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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 1. |
The highest court of India is ------ |
| A. | high court |
| B. | supreme court |
| C. | national tribunal |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. supreme court | |
| 2. |
The word crime is derived from ------- language |
| A. | greek |
| B. | latin |
| C. | french |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. latin | |
| 3. |
According to ---- theory , the aim of punishment is to prevent others from committing similar offence |
| A. | retributive |
| B. | deterrent |
| C. | reformative |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. deterrent | |
| 4. |
A vice that issues in an evil deed is termed as ----- |
| A. | crime |
| B. | sin |
| C. | virtue |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. sin | |
| 5. |
Capital punishment is meant ------ |
| A. | hanging to death |
| B. | life imprisonment |
| C. | imposing huge fine |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. hanging to death | |
| 6. |
Crime is the behavior prohibited by -------- |
| A. | law |
| B. | custom |
| C. | social order |
| D. | conduct |
| Answer» A. law | |
| 7. |
Who defines crime as a social phenomenon |
| A. | kant |
| B. | marx |
| C. | richard quinney |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» A. kant | |
| 8. |
Earth quakes and hurricanes are instances of -------- |
| A. | natural evil |
| B. | vice |
| C. | moral evil |
| D. | error |
| Answer» A. natural evil | |
| 9. |
Where is the International Court of Justice is located : |
| A. | vienna |
| B. | paris |
| C. | tokyo |
| D. | the hague |
| Answer» D. the hague | |
| 10. |
The moral faculty that apprehends the rightness and wrongness of action is called ------ |
| A. | conscience |
| B. | duty |
| C. | reason |
| D. | sentiment |
| Answer» A. conscience | |
| 11. |
--------- is condemned in punishment |
| A. | total character |
| B. | mind set |
| C. | as performer of act |
| D. | person as total character |
| Answer» B. mind set | |
| 12. |
The theory of reforming the offender is called ------- theory |
| A. | retributive |
| B. | deterrent |
| C. | rehabilitation |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. rehabilitation | |
| 13. |
The offence done in the internet is called : |
| A. | computer crime |
| B. | cyber-crime |
| C. | internet crime |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. cyber-crime | |
| 14. |
Deterrent theory is supported by ---------- |
| A. | positivism |
| B. | deontological ethics |
| C. | rationalist theory |
| D. | utilitarianism |
| Answer» B. deontological ethics | |
| 15. |
‘An erring conscience is a chimera’ according to : |
| A. | plato |
| B. | butler |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» D. kant | |
| 16. |
-------- is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing body can prescribe a conviction |
| A. | fine |
| B. | punishment |
| C. | crime |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. crime | |
| 17. |
Capital punishment is justified in ------- theory |
| A. | deterrent |
| B. | retributive |
| C. | rehabilitation |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. deterrent | |
| 18. |
-------- is termed a stain of inner character |
| A. | virtue |
| B. | vice |
| C. | good |
| D. | sin |
| Answer» B. vice | |
| 19. |
------- is the severest form of punishment |
| A. | violence to the body |
| B. | capital punishment |
| C. | social disapproval |
| D. | solitary confinement |
| Answer» B. capital punishment | |
| 20. |
The view that punishment is a negative reward is held by : |
| A. | kant |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» B. aristotle | |
| 21. |
Criminology supports the theory of ---------- punishment |
| A. | reformative |
| B. | retributive |
| C. | deterrent |
| D. | rehabilitation |
| Answer» A. reformative | |
| 22. |
‘Criminals ought to be cured’ according to |
| A. | physiologists |
| B. | criminologists |
| C. | psychologists |
| D. | criminal anthropologists |
| Answer» B. criminologists | |
| 23. |
Which among the following is a criticism against Deterrent theory |
| A. | criminal may escape |
| B. | against public opinion |
| C. | violates human dignity |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. violates human dignity | |
| 24. |
Punishment is an act of justice in --------- theory |
| A. | reformative |
| B. | deterrent |
| C. | retributive |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. retributive | |
| 25. |
Deterrent theory is criticized as it violates --------- |
| A. | public opinion |
| B. | common good |
| C. | human dignity |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. human dignity | |
| 26. |
Right to live is a ----- |
| A. | social principle |
| B. | ethical principle |
| C. | fundamental right |
| D. | political principle |
| Answer» C. fundamental right | |
| 27. |
--------- punishment theory treats man as a mere means , not as an end in itself |
| A. | reformative |
| B. | deterrent |
| C. | retributive |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. deterrent | |
| 28. |
Stealing is an instance of -------------- |
| A. | crime |
| B. | sin |
| C. | vice |
| D. | evil |
| Answer» A. crime | |
| 29. |
The Latin word ‘Mens Rea’ means ------ |
| A. | forbidden mind |
| B. | guilty mind |
| C. | conscious mind |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» B. guilty mind | |
| 30. |
‘Moral Law is supreme and authoritative’ according to ---------- theory |
| A. | retributive |
| B. | deterrent |
| C. | reformative |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. retributive | |
| 31. |
--------- is a flow of character acquired by habitually violating moral laws |
| A. | crime |
| B. | sin |
| C. | vice |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. vice | |
| 32. |
‘A criminal is punished for his own good’ This is the view of ------- theory |
| A. | deterrent |
| B. | reformative |
| C. | retributive |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. reformative | |
| 33. |
Actus Reus means ------- |
| A. | conscious mind |
| B. | forbidden mind |
| C. | guilty mind |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. forbidden mind | |
| 34. |
The sins which are punished by the state is termed as |
| A. | vice |
| B. | evil |
| C. | crime |
| D. | all these |
| Answer» C. crime | |
| 35. |
‘Eye for an eye’,--- ‘tooth for a tooth’ is a motto of -------- theory |
| A. | deterrent |
| B. | reformative |
| C. | retributive |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. retributive | |
| 36. |
The extreme form of punishment is –a.fine, b.imprisonment,c.death penalty,d.all of these 73. Which theory treats man as a means- |
| A. | preventive, |
| B. | reformative |
| C. | Both A& B, |
| D. | None of |
| Answer» C. Both A& B, | |
| 37. |
Which theory is the most humanitarian- |
| A. | Preventive, |
| B. | Deterrent, |
| C. | reformative, |
| D. | all of |
| Answer» C. reformative, | |
| 38. |
Which theory of punishment aims to educate the offender- |
| A. | Retributive |
| B. | Deterrent, |
| C. | Preventive, |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Retributive | |
| 39. |
Which theory says that the criminal is punished for his own good- |
| A. | Reformative, |
| B. | deterrent, |
| C. | both A&B, |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. Reformative, | |
| 40. |
Which theory is supported by criminology- |
| A. | educative, |
| B. | rehabilitative, |
| C. | Reformative |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» D. all of these | |
| 41. |
Crimes are the result of lack of justice and equity according to- |
| A. | criminal sociologist, |
| B. | civil law, |
| C. | natural law, |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» A. criminal sociologist, | |
| 42. |
Who said the crimes are the result of repressed complex- |
| A. | Freud, |
| B. | Karl Jung, |
| C. | Adler, |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» A. Freud, | |
| 43. |
Who support psychoanalytic method to treat the offender- |
| A. | Karl Marx, |
| B. | Freud, |
| C. | Skinner, |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» B. Freud, | |
| 44. |
Punishment is an end in itself as per which theory- |
| A. | deterrent, |
| B. | retributive, |
| C. | reformative |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. deterrent, | |
| 45. |
The punishment be inflicted on the criminal as a vindication of the authority of moral law, According to- |
| A. | theory of punishment, |
| B. | criminology, |
| C. | psychology, |
| D. | sociology |
| Answer» D. sociology | |
| 46. |
The punishment is a negative reward according to- |
| A. | Aristotle, |
| B. | Plato, |
| C. | Socrates, |
| D. | J.S.Mill |
| Answer» A. Aristotle, | |
| 47. |
Who said the penal law is a categorical imperative- a.Locke,b.Hume,c.Kant,d. Freud 94. Who said the punishment is demanded by the criminal- |
| A. | Hegel, |
| B. | Gandhiji, |
| C. | Nehru, |
| D. | all |
| Answer» C. Nehru, | |
| 48. |
Who said punishment is an act of justice- a Bradley,b .Freud,c .Karl Marx,d. Rousseau 96. The motto eye for an eye pertains to which theory- |
| A. | retributive, |
| B. | deterrent, |
| C. | reformative, |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» A. retributive, | |
| 49. |
The motto tooth for a tooth pertains to which theory – |
| A. | preventive, |
| B. | educative, |
| C. | retributive, |
| D. | rehabilitative |
| Answer» C. retributive, | |
| 50. |
Which theory of punishment has rigoristic and mollified form- |
| A. | retributive |
| B. | rehabilitative, |
| C. | preventive, |
| D. | deterrent |
| Answer» A. retributive | |
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