Rawat Public School

Worksheet -1
Class-10 Civics Ch-1 Power Sharing

1. Which two languages are prominently spoken by Belgium nationals?

2. Which is the majority group in Sri Lanka?
3. Who elects the community government in Belgium?
4. What led to tensions between the Dutch speaking and French speaking ?
5. Which is the capital city of Belgium?
6. What is the ethnic composition of Sri Lanka?
OR
Describe the geographical distribution of different ethnic community in
Sri Lanka?
7. What is ethnic composition of Belgium?
OR
Describe the geographical distribution of different communities in
Belgium?
OR
How is ethnic composition of Belgium very complex? Explain
8. What is majoritarianism?
OR
What are the drawbacks or shortcomings of majority rule in Sri Lanka?
9. Which religions are followed by Sri Lanka?
10.What is the similarity between Belgium and Sri Lanka?
11.What does “Ethnic” means?
12.Why is power sharing dedesirable ? Give any three prudential reason.
OR
‘Power sharing is the very spirit of democracy’ justify the statement with
three suitable point.
13 “Power is shared between different social group” comment on this
statement with the help of an example.
 14 . Explain the two main reasons why power sharing is important in
democracy?
15. Both Belgium and Sri Lanka are democracy but they follow different
system of power sharing. support the statement by giving these points of
difference.
16. What factors led to a civil war in Sri Lanka?
17. What measures were adopted by the democraticly electric government of
Sri Lanka to establish Sinhala supermacy?
18. What is the moral reason behind power sharing?
19. Why is horizontal power sharing is also called ‘a system of check and
balance’?
20. What is the concept of ‘community government’ of Belgium?
21. What are the different forms of power sharing in modern democracies? Give
an example of each of these.
22. Which is third unique form of govt, practiced in Belgium ?
23. Which type of powers does the community government of Belgium
enjoy ?
25. What is horizontal distribution of power ?
26. Describe the path of accommodation adopted in Belgium. What were
its consequences.
27. In which year, Sri Lanka emerged as an independent country?