CLASS.

X
Political Science
ASSIGNMENT 1
TOPIC: Power Sharing
1. When did Sri Lanka gain independence?
a) 1947 b) 1946 c) 1948 d) 1949
2. Which community established its supremacy in Sri Lanka due to
majoritarian measures?
a) Sri Lankan Tamils b) Christians c) Indian Tamils d) Sinhalas
3. Which community was in majority in Brussels?
a) Dutch speaking b) French speaking c) German speaking
4. Which reason of power sharing stresses that power sharing will bring out
better outcomes?
a) Moral reason b) Prudential reason
5) Power sharing among different organs of government is called:
(a) Horizontal distribution of power
(b) Power sharing among social groups
(c) Vertical division of power
6) Explain the ethnic composition of Belgium and Sri Lanka.
7) Explain majoritarianism in Sri Lanka.
8) What is the cause of Civil War in Sri Lanka?
9) How did Belgium solve the problem of majoritarianism?
10) Why is power sharing needed?
11) What is the difference in Prudential and moral reasons of power sharing?

12) Explain horizontal distribution of power.

13) Explain vertical distribution of power.
14) Explain the system of checks and balance.
15) How is power shared by political parties?
16) How do interest groups influence the decisions of the government?

CLASS 10 CIVICS CH 1
CH:1.Power sharing- Worksheet cum Assignment. Class x.
Answer the following questions.
1. Who formed majority in terms of population in Sri Lanka?
2. Who formed majority in terms of population in Belgium?
3. When was sinhalese declared as the official language?
4. In Modern democracies power is shared between/among
5. Sri Lanka Emerged as the independent country in?
6. What is community goverment refers to?
7. Which is the official language in srilanak?
8. What is federeal division of power?
9. Whaich is the Dutch Majority region in Belgium?
10. Which is the French majority region in Belgium?
11. In the capital city, Brussels,.......................% people spoke French ......

%spoke Dutch.
12. What is the basic principle of democracy?
13. In India ,federal government is called the ........................ government.
14. What is civil war?

Lesson Questions
1. What is the reason for tensiion in Belgium?
2. Explain the power sharing arragements among governments at different

levels.
3. What do you know about the power sharing arrangements in Belgium?
4. Describe the diverse population in Sri Lnaka?
5. What is the background of the Sri Lankan Tamils?
6. What notions of power sharing existed prior to the emergence of

democracy?
7. Compare the different ways in which the Belgians and the Sri Lankans have

dealt with the problems of cultural diversity?

8. Describe the majoritarian measures adopted by the sri Lanakan government?
9. Describe the different forms of power sharing in modern democracies with

examples?
10. Why is power sharing desirable?
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1. A political party is a group of people who come

together to contest elections and hold power in
the government where as a pressure group is an
organization formed when people with common
occupation, interest, aspirations or opinions come
together in order to achieve a common objective.
2. Political parties contest elections and form the
government, they are accountable to the people
but pressure groups are not accountable to the
people.

3. Political parties are formal, open and recognised

part of the political system; the pressure groups
are informal, closed and unorganised part.