AIC SS 2 Government Revision Test for 3rd Term 2022/23
  • 1. 1. One of the following is the reason for conducting election
A) Creating more political parties
B) To ensure peaceful changing of government
C) Strengthening the powers of the political parties
D) Uniting the people
  • 2. 2. The appointment, promotion and discipline of the civil servants are the responsibilities of _____
A) Civil service commission
B) Government
C) Electoral commission
D) Civil service union
  • 3. 3. Public opinion enables the government to ____
A) Allow the public to have freedon
B) To know the people's opinions about its activities
C) Organize political conferences
D) Punish political opponents
  • 4. 4. The major functions of an electoral commission is to ____
A) Support parties
B) Nominates candidates
C) Arrange for the conduction of election
D) Appoint chief of staff
  • 5. 5. An election conducted to resolve important political issues facing a country is called ____
A) General election
B) Bye- election
C) Referendum
D) Primary election
  • 6. 6. Local government laws are known as_____
A) Decrees
B) Acts
C) Orders
D) Bye laws
  • 7. 7. Free and fair election can exist where there is a _____
A) Double voting
B) Plebiscite
C) Referendum
D) Secret balloting
  • 8. 8. One of the reasons for the establishment of local government is to ____
A) Give more powers to the traditional rulers
B) Divide the people in order to rule them
C) Bring government nearer to the people
D) Promotes local chiefs
  • 9. 9. Public corporations are set up by ____
A) Governors
B) Act of parliaments
C) Board of directors
D) Ministers
  • 10. 10. The head of the caliphate in the Hausa/Fulani precolonial political system was called _____
A) Waziri
B) Mai
C) Oba
D) Emir
  • 11. 11. The policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance is _____
A) Imperialism
B) Federalism
C) Nationalism
D) Colonialism
  • 12. 12. One of the following is not the reason for colonialism
A) Investing surplus capital
B) Africa independence
C) Religious reasons
D) Geographical importance
  • 13. 13. The two effects of colonialism include the following
A) Upper and lower
B) Formal and informal
C) Positive and negative
D) Legal and illicit
  • 14. 14. One of the following people views neocolonialism as a new form of subjugation
A) Richard Nkrumah
B) Kwame Nkrumah
C) David Kwame
D) Chinua Achebe
  • 15. 15. The use of cultural, economic and political pressure to influence and control decisions in independent countries that were formal colonies is _____
A) Neo-colonialism
B) Political control
C) Colonialism
D) Feudalism
  • 16. 16. Positive effects of colonialism includes the following except ____
A) Economic dependence and exploitation
B) Introduction of money curency
C) Development of political parties
D) Creation of large political unit
  • 17. 17. A system of administration in which the British colonial government adopted as its colonial policy in dealing with the people is called ______
A) Rule of law
B) Authority
C) Policy of assimilation
D) Indirect rule
  • 18. 18. The official colonial policy of the French administration in West Africa is _____
A) Direct rule
B) Administration policy
C) Rule of law
D) Policy of assimilation
  • 19. 19. Policy of association include the following
A) The abolition of first class and second class citizens
B) Dethronement of the traditional rulers
C) Indigenat policy
D) Abolition of people's culture
  • 20. 20. The NCBWA was founded in ____
A) 1970
B) 1817
C) 1917
D) 1770
  • 21. 21. One of the following is not a provision for Clifford Constitution of 1922
A) The Cabinet Member
B) The Legislative Council
C) The Executive Council
D) Proclamation
  • 22. 22. The Governor of Nigeria at the outbreak of the second world war was ____
A) Shehu Shagari
B) John Richard
C) David John
D) Richard Bourdillon
  • 23. 23. The Governor was in office between year _____&____
A) 1939 and 1954
B) 1925 and 1930
C) 1939 and 1944
D) 1935 and 1940
  • 24. 24. The following except one is not the features of Richard Constitution
A) Legislative powers
B) Regionalism
C) Independence of the Judiciary
D) Bi-cameral legislature
  • 25. 25. Aims and objectives of Richard Constitution include _____
A) Political and National conscious
B) Inspiration
C) A broad based Constitution
D) Court of Appeals
  • 26. 26. The provisions for MacPherson Constitution include all but one
A) The Three provinces
B) Board of Directors
C) Council of ministers
D) The Chief Commissioners
  • 27. 27. MacPherson Constitution's weaknesses include the following except one
A) The motion for self government
B) Kano riot of 1953
C) Veto power
D) Dominated by illiterates
  • 28. 28. _____ Constitution was revised through conferences and the product of the revision exercise was Lyttleton Constitution
A) Clifford Constitution
B) Independent Constitution
C) MacPherson Constitution
D) Richard Constitution
  • 29. 29. The composition of the federal house of representatives under the Lyttleton Constitution include ____
A) 1 president and 5 officials members
B) 1 president and 4 unofficial member
C) 1 president and 2 officials members
D) 1 speaker (as president) and 3 ex-officials members
  • 30. 30. Main characteristics of the Independence Constitution of 1960 include ___
A) Executive power
B) Census figures
C) Parliamentary system.
D) Appointment of ministers
  • 31. 31. The controversy over the 1979 Presidential election result was ____
A) Over the disputes on the conduct of the election
B) Because one of the candidates was declared elected when the result for one of the states had not been received
C) Due to the interpretation of 1/4 of the vote cast in 2/3 of all the states in the Federation
D) Because educated Nigerians did not approve who received the number of votes
  • 32. 32. All the following were frontline fighters for Nigeria's Independence except ____
A) Herbert Macaulay
B) Aminu Kano
C) Obafemi Awolowo
D) Lateef Jakande
  • 33. 33. The first political party in Nigeria was _____
A) National Council of Nigeria Citizens
B) Northern People's Congress
C) Action Group
D) Nigeria National Democratic Party
  • 34. 34. Nigeria became a federation under the 1954 Constitution because the Constitution _____
A) Created the post of a Prime Minister
B) Abolished the practice of nominating some members of parliament
C) Provided for equal representation between the North and South
D) Provided for a division of functions between the centre and the component units
  • 35. 35. The first president of the National Council for Nigeria and Camerouns (NCNC) was _____
A) Ernest Okoli
B) Herbert Macaulay
C) Dr. Micheal Okpara
D) Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • 36. 36. The Kano riots of 1953 is significant because
A) It involves rioting between Igbos and Hausas
B) The police couldn't arrest the rioters, thus nobody was charged to court
C) Many innocent lives were lost
D) It was the first outbreak of violence between the major political parties
  • 37. 37. Who among the following was not a founding father of the Nigeria Youth Movement
A) Nnamdi Azikiwe
B) Samuel Akinsanya
C) Ernest Ikoli
D) Dr. C. Vaughan
  • 38. 38. The Jumiyya Mutanem Arewa cultural group later developed into the ______
A) United Middle Belt Congress
B) Northern People's Congress
C) Jamiyya People's Party
D) Nigeria National Democratic Party
  • 39. 39. Action Group was _____
A) An association that teamed up with the NYM to fight the NCNC
B) The first political party in Western state
C) A cultural association that sought the unity of the Yorubas
D) A political party that fought the British
  • 40. 40. The NCNC was formed in ____
A) 1936
B) 1951
C) 1944
D) 1923
  • 41. 41. One of the importance of federalism is that
A) Any components part can secede at any time
B) Citizens cannot be taxed by both State and federal government
C) Citizens can only be loyal to the state government
D) Each state can develop at its own pace
  • 42. 42. The immediate cause of the rain 1953 Kano riot was the ____
A) Weakness of 1946 Richard Constitution
B) Humiliation of Northern legislators in Lagos
C) Ambition of some politicians to secure Independence from British by force
D) Existence of regionally based political parties
  • 43. 43. Political parties are formed for all the following reasons except ____
A) Form a government
B) Organize elections
C) Educate the electorate
D) Canvass for votes
  • 44. 44. The supreme power of a state to make and enforce laws within its jurisdiction is called _____
A) Enfranchisement
B) Sovereignty
C) Independence
D) Decolonization
  • 45. 45. Equality before the law implies that
A) Everybody can do what he likes
B) The law does not respect the people
C) There is inequality between the executive and the citizens
D) No one citizens can sue the other
  • 46. 46. Which of the following is not true of Herbert Macaulay?
A) Co-founder of the National Council of Nigeria and Camerouns
B) Founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party
C) Founder of the National Congress of British West Africa
D) First Nigerian to found a political party
  • 47. 47. Under the Independence Constitution of Nigeria, the Head of State was ____
A) Sir James Robertson
B) Oliver Lyttleton
C) The Queen of England
D) The British Prime Minister
  • 48. 48. The major innovation of the Republican Constitution of 1963 was that ____
A) The cabinet was no longer responsible to the Legislature
B) The prime minister was nominated by the Executive Council
C) The Governor-general's office as the representative of the Queen was abolished
D) The prime minister ceased to be Head of State
  • 49. 49. The 1953 motion that Nigeria should attain self government in 1956 was moved by _____
A) Chief Obafemi Awolowo
B) Chief Anthony Enahoro
C) Sir Ahmadu Bello
D) Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • 50. 50. The total number of parties registered for the 1979 elections in Nigeria was ____
A) 5
B) 6
C) 7
D) 10
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