MCQ Questions for Class 8 Civics: Ch 2 Understanding Secularism
1. The rights provided by constitution are called:
(a) Governmental Rights
(b) Optional Rights
(c) Economic Rights
(d) Fundamental Rights
► (d) Fundamental Rights
2. Explain the meaning of coercion.
(a) Force by legal authority
(b) Force by parents
(c) Force by Law
(d) None of these
► (a) Force by legal authority
3. Which one of the following is a fundamental right?
(a) Right to freedom of religion
(b) Right to property
(c) Right to work
(d) All of these
► (a) Right to freedom of religion
4. What was the names of two non-secular countries?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) Israel
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of these
► (c) Both a and b
5. What was the reason behind abolition of the evil practice of untouchability?
(a) To end the Muslims in India
(b) To end the discrimination
(c) To end the poverty
(d) None of these
► (b) To end the discrimination
6. What happened in Hitler’s Germany?
(a) Several million people were killed
(b) Bomb blast took place in Nagasaki
(c) Assassination of Mrs. Indira Gandhi
(d) All of these
► (a) Several million people were killed
7. What was the names of the Muslim dominant former French colonies?
(a) Tunisia
(b) Morocco
(c) Algeria
(d) All of these
► (d) All of these
8. What could the tyranny of majority result in?
(a) Discrimination
(b) Coercion
(c) None of the above
(d) Both (a) and (b)
► (d) Both (a) and (b)
9. From where did immigrants come to France in 1960’s?
(a) Algeria
(b) Tunisia
(c) Morocco
(d) All of the above
► (d) All of the above
10. What is the status of U.S legislature in the matters of the religion?
(a) Prohibit making new gender law
(b) Prohibit making new reservation law
(c) Prohibit making new religion law
(d) None of these
► (c) Prohibit making new religion law
11. Which country didn’t allow non-Muslims to build their worship places?
(a) India
(b) Saudi Arabia
(c) Pakistan
(d) None of these
► (b) Saudi Arabia
12. What refers to the State’s effort to influence a particular matter in accordance with the principles of the constitution?
(a) Intervene
(b) Coercion
(c) Meditation
(d) None of these
► (a) Intervene
13. What is celebrated on 2nd October of every year?
(a) Christmas Day
(b) Children’s Day
(c) Gandhi Jayanti
(d) Diwali
► (c) Gandhi Jayanti
14. In February 2004, which country has prohibited the wearing of conspicuous religious or political signs by the students?
(a) France
(b) India
(c) America
(d) None of these
► (a) France