GST201 CBT EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

1. Sarkin Kasar, which means ______________________

a.Rich of the land

b.Ruler of the land

c.Owner of the communities

d.Owner of the land

2. Most scholars agree that the Bayajida story is the most authentic oral tradition in Hausaland that attempts to explain the origin of the Hausa ______________

a.State

b.Societies

c.Nations

d.Communities

3. Olokun also called Umalokun or___________-

a.Olu

b.Amotekun

c.Mami water

d.Ebora

e.Ufele

4. The Islamization of Hausaland also influenced its_____________

a.Economic System

b.Administratve System

c.Judicial System

d.Political System

5. Oyomesi, a council of seven members headed by _____________

a.Alaafin

b.Oymese

c.Oyemisi

d.Bashorun

6. In the traditional Kanem-Bornu, the ____________ played a vital role in the administration

a.Youth

b.Women

c.Army

d.Fighters

7. Naturalization is the commonest legal mode of acquiring the citizenship of a _________

a.country

b.state

c.states

d.nation

8. The socio-political organization of the Niger Delta people is strongly established on the basis of village groups or _____

a.Elders

b.Clans

c.Holders

d.Communities

9. Unlike other ethnic groups such as the Yoruba and the Bini, the ______people did not build any strong centralized states

a.Nupe

b.Hausa

c.Igbo

d.TIV

10. The Hausa people represent one of the important and politically dominant groups in ________________

a.North West

b.Northern Nigeria

c.North East

d.North Central

11. Bini kingdom had a unique ______________

a.Administration

b.System

c.Political system

d.Structure

12. For instance, Islam was adopted and this gave birth to many new political institutions such as the offices of the Galadima, Madawaki, ______________, Dogari, Yari Sarki and Sarki Yau

a.Sardauna

b.Danmalliki

c.Yarima

d.Magaji

13. The formal fallacy that is associated with the deviation from the Modus Tollens’ rule which is also known as

a.Fallacy denying the conclusion

b.Fallacy denying the argument

c.Fallacy denying the consequent

d.Fallacy of d

14. _______________ fallacy occurs when such a word is used in a manner that implies different meanings or senses of the word within the same context. 

a.Modus Ponens

b.Equivocation

c.Ad Hominem

d.Modus Tollenenying the antecedent

15. All Black women are beautiful

Cacy Ngamen is a black woman

Therefore, Cacy Ngamen is beautiful 

a.A Reduction

b.A Proposition

c.A Conclusion

d.A syllogism

16. A valid deductive argument is said to be _______________ if the premises of that argument as well as the conclusion are all true prepositions.

Question 4Answer

a.Conclusive

b.Invalid

c.Sound

d.Valid

17. One of the following is not a type of categorical proposition.

a.Universal Negative proposition

b.Particular Conclusive proposition

c.Particular Affirmative Proposition

d.Universal Affirmative proposition

18. This form of logic is concerned with testing the truth-value validity of propositions through logical rules and principles is called __________________

a.Formal Logic

b.Boolean Logic

c.Mathematical Logic

d.Propositional Logic

19. A definition that tries to identify the intention of a term by providing a synonymous linguistic expression or an operational procedure for determining the applicability of the term is known as

a.Lexical Definition

b.Denotative Definition

c.Connotative Definition

d.Intentional Definition

20. A method of Philosophy that confined to sense experience.

a.Empiricism

b.Reductionism

c.Appraisal approach

d.Rationalism

21. Philosophy grew out of wonder and _____________________

b.Prayer

c.Curiosity

d.Desire

22. A critical and philosophical look at law in its generality is the function of a discipline called _________________

 a.Ethical Law

b.Normative law

c.Metaphysics

d.Jurisprudence

23. An average scientist always seeks for explanation while the philosopher basically seeks for _______________________

 a.Love

b.Engagement

c.Justification

d.Details

24. For a _________________, the role of reason is basically one of interpreting and defending the dogma derived from sources whose authority and truth is taken on faith.

 a.Religionist

b.Scientist

c.Sociologist

d.Philosopher

25. _______________ is a school of thought in epistemology which holds that human beings can acquire knowledge of reality using our minds alone, by thinking or pure reason.

 a.Reductionism

b.Rationalism

c.Conditionalism

d.Empiricism

26. _______________ is the only discipline that strictly lays down the rules which the mind must follow to arrive at truth and thereby minimize if not totally eradicate error.

a.Reasoning

b.Logic

c.Epistemology

d.Philosophy

27. Medieval Christian philosophers were all part of a movement called ________________

 a.Analytic Philosophers

b.Philosophers

c.Socratic Movement

d.Scholasticism

28. Skepticism is also known as ____________________ 

a.Stoicism

b.Hedonism

c.Pyrrhonism

d.Cynicism

29. _______________ is a branch of Philosophy that is defined as the science of being as being.

a.Epistemology

b.Metaphysics

c.Ethics

d.Axiology

30. One of the following is not a six step in every scientific inquiry. 

a.Observation

b.Questioning

c.Hypothesis

d.Generalization

31. Etymologically Philosophy is derived from the Greek word

a.Wisdom

b.Reason

c.Logos

d.Philos

32. ________________ believed that Empiricism and rationalism could be combined.

 a.Hegel

b.Voltaire

c.Hobbes

d.Kant

33. ____________________ founded the Positivism Movement in the Contemporary Period.

 a.Kant

b.Descartes

c.Comte.

d.Hobbes

34. A group that believes that there is no absolute truth and two points of view can be acceptable at the same time. 

a.Hedonism

b.Cynicism

c.Stoicism

d.Sophism

35. __________________ is best known as the originator of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God by abstract reasoning alone.

a.St Anselm

b.St Augustine

c.St Thomas Aquinas

d.St Jude

36. The act by which the mind affirms or denies something of something else is called what?

a.Reasoning

b.Simple Apprehension

c.Relevance of Logic

d.Judgement in Logic

37. Apart from John Locke, one of these Islamic Philosophers introduced the idea of “”Tabula Rasa””

a.Avicenna

b.Augustine

c.Maimonides

d.Averroes

38. That kind of argument that its premise(s) only support, but do not guarantee its conclusion is called

 a.Boolean Argument

b.Deductive Argument

c.Inductive argument

d.Mathematical Argument

39. Identify the one that does not belong to this group.

Question 5Answer

a.Consequently

b.While

c.It follows

d.Therefore

40. The formal fallacy associated with the deviation from the Modus Ponens rule is called __________________ 

a.Fallacy affirming the conclusion

b.Fallacy of affirming the consequent

c.Fallacy affirming the antecedent

d.Fallacy affirming an invalid argument

41. An argument is said to be ______________-when the conclusion of that argument is derived from or follows from the premises.

 a.Invalid

b.Valid

c.Conclusive

d.Sound

42. One of the following is not a type of categorical proposition.

a.Particular Conclusive proposition

b.Universal Negative proposition

c.Particular Affirmative Proposition

d.Universal Affirmative proposition

43. In the traditional Kanem-Bornu, the ____________ played a vital role in the administration

a.Army

b.Fighters

c.Women

d.Youth

44. Most Hausa communities have also settled in the neighboring ________________

a.Cameroon

b.Niger Republic

c.Ghana

d.Republic

45. Oyomesi, a council of seven members headed by _____________

a.Oyemisi

b.Oymese

c.Bashorun

d.Alaafin

46. Oyo was one of the rare empires that had in-built checks and balances, and, this contributed to its stability for_______________-

a.Centuries

b.Years

c.Continent

d.Country

47. Sarkin Kasar, which means ______________________

a.Rich of the land

b.Owner of the land

c.Owner of the communities

d.Ruler of the land

48. From Kano, in 1980, members of the _______ Islamic sect struck, killing and destroying everything

a.Malam

b.Maitatsine

c.Tijaniya

d.Boko haram

49. Christianity and _____ as the only viable organized religions have shown themselves incapable of changing the moral tones of the larger society

a.Rdeem

b.Islam

c.Agalican

d.traditional