Class 7 Civics Chapter 1

The body to whom we pay taxes every year is the______________

• parliament

• government

• country

• state

Which of these is NOT the work of the government?

• laying roads

• maintaining street lights

• operating public transportation

• ensuring jobs for all its citizens

In direct democracy the power lay with the

• assembly of representatives who were elected by the citizens of the country

• assembly of all people participating in the governance of the country

• assembly of noblemen or people of a certain caste

• monarch

The writ of habeas corpus

• gives the right to the people to appeal if they are imprisoned without just cause

• gives the right to the people to appeal if they are imprisoned for any crime

• restricts the right of the people if they rally against the elected officials

• none of the above

In a democracy, the judiciary is the part of the government which

• enforces the laws made by the legislature

• executes the laws

• makes the laws

• none of these