# Rules, laws and leaders

> Grade 3: why we have rules and laws, mayors and councils, voting, rights and responsibilities, public services (schools, roads, libraries).

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- Subject: History & geography
- Level: Grade 3
- Quiz: 16
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## Questions

1. Why do schools have rules? (To give teachers more work / To keep everyone safe and fair / To make the day longer / To stop children learning)
   Answer: To keep everyone safe and fair
2. What do we call a rule made by a country or town that everyone must follow? (A game / A habit / A law / A wish)
   Answer: A law
3. Laws help people live together safely and fairly.
   Answer: True
4. Who is the leader of a town or city council? (The librarian / The mayor / The pilot / The referee)
   Answer: The mayor
5. What does a town council do? (Builds every house itself / Makes decisions for the local community / Makes the weather / Teaches children to read)
   Answer: Makes decisions for the local community
6. Which is a decision a local council might make? (How planets move / What your family eats / Where to build a new park / Which month has 31 days)
   Answer: Where to build a new park
7. What is voting? (Choosing a leader or idea by making a choice / Copying someone's answer / Paying money to a leader / Running a race)
   Answer: Choosing a leader or idea by making a choice
8. In a fair vote, every voter's choice counts the same.
   Answer: True
9. Why is a vote often secret? (So it is quicker / So leaders can change it / So nobody can count it / So people can choose freely)
   Answer: So people can choose freely
10. Which is a responsibility of a child at school? (Being paid by the teacher / Choosing the school's rules alone / Skipping lessons / Treating others with respect)
   Answer: Treating others with respect
11. Which is a right that every child has? (The right to be the leader / The right to go to school / The right to ignore all rules / The right to take others' things)
   Answer: The right to go to school
12. Having rights means we never have to think about other people's rights.
   Answer: False
13. Which of these is a public service paid for by the community? (A birthday party / A family dinner / A private toy / A public library)
   Answer: A public library
14. Name one public service that helps keep roads safe or working.
   Answer: Road repair, traffic lights or road workers (any sensible answer)
15. What do we call the money people pay to the government to fund public services?
   Answer: Taxes
16. Name one thing you can do at a public library.
   Answer: Borrow books (or read, study, use computers)