SS 2 Civic Education 1st Term Exam
  • 1. 1. Duties and obligations of a good citizen include all but one
A) Checking of Government's activities
B) Environmental Sanitation
C) Curbing of Crimes
D) Dignity of Labour
  • 2. 2. Which of the following is a skill needed to preserve Traditions, Customs and Beliefs?
A) Organizational skills
B) Mass Mobilization Skills
C) Manipulative skills
D) Communication skills
  • 3. 3. An Electorate is a _____
A) Political leaders
B) Voters
C) Government
D) The Candidates
  • 4. 4. How to promote National Consciousness, National Integrity and Unity include all except one
A) Promptness
B) Inter-marriage
C) Focusing on others
D) Hospitality
  • 5. 5. A democracy which brings all citizens together periodically to deliberate on matters facing the society is ______
A) Public Balloting
B) Secret Balloting
C) Indirect democracy
D) Direct democracy
  • 6. 6. The characteristics of capitalist democracy where the judicial body, the electorate and the elect are required to be open in their dealing with issues concerning the state is _________
A) Integrity
B) Transparency
C) Courageous
D) Honesty
  • 7. 7. Which of the following could discourage the voters from voting for the right candidates?
A) Oppression
B) Violation
C) Intimidation
D) Manipulation
  • 8. 8. Political parties compete for powers through all but one
A) Campaigns
B) Manifestos
C) Announcement
D) Charisma
  • 9. 9. When political party present an elites who are brilliant as candidates, this means the party have compete for power through ______
A) Talent
B) Charisma
C) Personality
D) Persuasion
  • 10. 10. Employment can alleviate poverty through all these except one
A) Industrial Growth
B) It create a responsible government
C) Provision of income for the family
D) Economic Growth
  • 11. 11. Which of the following factor does not promote employment, free Education and medical care?
A) Agricultural development
B) Regular conduct of population census by Government
C) Corrupt-free System
D) Promotion of Privatization
  • 12. 12. Democracy traces it's origin to the city states of ______
A) Britain
B) Greece
C) Germany
D) Chad
  • 13. 13. Reasons for political apathy include all but one
A) Social critics
B) Religious beliefs
C) Illiteracy/ignorance
D) Unemployment
  • 14. 14. From the word Demokratia, demos means _____
A) Political system
B) Government
C) The nation
D) The people
  • 15. 15. An initiative in Nigeria aimed at reducing poverty and improving the well-being of the population in area such as agriculture, microfinance, youth empowerment is called _______
A) YOUWIN
B) OYES
C) NAPEP
D) NLNG
  • 16. 16. A poverty caused by death of partners, loss of job, sickness is referred to as _______
A) Situational poverty
B) Rotational poverty
C) Absolute poverty
D) Relative poverty
  • 17. 17. Any person not in a position to obtain essential commodities like food, shelter and clothing are said to experience _______ poverty
A) Absolute
B) Relative
C) Situational
D) Cyclical
  • 18. 18. An organized group of citizens, who act together as one with distinctive aims and objectives to seek and obtain control of government is _____
A) Political Committees
B) Political Party
C) Pressure groups
D) Organisation
  • 19. 19. Father's roles include all but one
A) Protection and defence
B) Total support
C) Assurance of peace
D) Overseer of Basic needs
  • 20. 20. How can Government address Political apathy?
A) Employment of more officials to coordinate elections
B) Slowing down the rallies of the political party
C) Decline in civil duties
D) Joining/forming political organization
  • 21. 21. When families have experienced poverty for more than one generation , it's called _______ poverty
A) Abstract
B) Cyclical
C) Generational
D) Family
  • 22. 22. When Villages aren't experiencing good facilities/infrastructures like health care center, technology etc. this could be referred to as _________ poverty
A) Urban poverty
B) City poverty
C) Rural poverty
D) Rural-urban poverty
  • 23. 23. Which of the following is a way of addressing political apathy?
A) Encouraging press freedom
B) Encouraging credible opposition in the political system
C) All of the above
D) Independent judiciary
  • 24. 24. One of the reasons why leaders fail to protect the interests of their followers is because there's need for them to payback those political fathers that helped them to get the Government sit, this is seen as _____
A) Godfatherism
B) Leadership interest
C) Favouritism
D) Political interest
  • 25. 25. Anti-party activities is a problem of ______
A) Public corporation
B) Political parties
C) Pressure groups
D) Constituted Authority
  • 26. 26. The cardinal plan or programme of a political party which the party intends to fulfil to the people if elected into power is called _____
A) Party Mission
B) Party Plans/promise
C) Manifesto
D) Campaign
  • 27. 27. The political party philosophy, system of thought and ideas that they tend to propagate to the electorate is called _____
A) Psychology
B) Ideology
C) Physiology
D) Philosophy
  • 28. 28. An election conducted within a political party to choose popular candidates that can represent the interest of the party in any election is ______
A) Nomination
B) General election
C) Primary election
D) Public Balloting
  • 29. 29. Political parties that involves individuals with unique and enviable qualities, talents, etc. is called _____
A) Professional parties
B) Majority parties
C) Caucus parties
D) Charismatic parties
  • 30. 30. Which of the following is the reason why leaders fail to protect the interests of their followers?
A) Dependency and Poverty
B) Revenue Allocation
C) All of the above
D) Party Interest
  • 31. 31. _____ is a system of government which is attained from public opinion and is accountable to it
A) Secret Balloting
B) Nationalism
C) Election
D) Democracy
  • 32. 32. _____is an economic system which gives right to private individual ownership of means of production
A) Capitalism
B) Socialism
C) Individualization
D) Feudalism
  • 33. 33. Freedom of the press means _____
A) The mass media should be allowed to report the affairs of the people
B) The mass media should be granted the freedom to report issues on the affairs of the state
C) The press should be allowed to address the issues of the forces
D) The mass media organization should be granted the freedom to report issues about the Executive
  • 34. 34. The loss of interest and manifestations of withdrawal from political activities is _____
A) Popular participation
B) Political apathy
C) Political withdrawal
D) Electoral apathy
  • 35. 35. Which of the following is the importance of responsible Parenthood to national development?
A) It train children to be vigilant
B) It trains children to be patriotic
C) All of the above
D) It train children to protect the state and people from arbitrary rules
  • 36. 36. Which of the following is a factor that promote employment, free education, and medical care?
A) Persuasion
B) All of the above
C) Discrimination
D) Agricultural development
  • 37. 37. Which of the following is a way of addressing political apathy?
A) Formation of legal political parties
B) All of the above
C) Cultivating civic values in the citizens
D) Appointment of unpopular leaders
  • 38. 38. Political parties present their manifestos to the public through ____
A) Rallies
B) The press
C) Campaigns
D) Public opinion
  • 39. 39. Manifestos simply means _____
A) Public declaration of the press programmes
B) Public declaration of plans, principles and programmes of the electoral commision during election
C) Public declaration of plans, principles and programmes of the political party
D) Public declaration of the citizens to the government
  • 40. 40. Which of the following organizations is set up by government to eradicate corruption?
A) NCNC
B) NDDP
C) ICPC
D) All of the above
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