McqMate
1. |
Who is the father of Political Science? |
A. | marx |
B. | plato |
C. | austin |
D. | aristotle |
Answer» D. aristotle |
2. |
Who called Political science as the Master Science? |
A. | cicero |
B. | hobbes |
C. | aristotle |
D. | socrates |
Answer» C. aristotle |
3. |
The term city-state is generally associated with |
A. | china |
B. | egypt |
C. | greek |
D. | indian |
Answer» C. greek |
4. |
Who said man is a social animal |
A. | plato |
B. | hobbes |
C. | rousseau |
D. | aristotle |
Answer» D. aristotle |
5. |
Who said that ‘a man who lives outside the polis is either a beast or a God’ |
A. | plato |
B. | aristotle |
C. | marx |
D. | hobbes |
Answer» B. aristotle |
6. |
Political-Parties are indispensable for the successful working of |
A. | democracy |
B. | monarchy |
C. | theocracy |
D. | dictatorship |
Answer» A. democracy |
7. |
Who wrote the book ‘Republic’? |
A. | bodin |
B. | locke |
C. | plato |
D. | cicero |
Answer» C. plato |
8. |
The modern democracy is known as |
A. | peoples democracy |
B. | limited democracy |
C. | representative democracy |
D. | direct democracy |
Answer» C. representative democracy |
9. |
The right to vote is a |
A. | civil right |
B. | moral right |
C. | natural right |
D. | political right |
Answer» D. political right |
10. |
Who asserted that the state would ultimately wither away |
A. | plato |
B. | kant |
C. | laski |
D. | marx |
Answer» D. marx |
11. |
A socialist state lays emphasis on |
A. | political liberty |
B. | economic equality |
C. | right to private property |
D. | independence of judiciary |
Answer» B. economic equality |
12. |
Who defined democracy as “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”? |
A. | woodrow |
B. | abraham lincoln |
C. | laski |
D. | gandhi |
Answer» B. abraham lincoln |
13. |
The head of the state under parliamentary form of government enjoys |
A. | absolute powers |
B. | limited powers |
C. | nominal powers |
D. | no powers |
Answer» C. nominal powers |
14. |
The framers of the constitution borrowed the idea of fundamental rights from the constitution of |
A. | usa |
B. | ussr |
C. | britain |
D. | france |
Answer» A. usa |
15. |
A Bicameral legislature consist of |
A. | one chamber |
B. | two chambers |
C. | three chambers |
D. | four chambers |
Answer» B. two chambers |
16. |
The presidential government operates on the principle of |
A. | separation of powers |
B. | division of powers |
C. | fusion of powers |
D. | centralization of powers |
Answer» A. separation of powers |
17. |
In which of the following forms of government the second chamber is an indispensable part of the legislature? |
A. | unitary government |
B. | federal government |
C. | parliamentary government |
D. | presidential government |
Answer» B. federal government |
18. |
Division of powers between the centre and the states is an essential feature of |
A. | federal government |
B. | unitary government |
C. | presidential government |
D. | parliamentary government |
Answer» A. federal government |
19. |
Which one of the following governments operates on the principle of collective responsibility? |
A. | parliamentary |
B. | presidential |
C. | unitary |
D. | federal |
Answer» A. parliamentary |
20. |
Which of the following is also known as Laissez faire theory? |
A. | idealism |
B. | totalitarianism |
C. | socialism |
D. | individualism |
Answer» D. individualism |
21. |
Which kind of right is the right to form Associations |
A. | civil right |
B. | legal right |
C. | political right |
D. | natural right |
Answer» C. political right |
22. |
One party system is found in |
A. | india |
B. | britain |
C. | switzerland |
D. | china |
Answer» D. china |
23. |
Popular Sovereignty means that sovereignty lies with |
A. | constitution |
B. | parliament |
C. | cabinet |
D. | people |
Answer» D. people |
24. |
The theory of Surplus Value is associated with |
A. | adam smith |
B. | karl marx |
C. | amarthya sen |
D. | stalin |
Answer» B. karl marx |
25. |
The Bible of Communism |
A. | communist manifesto |
B. | state and revolution |
C. | spirit of laws |
D. | the republic |
Answer» A. communist manifesto |
26. |
If there is no division of powers that government is known as |
A. | parliamentary |
B. | federal |
C. | unitary |
D. | democratic |
Answer» C. unitary |
27. |
The words ‘we the people of India’ in the preamble shows |
A. | legal sovereignty |
B. | popular sovereignty |
C. | de jure sovereignty |
D. | none of the above |
Answer» B. popular sovereignty |
28. |
Which organ of the government makes interpretation of laws |
A. | the legislature |
B. | executive |
C. | civil service |
D. | judiciary |
Answer» D. judiciary |
29. |
Indirect democracy is otherwise known as |
A. | socialist democracy |
B. | representative democracy |
C. | elite democracy |
D. | democratic republic |
Answer» B. representative democracy |
30. |
Which party system is prevailing in China |
A. | one party system |
B. | one party dominant system |
C. | bi party system |
D. | multi party system |
Answer» A. one party system |
31. |
’War is to man what maternity is to women’ is the slogan of |
A. | marxism |
B. | liberalism |
C. | fascism |
D. | gandhism |
Answer» C. fascism |
32. |
Aggressive nationalism is the philosophy of |
A. | idealism |
B. | marxism |
C. | fascism |
D. | individualism |
Answer» C. fascism |
33. |
A form of government in which everyone has a share is |
A. | aristocracy |
B. | monarchy |
C. | oligarchy |
D. | democracy |
Answer» D. democracy |
34. |
Which part of the constitution aims at the establishment of a welfare state in India. |
A. | part iii |
B. | part iv |
C. | part v |
D. | part vi |
Answer» B. part iv |
35. |
Scientific socialism was expounded by |
A. | rousseau |
B. | karl marx |
C. | j.s mill |
D. | plato |
Answer» C. j.s mill |
36. |
The term ‘state’ in its modern sense was first used by --------- |
A. | aristotle |
B. | plato |
C. | machiavelli |
D. | bodin |
Answer» C. machiavelli |
37. |
“State is a necessary evil” is associated with: |
A. | fabians |
B. | sophists |
C. | anarchists |
D. | individualists. |
Answer» D. individualists. |
38. |
Who stated, membership of the state should be voluntary and optional. |
A. | j.s. mill |
B. | h.j. laski |
C. | spencer |
D. | austin |
Answer» C. spencer |
39. |
Who said ‘state is an expansion of family’ |
A. | aristotle |
B. | laski |
C. | austin |
D. | plato |
Answer» A. aristotle |
40. |
“The state is an executive committee of the exploiting class” stated by; |
A. | individualists |
B. | anarchists |
C. | marxists |
D. | fascists |
Answer» C. marxists |
41. |
The idealists who declared the state as “ march of God on Earth” is; |
A. | kant |
B. | hegel |
C. | green |
D. | rousseau |
Answer» B. hegel |
42. |
Who said state is “ people organized for law within a definite territory” |
A. | wilson |
B. | marx |
C. | garner |
D. | lock |
Answer» A. wilson |
43. |
Which of the following is not an element of state. |
A. | government |
B. | population |
C. | territory |
D. | religion |
Answer» D. religion |
44. |
Who says ,” Good citizens made a good state and a bad citizen made a bad state”. |
A. | hobbes |
B. | lock |
C. | marx |
D. | aristotle. |
Answer» D. aristotle. |
45. |
Which is the most populated state in the world? |
A. | usa |
B. | india |
C. | japan |
D. | china. |
Answer» D. china. |
46. |
No state can exist without a fixed and definite……….. |
A. | government |
B. | territory |
C. | population |
D. | liberty |
Answer» B. territory |
47. |
The exponent of Scientific Socialism. |
A. | lock |
B. | rousseau |
C. | karl marx |
D. | laski |
Answer» C. karl marx |
48. |
Who said, “ Kinship creates society and society at length creates the state” |
A. | maclver |
B. | gettel |
C. | j.s. mill |
D. | hobbes |
Answer» A. maclver |
49. |
Modern state is described as : |
A. | police state |
B. | welfare state |
C. | laissez faire state |
D. | power state |
Answer» B. welfare state |
50. |
Who said ‘state is prior to individual’ |
A. | kant |
B. | green |
C. | aristotle |
D. | marx |
Answer» C. aristotle |
51. |
The state is an association of associations is advocated by |
A. | bodin |
B. | laski |
C. | austin |
D. | barker |
Answer» B. laski |
52. |
To whom , state is ‘ a unifying agency’ ? |
A. | figgis |
B. | c*cks |
C. | miss follett |
D. | barker |
Answer» C. miss follett |
53. |
Who described the state as ‘the society of societies’ |
A. | laski |
B. | mac lver |
C. | figgis |
D. | cole |
Answer» C. figgis |
54. |
The term sovereignty has been drawn from the Latin word |
A. | soviet |
B. | supreme |
C. | supranus |
D. | sovereign |
Answer» C. supranus |
55. |
Who said that sovereignty was the fullness of state . |
A. | greeks |
B. | english |
C. | romans |
D. | indians |
Answer» C. romans |
56. |
The first exponent of legal sovereignty . |
A. | rousseau |
B. | green |
C. | hobbes |
D. | lock |
Answer» C. hobbes |
57. |
“ sovereignty was absolute , no state exists” who said this ? |
A. | bodin |
B. | austin |
C. | lock |
D. | hobbes |
Answer» B. austin |
58. |
Who described law as a command of the sovereign. |
A. | locke |
B. | hobbes |
C. | laski |
D. | austin |
Answer» D. austin |
59. |
In India the legal sovereignty lies in the ………. |
A. | supreme court |
B. | parliament |
C. | president |
D. | states |
Answer» B. parliament |
60. |
Rousseau was the advocate of ……. |
A. | individual sovereignty |
B. | popular sovereignty |
C. | political sovereignty |
D. | legal sovereignty |
Answer» B. popular sovereignty |
61. |
Who said that “ man is born free , and everywhere he is in chains” |
A. | rousseau |
B. | marx |
C. | aristotle |
D. | austin |
Answer» A. rousseau |
62. |
Basic feature of pluralist concept of sovereignty? |
A. | concentration of power |
B. | exclusiveness |
C. | divisibility |
D. | absoluteness. |
Answer» C. divisibility |
63. |
Who said “sovereignty is the supreme will of the state” |
A. | austin |
B. | bodin |
C. | willoughby |
D. | locke |
Answer» C. willoughby |
64. |
Which one of the following is not a characteristic of sovereignty. |
A. | permanence |
B. | inclusiveness. |
C. | absoluteness |
D. | indivisibility |
Answer» D. indivisibility |
65. |
Who gave the concept of external sovereignty ? |
A. | grotius |
B. | locke |
C. | austin |
D. | laski |
Answer» A. grotius |
66. |
The term ‘political sovereignty’ is associated with: |
A. | lock. |
B. | rousseau |
C. | lowell |
D. | laski |
Answer» A. lock. |
67. |
The term ‘popular sovereignty’ means sovereignty lies with: |
A. | people |
B. | constitution |
C. | society |
D. | state |
Answer» A. people |
68. |
Austin was the chief exponent of ……………….sovereignty. |
A. | pluralistic |
B. | monistic |
C. | political |
D. | popular |
Answer» B. monistic |
69. |
Which of the following states is not a republic |
A. | india |
B. | america |
C. | france |
D. | britain |
Answer» D. britain |
70. |
Sovereignty of the state means |
A. | coercive power of the state |
B. | executive power of the state |
C. | judicial power of the state |
D. | supreme power of the state |
Answer» D. supreme power of the state |
71. |
The exponent of legal theory of Rights. |
A. | green |
B. | locke |
C. | austin |
D. | rousseau |
Answer» C. austin |
72. |
Who said, "Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man seek to be himself at his best"? |
A. | wilde |
B. | plato |
C. | locke |
D. | laski |
Answer» D. laski |
73. |
Who says ,"a right is a claim recognized by society and enforced by the state"? |
A. | aristotle |
B. | cicero |
C. | bosanquet |
D. | mill |
Answer» C. bosanquet |
74. |
Who said, "A right is a power claimed and recognized as contributory to common good"? |
A. | laski |
B. | t.h.green |
C. | aristotle |
D. | lord bryce |
Answer» B. t.h.green |
75. |
In pre-political state of human existence, there existed: |
A. | civil rights |
B. | political rights |
C. | natural rights |
D. | legal rights |
Answer» C. natural rights |
76. |
Who said that 'One's natural rights are one's natural power' ? |
A. | locke |
B. | rousseau |
C. | hobbes |
D. | laski |
Answer» C. hobbes |
77. |
Who wrotes the book "the Rights of Man"? |
A. | edmund burke |
B. | thomas paine |
C. | locke |
D. | green |
Answer» B. thomas paine |
78. |
Rights have no validity without the recognition of: |
A. | government |
B. | state |
C. | society |
D. | electorate |
Answer» B. state |
79. |
According to the historical theory of rights, rights are the result of: |
A. | evolution |
B. | human efforts |
C. | nation efforts |
D. | legislation |
Answer» A. evolution |
80. |
Who regarded, 'life, liberty and property as inalienable rights of Men’? |
A. | locke |
B. | aristotle |
C. | rousseau |
D. | hobbes |
Answer» A. locke |
81. |
The legal theory of rights points out that rights are created by: |
A. | state |
B. | society |
C. | community |
D. | nature |
Answer» A. state |
82. |
The theory of social welfare was expounded by: |
A. | utilitarians |
B. | socialist |
C. | marxists |
D. | fabians |
Answer» A. utilitarians |
83. |
Who says, "Rights have no meaning without social unity"? |
A. | bentham |
B. | laski |
C. | j. s. mill |
D. | dean pound |
Answer» B. laski |
84. |
Who are the chief exponents of social welfare theory? |
A. | green |
B. | hegel |
C. | bentham and mill |
D. | locke |
Answer» C. bentham and mill |
85. |
Rousseau supports the idealist theory of Rights on the basis of: |
A. | morality |
B. | natural law |
C. | general will |
D. | social consciousness |
Answer» C. general will |
86. |
According to Green, the basis of rights is: |
A. | legal sanction |
B. | legal recognition |
C. | common moral consciousness |
D. | gift of the state |
Answer» C. common moral consciousness |
87. |
Who put forward the economic theory of rights: |
A. | locke |
B. | ricardo |
C. | karl marx |
D. | hitler |
Answer» C. karl marx |
88. |
According to Marxists, rights are: |
A. | privileges of all people |
B. | privileges of all classes |
C. | privileges of a particular class safe guarded by law |
D. | privileges for economically weaker sections |
Answer» C. privileges of a particular class safe guarded by law |
89. |
Right to property is a : |
A. | political right |
B. | civil |
C. | natural |
D. | moral |
Answer» B. civil |
90. |
The term liberty has been drawn from the Latin word ……… |
A. | libel |
B. | lebour |
C. | liber |
D. | labal |
Answer» C. liber |
91. |
Who of the following was an advocate of positive liberty |
A. | lock |
B. | t.h. green |
C. | bentham |
D. | j.s. mill |
Answer» B. t.h. green |
92. |
The concept of natural liberty is associated with |
A. | hegal |
B. | locke |
C. | rousseau |
D. | hobbes |
Answer» C. rousseau |
93. |
Which theory deals with natural liberty. |
A. | divine origin theory |
B. | force theory |
C. | social contract theory |
D. | evolutionary theory |
Answer» C. social contract theory |
94. |
Who was the author of the book ‘ On Liberty’ ? |
A. | green |
B. | laski |
C. | j.s. mill |
D. | marx |
Answer» C. j.s. mill |
95. |
Civil liberty is inherent in the laws of |
A. | society |
B. | state |
C. | nature |
D. | organization |
Answer» B. state |
96. |
Which part of Indian constitution guarantees liberty to citizen. |
A. | d.p.s.p |
B. | fundamental right |
C. | preamble |
D. | vii |
Answer» B. fundamental right |
97. |
Who says “ where there is no law there is no freedom. |
A. | rousseau |
B. | green |
C. | locke |
D. | laski. |
Answer» D. laski. |
98. |
Term justice has been drawn from the Latin word . |
A. | just |
B. | joint |
C. | jus |
D. | judge |
Answer» C. jus |
99. |
……………. View that justice and equality are closely connected |
A. | individualists |
B. | idealists |
C. | socialists |
D. | anarchists |
Answer» A. individualists |
100. |
Constitution is an instrument of …… justice |
A. | political |
B. | social |
C. | legal |
D. | economic |
Answer» C. legal |
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