Asela Town Education office 2015 E.

C Frist Semester Civic and Ethical Education Final Examination for

Grade 12 Time allowed 50 minutes
1. According to the Ethiopian penal law, which one of the following crimes is considered as
homicide?
A. Drug trafficking. C. Human Trafficking
B. Corruption D. Deliberate transmission of disease
2. People who expose criminal acts and corruption without identifying themselves is called?
A. Conscientious objectors C. Arrogant
B. Whistle Blowers D. Brokers
3. One of the following is the attribute of parliamentary democratic system.
A. The head of the state is appointed from the party that has majority seat in the parliament.
A. The head of the state has the power to nominate judges who need to be approved by the parliament.
B. The head of the government made executive decision collective with his/her cabinet
C. Effective cheek and balance between the executive and the legislative organ of government
4. Which one of the following is true abut impartial tribunal in due process of law?
A. The right not to be acquitted again for the same offence
B. The court being nonpartisan in its dealings with a case
C. The right to recourse the decision given by the court
D. The right to petition the court to order their physical release
5. Which one of the following is true abut the Second Wayne movement?
A. Women played a great role in the revolution
B. The center of the revolution was Mota and Dega damot provinces
C. The cause for the rebellion were forced contribution to erect a statue of the emperor
D. The rebellion crushed by the joint force of government and British army
6. From the following one is different from the others?
 A. Preserve history C. Freedom of religion
B. The right to privacy D. Freedom of expression
7. From the following one is not true about group rights?
A. Are human right and belongs to all human being without discrimination
B. Instrument to facilitate the realization of equality
C. Protect disadvantage groups
D. Held by individuals who are members of a particular group
8. From the following one is not true about domestication of law?
A. Signing international convention by executive is the first step in domestication of law
B. Approval of international principle should be given to the judiciary organ of
government in the history of domestication.
C. In the process of domestication, the house people representative is Responsible to
ratify the convention
D. After declaring in Negarit Gazeta the history of domestication is finalized
9. Which one of the following true about tax fraud or evasion?
A. It is an act of illegal international tread across the border
B. Not to be reveal the exact amount of income to the concerned body
C. Avoidance of tax by changing a business venture
D. To be reveal in reporting the exact income and source of income
10. Which one of the following is true about independent of judiciary?
A. Courts at any level shall be influenced by the executive body
B. Judges exercise their function solely by the law
C. Court at any level shall interpret law solely by enforcement of legislative body
D. Judge did not be accountable to their duty
11. Which one of the following is correct about rules and laws?
A. Rules are primary legislation while laws are secondary legislation
B. Rules are enacted by the highest legislative organ while laws are enacted by the
organ lower than the parliament
C. The council of ministers and individual ministers are responsible enact rules and the
HPR are responsible to enact the laws
D. Rules can contradict ordinary laws or proclamation
12. From the following one is used as parameters to evaluate rules and laws?

A. irrelevant, ambiguous C. Well designed

B. cross-reference or jargon word D. Unfair
13. Which one of the following used as a method of controlling corruption at
Individual?
A. Developing a whistle blowers behaviors
B. Punishing individual
C. Realizing accountability and transparency
D. Strengthening ethics and anti-corruption commission
14. Which one of the following is true about unity in diversity?
A. It enable people to exaggerate their own culture by dis respecting other diversity
B. All cultures are equal thus everyone should deserves to be treated equally
C. Disregarding the equality of other and advocating ones on culture
D. It advocate mono cultural doctrine in one society
15. Which one of the following is true about equality of benefit and burden?
A. Equality of benefit and burden enable people to feel responsible and contribute their
best effort
B. Unequal distribution of social services results peace and security
C. In the history of our country benefit and burden was equally distributed
D. The revolution of Ethiopian youth, was not acknowledge with equality of benefit and
burden
16. Which one of the following is true about independent of judiciary?
A. Courts at any level shall be influenced by the executive body
B. Judges exercise their function solely by the law
C. Court at any level shall interpret law solely by enforcement of legislative body
D. Judge should be partisanship while interpreting law
17. Which one of the following is true about the principle of external relation of
Ethiopia?
A. Protection of national interests
B. Interference in the internal affairs of other state
C. Creating good opportunity for Ethiopian reactionary groups
D. Accepting international agreement that contrary to the interest of Ethiopian people
18. All are the results of the fair distribution of benefit and burden except?
A. Equality C. Stability
B. Social unrest D. National consensus

19. The principle which state human being and human right are not separated?
A. Inalienability B. Inviolable C. Universality D. Indivisibility
20. In democratic countries, courts are expected to be Non- partisan while dealing with cases,
this means
A. They should not be member of any political party.
B. They should not belong to any religious group.
C. They should not bias based any ground while dealing cases
D. They should not belong to any ethnic
21. From the following peasant revolution the one destroyed by the joint action of the Ethiopian
gov’t and British force
A. The FristWoyane movement C. The Gojam peasant rebellion.
B. The Second woyane movement D. The Bale peasant rebellion
22. From the following bodies which one is responsible for enacting law according to the FDRE
Constitution?
 A. The house of federation C. The council of minister
B. The house people representative. D. The judiciary
23. A principle of Justices in taxation that state people who earning different amounts should be
taxed differently is called_____
A. Horizontal equity B. Ability to pay C. Progressive taxation D. Non taxation
24. Which one moral obligation of citizen?
A. Respecting cultural diversity
B. Helping street children
C. Paying tax
D. Monitoring the activities of political leader
25. Which of the following is the deliberate endangering the freedom and devastation of the
property of an individual?
A. Genocide B. Deliberate transmission of diseases C. Terrorism D. Corruptio

26. Identifies statement that states the difference between rules and laws?

A. Laws are derived from rules C. Rules give rise to law

B. Rules are derived from laws D. Rules and law are equal

27. From the following alternative one is odd about the power and responsibility of the federal
and the regional state of Ethiopian?
A. Determine issue related to immigration.
B. Minting coins and conducting foreign relation
C. Organizing the federal police force
D. Preparing state force to keep the state security
28. Which one of the following statement is correct about the methods of tax assessment in
Ethiopia?
A. All citizen whatever their income Should pay tax.
B. People the same amount of income within the scale of taxability should the same
amount of tax.
C. Administering tax to give material for some people and in cash for other.
D. People earning small income to a certain threshold do pay any tax regardless of their
capacity.
29. The judiciary protects individual rights through the principle of due process of law. Which of
the following is the element of due process of law?
A. All person have alienable right to petition the court to order their physical release.
B. The accused person has the right to be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
C. Accessibility of court and tribunals is guaranteed to all defendants equally without
discrimination.
D. The defendant has the burden of providing evidence for the commission of the crime.
30. Which one of the following is true about legitimate and illegitimate government?
 A. In the former constitutionalism more practice than the latter
B. The latter may have Moral authority from the people than the former
C. The former Lack of moral authority than the latter
D. In both government the Peoples are considered as subjects not as a citizen
31. Which one of the following is the power of the Parliament and judiciary organ of United
States of America respectively?
A. Nominate judge and execute constitutionality of laws
B. Approving the nomination of the judge and interpret the constitutionality of law
C. Setting the annual government budget and approved budget
D. Interpreting constitutionality of law and make international treaty
32. From the following one is true according to the FDRE Constitution about the council of
minister and the state council respectively?
A. The Former is the law making body at the federal level and the latter is the law making
at the regional level
B. Both are the law executing body at the state level
C. The former is the law implementing body at federal and the latter is the law formulating
at regional level
D. The former is law executing body at regional and the latter is the law interpreting at
federal level
33. From the following one is not the character of presidential democracy?
A. The members of the executive cannot become members of the legislative.
B. Executive decision should be made by the president alone.
C. The office of the head of the state and the government is fused in one office
D. The president he/she is appointed from the winning party and has to be a member of
the parliament
34. Identify that does not explain about the federal state structure?
A. Decentralization of political power
B. Prevalence of dual subjectivity
C. Collaborative relation between the central and regional units
D. regional or local unity have no independent decision making power
35. A conflict management mechanism in which the disputing parties settle their conflict through
panel of judges which is created by their agreement is
A. Litigation C. Mediation
B. Arbitration D. Negotiation
36. In which one of the following cases, a court is expected to hear cases in a closed session
A. If the cases can not affect the public moral.
B. If the cases are related to National security.
C. If the cases cannot affect the privacy of the defendant
D. If the case can not affect the security of one’s country
37. According to article 105 of the FDRE constitution, amendment of the Constitution can be
made when?
 A. The house of federation only approved the proposed amendment by 2/3 majority vote.
B. The Federal and State legislative in joint session approve the proposed amendment.
C. The state Administration council approve the proposed amendment by 2/3 majority
vote.
D. The councils of member state federation and The HPR and The HOF in joint session
approve the proposed amendment by 2/3 majority vote
38. From the following one is the basic characteristics of ethnocentric individuals?
A. Promote unity in diversity or multiculturalism
B. They are open minded in relation to other societies and culture.
C. Promote chauvinistic attitude towards other way of life.
D. They are less arrogant in relation to others culture.
39. Cultural relativism?
A. Creates superiority complexity over the other culture.
B. It enables people to live in hostile relation.
C. It makes people to undermine the culture of others
D. It creates understanding and appreciating cultural diversity.
40. The process through which international norms and values become the law of the country is
known as?
A. Adaption C. Ratification B. Domestication D. Restoration