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140+ Political Thought- Western Traditions Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (BA political science) .

1.

Socrates was a Greek ______

A. philosopher
B. singer
C. composer
D. poet
Answer» A. philosopher
2.

Who is the student of Socrates?

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. aristophanes
D. none of these
Answer» B. plato
3.

Who is the contemporary of Socrates?

A. aristophanes
B. aristotle
C. homer
D. none of these
Answer» A. aristophanes
4.

According to Plato, Socratesfather was:

A. sophroniscus
B. aristophanes
C. lamprocles
D. zenexenus
Answer» A. sophroniscus
5.

Socrates says that "all that the soul endures, if directed by _______ ends happiness."

A. virtue
B. wisdom
C. prophets
D. truth
Answer» B. wisdom
6.

In Plato’s state the government is run by :

A. workers
B. philosophers
C. soldiers
D. constitution
Answer» B. philosophers
7.

According to the Philosophy of Plato, the fundamental character of philosopher is

A. courage
B. wisdom
C. appetite
D. none of the above
Answer» B. wisdom
8.

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing” said by

A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. homer
D. plato
Answer» A. socrates
9.

Socrates was awarded punishment:

A. death
B. fine
C. banishment from athens
D. imprisonment for 3 years
Answer» A. death
10.

According to Socrates, the soul is:

A. infinitely large
B. inherently virtuous
C. corruptible
D. immortal
Answer» D. immortal
11.

According to Socrates, learning is a kind of:

A. recollection
B. virtue
C. political skill
D. gift of the gods
Answer» A. recollection
12.

Who was the founder of Western philosophy?

A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. none of these
Answer» A. socrates
13.

Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of:

A. ethics
B. economics
C. chemistry
D. none of these
Answer» A. ethics
14.

Who said, "Virtue - all virtue - is knowledge"?

A. socrates
B. xenophon
C. plato
D. aristotle
Answer» A. socrates
15.

Who said, "Virtue is sufficient for happiness"?

A. plato
B. socrates
C. xenophon
D. aristotle
Answer» D. aristotle
16.

Plato is the author of:

A. republic
B. social contract
C. history of political thought
D. none of these
Answer» A. republic
17.

The idea that “Virtue is knowledge” is attributed to:

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. montesquieu
D. socrates
Answer» D. socrates
18.

’.Political Science begins and ends with the state’ is said by:

A. aristotle
B. professor garner
C. paul janet
D. none of these
Answer» B. professor garner
19.

According to Plato ,the following are the three elements in man:

A. reason, justice , equality
B. reason, spirit , appetite
C. justice, liberty , equality
Answer» B. reason, spirit , appetite
20.

'The Great but ungrateful pupil of his Master who was born in 384 BC was:

A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. cicero
D. none of these
Answer» B. aristotle
21.

The author of the book ‘Statesman’ is:

A. aristotle
B. machiavelli
C. plato
D. none of these
Answer» C. plato
22.

In Plato’s Ideal State, one reaches at the pinnacle of the State order at the age of:

A. 3
B. 40
C. 50
D. none of these
Answer» C. 50
23.

Plato found the Academy in:

A. 385 b.c.
B. 381 b.c.
C. 387 b.c.
D. 315 b.c.
Answer» C. 387 b.c.
24.

Aristotle found his own school in:

A. 225 b.c
B. 415 b.c.
C. 335 b.c.
D. 315 b.c.
Answer» C. 335 b.c.
25.

Aristotle found his own school which was known as

A. the lyceum
B. academy
C. institution
D. leader
Answer» A. the lyceum
26.

According to Aristotle which is the bad government of the rich:

A. tyranny
B. oligarchy
C. democracy
D. none of these
Answer» B. oligarchy
27.

Who is regarded as the father of political science?

A. plato
B. machiavelli
C. aristotle
D. karl marx
Answer» C. aristotle
28.

According to Aristotle the end of State is:-

A. logical
B. legal
C. ethical
D. none of these
Answer» C. ethical
29.

Who regards democracy as a perverted form of government?

A. js mill
B. aristotle
C. th green
D. bentham
Answer» B. aristotle
30.

Plato’s system of communism s meant only for

A. soldiers and workers
B. philosophers and soldiers
C. philosophers, soldiers and workers
D. philosophers and workers
Answer» B. philosophers and soldiers
31.

Who defined justice as “treating equals equally and unequalsunequally”?

A. js mill
B. aristotle
C. th green
D. bentham
Answer» B. aristotle
32.

Who identified democracy with mobocracy?

A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. kant
Answer» B. aristotle
33.

The book ‘ Politics’ is written by

A. plato
B. aristotle
C. hegel
D. engels
Answer» B. aristotle
34.

The doctrine of proportional equality was propounded by

A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. plato
D. kant
Answer» B. aristotle
35.

The principle of distributive justice was first propounded by

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. kant
D. bentham
Answer» A. aristotle
36.

...............believed the natural organism of the state.

A. aristotle
B. plato
C. kant
D. bentham
Answer» A. aristotle
37.

According to Aristotle,,,,,,,.........is the best form of government.

A. monarchy
B. oligarchy
C. polity
D. aristocracy
Answer» C. polity
38.

The term, "anarchism" has been derived from the word 'anarchia' which is basically a:

A. greek word
B. latin word
C. french word
D. none of these
Answer» B. latin word
39.

A Discourse on the origin of Inequality and Social Contract was presented by:

A. hobbes
B. locke
C. rousseau
D. none of these
Answer» C. rousseau
40.

The General Will is the political concept of:

A. j. j. rousseau
B. hobbes
C. locke
D. none of these
Answer» A. j. j. rousseau
41.

Rousseau’s political philosophy furnished basis for:

A. political sovereignty
B. limited sovereignty
C. popular sovereignty
D. absolute
Answer» C. popular sovereignty
42.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on:

A. 28th june 1711
B. 28th june 1712
C. 26th june 1713
D. 28th june 1714
Answer» B. 28th june 1712
43.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in:

A. london, britain
B. geneva, switzerland
C. ermenonville, france
D. none of these
Answer» B. geneva, switzerland
44.

How does Rousseau describe man in his primal natural state?

A. a noble savage
B. solitary, nasty and brutish
C. a blank state
D. totally corrupted
Answer» A. a noble savage
45.

What was Rousseau's remedy for the corruption and slavery of civilized society?

A. a new social contract
B. democratic reforms
C. revolution
D. socialism
Answer» A. a new social contract
46.

‘Social Contract’ is a book written by

A. hobbes
B. locke
C. rousseau
D. bentham
Answer» C. rousseau
47.

Who among the following thinkers distinguished between “Real will” and “Actual will”

A. rousseau
B. green
C. kant
D. locke
Answer» A. rousseau
48.

Who argues that sovereignty can never be alienated, divided or represented?

A. hegel
B. locke
C. rousseau
D. bentham
Answer» C. rousseau
49.

“A thinking man is a deprived animal” Who said?

A. hobbes
B. locke
C. rousseau
D. bentham
Answer» C. rousseau
50.

The concept of forced freedom was first enunciated by

A. hobbes
B. locke
C. rousseau
D. th green
Answer» C. rousseau

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