Democracy Quiz: Trivia Test Questions!
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- 1.A government ruled by a small group of noble, land-owning families.
- A.
Monarchy
- B.
Aristocracy
- C.
Republic
- D.
Direct Democracy
- 2.A government in which supreme power is in the hands of one person.
- A.
Monarchy
- B.
Aristocracy
- C.
Republic
- D.
Direct Democracy
- 3.A form of government in which citizens rule and make laws directly rather than through representatives.
- A.
Monarchy
- B.
Aristocracy
- C.
Republic
- D.
Direct Democracy
- 4.A form of government in which power rests with citizens who have the right to elect the leaders who make governmental decisions.
- A.
Monarchy
- B.
Aristocracy
- C.
Republic
- D.
Direct Democracy
- 5.The right to have the law work in a known, orderly way.
- A.
Common Law
- B.
Divine Right
- C.
Due Process of Law
- D.
Social Contract
- 6.A concept that the right of rule derives directly from God, not from the consent of the people.
- A.
Common Law
- B.
Divine Right
- C.
Due Process of Law
- D.
Social Contract
- 7.An agreement among members of society.
- A.
Common Law
- B.
Divine Right
- C.
Due Process of Law
- D.
Social Contract
- 8.A representative government is one in which citizens elect representatives to make laws and policies for them.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.What changes did Pericles introduce into Greek government to make it more democratic?
- A.
Eliminated slavery
- B.
Helped increase the number of poorer citizens participating in the government
- C.
Reformed social classes to be based on wealth rather than heredity
- D.
Helped pay the debts of farmers
- 10.Which does not belong?
- A.
The Magna Carta
- B.
The Bill of Rights
- C.
Habeas Corpus Amendment Act
- 11.Which does not belong?
- A.
The 10 Commandments
- B.
The 12 Tables
- C.
The Magna Carta
- D.
The Code
- 12.What best describes what the Renaissance resurrected?
- A.
Religion
- B.
Philosophers
- C.
Individuality
- D.
Monarchies
- 13.The reformation was a movement to get all religion out of society.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Who believed that all human beings, by nature, had the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property?
- A.
Hobbes
- B.
Locke
- C.
Voltaire
- D.
Rousseau
- E.
Montesquieu
- 15.Believed that all men were born selfish by nature, and that man should be governed by a constitutional monarchy.
- A.
Hobbes
- B.
Locke
- C.
Voltaire
- D.
Rousseau
- E.
Montesquieu
- 16.Concluded that liberty could best be safeguarded by a separation of powers, that is, by divideing government into three separate branches.
- A.
Hobbes
- B.
Locke
- C.
Voltaire
- D.
Rousseau
- E.
Montesquieu
- 17.Who helped Britain defeat the French in the French and Indian War?
- A.
American Colonists
- B.
Italian Army
- C.
The Spaniards
- 18.A system of government in which power is divided between the states and the federal government.
- A.
Federal System
- B.
Separation of Powers
- C.
United Nations
- D.
Representative Government
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