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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 Politics (BA Politics) .
| 101. |
‘Wealth of Nations’was the work of ……….. |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | Rene Descartes |
| C. | Alfred Marshall |
| D. | Adam Smith |
| Answer» D. Adam Smith | |
| 102. |
………….., one of the best scientists of his time, wrote an essay entitled, "On Liberty and Necessity: Man in the Newtonian Universe." |
| A. | Benjamin Franklin |
| B. | Robert Owen |
| C. | John Calvin |
| D. | Thomas Paine |
| Answer» A. Benjamin Franklin | |
| 103. |
……………..was "the founder of liberalism”. |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | Montesquieu |
| C. | Thomas Paine |
| D. | Robert Fulton |
| Answer» A. John Locke | |
| 104. |
Two years after writing the Two Tracts on Government, …………….changed significantly in his views about magisterial authority and toleration in An Essay Concerning Toleration (1667). |
| A. | John Locke |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Michael Faraday |
| D. | Jethro Tull |
| Answer» A. John Locke | |
| 105. |
The Advancement of Learning was written by ……………….. |
| A. | Francis Bacon |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Robert Fulton |
| D. | Rousseau |
| Answer» A. Francis Bacon | |
| 106. |
Who wrote’Novum Organum Scientiarum’? |
| A. | Newton |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Francis Bacon |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» C. Francis Bacon | |
| 107. |
Thomas Hobbes was an……………. Philosopher |
| A. | French |
| B. | Russian |
| C. | English |
| D. | Indian |
| Answer» C. English | |
| 108. |
Whose masterwork was Leviathan? |
| A. | Aristotle |
| B. | Plato |
| C. | Thomas Hobbes |
| D. | Locke |
| Answer» C. Thomas Hobbes | |
| 109. |
‘Meditations on First Philosophy’ was written by ………………. |
| A. | Montesquieu |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Descartes |
| D. | Charles Telford |
| Answer» C. Descartes | |
| 110. |
Whose masterpiece was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’? |
| A. | Thomas Paine |
| B. | Thomas Aquinas |
| C. | Aristotle |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» D. Montesquieu | |
| 111. |
Persian Letters was written by ……………… |
| A. | Montesquieu |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Rousseau |
| D. | Viscount Townsend |
| Answer» A. Montesquieu | |
| 112. |
Who wrote the philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts? |
| A. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Charles Telford |
| D. | Voltaire |
| Answer» A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 113. |
The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality was written by ……………….. |
| A. | Rousseau |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Montesquieu |
| D. | Robert Fulton |
| Answer» A. Rousseau | |
| 114. |
Whose major work on political philosophy was the The Social Contract? |
| A. | Michael Faraday |
| B. | Montesquieu |
| C. | Charles Telford |
| D. | Rousseau |
| Answer» D. Rousseau | |
| 115. |
‘The Confessions’ was the Autobiography of ……………….. |
| A. | Jethro Tull |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Montesquieu |
| D. | Rousseau |
| Answer» D. Rousseau | |
| 116. |
Denis Diderot was the brightest light of the ……………Enlightenment-a man of intelligence, passion and genius. |
| A. | Dutch |
| B. | Spanish |
| C. | Russian |
| D. | French |
| Answer» D. French | |
| 117. |
Voltaire was a prolific writer, philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the 18th century ………..Enlightenment. |
| A. | French |
| B. | American |
| C. | Russian |
| D. | German |
| Answer» A. French | |
| 118. |
Who Wrote Philosophical Dictionary? |
| A. | Robert Fulton |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Montesquieu |
| D. | Voltaire |
| Answer» D. Voltaire | |
| 119. |
Who were The Physiocrats? |
| A. | Historians |
| B. | Sociologists |
| C. | Scientists |
| D. | Economists |
| Answer» D. Economists | |
| 120. |
Colbert was served as a minister in the Court of………….. |
| A. | Louis XIV |
| B. | James I |
| C. | Edward VI |
| D. | Charles I |
| Answer» A. Louis XIV | |
| 121. |
Thomas Paine was a radical writer who emigrated from …………to America in 1774. |
| A. | England |
| B. | Russia |
| C. | Spain |
| D. | Austria |
| Answer» A. England | |
| 122. |
Early in 1776, …………published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule. |
| A. | Thomas Paine |
| B. | Montesquieu |
| C. | Michael Faraday |
| D. | Ranke |
| Answer» A. Thomas Paine | |
| 123. |
In Common Sense, …………made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent. |
| A. | Thomas Paine |
| B. | Karl Marx |
| C. | Charles Darwin |
| D. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Answer» A. Thomas Paine | |
| 124. |
Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason? |
| A. | Thomas Paine |
| B. | Montesquieu |
| C. | Charles Telford |
| D. | Robert Fulton |
| Answer» A. Thomas Paine | |
| 125. |
The …………..Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789. |
| A. | French |
| B. | Dutch |
| C. | American |
| D. | English |
| Answer» A. French | |
| 126. |
The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, …………. |
| A. | 1789 |
| B. | 1798 |
| C. | 1799 |
| D. | 1889 |
| Answer» A. 1789 | |
| 127. |
The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and continued till ………………..rose to power. |
| A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| B. | Charles Telford |
| C. | Robert Fulton |
| D. | Louis XIV |
| Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| 128. |
Who gave good advice to his successor Louis XV saying "Do not imitate my fondness for building and for war, but work to lessen the misery of my people?" |
| A. | Louis XIV |
| B. | Charles I |
| C. | James I |
| D. | Elizabeth I |
| Answer» A. Louis XIV | |
| 129. |
When his ministers attempted to discuss affairs of the state with him, who merely remarked, "After me, the deluge." |
| A. | Louis XV |
| B. | Edward VI |
| C. | James II |
| D. | Henry VIII |
| Answer» A. Louis XV | |
| 130. |
Queen Marie Antoinette was the Queen of …………….. |
| A. | Louis XV |
| B. | Louis XVI |
| C. | George I |
| D. | Henry VIII |
| Answer» B. Louis XVI | |
| 131. |
………………, a lawyer and student of constitutional government summed up his ideas in his book ‘The Spirit of the Laws’. |
| A. | Montesquieu |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Voltaire |
| D. | Rousseau |
| Answer» A. Montesquieu | |
| 132. |
Who put forward the theory of ‘the separation of powers’? |
| A. | Voltaire |
| B. | Montesquieu |
| C. | Charles Telford |
| D. | Robert Fulton |
| Answer» B. Montesquieu | |
| 133. |
The Bloodless or Glorious Revolution started in England in ………. |
| A. | 1678 |
| B. | 1688 |
| C. | 1698 |
| D. | 1699 |
| Answer» B. 1688 | |
| 134. |
The ………..Estate of France found the entrance of their meeting place blocked by the royal army on June 20, 1789 as a royal session was to be held there. Hence they rushed to a nearby place that was originally a tennis court and took the famous ‘Tennis Court Oath’. |
| A. | First |
| B. | Second |
| C. | Third |
| D. | fourth |
| Answer» C. Third | |
| 135. |
July 14, …………saw the fall of the Bastille, a royal fortress and symbol of Bourbon autocracy. |
| A. | 1779 |
| B. | 1789 |
| C. | 1793 |
| D. | 1798 |
| Answer» B. 1789 | |
| 136. |
Feudalism and serfdom was abolished in France in August ………….. by the National Assembly. |
| A. | 1689 |
| B. | 1789 |
| C. | 1786 |
| D. | 1797 |
| Answer» B. 1789 | |
| 137. |
The Constitution of ……….. was the first written constitution of France. |
| A. | 1781 |
| B. | 1791 |
| C. | 1796 |
| D. | 1799 |
| Answer» B. 1791 | |
| 138. |
The ………….were moderates who wanted a republican form of government in France. |
| A. | Girondists |
| B. | The Constitutionalists |
| C. | The Jacobins |
| D. | Liberals |
| Answer» A. Girondists | |
| 139. |
The Jacobins of ……………..were republicans of the extreme type. |
| A. | Germany |
| B. | France |
| C. | Italy |
| D. | Africa |
| Answer» B. France | |
| 140. |
King Louis XVI was found guilty of high treason by the National Convention and was guillotined on 21st January ……… |
| A. | 1746 |
| B. | 1769 |
| C. | 1793 |
| D. | 1795 |
| Answer» C. 1793 | |
| 141. |
The National Convention entrusted all executive authority to the "Committee of Public Safety", consisting of 12 members led by ………………….. |
| A. | Robespierre |
| B. | Shaftesbury |
| C. | Diderot |
| D. | Charles Telford |
| Answer» A. Robespierre | |
| 142. |
The National Convention entrusted all executive authority to the ‘Committee of Public Safety’, consisting of 12 members led by Robespierre. It let loose a ‘reign of terror’ in……….., from 1793 to 1794. |
| A. | Germany |
| B. | Portugal |
| C. | France |
| D. | Rome |
| Answer» C. France | |
| 143. |
The ’reign of terror’ came to an end with the revolt of the Parisian mob against Robespierre who was guillotined on March 13, …………. |
| A. | 1736 |
| B. | 1766 |
| C. | 1794 |
| D. | 1798 |
| Answer» C. 1794 | |
| 144. |
After the ……………a committee of nine members was appointed by the National Convention to draft a new constitution. |
| A. | Monarchical rule |
| B. | Constitutional rule |
| C. | reign of terror |
| D. | Moderate |
| Answer» C. reign of terror | |
| 145. |
After ruling France from 1792 to 1795, the National Convention was dissolved and the new constitution came to be called the Constitution of the Year …………… |
| A. | Third |
| B. | fourth |
| C. | fifth |
| D. | sixth |
| Answer» A. Third | |
| 146. |
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the …………………….. |
| A. | American Revolution |
| B. | English Revolution |
| C. | French Revolution |
| D. | Bour war |
| Answer» C. French Revolution | |
| 147. |
Year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence …………….. |
| A. | 2nd July 1742 |
| B. | 4th July 1749 |
| C. | 4th July 1776 |
| D. | 4th July 1767 |
| Answer» C. 4th July 1776 | |
| 148. |
……………….was the primary author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. |
| A. | John Eliot |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Thomas Jefferson |
| D. | Robert Owen |
| Answer» C. Thomas Jefferson | |
| 149. |
Who referred to his tactics thus: "I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning. Look at Caesar; he fought the first like the last." |
| A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| B. | Charles Telford |
| C. | Alexandro Volta |
| D. | James I |
| Answer» A. Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| 150. |
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor on 2 December ……….. at Notre Dame de Paris |
| A. | 1704 |
| B. | 1784 |
| C. | 1798 |
| D. | 1804 |
| Answer» D. 1804 | |
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