MCQ Questions for Class 10 Civics Chapter 8 Challenges to Democracy with Answers

1. Which one of the following laws was enacted by the Government of India in October 2005?

A. The Right to Property Act
B. The Right to Education Act
C. The Consumer Protection Act
D. The Right to Information Act

ANSWER= D. The Right to Information Act

 

2. Which one of the following is a foundational challenge of democracy?

A. Empowering women
B. Keeping military away from controlling government
C. Ensuring greater power to local governments
D. Empowering minority groups.

ANSWER= B. Keeping military away from controlling government

 

3. Which one of the following is an indicator of deepening of democracy?

A. Installation of democratic government
B. Keeping military away from controlling government
C. Strengthening of the practices of democracy
D. Inclusion of women in party politics

ANSWER= C. Strengthening of the practices of democracy

 

4. Which legal act is the best to empower people to carry out democratic reforms?

A. The Right to Information Act
B. The Right to freedom
C. The Right to education
D. The Right to move freely

ANSWER= A. The Right to Information Act

 

5. Every established democracy faces

A. challenge of expansion
B. challenge of deepening of democracy
C. foundational challenge
D. dictatorship

ANSWER= A. challenge of expansion

 

6. Looking at the expanded definition, which one of the following statements is not correct about democracy?

A. The rulers elected by the people must take all the major decisions.
B. Elections must offer a fair choice to the people to change the current rulers.
C. The choice should be available to all people on an equal basis.
D. To exercise this choice government must not be limited by basic rules of the Constitution and citizens’ rights.

ANSWER= D. To exercise this choice government must not be limited by basic rules of the Constitution and citizens’ rights.

 

7. Democracy does not stand for:

A. Democratic Right
B. Elections
C. Violence
D. Accommodation of diversity

ANSWER= C. Violence

 

8. Which one of the following situations represents the success of democracy?

A. US as the only Super power disregards the UN and takes unilateral action.
B. General Pinochet government defeated, but army is still under control of many institutions.
C. The King of Nepal Birendra accepted constitutional Monarchy.
D. Integration of French speaking and Dutch speaking people in Belgium.

ANSWER= D. Integration of French speaking and Dutch speaking people in Belgium.

 

9. Which one of the following is not true regarding ‘Democratic Reforms’?

A. Legal measures can sometimes prove to be counter-productive.
B. The media should play an active role.
C. Legal measures always help in reforming politics.
D. Political empowerment and participation of citizens can help.

ANSWER= C. Legal measures always help in reforming politics.

 

10. What is the tempting way of reforming politics?

A. Legal ways
B. Illegal ways
C. Both a and b
D. None of the above

ANSWER= A. Legal ways

 

11. How many parts of the globe is not under democratic government?

A. One-sixth
B. One-fourth
C. One-third
D. None of the Above

ANSWER= B. One-fourth

 

12. Which one of the following countries is facing the challenge of expansion of democracy?

A. India
B. US
C. Sri Lanka
D. All of the above

ANSWER= D. All of the above

 

13. What is not true regarding a challenge?

A. Any sort of problem or difficulty is called a challenge.
B. A challenge is a difficulty which is significant and which can be overcome.
C. A challenge is a difficulty that carries within it an opportunity for progress.
D. Once we overcome a challenge, we go up to a higher level than before.

ANSWER= A. Any sort of problem or difficulty is called a challenge.

 

14. Mention reforms that Indian democracy needs?

A. New laws to ban undesirable things.
B. It is important to improve quality of political participation by ordinary citizens.
C. Reforms in the administration that will reduce corruption in the political circles.
D. All of the above

ANSWER= D. All of the above

 

15. Which of the following statements are true about challenges of expansion with respect to established democracies?

A. Ensuring greater power to local governments, extension of the federal principle to all the units of the federation.
B. Inclusion of women and minority groups, etc., fall under this challenge.
C. Most countries, including India and other democracies like the US face this challenge.
D. All the above given statements are true.

ANSWER= D. All the above given statements are true.

 

16. Which of the following statements are true about the deepening of democracy faced by every democracy?

A. This challenge takes different meanings and paths in different parts of the world.
B. It usually means strengthening those institutions that help people’s participation and control.
C. This requires an attempt to bring down the control and influence of the rich and powerful people in making governmental decisions.
D. All of the above statements are true.

ANSWER= Sunny16

 

17. General Pinochet’s government was defeated, but the military was still in control of the institutions. There was a problem of holding the first multi-party elections. Which country was facing this problem of democracy due to General Pinochet?

A. Chile
B. Mexico
C. Poland
D. None of the above

ANSWER= A. Chile

 

18. Which of the following countries faced problems in democracy when Mbeki withdrew some concessions given to the White minorities?

A. Chile
B. Mexico
C. Poland
D. South Africa

ANSWER= D. South Africa

 

19. There is a concern among international organisations that __ disregards the decisions of the United Nations and takes unilateral actions.

A. France
B. USA
C. U.K.
D. Russia

ANSWER= B. USA

 

20. ____ does not allow women to take part in public activities and there is no freedom of religion for minorities.

A. Poland
B. Saudi Arabia
C. Ghana
D. Myanmar

ANSWER= B. Saudi Arabia

 

21. There was a rise in Ethnic tension between Serbs and Albanians in the province of Kosovo, which ultimately led to the disintegration of ___.

A. Czechoslovakia
B. Slovenia
C. Yugoslavia
D. Soviet Union

ANSWER= C. Yugoslavia

 

22. Generally, all the suggestions or proposals about overcoming various challenges to democracy are called ‘democracy reform’ or ___.

A. Religious reform
B. Economic reform
C. Social reform
D. Political reform

ANSWER= D. Political reform

 

23. Carefully devised changes in ____can help to discourage wrong political practices and encourage good ones, but these changes by themselves cannot overcome challenges to democracy.

A. Law
B. Bureaucracy
C. Culture
d. None of the above

ANSWER= A. Law

 

24. Democratic reforms are to be carried out mainly by ____.

A. Political activists
B. Politically conscious citizens
C. Political parties
D. All of the above

ANSWER= D. All of the above

 

25. Suu Kyi was the leader of ____ who was placed under house arrest by the army leaders for more than 15 years which impacted the democracy in that nation.

A. Myanmar
B. China
C. North Korea
D. Japan

ANSWER= A. Myanmar

 

26. The best laws are those which empower people to carry out _____ reforms.

A. Democratic
B. Economic
C. Legislative
D. Social

ANSWER= A. Democratic

 

27. The _____ Act is a good example of a law that empowers the people to find out what is happening in government and act as watchdogs of democracy.

A. Right to equality of opportunity
B. Right to Property
C. Right to education
D. Right to Information

ANSWER= D. Right to Information

 

28. Which of the following statements are true regarding political reforms?

A. Any proposal for political reforms should think not only about what is a good solution.
B. Any proposal for political reforms should also think about who will implement it and how.
C. Measures that rely on democratic movements, citizens’ organisations and the media are likely to succeed.
D. All of the above statements are true

ANSWER= D. All of the above statements are true

 

29. The Right to Information Act is a good example of a law that empowers the people because _____.

A. It helps to control corruption
B. It supplements the existing laws that banned corruption
C. It acts as a watchdog of democracy
D. All of the above

ANSWER= D. All of the above

 

30. Which of the following statements are true about democracy?

A. The rulers elected by the people must take all the major decisions.
B. Elections must offer a choice and fair opportunity to the people to change the current rulers.
C. This choice and opportunity should be available to all people on an equal basis.
D. All of the above statements are true.

ANSWER= D. All of the above statements are true.

 

31. Which of the following countries was facing civil war between Protestants and Catholics?

A. Northern Ireland
B. Scotland
C. Wales
D. Sweden

ANSWER= A. Northern Ireland

 

32. When Morales, a supporter of the water struggle, became Prime Minister of ___, MNCs threatened to leave the country.

A. Mexico
B. Bolivia
C. Poland
D. Yugoslavia

ANSWER= B. Bolivia

 

33. After the Civil Rights Movement in ___, Blacks have won equal rights but are still poor, less educated, and marginalised.

A. Chile
B. Mexico
C. USA
D. Russia

ANSWER= C. USA

 

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