Indian Polity Online Quiz

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Q 1 - Who among the following was the President of the Constituent Assembly?

A - Baba Saheb Ambedkar

B - Mahatma Gandhi

C - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

D - Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Answer : D

Explanation

Dr. Rajendra Prasad was also the first President Independent India.

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

Answer : B

Explanation

It is judiciary�s responsibility to interpret the law.

Q 3 - Which Article of the Constitution prohibits employment of children in factories?

Answer : D

Explanation

No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment.

Q 4 - In which of the following Lok Sabha elections, the highest Voter Turnout was recorded?

Answer : D

Explanation

16^th Lok Sabha election was held in 2014; in this election, total 66.4% voters casted their votes.

Q 5 - Which among the following statements is true about the Parliament?

A - The Lok Sabha of the Parliament is elected for a fixed term of six years

B - The Rajya Sabha is the permanent house of the Parliament

C - The president of India is also a part of the Parliament in law making process

D - Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by adult universal suffrage

Answer : A

Explanation

The Lok Sabha of the Parliament is elected for a fixed term of five years.

Q 6 - Who among the following is the chairman of Rajya Sabha?

A - President

B - Voice President

C - Prime Minister

D - Speaker of Lok Sabha

Answer : B

Explanation

Voice President is the ex-officio chairman of Rajya Sabha; however, the deputy chairman is elected from amongst the Rajya Sabha's members.

Q 7 - In which of the following Years, central government had passed the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act?

Answer : A

Explanation

The Act guaranteed the forest rights of Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers.

Q 8 - In which of the following years, the government has passed �the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act?�

Answer : C

Explanation

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Q 9 - In the case titled as Subhash Kumar vs. State of Bihar (1991), the Supreme Court has held that the Right to Life is a Fundamental Right under Article 21 of the Constitution, which also includes �

A - The right to the enjoyment of pollution-free water and air for full enjoyment of life.

B - The right to health

C - The right to shelter

D - The right to work

Answer : A

Explanation

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Q 10 - Which one of the following statements is not correct?

A - Union Territories are not states

B - Central government has the special powers over the union territories for their administration

C - There are seven Union Territories in India

D - Delhi has been given status of states by constitutional amendment

Answer : D

Explanation

Delhi has been given the status of National Capital Territory.

Q 11 - Gandhi Ji always used to say that the religion can never be separated from politics. What did he actually mean by religion here?

A - Moral values that are intrinsic to all religions

B - Religion like Hinduism is more spiritual as he followed it

C - He was having equal respect to all religion

D - State must be guided by the religious belief of the majority

Answer : A

Explanation

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Q 12 - In which year Communist Party Marxist (CPI-M) Party was set up?

Answer : B

Explanation

In 1964, the Communist Party Marxist emerged from a split from the Communist Party of India.

Q 13 - The book �Essay on Liberty� is written by �

Answer : A

Explanation

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Q 14 - Which one of the following statements does explain the difference of Gandhi Ji�s idea of non-violence?

A - Non-violence means refraining from causing any harm physical or mental

B - Not affecting the loss of livelihood of anyone

C - Even not giving up the thought of harming someone

D - It prohibits even helping indirectly to cause any kind of harm to anyone or even receive any benefit from such act

Answer : D

Explanation

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Q 15 - Who among the following social theorists argued that the people who use force to achieve their goals constituted the governing elites and are the Lions of the societies?

A - Friedrich Nietzsche

B - T. H. Marshall

C - Vilfredo Pareto

D - John Stuart Mill