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Civics II - 4th Period Exercise

Read the following situations and answer the questions about them by crossing the letter of the correct selection.
1. Which of the following situations makes a reference to the multicultural nature of the country?
a) All the girls of the town went crazy when they heard about the rock band coming soon.
b) A group of peasants are using a Japanese CDplayer listening to merengue while working.
c) Carmen lives in the Oaxacan mountains and wants to go to the city to buy a pair of jeans.
d) Lupita and her mother went to the municipal capital wearing their traditional clothing and speaking in their native language.
A teacher told her students that in ancient Greece, the vote was exclusively exercised by males and did not considerwomen nor slaves as citizens. She also explained that, nowadays, every person (men or women) in the country who has the category of citizen can exercise his/her right to vote.
2. What characteristic of the democratic vote is the teacher explaining?
a) Vote is secret
b) Vote is direct
c) Vote is an obligation
d) Vote is universal
The civics teacher asked his students which wouldthe best way to choose a group representative be, indicating the consideration of the motto “Effective Suffrage, no Re-election”.
3. Which of the following suggestions from the students is the correct one?
a) Mauricio suggested the teacher should check his list and choose the student with the best grades.
b) Karla suggested everybody write his/her name in tiny pieces of paper andchoose one out of luck.
c) Rodrigo suggested to have candidates named so that all the students could choose from them.
d) Leonor suggested to re-elect the current group representative because he had been a good one.

4. Which of the following situations reflects “Rule of Law”?
a) Some policemen showed up at Maria’s house and searched it without a proper written order for it.
b)Paula has been in jail for two years because of her political ideals, she will be exiled from the country.
c) Ricardo and his neighbors gather every afternoon to talk about their problems in order to make petitions to the authorities.
d) Samuel was in prison for 5 days, since no proof was shown to consider him guilty of charge.

The civics teacher asked the class why the country is asovereign republic.
5. Which student answered correctly?
a) Ivan answered it is sovereign because it has an executive power in charge of having laws practiced.
b) Ernesto answered that it is sovereign because it has relationships with other countries.
c) Angela answered it is sovereign because it requires the participation of allied countries for internal conflicts.
d) Jorgeanswered it is sovereign because only the Mexican people can modify or alter their kind of government.

6. Which statement is true about formally granting the vote for women?
a) Jose Lopez Portillo became an election in which 30% of the population who voted were women.
b) Benito Juarez thought women should vote too.
c) Adolfo Ruiz Cortines granted the vote for female citizens inthe early 1950s
d) Many women followed Francisco I. Madero during his campaign.

7. It is the correct form for every individual to act in a community, involving the abidance of the laws, cooperation, economical resources, and personal talents used for the common well-being.
a) Democracy
b) Loyalty
c) Republic
d) Integrity

8. Government form which considers the peopleas sovereign, where the highest authority is chosen by the citizens or by a parliament which represents the people.
a) Democracy
b) Loyalty
c) Republic
d) Autocracy

9. In what year were women recognized as citizens and formally obtained the right to vote?
a) 1857
b) 1912
c) 1953
d) 1917

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