1. Which one of the following statements is not true regarding Democracy
a) Democracy is the form of government in which rulers are elected by the people.
b) In the democracy, the final decision-making power must rest with those elected by the people.
c) Democracy must be based on a free and fair election where those currently in power have a fair chance of losing.
d) In a democracy, each adult citizen need not have one vote and each one may or may not have one value.
Answer: d.
2. Which one of the following statements is not true regarding arguments against Democracy.
a) Leaders keep changing in democracy, this leads to instability.
b) Democracy leads to corruption for electoral competition.
c) Ordinary people do not know what is good for them; they should not decide anything.
d) In the democracy, the leader takes good decisions always.
Answer: d
3. Which one of the following statements is not true regarding arguments in favor of Democracy.
a) A democratic government is a better government because it is more a more accountable form of government.
b) Democracy improves the quality of decision-making.
c) Democracy provides a method to deal with the differences.
d) Democratic government does not allow to correct own mistake.
Answer: d.
4. Which one of the following is not true about the constitution.
a) It generates the degree of trust and coordination that is necessary for different kinds of people to live together.
b) It specifies the construction of government and limits the power of government.
c) It express the aspiration of the people about creating the good society
d) All countries that have constitutions are necessarily democratic.
Answer: d. All countries that have constitutions are not necessarily democratic.
5. Which one of the following is not true.
a) Abdul Kalam Azad: First Education Minister.
b) T.T Krishnamachari: First Finance Minister
c) Constituents Assembly has 299 members.
d) Our Constitution came into effect on 26 November 1949.
Answer: d. Our Constitution came into effect on 26 January 1950. The constituent assembly had adopted our constitution on 26 November 1949.
6. Match the following leaders with their roles in the making of the Constitution:
a Motilal Nehru. i. President of the Constituent Assembly
b B.R. Ambedkar ii Member of the Constituent Assembly
c Rajendra Prasad iii Chairman of the Drafting Committee
d Sarojini Naidu iv Prepared a Constitution for India in 1928
Answer: a-iv; b-iii; c-i; d-ii;
7. Here are some of the guiding values of the Constitution and their meaning. Rewrite them by matching them correctly.
a) Sovereign. i. The government will not favor any religion.
b) Republic. ii People have the supreme right to make decisions.
c) Fraternity. iii Head of the state is an elected person.
d) Secular. iv People should live like brothers and sisters.
Answer: a-ii; b-iii; c-iv; d-i;
8. Which of these is a provision that a democratic constitution does not have?.
a Powers of the head of the state
b Name of the head of the state
c Powers of the legislature
d Name of the country
Answer: b.
9. Which of these was the most salient underlying conflict in the making of a democratic constitution in South Africa?
a Between South Africa and its neighbors.
b Between men and women
c Between the white majority and the black minority
d Between the colored minority and the black majority
Answer: c.
10. Here are some of the guiding values of the Constitution and their meaning. Rewrite them by matching them correctly.
a) Socialist. i) Citizens cannot be discriminated against on the ground of caste, religion, gender.
b) Justice. ii) There is no unreasonable restriction on the citizens.
c) Liberty. iii) Wealth is generated socially and should be shared equally by society.
d) Fraternity. iv) All of us should behave as if we are members of the same family. No one should treat a fellow citizen as inferior.
Answer: a-iii; b-i; c-ii; d-iv;
11. Which one of the following is not true regarding democratic elections
a) Everyone should be able to choose and everyone should have one and has equal values.
b) Parties and candidates should be free to contest elections and should offer to the voters.
c) Candidate preferred by people should get elected.
d) Election need not be conducted in regular intervals.
Answer: d. Must be held in regular interval
12. Which one of the following is not true for the Loksabha elections
a) The country is divided into 543 constituencies.
b) 84 seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste.
c) 47 seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes.
d) 120 seats are reserved for OBC.
Answer: d. there are no OBC seats.
13. Which one of the following is not true about the citizen of India.
a) Citizens should have a minimum of 35 years of age in order to get nominated for Rajya Sabha seats.
b) Boy should have a minimum of 21 years old in order to get married.
c) Everyone who is 18 years above age can vote.
d) Citizens should have a minimum of 25 years of age in order to get nominated for Lok Sabha seats.
Answer: a. Minimum 30 years of age.
14. Which one of the following is not true.
a) Indira Gandhi gave the slogan of Garibi Hatao( Remove Poverty) in the Lok Sabha election in 1971.
b) Slave Democracy was the slogan of Jayaprakash Narayan ( Janata Dal) in the 1977 Lok Sabha Election.
c) Left Front used the " Land to Tiller " slogan in the West Bengal Assembly election in 1977.
d) " Protect the self-respect of Telugus" was a slogan used by the Telangana Rastra Samiti party under Chandra Sekhar Rao in the 2014 assembly election.
Answer: d, " Protect the self-respect of Telugus" was a slogan used by N. T. Rama Rao, the leader of the Telugu Desam Party in the 1983 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections.
15. Which one of the following is not true.
a) Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) is appointed by the President of India. Once appointed CEC is not answerable to the president and government.
b) In India, poor, illiterate people vote in a larger proportion whereas, in the USA poor people, African Americans vote much less than rich and white Americans.
c) Elections enable people to judge the performance of the government.
d) Elections enable people to evaluate the performance of the judiciary.
Answer: d.
16. Which of these is not a good reason to say that Indian elections are democratic?
a) India has the largest number of voters in the world.
b India’s Election Commission is very powerful.
c In India, everyone above the age of 18 has a right to vote.
d In India, the losing parties accept the electoral verdict.
Answer: a
17. Match the following :
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a) It is necessary to keep the voters list up to date because
b) Some constituencies are reserved for SCs and STs so that
c) Everyone has one and only one vote so that
d) Party in power is not allowed to use government vehicles because
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i) there is a fair representation of all sections of our society
ii) everyone has an equal opportunity to elect their representative
iii) all candidates must have a fair chance of competing in elections
iv) some people may have moved away from the area where they voted last
Answer: a-iv; b-i; c-ii; d-iii;
18. Which one of the following is not true about the Indian Governance system.
a) President is the head of state and the highest formal authority in the country.
b) Prime Minister is the head of government and actually exercises all government power.
c) Parliament comprises Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, and President.
d) President of India has de-facto power.
Answer: d; de-facto power lies with Prime Minister and President has de-Jure power.
19. Which one of the following is not true.
a) B.P Mandal or Mandal commission gave its report in 1980 on Socially and educationally Backward class.
b) Janta Dal led by V. P Singh implemented the Mandal Commission report
c) Indira Sawhney vs Union of India case is related to SC/ST reservation.
d) Mandal commission suggested a 27 % quota of a government job for OBC.
Answer: c Indira Sawhney vs Union of India case is related to OBC reservation.
20. Which one of the following is not true.
a) Elected by people for a specific period is called the political executive.
b) Civil servants are called permanent executive.
c) Civil servants work under the political executives and assist them in day-to-day activities.
d) Non-political executive has more power than political executive.
Answer: d.
21. Which one of the following is not true about the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers.
a) There is no direct election to the post of Prime Minister.
b) Cabinet Ministers are the inner ring of the council of ministers. It comprises about 25 ministers.
c) Ministry of state with independent charge is usually in charge of large Ministries. They participate in the cabinet meeting only when specially invited.
d) Ministry of the state is attached to and required to assist cabinet ministry.
Answer: c. Ministry of state with independent charge is usually in charge of small Ministries. They participate in the cabinet meeting only when specially invited.
22. Which one of the following is not true about Prime Minister and President.
a) The constitution of India does not say very much about the powers of Prime Minister power or Minister power or their relationship with each other.
b) Prime minister has the power to dismiss the minister.
c) Prime minister is the head of the government and the President is the head of the state.
d) Prime Minister supervises the overall functioning of all the political parties in the country so that they operate in harmony to achieve the objective of the state.
Answer: d. President supervises the overall functioning of all the political parties in the country so that they operate in harmony to achieve the objective of the state.
23. Which one of the following is not true about the President.
a) President of India is like the Queen of Britain whose functions are to a large extent ceremonial.
b) President can never claim the kind of direct popular mandate that the Prime Minister can.
c) President has de facto power.
d) President appoints the Chief Justice of India, judges of Supreme and High court.
Answer: c. President has only nominal power or de-jure power.
24. Which one of the following is not true about the Judiciary.
a) India has an integrated judiciary and which means the Supreme court controls the judicial administration of the country.
b) Independence of the judiciary means that it is not under the control of the legislature or the executive.
c) In practice it now means that the senior judges of the Supreme Court select the new judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts.
d) High court of India has the power of Judicial review.
Answer: d. The high court of India has the power of Judicial review.
25. If you are elected as the President of India which of the following decision can you take on your own?
a) Select the person you like as Prime Minister.
b) Dismiss a Prime Minister who has a majority in Lok Sabha.
c) Ask for reconsideration of a bill passed by both the Houses.
d) Nominate the leaders of your choice to the Council of Ministers.
Answer: c.
26. Who among the following is a part of the political executive?
a) District Collector
b) Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs
c) Home Minister
d) Director General of Police
Answer: c.
27. Which of the following statements about the judiciary is false?
a) Every law passed by the Parliament needs the approval of the Supreme Court
b) Judiciary can strike down a law if it goes against the spirit of the Constitution
c) Judiciary is independent of the Executive
d) Any citizen can approach the courts if her rights are violated
Answer: c.
28. Which of the following institutions can make changes to an existing law of the country?
a) The Supreme Court
b) The President
c) The Prime Minister
d) The Parliament
Answer: d.
29. Match the ministry with the news that the ministry may have released:
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a) A new policy is being made to increase the jute exports from the country.
b) Telephone services will be made more accessible to rural areas.
c) The price of rice and wheat sold under the Public Distribution System will go down.
d) A pulse polio campaign will be launched.
e) The allowances of the soldiers posted on high altitudes will be increased.
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i) Ministry of Defence
ii ) Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Public Distribution
iii) Ministry of Health
iv) Ministry of Commerce and Industry
v) Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Answer: a-iv; b-v; c-ii; d-iii; e-i;
30. Which one of the following is not true about democratic rights.
a) Rights are claims of a person over other persons, over the society, and over the government.
b) Right is possible when you make a claim and that gets fulfilled
c) When the socially recognized claims are written into law they acquire real force.
d) Rights are reasonable claims of persons recognized by society and sanctioned by law.
Answer: b.
Right is possible when you make a claim that is equally possible for others.
31. Which one of the following is not true about democratic rights.
a) Fundamental Rights are the basic feature of India’s Constitution.
b) Our constitution provides 7 Fundamental rights.
c) Writ is a formal document containing an order of the court to the government issued only by the High court or Supreme Court.
d) Fundamental rights are conscience of Indian Constitutions.
Answer: b. Our constitution provides 6 Fundamental rights.
1. Right to Equality
2. Right to Freedom
3. Right against exploitation
4. Right to freedom of religion
5. Cultural and education rights
6. Rights to Constitutional remedies
32. Which one of the following is not true about the right to equality
a) Law of equality means the law applies in the same manner to all.
b) Equality means giving everyone an equal opportunity to achieve whatever one is capable of.
c) The government shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth.
d) Providing Reservation for SC, ST, and others is against the right to equality.
Answer: d
33. Which one of the following is not true about the right to freedom.
a) Freedom means the absence of constraints. In practical life, it means the absence of interference in our affairs by others.
b) In our constitution, the right to freedom contains freedom of speech and expression, peaceful assembly, forming associations and unions, free movement within the country, practice any profession, and reside in any part of the country.
c) Citizens have not the freedom to hold meetings, processions, rallies, and demonstrations on any issue.
d) Women cannot be told that some kinds of occupations are not for them
Answer: c. Citizens have not the freedom to hold meetings, processions, rallies, and demonstrations on any issue.
34. The Constitution says that no person can be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law. What is does not it mean:
a) It means that no person can be killed unless the court has ordered a death sentence.
b) police officers cannot arrest or detain any citizen without a court order.
c) For arrest or custody, will have to be informed of the reasons.
d) the Arrested person has the right to consult a lawyer or engage a lawyer for his defense.
Answer: b. police officers cannot arrest or detain any citizen without proper legal justification
35. Which one of the following is not true regarding Right against Exploitation.
a) Constitution has provisions to prevent exploitation of weaker sections of the society.
b) Our constitution mentioned three specific evils and declared them illegal.
c) The traffic of human beings, child labor, forced labor, and begging has been banned.
d) No one can employ a child below the age of sixteen to work in any factory or mine or in any other hazardous work.
Answer: d. age of fourteen
36. Which one of the following is not true regarding the Right to freedom of religion.
a) Secularism is based on the idea that the state is concerned only with relations among human beings, and not with the relation between human beings and God.
b) Indian secularism practices an attitude of a principled and equal distance from all religions.
c) Every person has a right to profess, practice, and propagate the religion.
d) Government can compel any person to pay any taxes for the promotion or maintenance of
any particular religion or religious institution.
Answer: d;
37. Which one of the following is not true regarding cultural and educational rights.
a) Our constitution has provided a written guarantee right to the minorities.
b) It is the language, culture, and religion of minorities that need special protection
c) Here minority means only religious minority at the national level.
d) Any section of citizens with a distinct language or culture has a right to conserve it.
Answer: c; Here minority does not mean only religious minority at the national level.
38. Which one of the following is not true regarding the Right to Constitutional Remedies.
a) Fundamental Right violation, we can directly approach the Supreme Court or the High Court of a state.
b) Ambedkar called the Right to Constitutional Remedies, ‘the heart and soul’ of our Constitution.
c) There can be no law or action that violates the Fundamental Rights
d) Courts can not enforce the Fundamental Rights against private individuals and bodies.
Answer: d. Courts can enforce Fundamental Rights against private individuals and bodies.
39. Which one of the following is not true regarding the Fundamental Rights.
a) Right to information act was made under the fundamental right of equality.
b) Supreme Court has expanded the meaning of the right to life to include the right to food.
c) right to property is not a Fundamental Right but it is a constitutional right
d) Right to vote in elections is an important constitutional right
Answer: a.Right to information act was made under Fundamental Right to freedom of thought and expression
40. Which of the following is not an instance of an exercise of a fundamental right?
a ) Workers from Bihar go to Punjab to work on the farms
b) Christian missions set up a chain of missionary schools
c) Men and women government employees get the same salary
d) Parents’ property is inherited by their children
Answer: d.
41. Which of the following freedoms is not available to an Indian citizen?
a) Freedom to criticize the government
b) Freedom to participate in armed revolution
c) Freedom to start a movement to change the government
d) Freedom to oppose the central values of the Constitution
Answer: b.
42. Which of the following rights is available under the Indian Constitution?
a) Right to work
b) Right to an adequate livelihood
c) Right to protect one’s culture
d) Right to privacy
Answer: d.
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