This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 8 > Civics > Public Facilities > Class 8 Civics Chapter 9 Public Facilities – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 Civics Chapter 9 Public Facilities Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. There should not be universal access to water. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 2. 'Porto Alegre' city located in which country? A) India. B) Brazil. C) Belgium. D) Sweden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brazil. 3. Our Constitution guarantees the Right to Education for all children between the ages of: A) 6-12 Years. B) 5-12 Years. C) 6-14 Years. D) 5-10 Years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6-14 Years. 4. What happens when water supply is handed over to private companies? A) Prices increase. B) Access becomes universal. C) Quality improves. D) Prices decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prices increase. 5. Which areas in Chennai faces severe water shortages? A) Madipakkam. B) Mylapore. C) Slums near Saidapet. D) All these areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All these areas. 6. WHO MUST BE ABLE TO ACCESS PUBLIC FACILITIES? A) MAJOR COMMUNITIES. B) MINOR COMMUNITIES. C) HIGHER CLASS. D) EVERYONE UNIVERSALLY. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) EVERYONE UNIVERSALLY. 7. Sulabh is a goverment orgnisation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. The right to ..... that the constitution guarantees is for all persons living in this country. A) Animal. B) Water. C) Health. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Life. 9. What is the average municipal water supply coverage in Chennai? A) 50%. B) 25%. C) 100%. D) 75%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50%. 10. The government in addition to providing certain facilities has also made law/policy called ..... policy A) JUSTICE. B) COMMITTMENT. C) ADJUSTMENT. D) RESERVATION. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) RESERVATION. 11. Which article recognises right to water as right to life? A) 22. B) 28. C) 21. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 21. 12. What is the Right to Water considered under the Indian Constitution? A) A Fundamental Right. B) A government privilege. C) A luxury. D) A private right. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Fundamental Right. 13. Is handing over these public facilities to private company a solution? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 14. What are the public facilities essential for everyone? A) Electricity. B) Water. C) Both a and b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 15. Where from the government gets funds for providing Public facility? A) Income Tax collected from the people. B) Fines collected from the people. C) Other taxes collected from the people. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 16. Can you identify the water related disease ..... A) Diarrhoea. B) Dysentery. C) Cholera. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 17. What is the cost of purchasing water from tankers in Mylapore? A) Rs 700-800 monthly. B) Rs 200-300 monthly. C) Rs 500-600 monthly. D) Rs 400-500 monthly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rs 500-600 monthly. 18. State True or False. '' Important features of public facilities is that once it provided, it's benefits can be shared by many people." A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. What are public facilities? A) Non essential facilities. B) Essential facilities. C) Esssential facilities available to everyone. D) Facilities available to a few people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Esssential facilities available to everyone. 20. ..... is an account of expenses of the government in the past year and plans for its future A) Loan. B) Office order. C) Document. D) Budget. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Budget. 21. 36% of households in India have access to drinking water. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 22. ..... has one of the largest number of cases of diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, etc ..... A) Japan. B) China. C) Pakistan. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) India. 23. BASIC NEEDS DOES NOT INCLUDE: A) INTERNET. B) FOOD. C) WATER. D) SHELTER. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) INTERNET. 24. WHAT ARE THE important characterstic of public facility? A) It benifits privileged section of society. B) It benifits can be shared by many people. C) It benifits underprivileged sections of the society. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It benifits can be shared by many people. 25. In 2007, the Andhra Pradesh High Court restated that right to safe drinking water is a fundamental right while hearing a case based on a letter written by a villager from which district? A) Mohallanagar. B) Mahbubnagar. C) Mahbubnagar. D) Mahbubnagar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahbubnagar. 26. The census of India, 2001 puts rural household electrification at ..... %, leaving around ..... million households in the dark. A) 35, 76. B) 68, 76. C) 78, 44. D) 44, 78. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 44, 78. 27. How long is the Mumbai subrban railway? A) 400km. B) 1234km. C) 300km. D) 100km. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 300km. 28. The supply of water per person in an urban area in India should be ..... (As per Urban Water Commission) A) 135 litres per day. B) 115 litres per day. C) 145 litres per day. D) 125 litres per day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 135 litres per day. 29. Which of these is a water related disease? A) Cholera. B) Plague. C) Flu. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cholera. 30. In Chennai, water is taken from nearby town ..... A) Mamandoor. B) Pudupet. C) Avadi. D) Siruvapuri. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mamandoor. 31. People Living in slums get hardly how many liters of water? A) 20. B) 50. C) 7. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 20. 32. The minority groups have particularly drawn upon the Right to Freedom of Religion and ..... A) Right to vote. B) Right tp Property. C) Right against Exploitation. D) Cultural and educational Right. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cultural and educational Right. 33. Over 1590 children die everyday due to water-related diseases. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 34. Which of the following is not a basic need? A) Water. B) Food. C) Shelter. D) Entertainment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Entertainment. 35. Official figures for 2011 show that ..... % of households in India have access to drinking water and about ..... % have access to sanitation. A) 87, 50. B) 87, 53. C) 35, 50. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 87, 53. 36. The important feature of a public facility is that once it is provided, its benefits can be shared by many people. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. Mumbai's suburban railway is well-functioning public transport system. It is the densest route in the world, attending to ..... passengers. A) 55 lakh. B) 45 lakh. C) 75 lakh. D) 65 lakh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 65 lakh. 38. Which areas in chennai face acute water shortage A) Saidapet. B) Mylapore. C) Madipakkam. D) All these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All these. 39. A ..... is a form of business set up by people or by the government. A) Company. B) Basic needs. C) Contract. D) Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Company. 40. ..... an account of the expenses the government related to previous year and to be spent next year. A) Ledger. B) Plan. C) Budget. D) Niti. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Budget. 41. In the case Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court A) Ordered an end to the use of punch-card ballots. B) Ordered the recounting of votes to stop. C) Ruled unanimously in favor of George W. Bush. D) Sided with the state of Florida. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ordered the recounting of votes to stop. 42. Article 21 outlines the ..... A) Right to freedom. B) Right to equality. C) Right to life. D) Right to opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Right to life. 43. What is one of the essential public facilities mentioned apart from water? A) Housing. B) Television. C) Internet. D) Healthcare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Healthcare. 44. Which of the following is most important public transport?(a) Aeroplane(b) Boat(c) Buses(d) Cars A) Aeroplane. B) Buses. C) Cars. D) Boat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buses. 45. Every Indian citizen residing in the Urban region must get at least ..... litres of water every day. A) 145. B) 130. C) 126. D) 135. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 135. 46. Under which article of the Constitution, Right to Water gets recognition? A) Article 21. B) Article 23. C) Article 20. D) Article 22. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Article 21. 47. Which one of the following is not a Public Facility? A) Water. B) Schools. C) House. D) Electricity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) House. 48. PUBLIC FACILITIES SHOULD BE A ..... TO THE GOVERNMENT. A) NO LOSS. B) PROFIT. C) LOSS. D) NO PROFIT. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NO PROFIT. 49. According to the text, how many Indians die daily due to water-related diseases? A) 3, 000. B) 1, 000. C) 2, 500. D) 1, 600. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1, 600. 50. Public Services are A) The welfare functions carried out by the government. B) The services rendered by the people to the government. C) The donations given by the people to the government. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The welfare functions carried out by the government. 51. Clean water is essential in every household work. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. Where are Anu and Kumar travelling through? A) China. B) Delhi. C) Mumbai. D) Chennai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chennai. 53. Crores were spent on bus stations in Delhi A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 54. What is the important characteristic of a Public Facility? A) Once it is provided, its benefits are shared by many people. B) Once it is provided, its benefits are shared by everyone. C) Once it is provided, its benefits are shared by Government. D) Once it is provided, its benefits are shared by no one. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Once it is provided, its benefits are shared by many people. 55. Who carries the responsibility of providing public facility to the people? A) Government. B) Public. C) Private organisation. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Government. 56. What is the source to get money for public facilities? A) By the chief minister or prime minister's own money. B) Tax. C) Assert. D) Pensions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tax. 57. Public facilities do not interest private organisations. Why? A) Due to less profit. B) Due to more competition. C) Due to monopoly. D) Due to less in interest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Due to less profit. 58. What is the role of private companies in the context of public facilities? A) To eliminate shortages. B) To ensure universal access. C) To operate for profit. D) To provide free services. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To operate for profit. 59. Shortage of water supply leads to ..... A) A rise in the price of water. B) Drought. C) Poverty. D) Protests. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rise in the price of water. 60. Sulabh has given access to more than ..... million people? A) 10. B) 40. C) 20. D) 60. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 20. Next →Related QuizzesCivics QuizzesClass 8 QuizzesClass 8 Civics Chapter 9 Public Facilities Quiz 2 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books