Question

Read the passage.

Amara is a 25-year-old woman who enjoys keeping up with current events. All of the newspapers, TV news channels, websites, and other sources of information available to Amara are either owned by her country’s government or can be published only after receiving special permission from the government. In Amara’s country, it is illegal to be caught publishing, viewing, or listening to sources of news or information that are not government approved.

What type of government does Amara’s country most likely have?

a dictatorship
a direct democracy
a constitutional monarchy
a representative democracy

Answer 1

Amara's country has a dictatorship as its governmental system.

Step-by-step explanation:

The country in which Amara lives is a dictatorship. A dictatorship is a type of government where the government, or just one individual that is the ruler, has control over everything in the country. Living in a country likes this is not easy at all, and in the case of Amara's interest to be keeping up with current events, it is pretty much impossible.

The reason why Amara would not be able to really keep up with current events is that she only gets censored information coming from a single source. In a dictatorship, the government or ruler, fully controls what comes out in public through the media, and everything else is forbidden and punishable. Usually, there isn't available information from foreign media, so a person is stuck in a situation where all the information he/she gets is actually government-sponsored propaganda.