Quiz on Types of

Governments

Question 1
In what form of government does a
single person have unlimited power?
Threats of punishment and violence
might be used.

Q1 Answer
Autocracy

Question 2
What form of government is one in
which a few people hold all of the
power?

Q2 Answer
Oligarchy

Question 3
In what form of government does the
government own property such as
businesses and farms and also provide
healthcare, education and welfare to
the people?

Q3 Answer
Communism

Question 4
In this form of government, people are
forced to do what the government tells
them and may also be prevented from
leaving the country. Name it.

Q4 Answer
Totalitarianism

Question 5
In what form of government is
everyone eligible to vote and the
government is elected by the people?

Q5 Answer
Democracy

Question 6
What form of government is ruled by a
king, queen, emperor, or empress?

Q6 Answer
Monarchy

Question 7
In this form of government, the country is
ruled by a single leader. The leader has
not been elected and may use force to
keep control.

Q7 Answer
Dictatorship

Question 8
A country that has no monarch but is
headed by an elected president or official
is a ________.

Q8 Answer
Republic

Question 9
In what form of government is a Deity
(God) recognized as the supreme civil
ruler?

Q9 Answer
Theocracy

Question 10
This form of government has a president
or prime minister as head of state, but the
people elect the parliament. What is the
name for this form of government?

Q10 Answer
Parliamentary Democracy