Types of Government Quiz

Type of government that is controlled by a single person. Examples: monarchy, dictatorship

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Theocracy

• Democracy

A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.

• Democracy

• Communism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives.

• Direct democracy

• Republic

• Monarchy

• Representative democracy

Absence of government or control

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

• Democracy

An economic system based on private ownership of capital

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Communism

• Democracy

The leader/ruler inherits his or her power (passed through families)

• Dictatorship

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

A government in which the king or queen has absolute power.

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

• Absolute Monarchy

A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Socialism

• Democracy

A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Republic

System in which all property is owned by a classless society, not by individual states

• Socialism

• Communism (economic system)

• Representative democracy

• Republic