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