This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 9 > Political Science > Working Of Institutions > Class 9 Political Science Chapter 4 Working Of Institutions – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 9 Political Science Chapter 4 Working Of Institutions Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why does the political executive have more power than the permanent executive? A) She is an elected representative of the people and thus empowered to exercise the will of the people on their behalf. B) She is finally answerable to the people for all the consequences of her decision. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 2. What is an election held for only one constituency to fill the vacancy caused due to the death or resignation of a member called? A) By-election. B) Mid-term election. C) General election. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By-election. 3. What is an elected represenative know in The state Level? A) Local governor. B) MP. C) MLA. D) City council member. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) MLA. 4. WHO IS THE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT? A) PRIME MINISTER. B) PRESIDENT. C) CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA. D) THE CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PRIME MINISTER. 5. What is Public Interest Litigation? A) An individual cannot approach the courts if public interest is hurt by the actions of the government. B) Only propertied sections can approach the court. C) Anyone can approach the courts if public interest is hurt by the actions of the government. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An individual cannot approach the courts if public interest is hurt by the actions of the government. 6. The highest court of appeal in India is the A) Tehsil court. B) District court. C) Supreme Court. D) High Court. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supreme Court. 7. The Second Backward Classes Commission was appointed by the government of India in A) 1979. B) 1986. C) 1981. D) 1999. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1979. 8. Whom does the President appoint as the Prime Minister? A) Anyone he likes. B) Leader of majority party. C) MP securing largest no. Of votes. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leader of majority party. 9. This house is a permanent house and thus can never get dissolved. A) Panchayat. B) Legislative Assembly. C) Rajya Sabha. D) Lok Sabha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rajya Sabha. 10. President of India is: A) Head of the Government. B) Head of the State. C) Head of the parliament. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Head of the State. 11. ..... to ..... number of ministers who can be the Council of Ministers A) 10 to 20. B) 60 to 80. C) 20 to 40. D) 40 to 60. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 60 to 80. 12. The President of India is the A) Head of the state. B) Head of the government. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Head of the state. 13. All bills passed by the parliament can become laws only after receiving the assent of who? A) The Ruling Party. B) The Prime Minister. C) The President. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The President. 14. Apart from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, who else constitutes the Parliament? A) President. B) Chief Minister. C) Prime Minister. D) Governor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) President. 15. What is the role of the Permanent Executive / Civil Services? A) Make small decisions. B) Elected by the people for a specific period. C) Assist the Political Executive in day to day administration. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assist the Political Executive in day to day administration. 16. WHICH OF THE TWO HOUSES IS MORE POWERFUL? A) Lok Sabha. B) Rajya Sabha. C) STATE ASSEMBLY. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lok Sabha. 17. ..... Involves rules and regulation. A) Guidelines. B) Ethics. C) Institutions. D) Suggestions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Institutions. 18. The outcome of the Indira Sawhney and others Vs the Government of India case was the A) Withdrawal of the Mandal Commission. B) Supreme Court's support given to the Mandal Commission. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supreme Court's support given to the Mandal Commission. 19. Who appoints the judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts? A) President, according to his own wishes. B) President, on the advice of the PM. C) President on the advice of the PM in consultation with the Chief Justice of India. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) President on the advice of the PM in consultation with the Chief Justice of India. 20. Why did people react strongly to the Mandal Commission Report? A) It left out many backward communities. B) It affected thousands of job opportunities. C) Some high castes wanted to be included in it. D) Both (A) and (B). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It affected thousands of job opportunities. 21. In the Council of Ministers ..... is the group of top-level leaders/ministers. A) Ministers of States. B) Cabinet Ministers. C) Ministers of states independent charge. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cabinet Ministers. 22. Who was the leader of the Second backward class commission was held in 1979? A) K. Sharma. B) R. Rao. C) S. Patel. D) P. Mandal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) P. Mandal. 23. ..... is the highest formal authority of the country. A) President. B) Prime Minister. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) President. 24. What is meant by 'Office Memorandum'? A) Order issued by the Government of India. B) Memoirs of the leaders of the past. C) Important defence documents. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Order issued by the Government of India. 25. Who has the final say if there is a difference between the two houses of Parliament? A) Rajya Sabha. B) Prime Minister. C) Lok Sabha. D) President. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lok Sabha. 26. Who acts as President if office of the President fall vacant? A) Prime Minister. B) Chief Justice. C) Vice President. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vice President. 27. When was the Second Backward Class Commission appointed? A) 1989. B) 1999. C) 2001. D) 1979. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1979. 28. Most legal systems have not incorporated the principle of state sovereignty A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. The Mandal Commission was appointed to identify the A) Scheduled castes and tribes. B) Other backward classes. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Other backward classes. 30. All laws made in the Houses come into force only after they receive the assent of the ..... A) President. B) Chief Justice of India. C) Prime Minister. D) Speaker of the Parliament. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) President. 31. The ..... presides over the meetings of the Lok Sabha. A) Home Minister. B) Vice President. C) Prime Minister. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 32. At the state level, the assembly of elected representatives is called ..... A) Parliament. B) Legislature or Legislative Assembly. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legislature or Legislative Assembly. 33. ..... categories make up the Executive in India A) 3. B) 2. C) 4. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 34. WHO BECAME THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA IN 1989? A) H.D.DEWEGOWSA. B) Indira Gandhi. C) Morarji Desai. D) V.V.SINGH. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) V.V.SINGH. 35. Who is head of Government in India? A) Prime Minister. B) President. C) Council of Ministers. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prime Minister. 36. Lok Sabha has more powers than Rajya Sabha in A) Administrative matters. B) Passing different bills. C) Money matters. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Money matters. 37. What is the role of Parliament in making laws? A) Only make new laws. B) Change existing laws. C) All of the above. D) Abolish existing laws and make new ones in their place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 38. This institution upheld the reservation policy for OBC as valid, A) President. B) Supreme court. C) Cabinet. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supreme court. 39. Which one of the following institutions exercises greater power over the Union budget? A) The Supreme Court of India. B) The Lok Sabha. C) The Rajya Sabha. D) The Reserve Bank of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Lok Sabha. 40. What was this Office Memorandum about? A) Identify SEBC. B) Provide 27% Reservation to Sebc. C) Provide 27% reservation to SC & ST. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Provide 27% Reservation to Sebc. 41. B.P. Mandal headed the ..... in 1979. A) Second Classes Commission. B) Scheduled Classes Commission. C) Second Backward Classes Commission. D) Backward Classes Commission. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Second Backward Classes Commission. 42. What is the role of the President in the Parliament? A) None of the above. B) Member of Rajya Sabha. C) Part of Parliament but not a member of either House. D) Member of Lok Sabha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Part of Parliament but not a member of either House. 43. The Permanent Executive has more power than the Political Executive A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 44. In which year OM No. 36012 wad issued? A) 1979. B) 1980. C) 1990. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1990. 45. How many members from Kerala are elected to Rajyasabha? A) 140. B) 9. C) 250. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 46. What is 'Parliament'? A) Body comprising judges. B) A body consisting of appointed ministers. C) Assembly of only appointed members. D) Assembly of elected representatives at the national level. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assembly of elected representatives at the national level. 47. Our judiciary is integrated, which basically means A) That no politician can influence the appointment of judges. B) Apex court is high court. C) That decisions of higher court are binding on the lower court. D) Lower courts decision prevails. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That decisions of higher court are binding on the lower court. 48. Which body of the government does the law-making? A) Executive. B) Local Government. C) Judiciary. D) Legislature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Legislature. 49. What do the Civil Servants do? A) They take important policy decisions. B) They implement the ministers' decisions. C) They settle the disputes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They implement the ministers' decisions. 50. Functionaries who take day-to-day decisions but do not exercise supreme power on behalf of the people are, A) Cabinet ministers. B) Executives or Civil servants. C) Prime minister. D) President. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Executives or Civil servants. 51. All governmental activities and International treaties take place in the name of the ..... A) Judicary. B) Parliament. C) President. D) Prime Mimister. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) President. 52. Judicial Review is the purview of ..... A) Ministry of Corporate Affairs. B) Supreme Court. C) Lok Sabha. D) Special Parliamentary Committee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supreme Court. 53. Who controls the Council of Ministers in the Government? A) Civil Services. B) President. C) Lok Sabha. D) Rajya Sabha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lok Sabha. 54. Whose accent is required for a passed bill to become law? A) Prime Minister. B) President. C) Vice-Pi'esident. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) President. 55. The objective of the Mandal Commision was to A) Only determine the criteria to identify the socially and educationally backward classes in India. B) Only recommended steps to be taken for their advancement. C) Determine the criteria to identify the socially and educationally backward classes in India and recommended steps to be taken for their advancement. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Determine the criteria to identify the socially and educationally backward classes in India and recommended steps to be taken for their advancement. 56. What is the government formed by an alliance of two or more political parties called? A) Consensus government. B) Coalition government. C) Cooperation government. D) Cooperative government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coalition government. 57. The judges of Supreme Court enjoy certain: A) Privileges only. B) Immunities only. C) Privileges and immunities. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Privileges and immunities. 58. What is an elected represenative know in The Central Level? A) Member of Parliament (MP). B) Governor. C) Mayor. D) MLA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Member of Parliament (MP). 59. The first President of India was: A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad. B) Sh. V.V. Giri. C) Gianni Sail Singh. D) Rajiv Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad. 60. Mandal Commission was originally known as A) Second Backward Classes Commission. B) Office memorandum. C) V. P. Singh Commission. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Second Backward Classes Commission. 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