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Students Zone - Self test questions
Use these questions both to test your detailed knowledge of each chapter. Make a note of your answers and then consult the answers page on this website. If you score less than 12 correct answers for any chapter, you probably need to spend more time re-reading and revising its contents.
CHAPTER 22: The State, Public Order and Security
1. The Metropolitan Police Force dates from:
a) 1729
b) 1829
c) 1929
2. The division between 'internal' and 'external' security in the last two decades has:
a) Become wider
b) Become narrower
c) Not altered
3. Judges:
a) Interpret laws
b) Pass laws
c) Approve laws
4. The European Union in the last three decades has:
a) Become an increasingly important source of law
b) Become a decreasingly important source of law
c) Not changed in importance as a source of law
5. In recent years, judicial review has:
a) Increased in importance and scale
b) Decreased in importance and scale
c) Not changed in importance and scale
6. The Court Service is:
a) An executive agency
b) A private security firm
c) Part of the Department for Constitutional Affairs
7. Under the Blair Government of 2001-5, the Office of Lord Chancellor:
a) Was abolished by the Government
b) Was retained at the wish of the Government
c) Was retained against the wishes of the Government
8. The Inspection of local police forces is carried out by:
a) The Home Secretary
b) The Inspector of Constabulary
c) The Audit Commission
9. Territorial police are:
a) Entirely controlled by the Home Secretary
b) Entirely outside the control of the Home Secretary
c) Under the partial control of the Home Secretary
10. Prisons are run by:
a) The Home Office
b) An Executive Agency
c) A privately contracted security firm
11. Privatised prisons:
a) Are unknown in Britain
b) Form a minority of British prisons
c) Form a majority of British prisons
12. The armed services:
a) Have never been involved in industrial disputes
b) Are widely involved in industrial disputes
c) Are sometimes involved when industrial disputes threaten essential services such as fire protection
13. The security services trace their modern origins back to:
a) 1909
b) 1914
c) 1939
14. MI5 has:
a) Never spied on strikers
b) Very commonly spied on strikers
c) Occasionally spied on strikers
15. The Intelligence and Security Committee of the House of Commons was established in:
a) 1909
b) 1945
c) 1994
