CBSE 6 Social Science Chapter 3 What is Government Questions and Answers

Government Questions and Answers

Exercise Question and Answers

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1. What do you understand by the word ‘government’? List five ways in which you think the government affects your daily life.

 Ans: A government is an organization that makes decisions and implements actions for the welfare of a country and its citizens.

Five ways in which government affects our daily life

  •  Build roads and schools.
  •  Reduce and fix the price of essential commodities.
  •  The supply of electricity.
  •  Protecting the boundaries of the country and maintaining Peaceful relation with other countries.
  •  Ensuring all its citizens have enough to eat and have good health facilities.

2. Why do you think the government needs to make rules for everyone in the form of laws?

   Ans:  The Government needs to make rules for everyone in the form of in the following ways:

  • Provide equality and justice to all.
  • It helps in proper functioning of the Government.           
  • It ensures the security of the nation.
  • Protect rights of all citizens.
  • To prevent the misuse of power, etc.

3. Name the two essential features of the democratic Government.

   Ans:   The two essential features of the democratic Government are

  •  The people have the power to elect their leaders.
  •  The Government has to explain its actions and defends its decisions to the people.

4. What was the suffrage movement? What did it accomplish?

Ans: The term suffrage usually means right to vote. The movement for voting rights to women came to be known as the suffrage movement. All over Europe and USA, women and the poor have had to fight for participation in the government. suffrage movement got strengthened during the First World War.

This movement accomplished: The women’s right to vote.

5. Gandhiji strongly believed that every adult in India should be given the right to vote. However, a few people don’t share his views. They feel that illiterate people, who are mainly poor, should not be given the right to vote. What do you think? Do you think this would be a form of discrimination? Give five points to support your view and share these with the class.

Ans:  The thought of not giving the right to vote to the poor and illiterate people is absolutely wrong. This would be clearly a form of discrimination.

           Five points to support my view are following:

  •  Democracy talks of equality and justice for all.
  •  We must honour the dignity of any Individual.
  •  Our constitution provides equal voting rights to all the citizens.
  •  Illiterate and poor people might have a strong character.
  •  All citizens must have right to vote.

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Additional Questions and Answers.

Multiple choice Questions and Answers

  1. What is the job of Government?
    (a) Build roads and schools
    (b) Supply of electricity
    (c) Maintaining peaceful relation with other countries
    (d) All of these

Ans: (d) All of these

  1. The Government Works at how many levels?
    (a) 5
    (b) 3
    (c) 2
    (d) 9

Ans: (b) 3

  1. Which type of Government chosen by the people?
    (a) Democratic Government
    (b) Monarchy Government
    (c) Dictatorship Government
    (d) None of these

Ans: (a) Democratic Government

  1. When was only a small minority allowed to vote?
    (a) Before Independence
    (b) After Independence
    (c) Both a and b
    (d) None of these

Ans: (a) Before Independence

  1. At which level Does a Government Work.
    (a) Local level
    (b) State level
    (c) National level
    (d) All of these

Ans: (d) All of these

  1. In which year Gandhiji was wrote “the journal young India”?
    (a) 1951
    (b) 1941
    (c) 1931
    (d) 1831

Ans: (a) 1931

  1. In which year, American women got right to vote.
    (a) 1910
    (b) 1930
    (c) 1920
    (d) 1925

Ans: (c) 1920

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  1. How many types of Government mention in the chapter?
    (a) 3
    (b) 2
    (c) 1
    (d) 4

Ans: (b) 2

  1. Local levels means.
    (a) Village
    (b) Town
    (c) Locality
    (d) All of these

Ans: (d) All of these

  1. The word suffrage means.
    (a) Right to vote
    (b) Right to livelihood
    (c) Right to go anywhere
    (d) None of these

Ans: (a) Right to vote

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Short Questions and Answers

1. Write some examples of institutions that are part of the Government.

Ans: The Supreme Court, The Indian Railways and Bharat Petroleum.

2. Why does a country needs Government?

Ans: A country needs Government to make decision and Implements actions for the welfare of a country or its citizens.

3. What is democratic Government?

Ans: Government by the people, of the people and for the people.

4. What is Monarchy Government?

Ans: The monarch (king or queen) has the power to make decisions and run the government. The monarch may have a small group of people to discuss matters with, but the final   decision- making power remains with the monarch.

5. According to Gandhiji’s Young India, who should be given the right to vote.

Ans: According to Gandhiji’s Young India, All adults of India have the right to vote.

6. What is the main function of a government?

Ans: The main function of the government is to maintain law and order.

7. What is women’s suffrage?

Ans: The term women suffrage refers to women’s right to vote by law in national and local elections.

8. How a democratic government get mandate to make decisions and enforce laws?

Ans: In a democratic country, the government get mandate to make decisions and enforce laws from the people through process of election.

9. What do you mean by universal adult franchise?

Ans: Universal adult franchise means that all adults in the country are allowed to vote.

10. What was the unfair practice in Gandhi’s eyes?

Ans:   before Independence, only a small minority was allowed to vote, and they therefore came together to determine the fate of the majority. It was the unfair practice in Gandhi`s eyes.

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Long Questions and Answers

1. What was the voting system in India before Independence?  What ideas did Gandhiji express in the journal Young India about the Voting system?

Ans:  In India, before Independence, only a small minority was allowed to vote and they therefore came together to determine the fate of the majority. Gandhiji was shocked at the unfairness of this practice and demanded that all adults have the right to vote.

Writing in the journal Young India in 1931, Gandhiji said, “I cannot possibly bear the idea that a man who has got wealth should have the vote, but that a man who has got character but no wealth or literacy should have no vote, or that a man who works honestly by the sweat of his brow day in and day out should not have the vote for the crime of being a poor man.

2. Explain different levels of Government.

Ans: There are 3 levels of Government

  • The local level:  When the Government works in your village, town, or locality, it is called local level.
  • The State level:  When the Government works that covers an entire state like Haryana or Assam, it is called state level.
  • The national level: When the Government works that relates to the entire country, it is called national level.

3. What is women’s suffrage? Explain.

Ans:  Women’s struggle to vote got strengthened during the First World War. This movement is called the women’s suffrage movement as the term suffrage usually means right to vote. During the War, many men were away fighting, and because of this woman were called upon to do work that was earlier considered men’s work. Many women began organising and managing different kinds of work. When people saw this, they began to wonder why they had created so many unfair stereotypes about women and what they were capable of doing. So, women began to be seen as being equally capable of making decisions.

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