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Unit 1 Vocabulary
Test Description: Important terms and vocabulary from Unit 1.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Term to describe the institution created by society to create and enforce public policy
A
Economy
B
Religion
C
Contract
D
Government
2) A choice that government makes in response to a political issue
A
Executive Order
B
Conflict Resolution
C
Public Policy
D
Economic Stability
3) People who share a culture and a territory
A
society
B
internationals
C
pen pals
D
contract
4) Term which describes an agreement
A
Society
B
Conflict
C
Contract
D
Plan
5) Theory which says that an individual or small group used force (or violence or the threat of violence) to gain control of people; the people will be forced to submit to their will.
A
Divine Right
B
Social Contract
C
Evolution
D
Force
6) Theory that says the first government evolved naturally from the family
A
Evolution
B
Divine Right
C
Force
D
Social Contract
7) Theory that says the right to rule came directly from God
A
Divine Right
B
Force
C
Evolution
D
Social Contract
8) Theory that says society and government enter into a contract explaining what the government could and could not do; the right to rule comes from the people
A
Divine Right
B
Social Contract
C
Evolution
D
Force
9) Jacques Bossuet wrote, It is God who establishes kings. Which theory of the origin of government would he support?
A
divine right theory
B
social contract theory
C
force theory
D
evolution theory
10) Which theory is most closely associated with John Locke and the Enlightenment?
A
force theory
B
divine right theory
C
evolution theory
D
social contract theory
11) Imagine that a group of people attack and defeat another group. The first group's leader becomes the ruler of the defeated group. This example best illustrates which theory?
A
divine right theory
B
social contract
C
evolution theory
D
force theory
12) Order, protection, public services, economic stability and which choice below are the five purposes of government?
A
trade
B
conflict resolution
C
commerce
D
elections
13) If a nation experiences rioting in its major cities, which purpose has the government failed?
A
protection
B
economic stability
C
social services
D
order
14) If a nation has half of the population out of work, what purpose has its government failed to perform?
A
social contract
B
economic stability
C
order
D
conflict resolution
15) Which term is defined as the ability to control the actions of others?
A
government
B
elitist theory
C
bureaucracy
D
power
16) What do we call the supreme power within a specified territory?
A
sovereignty
B
contract
C
privacy
D
government
17) Who said that power is held by an economic elite, the people who control the means of production?
A
John Locke
B
Karl Marx
C
Thomas Jefferson
D
Max Weber
18) Who said that power is concentrated among a power elite made up of leaders from the military, government, and business.
A
Thomas Jefferson
B
Karl Marx
C
John Locke
D
C. Write Mills
19) A ruler that seizes the government by force but has no rightful claim to leadership is an example of...
A
power but not authority
B
legitimacy but not authority
C
power but not legitimacy
D
sovereignty but not power
20) The United States is a democracy, a presidential government, a federal system, and what?
A
oligarchy
B
limited government
C
anarchy
D
autocracy
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