Who picks the prime minister within the parliamentary system of government?

• the voters • the cabinet • the judiciary • the president • the legislature Answer: 5, the legislature. This information is shown by the chart and implied in the second paragraph of the passage. This is a question testing your comprehension of the material and the question, not your ability to distinguish between fact and opinion. Just wanted to throw that in there to make sure you were on top of it! Skill Exercise: Compare and Contrast In many parts of daily life, we find ourselves needing to use our abilities to compare and contrast in order to assure that we make the best choice. For example, when choosing between fruit in a grocery store, you examine two or more pieces of fruit to see how they are the same and how they are different. This search for similarities and differences can aide you in evaluating them. You would not, however, compare the color of a plum with the cost of a watermelon because the categories of things that you are comparing and contrasting need to be ...  more