Third Term Examination Civic Education Senior Secondary Schools (SS 1) Exam Questions Volume 2

CIVIC EDUCATION THIRD TERM EXAMINATION SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS – SSS 1 EXAM QUESTIONS VOLUME 2

SECTION A – OBJECTIVES 

INSTRUCTION – CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER FROM THE OPTIONS A – D.

1. The ______ arm of government makes law for the nation.

(a) Legislative

(b) Executive

(c) judiciary

(d) Presidency

 

2. ______ is organized by group of people who share beliefs.

(a) Political parties

(b) Political manifesto

(c) Political experience

(d) Military

 

3. These are importance or benefits of the rule of law except ______.

(a) It promotes qualitative life

(b) Equality of all citizens

(c) Preserves the constitution

(d) It makes everyone unequal in a political system

 

4. A form of democracy in which citizens elect representatives to make governing decision on their behalf is ______.

(a) social democracy

(b) Liberal democracy

(c) Representative democracy

(d) Joint democracy

 

5. In Nigeria, the body that conducts elections is called ______.

(a) INEC

(b) FRSC

(c) WAEC

(d) NSCDC

 

6. Professor AV. Dicey’s book was titled ______.

(a) book of law

(b) book of legislation

(c) introduction to law

(d) book of constitution

 

7. ___ is an illegal association of people or group whose activities are kept from the public.

(a) Political party

(b) Cultism

(c) Constituted authority

(d) Democracy

 

8. These are agencies responsible for the protection of human rights except ______.

(a) Amnesty international

(b) Human rights watch

(c) NHRC

(d) NAFDAC

 

9. These are types of constituted authority except ______.

(a) Legal authority

(b) Traditional authority

(c) Religious authority

(d) Political authority

 

10. All these are political parties in Nigeria except ______.

(a) PDP

(b) APC

(c) LP

(d) NPA

 

11. There are ______ tiers of government in Federal system.

(a) 3

(b) 2

(c) 4

(d) 5

 

12. ______ is the supremacy of the law over everybody.

(a) Rule of law

(b) Rule of president

(c) Rule of power

(d) Rule of kings

 

13. ______ refers to the rights of the major ethnic groups in a given society or country.

(a) Minority interest

(b) Majority interest

(c) Principle

(d) None of the above

 

14. Leaders can emerge through the following except ______.

(a) Through elections

(b) Through heredity

(c) Through appointment

(d) Through fighting

 

15. These are consequences of cultism except ______.

(a) Promote violence

(b) They break law and order

(c) They disrupt the school activities

(d) They maintain law and order

 

16. ______ is the means of communicating information or ideas to the general public.

(a) Mass media

(b) Journalism

(c) Apathy

(d) None of the above

 

17. ______ is a party formed along religious lines which is dependent on the religious doctrines in a country.

(a) Religious party

(b) Broker party

(c) Elite party

(d) Charismatic party

 

18. These are the core freedom of the UDHR except ______.

(a) Right to Equality

(b) Right to discriminated

(c) Freedom from slavery

(d) Freedom from discrimination

 

19. These are roles of government in promoting UDHR except ______.

(a) They should enact laws that will protect the human right

(b) They should launch investigations into human rights violation

(c) They should punish human rights offenders

(d) They should pardon human rights offenders

 

20. These are roles of agencies for protection of human rights except ______.

(a) fighting specific human rights violations directly

(b) Helping those whose rights has been infringed directly

(c) Advocating for modifications to domestic, regional or international

(d) Going against the development of the laws’ actual content

 

SECTION B – FILL IN THE GAPS

21. Human right day is ______ December all over the world.

22. ______ is the declaration of plans or programmes which a political party intends to carry out when it comes to power.

23. ILO means ______.

24. NDHR means ______.

25. Cultism in Nigeria began far back as ______.

 

SECTION C – THEORY

INSTRUCTION – ATTEMPT THREE (3) QUESTIONS ONLY. QUESTION ONE IS COMPULSORY.

QUESTION 1

A. What is cultism?

B. State four consequences of cultism.

C. State four reasons why students join cult.

D. State four examples of cults.

 

QUESTIONS 2

A. What is Political party?

B. State four types of political party

C. Explain any two of the political parties mentioned.

 

QUESTIONS 3

A. What is constituted authority ?

B. State four types of constituted authority.

B. What is Human right?

 

QUESTIONS 4

A. What is Mass media?

B. State the seven core freedom of the UDHR.