1. When government power is concentrated in one single central authority, it is called?

(A)
centralisation (B) concentration (C) devolution (D) confederation
2. Fundamental human right are entrenched in the constitution of the state in order to (A)
encourage unlimited freedom (B) enable the court to punish offenders (C) restrict the
liberty of citizens (D) guarantee the liberty of citizens
3. Duties and obligations of a citizen exclude (A) service to the nation (B) care to the public
property (C) destroying the image of fellow citizens (D) payment of taxes
4. Freedom of press helps her to (A) be above board (B) escape libel charges (C)
play a watch-dog role (D) be loyal to the government
5. Civil liberty does not mean right to (A) own property (B) life(C) far hearing (D)
murder
6. A major source of political right is (A) the people (B) election (C) force (D)
ombudsman
7. Which of the following is not within the scope of a constitution? (A) fundamental human
rights (B) organs of government (C) preamble (D) coup d’état
8. Indirect rule system failed in the (A) northern and eastern Nigeria (B) northern and
western Nigeria (C) western and eastern Nigeria (D) all part of the country
9. Who was the architect of the British rule in Nigeria? (A) george tubsman goldie (B)
frederick lugard (C) high clifford (D) Arthur Richards
10. Which of the following is not a duty of citizen? (A) obedience to the law (B) payment
of taxes (C) service to the nation (D) giving arms to the people
11. In pre-colonial igbo-land, administration meetings were presided over by the________ (A)
mazi (B) ogbuefi (C) ozo title holder (D) okpara
12. Checks and balances was a feature of pre-colonial political administration of the (A) hausa
(B) yoruba (C) igbo (D) Fulani
13. Which of the following group had the best egalitarian traditional political system? (A) hausa-
fulani (B) yoruba (C) igbo (D) edo
14. In the pre-colonial hausa/Fulani system, the appointment of an emir in the caliphate was
approved by the (A) sardauna of sokoto and alkali (B) galadima and the waziri (C)
shehu of borno and the galadima (D) sultan of sokoto and emir of gwandu
15. A common feature in a pre-colonial centralization state was (A) loyalty to one political
superior (B) absence of single superior (C) the existence of autocratic rule (D)
existence of separation of powers.
16. Under the british crown colony system of administration, the head of the executive council
was the _______ (A) head of government business (B) governor general (C) speaker
(D) prime minister
17. Taxation as a feature of indirect rule served as a feature of indirect rule served as a _______
(A) source of revenue for the colonial administration (B) system of modernization
chieftaincy(C) policy of making the local people poor (D) means to ridicule the chief
18. Indirect rule as a british colonial policy was first introduced in _________ (A) republican
(B) dictatorial (C) monarchial (D) authoritarian
19. The pre- colonial igbo political system was largely ________ (A) india (B) uganda
(C) ghana (D) Nigeria
20. An acephadous pre-colonial system is best represented by the _______ (A) oyo empire
(B) igbo political organisation (C) ijaw political organisation (D) benin
empire
21. The uses of forced labour was one of the features of ________ (A) british colonial policy
(B) French colonial policy (C) American colonial policy (D) divide and rule
22. The ratification of the appointment and dismissal of an emir in the pre-colonial Fulani empire
was done by the _________ (A) emir of kano (B) emir of sokoto (C) emir of gwandu
(D) emir of sokoto and gwandu
23. In hausa/fulani traditional political system, jinngali was _______ (A) one of the sources of
revenue to the cattle owners (B) a property tax paid to land owners (C) tax paid
on cattle (D)a type of flat rate tax
24. Which of the following title among the igbos in the pre-colonial era required wealth before
one could acquire it ? (A) oba (B) eze (C) ozo (D) ofo
25. Before colonial rule, Yoruba traditional rulers were appointed by ________ (A) the ogboni
(B) ifa (oracle) (C) oduduwa (D) king makers
26. Colonialism is defined as the ________ (A) struggle against foreign domination (B)
political struggle for independence (C) economic dependence on developed nations
(D) imposition of foreign rule
27. In the precolonial African political system, the function of the king-makers were performed
by ________ (A) age grades (B) woman (C) council of elders (D) special people