NCERT Class 12 Political Science Chapter 5 Security in the Contemporary World Test Mock Test
This free online test covers Chapter 5, Security in the Contemporary World, from the NCERT Class 12 Contemporary World Politics textbook. The 30 questions are written directly from the chapter — definitions, processes, worked examples and the points the book italicises — so a score here tells you how much of the chapter actually stuck, not how well you guess. Each answer carries an explanation that says why the right option is right and why the other three fail, which is where most of the learning happens. Attempt it after your first read of the chapter, then again before the exam. There is no negative marking, and you can review the full solution the moment you submit.
Duration
30 mins
Questions
30 MCQs
Total Marks
30 pts
Negative
0 per wrong
Topics Covered in This Paper
Sample Questions
Q1.At its most basic, security implies freedom from threats, but students of security narrow this by saying that:
- AEvery threat to any value, however small, must be treated as a security issue
- BOnly threats that a government chooses to identify are security issues
- COnly threats coming from outside the country count as security issues
- DOnly those things that threaten core values should be regarded as being of interest in discussions of security
Q2.In the traditional conception of security, the greatest danger to a country comes from:
- APoverty, disease and environmental degradation within the country
- BThe failure of its own government to protect its citizens
- CMilitary threats from another country which, by threatening military action, endangers the core values of sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity
- DInternational organisations that interfere in its internal affairs
Q3.The three basic choices a government has in responding to the threat of war are to surrender, to prevent the other side from attacking, and to defend itself, of which:
- ADeterrence means defeating the attacking forces once war has broken out
- BPreventing war is called deterrence and limiting or ending war is called defence, while governments may surrender when confronted by war but will not advertise this as the policy of the country
- CSurrender is called deterrence and defence is called balance of power
- DDefence means promising to raise the costs of war to an unacceptable level
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