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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not a function of our government?
Keep Order
Provide leadership
Provide Church Services
Provide Security
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not an example of Providing Security?
Preventing Crime
Protecting Citizens from foreign attacks.
Making sure our military is properly equipped
Building a library.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not an example of Keeping Order?
Passing traffic laws
Conducting Foreign Relations
Enforcing traffic laws
Establishing Courts
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not an example of Providing Services?
Providing Libraries
Providing Parks
Proving Water and Utilities
Managing the Economy
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which is an example of our government providing economic security?
Regulatig conditions under which banks can take control of homes when owners fail to pay their mortgage
Building a strong navy
Writing a traffic ticket
Building a nature trail to walk on
- 6. Multiple Choice
What it is government?
An institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control
A group of people who collect taxes to help pay for their luxury vehicles
An organization whose goal is to prepare citizens for menial jobs
An institution created to spread religion throughout the nation
- 7. Multiple Choice
Anarchy is often referred as the _____________ to philosophers.
Theory of Evolution
State of Nature
Theory of Chaos
State of Upheaval
- 8. Multiple Choice
A state without government and laws
oligarchy
monarchy
anarchy
democracy
- 9. Multiple Choice
It is possible for groups of people to consider themselves a nation without having their own country.
True
False
- 10. Multiple Choice
a group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometime religion
nation
state
country
- 11. Multiple Choice
a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government
nation
state
religion
- 12. Multiple Choice
When studying government which two terms can be used interchangeably?
State and country
State and nation
Nation and country
- 13. Multiple Choice
the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries
Ms. Kolios
power
presidency
sovereignty
- 14. Multiple Choice
What are the essential features of a state?
Population, Technology, Authority, Land
Population, Territory, Sovereignty, Government
Territory, Sovereignty, Government, Technology
Government, Territory, Laws, People
- 15. Multiple Choice
God created the state and gave rulers the right to rule -
Divine Right Theory
Evolutionary Theory
Force Theory
Social Contract Theory
- 16. Multiple Choice
Person or group gains control over an area and forces all within it to submit to their rule -
Divine Right Theory
Evolutionary Theory
Force Theory
Social Contract Theory
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which of the following theories expresses the belief that the state developed naturally out of family and tribal organizations?
Force Theory
Evolutionary Theory
Divine Right Theory
Social Contract Theory
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which statement about the social contract theory is NOT true?
The state was created voluntarily by free people.
The state is a natural extension of people's family structure.
Governmental powers are granted by the people.
Governmental powers may be limited by the people.
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following describes a "Hobbesian State of Nature?"fun, loving, happy, joyunicorns, puppy dogs, lollipos.solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and shortindecent, commerical, altruistic, tremendous
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat is an agreement between people and the government?ConsentNatural RightsSocial ContractVoting
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