Preparing for a Civic Education aptitude test or you simply want to test your knowledge of your civic duties, you're in the right place. Practise with our compilation of Civic Education past questions and answers.
Legislative organ
Judicial organ
Executive organ
Civil societies
Correct answer is C
Administrative agencies are usually given broad powers to investigate, set standards (promulgating regulations), and enforce those standards. This is a duty that falls to the executive organ of government.
Which of the following is not a function of the judicial arm of government?
Interpretation of the law
Judicial review
Checking of arbitrariness
Initiation of bills
Correct answer is D
Initiation of bills is a function of the legislative arm of government.
Use the dialogue below to answer the question.
Tim: It is more than what you think, Jim. You suffer other noticeable symptoms which makes me suspicious of your status.
Jim: Okay, just to satisfy your curiosity, let's go.
Individual like Jim in the story above who believe HIV carriers are selective, can get enlightenment through
Effective fasting and prayer
Youth empowerment programme
Sex and civic education
Popular participation.
Correct answer is C
Sex and civic education helps to enlighten individuals on the issues such as HIV/AIDS and many other sexually transmitted diseases as well as issues that revolves around humans and their society.
Use the dialogue below to answer the question.
Tim: Jim, let's go to the hospital and confirm our HIV status.
Jim: Really? Does my face resemble that of someone with HIV? After all, I am too poor to engage in illicit sex, drug abuse nor keep numerous partners like you do.
Tim: It is more than what you think, Jim. You suffer other noticeable symptoms which makes me suspicious of your status.
Jim: Okay, just to satisfy your curiosity, let's go.
From the above dialogue, noticeable symptoms Tim must have observed about Jim include the following except
Profuse night sweats
Persistent diarrhoea
Increase in appetite
Usual fatigue
Correct answer is C
All the options except increase in appetite are symptoms of HIV/AIDS.
Which of the following criminal act is most commonly perpetrated by cult members?
Prostitution
Money Laundering
Corruption
Violence
Correct answer is D
Of all the options, violence is the criminal act mostly perpetrated by cultists.
Democracy is important because it
Accommodates popular participation
Accommodates political apathy
Encourages operational bureaucracy
Breeds ethnic competition and rivalry
Correct answer is A
As a system of government, Democracy is based on majority rule, hence, it allows popular participation.
An activity meant to promote and protect the interest of a country is
Unitarianism
Communism
Communalism
Nationalism
Correct answer is D
Nationalism can be defined as a sense of group solidarity, which is fostered by a combination of a common aspiration and a common experience.
Interpersonal relationship is promoted through the following ways except
Confrontation
Healthy competition
Cooperation
Communal living
Correct answer is A
Confrontation is an hostile or argumentative situation or meeting between two or more parties or individuals.
Use the quotation below to answer the question.
"If you cannot beat them, join them".
Through which of the following means can the effect of the above quotation on the society be rectified?
Compulsory communal service
Strengthening of the constitution
Reorientation of values
Distribution of relief materials during emergency
Correct answer is C
Value reorientation means restoration or a change of attitude towards a number of things that have been identified as wrong actions or wrong attitudes.
Use the quotation below to answer the question.
''If you cannot beat them, join them''. The statement is an indication of a society that is------
Ethically upright
Morally degenerated
Politically disintegrated
Socially regenerated
Correct answer is B
Moral degeneration consists in any evil thought, feeling, willing or action detrimental to individual or community.
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