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CBSE Class 9 Constitution and Polity — practice questions

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Article 340 of the Indian Constitution deals with the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which of the following is the Upper House of the Indian Parliament?Read the answer and worked solution →Rule true or false on these claimsRead the answer and worked solution →Rule on these duties and officesRead the answer and worked solution →Rule on these claims about the HouseRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the forms of power sharingRead the answer and worked solution →Power sharing: true or false?Read the answer and worked solution →Fill Belgium's language splitRead the answer and worked solution →Drop the events on the year lineRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the power-sharing lieRead the answer and worked solution →The Indian Constitution was drafted by an assembly called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Elections to the Constituent Assembly were held in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Constituent Assembly first met in:Read the answer and worked solution →How many members did the Constituent Assembly of India have?Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution was adopted on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution came into effect on:Read the answer and worked solution →January 26 is celebrated every year as:Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution is said to express a broad:Read the answer and worked solution →The Preamble is described as reading like a:Read the answer and worked solution →The Preamble is called the soul of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Under a secular state, the official religion of India is:Read the answer and worked solution →Which word means people elect their rulers and hold them to account?Read the answer and worked solution →Equality in the Preamble means all are equal before the:Read the answer and worked solution →Fraternity asks citizens to behave as members of the same:Read the answer and worked solution →Socialist and Secular were added to the Preamble by which amendment?Read the answer and worked solution →Socialist and Secular were added to the Preamble in the year:Read the answer and worked solution →Which leader spent long years in prison opposing apartheid?Read the answer and worked solution →Which party did Mandela join to oppose apartheid?Read the answer and worked solution →Apartheid was a system that divided people on the basis of:Read the answer and worked solution →Place the constitutional eventsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Article 340 of the Indian Constitution deals with the:

  1. Finance Commission
  2. Union Public Service Commission
  3. Backward Classes Commission
  4. Election Commission
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Correct answer: C. Backward Classes Commission

1. Article 340 empowers the President to appoint a commission. 2. That commission investigates the conditions of socially and educationally backward classes. 3. Hence Article 340 deals with the Backward Classes Commission. _Source: RRB Group D (RRC) PYQ, held 27-10-2013, Q.95._

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Which of the following is the Upper House of the Indian Parliament?

  1. Rajya Sabha
  2. Supreme Court
  3. PMO
  4. Lok Sabha
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Correct answer: A. Rajya Sabha

1. The Indian Parliament has two Houses. 2. The Lok Sabha is the Lower House (House of the People). 3. The Rajya Sabha is the Upper House (Council of States). _Source: RRB Group D CEN-02/2018 PYQ, Q.60._

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Rule true or false on these claims

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Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    A big company must spend at least 2 percent of its profit on social work.
  2. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Money a company spends only on its own staff counts as social spending.
  3. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Pushing the company's own brand counts as social spending.
  4. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Dr Sachchidananda Sinha was the first, temporary head of the Assembly.
  5. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Dr Rajendra Prasad became the permanent head of the Assembly.
  6. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Dr B R Ambedkar presided over the Constituent Assembly itself.
Instructions
Tap true or false for each claim about company social spending and the Constituent Assembly.
_Source: Qallery verified question bank, SSC JE, topic Indian Polity_

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