Question

Drag each item to the correct location to classify each type of fact.

1. Quotation
2. Extended definition
3. Statistic

A. Established under Cleisthenes in 508 BC, the Greek city-state of Athens became the first democracy. A form of government in which the citizenry has the power to inform legislation and choose elected officials, the word, "democracy," comes from the Greek words demos meaning the people and kratia meaning power.

B. Thomas Paine once said, "...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist."

C. More than 50 percent of countries around the world are democracies of some kind, with Norway and Iceland ranking as the most democratic.

Answer 1

1. Quotation — B
(Thomas Paine's direct quoted sentence.)

2. Extended definition — A
(History plus definition and word origin of "democracy.")

3. Statistic — C
("More than 50 percent..." is a numerical claim about democracies.)