This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 10 > Political Science > Power Sharing > Class 10 Political Science Chapter 1 Power Sharing – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 Political Science Chapter 1 Power Sharing Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Brussels ..... people speak French A) 20%. B) 74%. C) 80%. D) 13%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 80%. 2. Were the French speaking community in Belgium rich and powerful? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 3. The word ethnic means A) People who are loyal to a political party. B) Different religious groups. C) Social division of shared culture. D) Conflict between different social groups. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social division of shared culture. 4. What is power sharing? A) Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together. B) Sharing the power is known as power sharing. C) Electric power sharing. D) Power-sharing is a social arrangement in which different groups take part in government together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together. 5. In which year Srilanka became independent country? A) 1949. B) 1948. C) 1950. D) 1947. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1948. 6. Which of the following is not one of the aspects of federal division of powers? A) Sharing of powers among central provincial and local governments. B) Division of powers involving higher and lower levels of government. C) The Constitution clearly lays down powers of different levels of government. D) There is no vertical division of powers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sharing of powers among central provincial and local governments. 7. Power sharing is: A) The very spirit of democracy. B) Separation of powers at different levels. C) System of checks and balances. D) A type of balancing powers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The very spirit of democracy. 8. Which of the following is not one of the three organs of the govt powers are shared? A) Judiciary. B) Executive. C) Legislature. D) Bureaucracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bureaucracy. 9. Division of powers between a higher and lower level of government is called A) Horizontal division. B) Parallel division. C) Vertical division. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertical division. 10. Which of the following features are common to Indian and Belgian form of power-sharing arrangements?A. Power is shared among governments at different levels.B. Power is shared among different organs of government.C. Power is shared among different social groups.D. Power is shared among different parties and takes the form of competition. A) A, B, C, D. B) B, C and D. C) A and C. D) A, C and D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A, B, C, D. 11. A war between two groups of people in a country is called A) Cold war. B) Ethnic war. C) Civil War. D) Hot war. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Civil War. 12. How many times was the constitution of Belgium amended between 1970 and 1993 A) Five times. B) Four times. C) Two times. D) Three times. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Four times. 13. Between which years was the constitution of Belgium amended 4 times: A) 1971 and 1999. B) 1960 and 1993. C) 1970 and 1993. D) 1970 and 1991. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1970 and 1993. 14. A coalition government is an example of ..... A) Power sharing among different social groups. B) Power sharing among political parties, pressure groups and movements. C) Horizontal distribution of power. D) Checks and balances system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Power sharing among political parties, pressure groups and movements. 15. By which act the majoritarianism was imposed in Sri Lanka? A) Act of 1993. B) Act of 1966. C) Act of 1956. D) Act of 1946. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Act of 1956. 16. Which of the following system of power sharing is also called checks and balance? A) Horizontal division. B) Vertical Division. C) Both. D) NOne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horizontal division. 17. Belgium worked on the principles of A) MAjoritariansim. B) Accommodation. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accommodation. 18. When different parties share power to form a Govt is called? A) Coalition. B) Federal. C) Majoritarian. D) Community. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coalition. 19. The seventh schedule of the Indian Constitution lists the subjects fall under which of the following? A) Centre. B) State. C) Union Territories. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. The democratically elected government adopted a series of ..... to establish Sinhala supremacy A) Mass movement. B) Majoritaranian. C) Majoritarian. D) Majority. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Majoritarian. 21. Which is note one of the benefits of power sharing? A) It uploads the spirit of democracy. B) Reduce the possibility of conflicts between social groups. C) All political parties get their expected share. D) Ensure political stability in the long run. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All political parties get their expected share. 22. Between 1970 and 1993 belgium ammended their constitution ..... times A) Two. B) One. C) Three. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Four. 23. Who are indian tamils called A) Whose forefather came to srilanka for plantation. B) Whose forefather came to srilanka for trading. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whose forefather came to srilanka for plantation. 24. Sinhala speakers in srilanka are of A) 80%. B) 74%. C) 18%. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 74%. 25. Power sharing between Legislature, Executive and Judiciary is known as:- A) Vertical form of power sharing. B) Horizontal form of power sharing. C) Oblique form of power sharing. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horizontal form of power sharing. 26. Which one of the following countries does not share its boundary with Belgium? A) France. B) Netherlands. C) Sweden. D) Luxembourg. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sweden. 27. Where will you find community government? A) Sri Lanka. B) India. C) Belgium. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Belgium. 28. A strategy under which all the major segments of the society are provided with a permanent share of power in the governance of the country is known as: A) Power sharing. B) Secularism. C) Majoritarianism. D) Minorities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Majoritarianism. 29. The capital city of Belgium A) Dutch. B) France. C) Brussels. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brussels. 30. Which of the following is not a region of Belgium? A) Brussels-Capital region. B) Flemish. C) Walloon. D) Luxembourg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Luxembourg. 31. Who was demanding a separate Eelam in Sri-lanka? A) Indians. B) Buddhist. C) Muslims. D) Tamilians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tamilians. 32. When was the Sinhala act passed? A) 1956. B) 1234. C) 1965. D) 1923. E) 1909. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1956. 33. Which place was used as headquarters for the European Union: A) Hyderabad. B) Number 12, Grimmauld Place. C) Brusels. D) Brussels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brussels. 34. What is the meaning of ethnic? A) A social division based on shared culture. B) A political group based on sharing power. C) A social group based on sharing dresses. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A social division based on shared culture. 35. Power sharing does not: A) (a) accommodate diversities. B) (b) speed up the decision making process. C) C) increases conflict among different communities. D) (d) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C) increases conflict among different communities. 36. Power shared among governments at different levels is also called: A) Vertical distribution. B) Horizontal distribution. C) Slant distribution. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertical distribution. 37. What is the dominant language spoken in Brussels, the capital of Belgium? A) English. B) German. C) Dutch. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) French. 38. Power shared by two or more political parties is known as A) Seperation government. B) Community government. C) Coalition government. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coalition government. 39. In which part of Sri Lanka are the Sri Lankan Tamils concentrated? A) North and South. B) North and East. C) East and West. D) South and East. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North and East. 40. Which of the following is not a part of the Indian Constitution? A) Citizenship. B) Rights of Citizen. C) Preamble. D) Directive Principles of State Policy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Citizenship. 41. Which of the following countries have federal division of power? A) India. B) Belgium. C) Srilanka. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 42. All these government measures, coming one after the other, gradually increased the ..... among the Sri Lankan Tamils A) Feeling of alienation. B) Subordination. C) Protests. D) Favouritism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feeling of alienation. 43. 3:Which of the following community is in majority in Sri Lanka? A) Buddhist. B) Sinhala. C) Tamil. D) Christian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sinhala. 44. Prudential reason of power sharing stresses on that fact that A) It is the very Spirit of Democracy. B) It reduces conflicts between social groups. C) It emphasises on dominance of one group. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It reduces conflicts between social groups. 45. 59 per cent of the country's total population who speaks Dutch, lives in A) Wallonia regiion. B) Brussels. C) Flemish region. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flemish region. 46. Power sharing means A) It reduces the possibility of conflicts. B) It is the basic spirit of democracy. C) It is a good way to ensure political stability. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 47. Which is prudent reason for power sharing? A) It reduces the possibility of conflicts between communities and ensures of stability. B) It is the spirit of democracy. C) Both the above. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It reduces the possibility of conflicts between communities and ensures of stability. 48. When was the Act passed which established Sinhala as the official language to be used in Sri Lanka? A) 1964. B) 1980. C) 1956. D) 1948. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1956. 49. A legitimate government is one where citizens, through participation, acquire a stake in the system. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 50. Belgium successfully solved its problem by: A) Rejecting the policy of majoritarianism. B) Developing a power sharing mechanism. C) Respecting the interest of different communities. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 51. Of the total population of Belgium, 59 percent live in the Flemish region and speaks the Dutch language. Another 40 percent of people live in the Wallonia region and speakFrench. Remaining one percent of the Belgians speak German A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. Why did the Sri Lankan Tamils launch parties and struggle? A) To dominate other religions. B) To recognise Sinhalese as the only official language. C) To adopt Majoriitarianism. D) To recognise Tamil as an official language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To recognise Tamil as an official language. 53. Belgium has worked on the principles of: A) Majoritarianism. B) Accommodation. C) Both (a) and (b). D) No (a) and (b). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accommodation. 54. What is the population of Sri Lanka as compared to Haryana? A) Exact as Haryana. B) Half of Haryana. C) More than Haryana. D) About same as Haryana(Approximately). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) About same as Haryana(Approximately). 55. .Intelligent sharing of power is done among A) Legislature and Central Government. B) Executive and Judiciary. C) Legislature and Executive. D) Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. 56. Vertical division of power is: A) (a) a system in which each organ of government checks the others. B) A type of distribution of power which involves the distribution of levels of government. C) B) a type of distribution in which power is shared among different organs of government. D) (d) a type of government elected by people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A type of distribution of power which involves the distribution of levels of government. 57. Most of the Sinhala speaking people of Sri Lanka are ..... A) Hindus. B) Buddhists. C) Christians. D) Muslims. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhists. 58. The principal of majoritarianism led to a civil war in ..... A) Sri Lanka. B) Belgium. C) England. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sri Lanka. 59. Which language is spoken by 80 per cent people of Brussels? A) Latin. B) German. C) Dutch. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) French. 60. 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