SS 2 Civic Education 1st Term Exam
  • 1. 1. Duties and obligations of a good citizen include all but one
A) Environmental Sanitation
B) Curbing of Crimes
C) Checking of Government's activities
D) Dignity of Labour
  • 2. 2. Which of the following is a skill needed to preserve Traditions, Customs and Beliefs?
A) Organizational skills
B) Manipulative skills
C) Communication skills
D) Mass Mobilization Skills
  • 3. 3. An Electorate is a _____
A) The Candidates
B) Voters
C) Government
D) Political leaders
  • 4. 4. How to promote National Consciousness, National Integrity and Unity include all except one
A) Promptness
B) Focusing on others
C) Hospitality
D) Inter-marriage
  • 5. 5. A democracy which brings all citizens together periodically to deliberate on matters facing the society is ______
A) Direct democracy
B) Secret Balloting
C) Indirect 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) Honesty
B) Integrity
C) Courageous
D) Transparency
  • 7. 7. Which of the following could discourage the voters from voting for the right candidates?
A) Violation
B) Oppression
C) Intimidation
D) Manipulation
  • 8. 8. Political parties compete for powers through all but one
A) Manifestos
B) Announcement
C) Campaigns
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) Personality
C) Charisma
D) Persuasion
  • 10. 10. Employment can alleviate poverty through all these except one
A) Provision of income for the family
B) It create a responsible government
C) Economic Growth
D) Industrial Growth
  • 11. 11. Which of the following factor does not promote employment, free Education and medical care?
A) Agricultural development
B) Corrupt-free System
C) Regular conduct of population census by Government
D) Promotion of Privatization
  • 12. 12. Democracy traces it's origin to the city states of ______
A) Britain
B) Greece
C) Chad
D) Germany
  • 13. 13. Reasons for political apathy include all but one
A) Social critics
B) Illiteracy/ignorance
C) Religious beliefs
D) Unemployment
  • 14. 14. From the word Demokratia, demos means _____
A) The people
B) Government
C) The nation
D) Political system
  • 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) NAPEP
C) OYES
D) NLNG
  • 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) Relative
C) Situational
D) Absolute
  • 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) Assurance of peace
C) Total support
D) Overseer of Basic needs
  • 20. 20. How can Government address Political apathy?
A) Employment of more officials to coordinate elections
B) Joining/forming political organization
C) Slowing down the rallies of the political party
D) Decline in civil duties
  • 21. 21. When families have experienced poverty for more than one generation , it's called _______ poverty
A) Abstract
B) Generational
C) Cyclical
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) 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) All of the above
B) Independent judiciary
C) Encouraging press freedom
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) Political interest
B) Leadership interest
C) Favouritism
D) Godfatherism
  • 25. 25. Anti-party activities is a problem of ______
A) Constituted Authority
B) Political parties
C) Public corporation
D) Pressure groups
  • 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 Plans/promise
B) Manifesto
C) Campaign
D) Party Mission
  • 27. 27. The political party philosophy, system of thought and ideas that they tend to propagate to the electorate is called _____
A) Philosophy
B) Psychology
C) Physiology
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) Nomination
B) Public Balloting
C) General election
D) Primary election
  • 29. 29. Political parties that involves individuals with unique and enviable qualities, talents, etc. is called _____
A) Charismatic parties
B) Majority parties
C) Professional parties
D) Caucus 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) All of the above
C) Party Interest
D) Revenue Allocation
  • 31. 31. _____ is a system of government which is attained from public opinion and is accountable to it
A) Nationalism
B) Democracy
C) Secret Balloting
D) Election
  • 32. 32. _____is an economic system which gives right to private individual ownership of means of production
A) Socialism
B) Capitalism
C) Feudalism
D) Individualization
  • 33. 33. Freedom of the press means _____
A) The mass media should be allowed to report the affairs of the people
B) The press should be allowed to address the issues of the forces
C) The mass media organization should be granted the freedom to report issues about the Executive
D) The mass media should be granted the freedom to report issues on the affairs of the state
  • 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 trains children to be patriotic
D) It train children to be vigilant
  • 36. 36. Which of the following is a factor that promote employment, free education, and medical care?
A) Discrimination
B) Persuasion
C) Agricultural development
D) All of the above
  • 37. 37. Which of the following is a way of addressing political apathy?
A) All of the above
B) Cultivating civic values in the citizens
C) Appointment of unpopular leaders
D) Formation of legal political parties
  • 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 plans, principles and programmes of the political party
B) Public declaration of the citizens to the government
C) Public declaration of the press programmes
D) Public declaration of plans, principles and programmes of the electoral commision during election
  • 40. 40. Which of the following organizations is set up by government to eradicate corruption?
A) NDDP
B) All of the above
C) ICPC
D) NCNC
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