Elections and voting quiz for Grade 8 students with answers.

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🗳️ Suffrage: The right to vote. It wasn't always universal; groups like women and minorities had to fight for it.
• 📜 Constituency: A geographical area that an elected official represents.
• 🏢 Polling Station: The location where you go to cast your vote.
• 🤝 Political Party: An organized group of people with similar political aims and opinions, that seeks to influence public policy by getting its candidates elected to public office.
• ✅ Ballot: A device used to cast votes in an election.
• 📊 Majority Rule: The principle that the candidate or option that receives more than half of the votes wins.
• 🗓️ Election Cycle: The recurring pattern of elections, like presidential elections every four years.

🧪 Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following is the right to vote called?
   1. A. Citizenship
   2. B. Suffrage
   3. C. Democracy
   4. D. Representation


2. What is a geographical area that an elected official represents called?
   1. A. District
   2. B. County
   3. C. Constituency
   4. D. Precinct


3. Where do you go to cast your vote in an election?
   1. A. City Hall
   2. B. Polling Station
   3. C. Town Square
   4. D. Government Office


4. What is an organized group of people with similar political aims called?
   1. A. Syndicate
   2. B. Political Party
   3. C. Association
   4. D. Club


5. What is the device used to cast votes in an election called?
   1. A. Form
   2. B. Ticket
   3. C. Ballot
   4. D. Slip


6. Which principle states that the candidate with more than half the votes wins?
   1. A. Absolute Victory
   2. B. Majority Rule
   3. C. Plurality Wins
   4. D. Consensus Building


7. How often are presidential elections typically held in the United States?
   1. A. Every 2 years
   2. B. Every 4 years
   3. C. Every 5 years
   4. D. Every 6 years