Indian Polity Online Quiz

Q 1 - In which of the following years, an independent Constituent Assembly, formed only of Indians, was convened?

A - 1934

B - 1943

C - 1945

D - 1946

Q 2 - Which one of the following sentences is not correct?

A - Government is responsible for administering and enforcing laws

B - Government is responsible for interpreting and enforcing laws

C - The government (or the executive) is one part of the State

D - The Indian State has a democratic form of government

Q 3 - Which among the following Articles of the Indian Constitution guarantees the Right to Constitutional Remedies?

A - Article 25

B - Article 28

C - Article 32

D - Article 27

Q 4 - The general election (Lok Sabha election) in 2014 was held for …

A - 14^th Lok Sabha

B - 15^th Lok Sabha

C - 16^th Lok Sabha

D - 17^th Lok Sabha

Q 5 - Consider the following statements:

1. Most of the Rajya Sabha members are indirectly elected by state and territorial legislatures.

2. The members of state and territorial legislature elect Rajya Sabha members by the method of using single transferable votes.

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

A - Only 1

B - Only 2

C - Both

D - Neither 1 nor 2

Q 6 - Which among the following statements is incorrect?

A - Punjab and Haryana share a common High Court at Chandigarh

B - North Eastern states of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh have a common High Court at Guwahati

C - Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have a common High Court at Hyderabad

D - Recently three new High Courts have been set up in Meghalaya, Manipur, and Tripura

Q 7 - In which of the following Years, the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was passed?

A - 1989

B - 1999

C - 2001

D - 2010

Q 8 - 2002 is an important year, as United Nations has declared …

A - The right to water

B - The right to clean air

C - The right to education

D - The right to food

Q 9 - What was/were the main cause/s behind the Bhopal gas tragedy, which happened in 1984?

A - A highly poisonous gas methyl-iso-cyanite (MIC) leaked from the UC plant

B - UC had deliberately ignored the essential safety measures in order to cut costs

C - It happened due to the inadequate training of the workers

D - It happened because of natural accident

Q 10 - Which among the following scheduled languages is the second largest spoken in India?

A - Bengali

B - Gujarati

C - Telugu

D - Marathi

Q 11 - The movement, namely Narmada Bachao Andolan, was related to the issue of:

A - Creation of Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada River

B - To provide the rehabilitation and adequate compensation to the displaced people from Narmada valley.

C - Protection of the biodiversity of the Narmada valley

D - To protect and preserve the Narmada river form the excessive water pollution

Q 12 - Which one of the following political concepts was debated by the political thinker Karl Marx as a crucial right?

A - Equality

B - Freedom

C - Justice

D - Democracy

Q 13 - Which one of the following statements correctly explains the concept of apartheid system?

A - It describes system of discrimination in America between Blacks and Whites

B - It promotes disparities and segregationist policies

C - It describes system of equal distribution of resources and opportunity in South Africa after independence

D - A type of democratic governance

Q 14 - Which part of the Constitution of India does contain the provision regarding the citizenship?

A - Part-II

B - Part-III

C - Part-IV

D - Part V

Q 15 - Which one of the following countries has recently adopted democracy after long time struggle against military dictatorship?

A - Nepal

B - Myanmar

C - Bhutan

D - Thailand

Q 16 - Who was the first Finance Minister of Independent India?

A - Vallabhbhai Patel

B - T. T. Krishnamachari

C - R. K. Shanmukhan Chetty

D - K. M. Munshi

Q 17 - On what basis the area of a state is divided into number of the constituencies for an election?

A - Ratio of population to number of seats

B - Ratio of area to number of seats

C - Fixed by the constitution of India

D - Fixed by the election commission of India

Q 18 - Which one of the following statements is not correct about the Prime Minister of India?

A - He is head of the central government

B - He is elected as a Member of Parliament, directly by the people

C - He is appointed by the President of India

D - He has a fixed term of six years after his appointment

Q 19 - The idea of starting the Constitution of India with a preamble was adopted by the constituent assembly form …

A - UK

B - Australia

C - USA

D - France

Q 20 - Which one of the following statements is not a function of the Constitution?

A - It guarantees the rights to the citizen

B - It marks out different spheres of power for different wings of the government

C - It is available in unwritten form

D - It ensures that the good people come to power