Power Sharing Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What is the name given to the second, more ethical reason for power sharing?

Question 2

What did the growing distrust between the Sinhala and Tamil communities eventually lead to?

Question 3

Besides loss of life, what other major effect did the civil war have on Sri Lanka?

Question 4

Through which organisations do citizens usually get to choose among contenders for power?

Question 5

According to the moral argument, should people bear the consequences of decisions they had no say in making?

Question 6

This pack covered Sri Lanka. In which year did Sri Lanka gain independence?

Question 7

Does a coalition government mean power is concentrated in a single party's hands?

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About Power Sharing

This quiz covers Chapter 1 of CBSE Class 10 Political Science (Democratic Politics II), Power Sharing.

It opens with the case study of Belgium, a small European country that resolved deep linguistic and regional divisions through a careful, multi-layered power-sharing arrangement.

It then covers the case study of Sri Lanka, where majoritarian policies towards the Sinhala and Tamil communities led to decades of ethnic conflict and civil war.

It moves on to why power sharing is desirable, covering both the prudential reason of reducing conflict and the moral reason that power sharing is the very spirit of democracy.

It covers the horizontal distribution of power among the legislature, executive, and judiciary, and the vertical division of power between national, regional, and local governments.

It closes with power sharing among different social groups, such as Belgium's community government, and among political parties, pressure groups, and movements, such as in a coalition government.

Every question comes with a clear, simple explanation, so incorrect answers become as instructive as correct ones, whether you are revising for a school test or a board exam.