Question Paper
Class / Subject: Class 9 (CBSE) · Social Science
Chapter: Chapter 15 — Chapter 15: Working of Institutions
Time Allowed: 32 minutes
Max Marks: 16
1. What does the legislature do? [1]
(A) Makes laws
(B) Implements laws
(C) Interprets laws
(D) None of these
2. What does the executive do? [1]
(A) Implements laws
(B) Makes laws
(C) Interprets laws
(D) None of these
3. What does the judiciary do? [1]
(A) Interprets laws
(B) Makes laws
(C) Implements laws
(D) None of these
4. What is an example of the legislature? [1]
(A) Parliament
(B) The Supreme Court
(C) The Prime Minister's Office
(D) The Election Commission
5. Who heads the executive at the national level? [1]
(A) The President and Prime Minister
(B) Only the Chief Justice
(C) Only Parliament members
(D) Only state Governors
6. What is an example of the judiciary? [1]
(A) The Supreme Court
(B) Parliament
(C) The Prime Minister's cabinet
(D) State legislatures
7. What does separation of powers prevent? [1]
(A) Any single branch from becoming too powerful
(B) Cooperation between branches
(C) All government function
(D) Elections from happening
8. Why is separation of powers important? [1]
(A) It protects democracy and citizens' rights
(B) It has no importance
(C) Only for administrative convenience
(D) It slows government unnecessarily with no benefit
9. How do institutions work together in India's government? [1]
(A) Through checks and balances
(B) Independently, with no interaction
(C) Only the executive has power
(D) Only the judiciary matters
10. Who is the executive accountable to? [1]
(A) The legislature
(B) No one
(C) Only itself
(D) Only the judiciary
11. What can remove a government in a parliamentary system? [1]
(A) A vote of no-confidence
(B) Only elections, nothing else
(C) The judiciary directly
(D) No mechanism exists
12. What can the judiciary do to unconstitutional laws? [1]
(A) Strike them down
(B) Nothing, it has no power over laws
(C) Only suggest changes with no authority
(D) Ignore them completely
13. What does this system of checks and balances prevent? [1]
(A) Unchecked power in any institution
(B) Cooperation between institutions
(C) All government functioning
(D) Elections from occurring
14. What does interdependence between institutions ensure? [1]
(A) Accountability across government
(B) No accountability at all
(C) Total independence of each institution
(D) Conflict between institutions only
15. Why is this system important for democracy? [1]
(A) It protects governance and citizens' rights
(B) It has no importance
(C) Only for legal technicalities
(D) It slows government with no benefit
16. What must the executive do with laws passed by the legislature? [1]
(A) Implement them effectively
(B) Ignore them if inconvenient
(C) Rewrite them independently
(D) Reject them without reason