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State PSC Preamble & Sources — practice questions

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A club writes down rules everyone must follow on who leads and what they may do. For a country, such rules are its:Read the answer and worked solution →Nelson Mandela and seven other leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment in:Read the answer and worked solution →After how many years in prison did Mandela walk out a free man?Read the answer and worked solution →The system of racial discrimination unique to South Africa was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Separate buses, hospitals, schools and beaches for whites and blacks was called:Read the answer and worked solution →The umbrella body that led the struggle against apartheid was the:Read the answer and worked solution →The new national flag of the Republic of South Africa was unfurled at midnight on:Read the answer and worked solution →Constitution rules work only if the election winner:Read the answer and worked solution →Who gave themselves a constitution after a War of Independence against Great Britain?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many people were killed in partition related violence?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1928, who drafted a constitution for India with eight other Congress leaders?Read the answer and worked solution →The socialist revolution in which country inspired Indians to think of social and economic equality?Read the answer and worked solution →Indians took the ideal of parliamentary democracy from Britain and the Bill of Rights from the:Read the answer and worked solution →The body of elected representatives that drafted India's constitution was the:Read the answer and worked solution →How many members did the Constituent Assembly that wrote the Indian constitution have?Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution was adopted on 26 November 1949 and came into effect on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Drafting Committee that prepared the draft constitution was chaired by:Read the answer and worked solution →Nehru's tryst with destiny speech was given at the stroke of midnight on:Read the answer and worked solution →The short statement of basic values that begins the Constitution is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Most countries begin their constitutions with a preamble, taking inspiration from which model?Read the answer and worked solution →The Preamble is described as the ___ of the Indian Constitution.Read the answer and worked solution →The words Socialist and Secular were added to the Preamble by which amendment?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the South Africa storyRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the sourcesRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real wordRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the constitution wordsRead the answer and worked solution →India or South AfricaRead the answer and worked solution →Which yearRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Constitution bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A club writes down rules everyone must follow on who leads and what they may do. For a country, such rules are its:

  1. Constitution
  2. Annual budget
  3. Manifesto
  4. Trade treaty
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Correct answer: A. Constitution

1. Rulers in a democracy cannot do as they like. 2. The basic rules bind citizens and government alike. 3. Together they form the constitution. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 2, Constitutional Design._

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Nelson Mandela and seven other leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment in:

  1. 1950
  2. 1964
  3. 1948
  4. 1994
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Correct answer: B. 1964

1. They were tried for treason. 2. Their crime was opposing apartheid. 3. The sentence came in 1964. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 2, Constitutional Design._

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After how many years in prison did Mandela walk out a free man?

  1. 28
  2. 10
  3. 14
  4. 35
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Correct answer: A. 28

1. He was held on Robben Island. 2. The regime finally changed its policies. 3. He was freed after 28 years. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 2, Constitutional Design._

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