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Indian Polity Mixed Quiz: Set 95

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  • 20 minutes
  • Difficulty: Medium
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Set 95 of the Indian Polity mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 18 different topics of the subject: Preamble, Parliamentary Privileges, Fundamental Rights and more. 10 of them were asked in real previous-year papers. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.

Questions in this quiz

20 questions with answers and explanations

Q1.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2021, GS Paper IEasy

What was the exact constitutional status of India on 26th January, 1950?

  1. A.A Democratic Republic
  2. B.A Sovereign Democratic Republic
  3. C.A Sovereign Secular Democratic Republic
  4. D.A Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic
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Correct answer: B. A Sovereign Democratic Republic

When the Constitution came into force on 26 January 1950, its Preamble declared India a Sovereign Democratic Republic.

Q2.Indian PolityMedium

Which Article protects a person from liability for publishing a substantially true report of the proceedings of a House of Parliament?

  1. A.Article 105
  2. B.Article 194
  3. C.Article 361A
  4. D.Article 123
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Correct answer: C. Article 361A

Article 361A protects a person from civil or criminal liability for publishing a substantially true report of the proceedings of either House of Parliament or of a State Legislature, unless the publication is proved to have been made with malice; the protection does not extend to reports of a secret…

Q3.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2018, GS Paper IEasy

Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty. Which of the following in the Constitution of India correctly and appropriately imply the above statement ?

  1. A.Article 14 and the provisions under the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution
  2. B.Article 17 and the Directive Principles of State Policy in Part IV
  3. C.Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed in Part III
  4. D.Article 24 and the provisions under the 44th Amendment to the Constitution
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Correct answer: C. Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed in Part III

The Supreme Court has held privacy to be part of the right to life and personal liberty in Article 21 and of the other freedoms in Part III.

Q5.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2017, GS Paper IMedium

Consider the following statements :

1. The Election Commission of India is five-member body.

2. Union Ministry of Home Affairs decides the election schedule for the conduct of both general elections and bye-elections.

3. Election Commission resolves the disputes relating to splits/mergers of recognised political parties.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. A.1 and 2 only
  2. B.2 only
  3. C.2 and 3 only
  4. D.3 only
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Correct answer: D. 3 only

Only statement 3 is correct: the Election Commission decides disputes over splits and mergers of recognised parties. Under Article 324 the Commission superintends, directs and controls elections to Parliament, the State legislatures and the offices of President and Vice-President.

Q6.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2018, GS Paper IEasy

Which of the following are regarded as the main features of the "Rule of Law"?

1. Limitation of powers

2. Equality before law

3. People's responsibility to the Government

4. Liberty and civil rights

Select the correct answer using the code given below :

  1. A.1 and 3 only
  2. B.2 and 4 only
  3. C.1, 2 and 4 only
  4. D.1, 2, 3 and 4
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Correct answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only

The Rule of Law means that power is limited by law, everyone is equal before the law, and individual liberties are protected.

Q7.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2017, GS Paper IEasy

In India, Judicial Review implies

  1. A.the power of the Judiciary to pronounce upon the constitutionality of laws and executive orders.
  2. B.the power of the Judiciary to question the wisdom of the laws enacted by the Legislatures.
  3. C.the power of the Judiciary to review all the legislative enactments before they are assented to by the President.
  4. D.the power of the Judiciary to review its own judgements given earlier in similar or different cases.
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Correct answer: A. the power of the Judiciary to pronounce upon the constitutionality of laws and executive orders.

Judicial review lets the Supreme Court and the High Courts strike down any law or executive action that violates the Constitution.

Q9.Indian PolityAsked in: CDS · CDS-II 2017, GKEasy

Which of the following features were borrowed by the Constitution of India from the British Constitution? 1. Rule of Law 2. Law-making Procedure 3. Independence of Judiciary 4. Parliamentary System Select the correct answer using the code given below.

  1. A.1 and 2 only
  2. B.2, 3 and 4
  3. C.1 and 4 only
  4. D.1, 2 and 4
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Correct answer: D. 1, 2 and 4

The Constitution of India borrowed the rule of law, the law-making procedure and the parliamentary system from the British Constitution, but took the independence of the judiciary from the US Constitution.

Q10.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2021, GS Paper IMedium

With reference to India, consider the following statements : 1. Judicial custody means an accused is in the custody of the concerned magistrate and such accused is locked up in police station, not in jail. 2. During judicial custody, the police officer in charge of the case is not allowed to interrogate the suspect without the approval of the court. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. A.1 only
  2. B.2 only
  3. C.Both 1 and 2
  4. D.Neither 1 nor 2
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Correct answer: B. 2 only

In judicial custody the accused is held in jail, not in a police lock-up, and the police need the court's leave to question them.

Q11.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2021, GS Paper IEasy

At the national level, which ministry is the nodal agency to ensure effective implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006?

  1. A.Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
  2. B.Ministry of Panchayati Raj
  3. C.Ministry of Rural Development
  4. D.Ministry of Tribal Affairs
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Correct answer: D. Ministry of Tribal Affairs

Section 11 of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 names the ministry dealing with tribal affairs, or an officer it authorises, as the nodal agency for carrying out the law.

Q13.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2019, GS Paper IHard

Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017? 1. Pregnant women are entitled for three months pre-delivery and three months post-delivery paid leave. 2. Enterprises with crèches must allow the mother minimum six crèche visits daily. 3. Women with two children get reduced entitlements. Select the correct answer using the code given below.

  1. A.1 and 2 only
  2. B.2 only
  3. C.3 only
  4. D.1, 2 and 3
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Correct answer: C. 3 only

The 2017 amendment raised paid maternity leave from 12 to 26 weeks, but not in the split the question gives.

Q14.Indian PolityEasy

Which Article of the Constitution provides for the appointment of the Prime Minister by the President?

  1. A.Article 72
  2. B.Article 74
  3. C.Article 75
  4. D.Article 78
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Correct answer: C. Article 75

Article 75(1) states that the Prime Minister shall be appointed by the President and the other Ministers shall be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister; the same Article carries the fifteen per cent ceiling on the size of the Council, collective responsibility to the Lok…

Q15.Indian PolityHard

Which statement about the codification of parliamentary privileges in India is correct?

  1. A.They were codified by the Privileges Act of 1952
  2. B.Parliament has not enacted a law defining them, so they remain uncodified
  3. C.They were codified by the 44th Amendment itself
  4. D.The Supreme Court codified them in the Keshav Singh case
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Correct answer: B. Parliament has not enacted a law defining them, so they remain uncodified

Article 105(3) authorises Parliament to define its privileges by law, but Parliament has never passed such a law, so the privileges remain uncodified and are drawn from the Constitution, the rules of the Houses, their precedents and the practice followed before the Forty-fourth Amendment.

Q16.Indian PolityHard

An address to the President for the removal of a judge of the Supreme Court must be supported in each House by

  1. A.a simple majority of the members present and voting
  2. B.a majority of the total membership of the House and two-thirds of the members present and voting
  3. C.two-thirds of the total membership of the House
  4. D.three-fourths of the members present and voting
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Correct answer: B. a majority of the total membership of the House and two-thirds of the members present and voting

Article 124(4) provides that a judge of the Supreme Court may be removed by an order of the President only after an address by each House of Parliament, supported by a majority of the total membership of that House and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the…

Q17.Indian PolityMedium

Epistolary jurisdiction, as developed by the Supreme Court of India, means that

  1. A.a letter or postcard addressed to the court can be treated as a writ petition
  2. B.only a registered advocate may file a writ petition
  3. C.a petition must be filed in English
  4. D.an appeal lies directly from a tribunal to the Supreme Court
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Correct answer: A. a letter or postcard addressed to the court can be treated as a writ petition

Epistolary jurisdiction is the practice by which the Supreme Court, and later the High Courts, treated a simple letter or postcard describing a violation of rights as a formal writ petition, dispensing with the usual requirements of form, court fee and a lawyer.

Q20.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2023, GS Paper IHard

With reference to Home Guards, consider the following statements: 1. Home Guards are raised under the Home Guards Act and Rules of the Central Government. 2. The role of the Home Guards is to serve as an auxiliary force to the police in maintenance of internal security. 3. To prevent infiltration on the international border/coastal areas, the Border Wing Home Guards Battalions have been raised in some States. How many of the above statements are correct?

  1. A.Only one
  2. B.Only two
  3. C.All three
  4. D.None
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Correct answer: B. Only two

Statements 2 and 3 are correct, statement 1 is not. Home Guards are a voluntary force first raised in Bombay in 1946.

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