THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

NATIONAL EXAMINATION COUNCIL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION

011 CIVICS

(For Both School and Private Candidates)

TIME: 2½ Hours Monday afternoon 08/10/2007

Instructions

1. This paper consists of sections A, B and C.

2. Answer all questions in sections A and B and three (3) questions from section C.

3. Cellular phones are not allowed in the examination room.

4. Electronic calculators are not allowed in the examination room.

5. Write your Examination Number on every page of your answer booklet(s).

SECTION A (20 marks)

Answer all questions in this section.

1. For each of the items (i ­ x), choose the correct answer among the given alternatives and write its letter beside the item number.

(i) A type of dictatorship where a few persons form and control the government is called

1. aristocracy
2. authoritarian
3. totalitarian
4. fascism
5. monarchy.

(ii) The nationalist party formed by the oppressed class in Zanzibar was

1. Umma party
2. Afro­Shiraz Party
3. Zanzibar Nationalist Party
4. African Association
5. Zanzibar and Pemba People’s Party.

(iii) African Child Day is celebrated on 16, June every year in memory of

1. OAU birth day
2. Rivonia Trial
3. Sharpeville Massacre
4. Soweto Massacre
5. Samora Machael’s assassination.

(iv) The 1999 Lusaka Agreement is an International pact for peace in

1. the Democratic Republic of Congo
2. the SADC countries
3. Rwanda and Burundi
4. Eastern Africa
5. the Interlacustrine region.

(v) Liberal concepts such as human rights, freedom, equality and democracy percolated into colonial Africa through a movement called

1. African Nationalism
2. Pan Africanism
3. Back to Africa
4. Pafmesca
5. African Socialism.

(vi) While the government of Tanzania is a republic, Morocco is a typical example of

1. federal government
2. authoritarian government
3. absolute Monarchy
4. a Constitutional Monarchy
5. dictatorship

(vii) One of the following customs perpetuate gender inequality among African societies.

1. Homosexuality
2. Early marriage
3. Circumcision
4. Bride price
5. Polyganism.

(viii) One of the objectives of the New International Economic Order (NIEO) is to

1. provide long­term development plan
2. bring industrial cooperation between the North and the South
3. form regional and inter­regional economic groupings
4. adjust the imbalances in the distribution of resources to the rich and the poor nations 
5. facilitate aid flow from the North to the South.

(ix) In the court system of Tanzania, cases of economic sabotage are heard at the

1. Court of Appeal
2. High Court
3. Resident Magistrate Court
4. District Court
5. Labour Court.

(x) AIDS is currently classified as ____________ disease.

1. an epidemic
2. a pandemic
3. a killer
4. an endemic
5. a highly infectious.