Formative #10: SW Asia's Government and Economics

If a country has a Prime Minister who is selected by the legislature, how would you describe that type of government?

• Autocratic Democracy
• Presidential Democracy
• Parliamentary Democracy
• Confederate Democracy

In which type of democracy are the legislative and executive branches separated and the leader, who is chosen by the people, is not able to be fired?

• Parliamentary Democracy
• Empirical Democracy
• Confederate Democracy
• Presidential Democracy

Which form of government has a single ruler who makes all the decisions taking the power out of the hands of the people?

• Oligarchy
• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Confederacy

In which form of government does the general population have a large amount of participation in the government?

• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Autocracy
• Federal

Which country has a Prime Minister as head of government, a Parliament that is called the Knesset, and has personal freedoms like the United States?

• Turkey
• Israel
• Jordan
• Saudi Arabia

In which country would the leader inherit the title from the previous leader?

• Saudi Arabia
• Turkey
• Israel
• Iraq

What feature does Saudi Arabia and Israel's governments have in common?

• Do not have a written constitution
• A hereditary monarch
• Equal rights for women

In which country are the laws based on the Qu'ran, the holy book of Islam?

• Israel
• Turkey
• Saudi Arabia
• None of the Above

This country recently changed from a parliamentary democracy to a presidential democracy in 2019.

• Saudi Arabia
• Israel
• Turkey
• Syria

What does O.P.E.C. stand for?

• Oil producing expert countries
• Outstanding Petroleum export countries
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• Organization of People Exporting Crude Oil