Year : 
2006
Title : 
Government
Exam : 
WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

31 - 40 of 45 Questions

# Question Ans
31.

Which of the following is an advantages of local governments in West Africa?Acting as

A. agents for money-based politics

B. electoral commissions

C. traning grounds for political leaders

D. agents of pressure groups

C

32.

Some pre-colonial West African governments were democratic because of the existence of

A. age grades

B. powerful trditional rulers

C. religious institutions

D. checks and balance

D

33.

In the pre-colonial West Africa, the Kingdom,Wolof and the Hausa were examples of a

A. state

B. union

C. country

D. nation

D

34.

Which of the following countries popularized the use of the Indirect Rule by the British?

A. Nigeria

B. Ghana

C. Sierra Leone

D. The Gambia

A

35.

Indirect rule was successfully in some of the part of West Africa because

A. the British tyrannized the people

B. it sulted the existing traditional political structure

C. British officials learnt the local languages

D. the residents were good administrators

B

36.

The National Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA) was founded in 1919 by

A. Kobina Sekyi

B. J.B Danquah

C. Mensah Sarbah

D. Caseley Hayford

D

37.

Elective principle was introduced in the British colonies after

A. series of negotitions by the chiefs

B. consultations with the age grades

C. a series of agitations by the educated elite

D. the Queen's desire to come to the colonies

C

38.

An important innovation of the constitutions of British West African colonies in the 1920s was the

A. intorduction of elective principle

B. appointment of Africans to the executive councils

C. restriction of the Governors veto powers

D. opening of Regional Assemblies

A

39.

Notational Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA)failed to achieve its aims initially because

A. the chiefs and Governors oppsed those aims

B. African workers opposed those aims

C. Africans employed Europeans to write those aims

D. the congress failed to bring foreigners into its fold

A

40.

A coup détat is regarded as

A. a source of political legitimacy

B. a manipulation of the constitution

C. a constitutional way of changing the government

D. an unconstitututional way of changing the government

D

31.

Which of the following is an advantages of local governments in West Africa?Acting as

A. agents for money-based politics

B. electoral commissions

C. traning grounds for political leaders

D. agents of pressure groups

C

32.

Some pre-colonial West African governments were democratic because of the existence of

A. age grades

B. powerful trditional rulers

C. religious institutions

D. checks and balance

D

33.

In the pre-colonial West Africa, the Kingdom,Wolof and the Hausa were examples of a

A. state

B. union

C. country

D. nation

D

34.

Which of the following countries popularized the use of the Indirect Rule by the British?

A. Nigeria

B. Ghana

C. Sierra Leone

D. The Gambia

A

35.

Indirect rule was successfully in some of the part of West Africa because

A. the British tyrannized the people

B. it sulted the existing traditional political structure

C. British officials learnt the local languages

D. the residents were good administrators

B

36.

The National Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA) was founded in 1919 by

A. Kobina Sekyi

B. J.B Danquah

C. Mensah Sarbah

D. Caseley Hayford

D

37.

Elective principle was introduced in the British colonies after

A. series of negotitions by the chiefs

B. consultations with the age grades

C. a series of agitations by the educated elite

D. the Queen's desire to come to the colonies

C

38.

An important innovation of the constitutions of British West African colonies in the 1920s was the

A. intorduction of elective principle

B. appointment of Africans to the executive councils

C. restriction of the Governors veto powers

D. opening of Regional Assemblies

A

39.

Notational Congress of British West Africa (NCBWA)failed to achieve its aims initially because

A. the chiefs and Governors oppsed those aims

B. African workers opposed those aims

C. Africans employed Europeans to write those aims

D. the congress failed to bring foreigners into its fold

A

40.

A coup détat is regarded as

A. a source of political legitimacy

B. a manipulation of the constitution

C. a constitutional way of changing the government

D. an unconstitututional way of changing the government

D