(a) Briefly outline the views of Thomas Malthus about population.

(b) How valid are such views about the Nigerian situation today?

Which of the following is not regarded as money in Economics?

• A. Coins
• B. Currency notes
• C. bank deposits
• D. cheques

Since money is demanded for what it can buy, the demand is said to be

• A. derived
• B. joint
• C. composite
• D. complementary

Ike's scale of preference reveals that he prefers bananas to pawpaw, pawpaw to oranges and oranges to bananas. Ike's preferences are therefore?

• A. inconsistent
• B. consistent
• C. transitive
• D. rational

When the general price level persistently falls, the rate of unemployment

• A. rises
• B. stagnates
• C. rapidly reduces
• D. equal natural groth rate

Which of the following is not a plantation crop?

• A. cocoa
• B. oil palm
• C. rubber
• D. rye

God promised to make the forehead of Ezekiel hard against those of the Israelites. This meant that God would

• A. strenghthen and equip Ezekiel with courage
• B. protect and harden Ezekiel
• C. equip Ezekiel with oracles and power
• D. give Ezekiel new head and power to heal

The passage below has gaps. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.

PASSAGE IV

With the most profound respect to the members of the Senate, I do not think that it is within the competence of that ...1... body to pass a motion to ...2... the executive action of the President. The Senate is ...3... of the National Assembly. But it is not by itself alone the National Assembly. One can imagine the confusion, which would be created if the ...4... were to take a view diametrically opposed to that reflected in the Senate resolution. The strongest objection to the action of the Senate in passing the resolution is the fact that it constituted itself the ...5... as well as the judge of the constitutionality of the action of the President. The function of the Senate is to ...6... laws. But the Senate has no authority or ...7... to control the President in the exercise of his ...8... powers. It cannot by a mere resolution or motion give any directive to the President regarding the exercise of his powers nor can it undo what the President has done in the exercise of those powers. The only way in which the exercise of the powers of the President can be ...9... is by ...10... of the National Assembly.

Adapted from The Guardian of July 8, 1999, p. 8.

• A. Judiciary
• B. Executive Council
• C. House of Representatives
• D. National Assembly

Fill each gap with the most appropriate option from the list following the gap.

Ours ..... based venture

• A. are a resource
• B. is a resource
• C. are resources
• D. is a resourced

In the Rutherford scattering experiment, a beam of alpha particles was fired at a thin gold film with some of the particles being considerably deflected. This shows that

• A. a gold nucleus contains protons, neutrons and electrons uniformly distributed in a tiny volume
• B. the gold nucleus is positively charged and is concentrated in a tiny volume
• C. the gold nucleus emitted alpha particles
• D. the gold nucleus is concentrated in a tiny volume and contains alpha particles