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