1. The ….. is best known for their segmentary or Acephalous way

of life.

a) Tiv

b) Efick

c) Igbo

d) Calabar

2. One of the most popular versions of the migratory stories of origin of the Igbo people is the one that points to ……

a) Greece

b) Egypt

c) Israel

d) Ethiopia

3. Professor M.A…….. (2000) regards the Nri version as the only authentic version

a) Ojukwu

b) Odumeigwe

c) Onwuejeogwu

d) Ogemidemgia

4. Amala Oha was therefore a form of general assembly in traditional ……. society

a) Ijaw

b) Igbo

c) Efick

d) Tiv

5. Iginuwa is known as the man through whom the kingdom of Itsekiri is

said to have been …….

a) Erected

b) Established 

c) Demolished

d) Conquered

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6. Bayajida married the daughter of the Mai of ….. by whom he had a son at Biran.

a) Bornu

b) Tiv

c) Ibibio

d) Ile ife

7. Trans-Atlantic slave trade was the unfortunate channel that first put the ….. in contact with Nigeria

a) London

b) Urhobo

c) Daura

d) British

8. ….. people was based on kinship

a) Nupe

b) Kanem Bornu

c) Jukun

d) Igala

9. Islam is the religion of the …..

a) Hausa

b) Owan

c) Yoruba

d) Fulani

10. The first tendency is what we may call ….. democracies and the second is the monarchical states

a) Town

b) City

c) Village

d) State

11. According to history, ….. is the original home of the Hausa people.

a) Kano

b) Daura

c) Kaduna

d) Abuja

12. The ….. constitution was the most comprehensive and did not live long.

a) McPherson

b) Lyttleton

c) Richards

d) A and B

13. Beside the Hausa, the ….. are one of the major ethnic groups in the Sudan Savanna region of Nigeria.

a) Igbo

b) Tiv

c) Fulani

d) Kujun

14.  NYM means

a) Nigerian Youth Members

b) National Youth Movement

c) The Nigerian Youth Movement

d) Not Your Members

15. In every Igbo land, the village constitutes the basic unit of ….. organization.

a) political

b) business

c) People

d) Economic

16. The Yoruba group is located in the ….. part of the region

a) Northern

b) Southern

c) Western

d) Eastern

17. The ….. were the first Europeans to arrive in Nigeria through the Bini Kingdom.

a) British

b) Portuguese

c) Europeans

d) Egyptians

18. ….. Nupe people in the region of the Niger and Benue valleys of the Nigerian Middle Belt

Ans. Precolonial

19. ….. consider the Supreme God as the Creator of the whole universe.

a) Christians

b) Muslims

c) Traditionalists

d) Nigeria

20. The second amalgamation was that of …..

Ans. 1914

21. Fulani Gidan, which are mostly located around Hausa capitals, cannot do without …..

a) Fura

b) Cows

c) Hut

d) None of the above

22. ….. has always been known as the head of any typical Hausa state.

a) Saraki

b) Seriki

c) Sarki

d) Allah

23. Mami Water is well known as the bride of the ……

a) Fish

b) Seas

c) Olokun

d) All the above

24. The Supreme God in Isoko and Urhobo is called …..

a) Oghene

b) Tamara

c) Egbesu

d) Oriste

25. The final declaration of the Nigerian independence on …..

Ans. October 1st 1960

26. In January ….., the British government amalgamated Northern and Southern Nigeria

a) 1920

b) 1915

c) 1918

d) 1914

27. The 1954 constitution established a federal system of government for ……

a) Country

b) State

c) Nigeria

d) People

28. You should always remember that the strong relationship between education and ….. cannot be overemphasized.

a) educator

b) student

c) learners

d) development

29. The Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) is best known as the “first true nationalist organization” that emerged in Nigeria in 1936.

TRUE / FALSE

30. The ….. is known as the home of an overwhelming majority of Nigeria’s cultural or ethnic groups.

a) Guinea Savanna Region

b) Igala

c) Ijaw

d) Kanuri

31. History also tells us that the ….. original Hausa states of Daura, were founded by the children of a certain Bawo

a) Five

b) Six

c) Seven

d) Eight

32. In the precolonial era, most Nigerians….. were small, largely rural, and self- sufficient.

a) town

b) communities

c) city

d) state

33. ….. philosophers are best known as the systematizes of early “scientific thought”.

a) Rural

b) British

c) Greek

d) Higher

34. According to Basil Davidson, every African lived in an age of ….. like the Europe of the Middle Ages

a) Fifty

b) Twenty

c) Hope

d) faith

35. To ….. and ….., anyone outside the foregoing categories was just an ordinary person, someone of low birth, or a servant.

Ans. Plato, Aristotle

36. You should know that even after the official handover of power in ….. social injustice did not stop in Nigeria.

a) 1960

b) 1950

c) 1955

d) 1965

37. Slow growth of the industrial sector with capacity utilization averaging about …..

a) 10%

b) 1%

c) 3%

d) 20%

38. The Urhobo and the ….. people speak the same language.

a) Ijaw

b) Isoko

c) Kwale

d) Bini

39. Lagos was taken as a colony in the year …..

a) 1861

b) 1959

c) 1781

d) 1850

40. ….. sub cultures occupy a vast area along the River Niger

a) Southern Igbo

b) Western Igbo

c) Northern Igbo

d) Eastern Igbo

41. Hausa is Nigeria’s largest cultural group.

TRUE / FALSE

42. The servile was made of ….. and eunuchs

Ans. Slaves

43. The Jukun people raided the Hausaland and Bornu in the ….. and ….. centuries.

a) Ninth , tenth

b) Fifth , sixth

c) Sixteenth,seventeenth

d) Tenth , twenty

44. The Fulani call themselves Fulbe and they speak …..

Ans. Fulfulde

45. .…. is the major occupation for those that live entirely within the mangrove and fresh

water areas.

a) Weaving

b) Oil and gas

c) Fishing

d) Moulding

46. ….. amalgamation is known as the first ever amalgamation of the British in Nigeria.

a) May 1906

b) August 1944

c) May 1960

d) August 1904

47. Before independence, Nigeria could be called a ….. economic nation.

Ans. Powerful

48. Every lineage is headed by an Okpara, the oldest male member. He is the link between his people and the ……

a) Gods

b) King

c) Ancestors

d) All the above

49. The ….. people are best known for their highly sophisticated artistic traditions and skills.

a) Guinea savanna

b) Rain Forest

c) Kanem-Bornu

d) Tiv

50. Monarchy is the ….. major tendency of the Rain Forest people

a) Third

b) tenth

c) Sixth

d) Second

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