Civics Exam

Question 1

What is Medicare?

Answer 1

Taxes that help people pay for healthcare as they get older.

Question 2

What is social security?

Answer 2

Taxes collected to aid workers who are retired or disabled.

Question 3

What is insurance?

Answer 3

Money taken out of your paycheck to pay for your healthcare.

Question 4

What is demand?

Answer 4

When consumers wish to purchase a product.

Question 5

What is supply?

Answer 5

The amount of product available to consumers.

Question 6

What is producer?

Answer 6

A person or business that supplies goods and services

Question 7

What is a consumer?

Answer 7

People and businesses that buy and use goods and services.

Question 8

What are goods?

Answer 8

Tangible products that we use to satisfy our wants and needs.

Question 9

What are services?

Answer 9

Activities people do for others.

Question 10

What is market economy?

Answer 10

An economy where producers and consumers decide how resources will be used.

Question 11

What is capitalism?

Answer 11

Economic system in which individuals and businesses are allowed to compete for profit with a minimum of government interference.

Question 12

_______ are things you are allowed to do because of nature or because of law.

Answer 12

Rights

Question 13

____________ are things we are supposed to do.

Answer 13

Responsibilities

Question 14

The first ten amendments are known as?

Answer 14

Bill of Rights

Question 15

What rights do the 1st amendment give people?

Answer 15

The freedom of religion, to assemble, to discuss, to address, to publish

Question 16

Which amendment gives people the right to own a gun?

Answer 16

2nd amendment

Question 17

Which act invades people’s privacy to protect them from terrorist attacks?

Answer 17

Patriot Act

Question 18

What ways has the Patriot Act impacted Americans?

Answer 18

• took away rights
• push people over the edge and turn into terrorists
• lead to racial profiling
• kept people from turning into terrorists
• etc.

Question 19

If you are born in Birmingham, AL, are you a citizen or not?

Answer 19

You are

Question 20

Is the Citizenship (Naturalization) Test hard to pass?

Answer 20

Yes

Question 21

What document was written between the government and the people in 1215?

Answer 21

Magna Carta

Question 22

What document was written almost 100 years before the American Bill of Rights and has similar rights?

Answer 22

English Bill of Rights

Question 23

Who came up with idea of separation of powers and the three branches of government?

Answer 23

Montesquieu

Question 24

What is income tax?

Answer 24

A tax on your income. Taxed by the federal, state, and local government.

Question 25

Whose writings encouraged colonist to rebel against England?

Answer 25

Thomas Paine

Question 26

Which Enlightenment thinker had an optimistic view of humanity and thus supported a democratic form of government?

Answer 26

John Locke

Question 27

Which government system do citizens hold power to rule and majority rules and vote directly on issues?

Answer 27

Democracy

Question 28

Which government system do people elect representatives to exercise power for them?

Answer 28

Republic

Question 29

Which government system are the people ruled by a king or queen and power is inherited?

Answer 29

Monarchy

Question 30

The Legislative Branch _________ laws.

Answer 30

Makes

Question 31

The houses of Congress are the _________________________________.

Answer 31

Senate and the House of Representatives

Question 32

Each state has a different number of representatives based on that state's ________________.

Answer 32

Population

Question 33

There are ______ Senators per state.

Answer 33

2

Question 34

Who is in charge of the Executive Branch?

Answer 34

President

Question 35

If something happened to the President, who would become the president?

Answer 35

Vice President

Question 36

How long is a President's term?

Answer 36

4 years

Question 37

The Executive Branch __________ the laws.

Answer 37

Executes/Enforces

Question 38

How long is a Supreme Justice's term?

Answer 38

Life

Question 39

Who appoints Supreme Court Justices?

Answer 39

President

Question 40

The Judicial Branch ___________ the laws.

Answer 40

Interprets

Question 41

The Constitution is ___________________.

Answer 41

The Supreme law of the land

Question 42

What do you call an account that you plan to put your money in that you're going to spend money quickly?

Answer 42

Checking account

Question 43

What do you call an account that you plan to put money in that you're going to save and not spend for a long period of time?

Answer 43

Savings account

Question 44

What is the study of how we make decisions in a world where resources are limited that is also known as the study of money?

Answer 44

Economy

Question 45

What is something that is required for survival, such as food, clothing, and shelter?

Answer 45

Needs

Question 46

____________ are things that you would like to have, but don't necessarily have to have to survive.

Answer 46

Wants

Question 47

____________ is defined as having an unlimited amounts of human wants, with a limited amount of resources.

Answer 47

Scarcity

Question 48

Our system of government, in which power is divided between the national and state levels is a ____________.

Answer 48

Federalism

Question 49

What types of powers are specifically given to Congress by the Constitution?

Answer 49

Expressed

Question 50

________ Powers are not necessarily mentioned in the Constitution but come from the "Necessary and Proper" clause of the constitution.

Answer 50

Implied

Question 51

What is the longest constitution in the world?

Answer 51

Alabama Constitution of 1901

Question 52

How many Representatives in total?

Answer 52

435

Question 53

Alabama has had a total of _ constitutions.

Answer 53

6