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of World War I?
A) an explosion on the battleship Maine.
B) European empire building in Africa and Asia.
C) fear of the spread of communism.
D) the Japanese invasion of the Phillipines
  • 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
C) the Aborigines adopted all the practices of the British.
D) the Aborigines became extinct.
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