Political Science for Bachelor of Arts MCQs

Question. Who said ‘state is an expansion of family’
(a) Aristotle
(b) Laski
(c) Austin
(d) Plato

Answer: A

Question. Who says, "Rights have no meaning without social unity"?
(a) Bentham
(b) Laski
(c) J. S. Mill
(d) Dean Pound

Answer: B

Question. The right to vote is a
(a) civil right
(b) moral right
(c) natural right 
(d) political right

Answer: D

Question. Political Culture is the pattern of individual attitudes and orientations towards …………. System ?
(a) social system
(b) economic system
(c) political system
(d) environmental system

Answer: C

Question. ’War is to man what maternity is to women’ is the slogan of
(a) Marxism
(b) Liberalism
(c) Fascism
(d) Gandhism

Answer: C

Question. Modern state is described as :
(a) police state
(b) welfare state
(c) laissez faire state
(d) power state

Answer: B

Question. To whom , state is ‘ a unifying agency’ ?
(a) Figgis
(b) Cocks
(c) Miss Follett
(d) Barker

Answer: C

Question. One party system is found in
(a) India
(b) Britain
(c) Switzerland
(d) China

Answer: D

Question. Aggressive nationalism is the philosophy of
(a) Idealism
(b) Marxism
(c) Fascism
(d) Individualism

Answer: C

Question. According to Aristotle
(a) State is a divine institution
(b) state is the creation of force
(b) State is an artificial creation
(d) State is a natural institution

Answer: D

Question. The welfare state is first used by …………..
(a) Marx
(b) Rawls
(c) Bishop Temple
(d) Hobbes

Answer: C

Question. 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

Question. 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

Question. Who said that sovereignty was the fullness of state .
(a) Greeks
(b) English
(c) Romans
(d) Indians

Answer: C

Question. The theory of Surplus Value is associated with
(a) Adam Smith
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Amarthya Sen
(d) Stalin

Answer: B

Question. “ Sovereignty is the supreme will of the state “ are the words of
(a) Austin
(b) Laski
(c) Aristotle
(d) Willoughby

Answer: D

Question. Who said that the state " arose not as the creator of law but as the interpreter and enforcer of custom"
(a) Gettell
(b) Locke
(c) Laski
(d) MacIver

Answer: A

Question. The concept of ‘ power elites ‘ is connected with
(a) Austin
(b) Pareto
(c) Mosca
(d) Wright Mills.

Answer: D

Question. Term justice has been drawn from the Latin word .
(a) Just
(b) Joint
(c) Jus
(d) Judge

Answer: C

Question. If there is no division of powers that government is known as
(a) Parliamentary
(b) federal
(c) Unitary
(d) Democratic

Answer: C

Question. ……………. View that justice and equality are closely connected
(a) individualists
(b) idealists
(c) socialists
(d) anarchists

Answer: A

Question. Who among the following defined “ politics is the science of who gets, what ,when and how “?
(a) Garner
(b) Bierce
(c) Hillman
(d) Lipson

Answer: C

Question. Who said ‘ politics is the study of the influence and the influential
(a) Lasswell
(b) Laski
(c) Weber
(d) Bodin

Answer: A

Question. The notion of sovereignty was first formulated by :
(a) Plato
(b) Laski
(c) Aristotle
(d) Bodin

Answer: D

Question. The Bible of Communism
(a) Communist Manifesto
(b) State and Revolution
(c) Spirit of Laws
(d) The Republic

Answer: A

Question. Which one of the following is a central attribute of Plato’s notion of justice ?
(a) Equality
(b) Liberty
(c) Harmony
(d) Fraternity

Answer: C

Question. The input-output approach was developed by :
(a) Dhal
(b) David Easton
(c) Marx
(d) Lasswell

Answer: B

Question. The right of freedom, the right of life, freedom of speech and expression, property, association, education etc. is the manifestation of ………….liberty ?
(a) Political
(b) Civil
(c) Natural
(d) Moral

Answer: B

Question. Who said , “Political science deals with government only “ ?
(a) Leacock
(b) Dhal
(c) Marx
(d) Gettle

Answer: A

Question. ‘ The authoritative allocation of values ‘ was the concept given by :
(a) Almond
(b) David Easton
(c) Weber
(d) Karl Deutsch

Answer: B

Question. The Manifest political socialization is otherwise know by …..
(a) Latent political socialization
(b) Indirect political socialization
(c) Direct political socialization
(d) Political socialization

Answer: C

Question. Structural – functional theory was first applied by ………………..
(a) Almond
(b) Tawney
(c) Shills
(d) Rawls

Answer: A

Question. The author of the book ‘ Modern Politics and Government’
(a) Aristotle
(b) Alan Ball
(c) Van Dyke
(d) Lock

Answer: B

Question. Which one of the following is not a characteristics of Behaviouralism according to Simon ?
(a) Regularities
(b) Verification
(c) Techniques
(d) Pure Arts

Answer: D

Question. Who stated that “right is a power claimed and recognized as contributory to common good”.
(a) T.H. Green
(b) Wilson
(c) Hobbes
(d) Locke

Answer: A

Question. Which is considered “ as an historic event of the profound significance and one of the greatest achievement of the United Nations”.
(a) UDHR
(b) Settlement of Korean Crisis
(c) Settlement of Cuban crisis

Answer: A

Question. Right to property is a :
(a) Political right
(b) Civil
(c) Natural
(d) Moral

Answer: B

Question. The term liberty has been drawn from the Latin word ………
(a) Libel
(b) Lebour
(c) Liber
(d) labal

Answer: C

Question. “ The state is an executive committee of the exploiting class” stated by;
(a) Individualists
(b) Anarchists
(c) Marxists
(d) Fascists

Answer: C

Question. Who said that “ man is born free , and everywhere he is in chains”
(a) Rousseau
(b) Marx
(c) Aristotle
(d) Austin

Answer: A

Question. Who wrote the book ‘Republic’?
(a) Bodin
(b) Locke
(c) Plato
(d) Cicero

Answer: C

Question. Basic feature of pluralist concept of sovereignty ?
(a) concentration of power
(b) Exclusiveness
(c) Divisibility
(d) Absoluteness.

Answer: C

Question. Political-Parties are indispensable for the successful working of
(a) Democracy
(b) Monarchy
(c) Theocracy
(d) Dictatorship

Answer: A

Question. The term sovereignty has been drawn from the Latin word
(a) soviet
(b) supreme
(c) supranus
(d) Sovereign

Answer: C

Question. The theory of corporate state is explained by
(a) Gandhism
(b) Fascism
(c) Liberalism
(d) Marxism

Answer: A

Question. 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 options

Answer: B

Question. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of sovereignty.
(a) permanence
(b) inclusiveness.
(c) absoluteness
(d) indivisibility

Answer: D

Question. 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

Question. In pre-political state of human existence, there existed:
(a) Civil rights
(b) Political rights
(c) Natural rights
(d) Legal rights

Answer: C

Question. Who was the author of the book. ‘ A Grammar of Politics ‘
(a) Lock
(b) Laski
(c) Aristotle
(d) J.S. Mill

Answer: B

Question. According to the historical theory of rights, rights are the result of:
(a) Evolution
(b) Human efforts
(c) Nation efforts
(d) Legislation

Answer: A

Question. Who put forward the economic theory of rights:
(a) Locke
(b) Ricardo
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Hitler

Answer: C

Question. Which one of the following is not a Weberian classification of authority ?
(a) Traditional Authority
(b) Charismatic Authority
(c) Rational-Legal Authority
(d) Political Authority

Answer: D

Question. 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

Question. Which one of the following is not associated with Almond’s essential characteristics of political system ?
(a) Universality of political system
(b) Universality of political Structure
(c) Universality of political Functions
(d) Input- Output Approach

Answer: D

Question. Which among the following is not a features of sovereignty?
(a) Absoluteness
(b) Permanence
(c) Indivisibility
(d) Delegation

Answer: D

Question. “The only basis of the subject of politics is power and that to an integration of all powers- political, economic and ideological”. Who made this statement ?
(a) Harold Laski
(b) Allan Ball
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Simon

Answer: C

Question. The doctrine of proportionate equality was propounded by
(a) Aristotle
(b) Rousseau
(c) Marx
(d) Rawls

Answer: A

Question. 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

Question. The year in which the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ ?
(a) 1945
(b) 1946
(c) 1950
(d) 1948

Answer: D

Question. Who observed statement , " Historically speaking , the behavioural approach was a protest movement within political science......".
(a) Simon
(b) Robert Dhal
(c) Almond
(d) Marx Weber

Answer: B

Question. The principle of "one man , one vote , one value" is example of …………..?
(a) Social justice
(b) Communal justice
(c) Political justice
(d) Individual justice

Answer: C

Question. Ritchie defines ………… rights as" the claim of an individual on others recognized by the society irrespective of its recognition by the state".
(a) Political Rights
(b) Civil Rights
(c) Natural Rights
(d) Moral Rights

Answer: D

Question. Who stated , " Socialization through the mass media is the best short-run technique available and it is crucial to modernization”
(a) Gabrial Almond
(b) Huntington
(c) Lucian Pye
(d) Coleman

Answer: C

Question. Who said , Political Modernization is characterised " by its far-reaching ability to control or influence the physical and social circumstances of its environment and by value system ……..”
(a) Ward
(b) Huntington
(c) Lucian Pye
(d) Merriam

Answer: A

Question. The idealists who declared the state as “ march of God on Earth” is;
(a) Kant
(b) Hegel
(c) Green
(d) Rousseau

Answer: B

Question. Who described the state as ‘the society of societies’
(a) Laski
(b) Mac lver
(c) Figgis
(d) Cole

Answer: C

Question. A socialist state lays emphasis on
(a) Political Liberty
(b) Economic Equality
(c) Right to private property
(d) Independence of Judiciary

Answer: B

Question. Which one of the following governments operates on the principle of collective responsibility?
(a) Parliamentary
(b) Presidential
(c) Unitary
(d) Federal

Answer: A

Question. Who said “ sovereignty is the supreme will of the state”
(a) Austin
(b) Bodin
(c) Willoughby
(d) Locke

Answer: C

Question. Which kind of right is the right to form Associations
(a) Civil right
(b) Legal right
(c) Political right
(d) Natural right

Answer: C

Question. Which part of the constitution aims at the establishment of a welfare state in Indi(a)
(a) part III
(b) part IV
(c) part V 
(d) part VI

Answer: B

Question. 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

Question. No state can exist without a fixed and definite………..
(a) Government
(b) Territory
(c) Population
(d) Liberty

Answer: B

Question. Plato fixed the population of an ideal state as:
(a) 5000
(b) 5040
(c) 10.000
(d) 7500

Answer: B

Question. Which is the first important agent of political socialization?
(a) society
(b) state
(c) political party
(d) family

Answer: D

Question. The right to vote, right to stand for election, right to hold public office and the right to criticise the government are examples of ……….?
(a) Political Rights
(b) Civil Rights
(c) Natural Rights 
(d) Moral Rights

Answer: A

Question. Modern bureaucracies are the best example of organizations based on which kinds authority ?
(a) Traditional
(b) Charismatic
(c) Rational-Legal
(d) Political

Answer: C

Question. Who defines justice as ‘treating equal equally and unequal unequally’?
(a) Proudhan
(b) Duguit
(c) Aristotle
(d) Saint Simon

Answer: C

Question. Human rights day is celebrating on ………………
(a) 26th January
(b) 25th December
(c) 10th December
(d) 20th October

Answer: C

Question. Structural- functional approach is primarily :
(a) an ideology of development
(b) a comparison of study
(c) a tool of investigation
(d) a study of power

Answer: C

Question. Who used the term ‘political system ‘ instead of ‘ Politics’ ?
(a) Morgenthau
(b) Easton
(c) Garner
(d) Robert . A. Dhal

Answer: D

Question. Which is the ideal political culture according to Almond and Verba :
(a) Parochical political culture
(b) Subject political culture
(c) Participant political culture
(d) positive political culture

Answer: C

Question. Who stated that, “ various institutions constitute the structure of the society it is also called structural approach."
(a) Easton
(b) Rawls
(c) Wasby
(d) Hobbes

Answer: C

Question. In political science: "Studies should be relevant and meaningful for urgent social problems”. It is the demands of ……………?
(a) Individualists
(b) Idealists
(c) Post- Behaviouralists
(d) Behaviourlists

Answer: C

Question. Right of equality before the law is :
(a) Political right
(b) Natural right
(c) Civil right
(d) Legal right

Answer: C

Question. Whose statement is that, " Equality is derived from the supreme value of the development of in each like and equally, but each along its own different time and its own separate nation".
(a) Hobbes
(b) Macpherson
(c) Barker
(d) MacIver

Answer: C

Question. Who said ‘state is prior to individual’
(a) Kant
(b) Green
(c) Aristotle
(d) Marx

Answer: C

Question. Which one of the following is not Lucian Pye’s three basic characteristic features of political developments?
(a) Equality
(b) Capacity
(c) Differentiation
(d) state

Answer: D

Question. Who said man is a social animal
(a) Plato
(b) Hobbes
(c) Rousseau
(d) Aristotle

Answer: D

Question. Who said state is “ people organized for law within a definite territory”
(a) Wilson
(b) Marx
(c) Garner
(d) Lock

Answer: A

Question. The term " Political Culture " was formulated and used first time by ……..?
(a) Simon
(b) Dhal
(c) Easton
(d) Gabrial Almond

Answer: D

Question. The spiritual elements of the state associated with ……
(a) Population
(b) Government
(c) Territory
(d) Sovereignty

Answer: D

Question. Who observed that the maintenance of political stability as the ultimate goal of political development ?
(a) Samuel Huntington
(b) Allan Ball
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Dhal

Answer: A

Question. Who of the following was an advocate of positive liberty
(a) Lock
(b) T.H. Green
(c) Bentham
(d) J.S. Mill

Answer: B

Question. Who said “Where there is no law there is no freedom”
(a) T.H. Green
(b) Laski
(c) MacIver
(d) Locke

Answer: D

Question. Who described civil society as capitalist society ?
(a) Hegal
(b) Locke
(c) Rousseau
(d) Hobbes

Answer: A

Question. Who believed that ‘justice was the ideal of perfection in human relationship ‘?
(a) Barker
(b) Laski
(c) Aristotle
(d) Marx

Answer: C

Question. Who said that “ justice is the bond which holds society together “.
(a) Green
(b) Hegel
(c) Plato
(d) Rousseau

Answer: C

Question. The author of the book ‘ History and Class Consciousness ‘ ?
(a) Althusser
(b) Gramsci
(c) Lenin
(d) Lukacs

Answer: B

Question. Who said, “ Kinship creates society and society at length creates the state”
(a) Maclver
(b) Gettel
(c) J.S. Mill
(d) Hobbes

Answer: A

Question. ” State is a necessary evil” is associated with:
(a) Fabians
(b) Sophists
(c) Anarchists
(d) individualists.

Answer: D

Question. 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

Question. The term city-state is generally associated with
(a) China
(b) Egypt
(c) Greek
(d) Indian

Answer: C

Question. Scientific socialism was expounded by
(a) Rousseau
(b) Karl Marx
(c) J.S Mill
(d) Plato

Answer: B

Question. Who said that 'One's natural rights are one's natural power' ?
(a) Locke
(b) Rousseau
(c) Hobbes
(d) Laski

Answer: C

Question. In connection with the formation of state " Kinship created a common consciousness , common interest and common purpose" It is the statement of …………….?
(a) MacIver
(b) Henry Maine
(c) Weber
(d) Morgan

Answer: B

Question. " State is a machine for maintaining the rule of one class over another" This view was expressed by ..
(a) T.H. Green
(b) J.S. Mill
(c) Marx
(d) Lenin

Answer: D

Question. Whose statement is that , “to know is to bear the responsibility for acting and to act is to engage in reshaping society”.
(a) Almond
(b) David Easton
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Robert . A. Dhal

Answer: B

Question. The statement that “every state is known by the rights that it maintains” attributed to :
(a) Bryce
(b) T.H. Green
(c) Bentham
(d) J.S. Mill

Answer: A

Question. Who was the doyen of pluralists from amongst the following ?
(a)Bentham
(b) J.S. Mill
(c) Leacock
(d) Laski

Answer: D

Question. According to Almond and Powell political culture involves how many components of Orientations .?
(a) Two
(b) Four
(c) One
(d) Three

Answer: D

Question. Which approach to adopt the methods of natural sciences like observation, survey and measurement in political science.
(a) Structural
(b) Historical
(c) Institutional
(d) Behaviour

Answer: D

Question. Who was the author of the book “ Aspects of Political Development”?
(a) Lucian Pye
(b) Rostow
(c) Parsons
(d) Almond

Answer: A

Question. Austin was the chief exponent of ……………….sovereignty .
(a) Pluralistic
(b) Monistic
(c) political
(d) popular

Answer: B

Question. Which of the following is also known as Laissez faire theory?
(a) Idealism
(b) Totalitarianism
(c) Socialism
(d) Individualism

Answer: D

Question. The first exponent of legal sovereignty .
(a) Rousseau
(b) Green
(c) Hobbes
(d) Lock

Answer: C

Question. Which of the following is not an element of state.
(a) Government
(b) population
(c) Territory
(d) Religion

Answer: D

Question. Who called Political science as the Master Science?
(a) Cicero
(b) Hobbes
(c) Aristotle
(d) Socrates

Answer: C

Question. In India the legal sovereignty lies in the ……….
(a) Supreme Court
(b) Parliament
(c) President
(d) States

Answer: B

Question. Rights have no validity without the recognition of:
(a) government
(b) state
(c) society
(d) electorate

Answer: B

Question. In the early medieval period, justice was an attribute of :
(a) State
(b) Church
(c) Universal law
(d) Civil order

Answer: B

Question. Who was the first philosopher to make a detailed intellectual study of political power ?
(a) Charles Merriam
(b) Morgenthau
(c) Dhal
(d) Tawney

Answer: A

Question. Who says “ where there is no law there is no freedom.
(a) Rousseau
(b) Green
(c) Locke
(d) Laski.

Answer: D

Question. Who was the supporter of numerical concept of justice?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Bentham
(c) Mill
(d) Marx

Answer: B

Question. The Rule of Law in England means :
(a) Law is supreme
(b) Arbitrary power of the state
(c) Everybody is equal before the Law
(d) constitutional limitation of authority.

Answer: C

Question. 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

Question. Who observed that “the more widespread distribution of power in the state , the more decentralized its character .......".
(a) Rousseau
(b) Locke
(c) Laski
(d) Plato

Answer: C

Question. Input- output analysis of David Easton , the inputs stand for …………………
(a) the political system
(b) the environment
(c) demands and supports
(d) the feedback

Answer: C

Question. In political science ,the structural-functional theory was first applied in 1960 by……………………?
(a) Almond and Coleman
(b) David Easton
(c) Dhal
(d) MacIver

Answer: A

Question. Which is the most populated state in the world?
(a) USA
(b) India
(c) Japan
(d) China

Answer: D

Question. Huntington describes ……………… as a multi-faced process involving change in all areas of human thought and activity.
(a) Political Development
(b) Political Modernization
(c) Political Change
(d) Political Power

Answer: B

Question. Who are the chief exponents of social welfare theory?
(a) Green
(b) Hegel
(c) Bentham and Mill
(d) Locke

Answer: C

Question. A form of government in which everyone has a share is
(a) Aristocracy
(b) Monarchy
(c) Oligarchy
(d) Democracy

Answer: D

Question. Popular Sovereignty means that sovereignty lies with
(a) Constitution
(b) Parliament
(c) Cabinet
(d) People

Answer: D

Question. The welfare theory believes that state is………….?
(a) a means
(b) an end
(c) an organism
(d) supreme

Answer: A

Question. Who wrotes the book "the Rights of Man"?
(a) Edmund Burke
(b) Thomas Paine
(c) Locke
(d) Green

Answer: B

Question. The concept of natural liberty is associated with
(a) Hegal
(b) Locke
(c) Rousseau
(d) Hobbes

Answer: C

Question. Rights are unlimited according to
(a) individualists
(b) idealists
(c) socialists
(d) Liberalist

Answer: D

Question. Exponent of ‘Input- Output Approach’ in political system theory ?
(a) David Easton
(b) Karl Deutsch
(c) Parsons
(d) Merton

Answer: A

Question. Which approach in political science is known as speculative or ethical or metaphysical approach ?
(a) Philosophical
(b) Historical
(c) Institutional
(d) Behaviour

Answer: A

Question. 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

Question. Which of the following states is not a republic
(a) India
(b) America
(c) France
(d) Britain

Answer: D

Question.The theory of social welfare was expounded by:
(a) Utilitarians
(b) Socialist
(c) Marxists
(d) Fabians

Answer: A

Question. The legal theory of rights points out that rights are created by:
(a) state
(b) society
(c) community
(d) nature

Answer: A

Question. Which organ of the government makes interpretation of laws
(a) The legislature
(b) Executive
(c) Civil service
(d) Judiciary

Answer: D

Question. The term ‘political sovereignty’ is associated with :
(a) Lock.
(b) Rousseau
(c) Lowell
(d) Laski

Answer: A

Question. Who was the author of the book ‘ On Liberty’ ?
(a) Green
(b) Laski
(c) J.S. Mill
(d) Marx

Answer: C

Question. Civil liberty is inherent in the laws of
(a) Society
(b) State
(c) Nature
(d) Organization

Answer: B

Question. Liberty and equality are anti-thetical to each other. This view was held by -
(a) Lord Action
(b) T.H Green
(c) Parson
(d) Barker

Answer: A

Question. The view that “ all property is theft “ was expressed by
(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Adam Smith
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Proudhon

Answer: D

Question. A Bicameral legislature consist of
(a) One chamber
(b) Two chambers
(c) Three chambers
(d) Four chambers

Answer: B

Question. Who said ‘” Political socialization is the process by which political culture are maintained and changed”.
(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Almond & Verba
(c) Allan R Ball
(d) Rush

Answer: B

Question. The term ‘popular sovereignty’ means sovereignty lies with:
(a) people
(b) constitution
(c) society
(d) state

Answer: A

Question. The state is an association of associations is advocated by
(a) Bodin
(b) Laski
(c) Austin
(d) Barker

Answer: D

Question. 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

Question. Who gave the concept of external sovereignty ?
(a) Grotius
(b) Locke
(c) Austin
(d) Laski

Answer: A

Question. Who said that “State is a society of societies “ ?
(a) Lindsay
(b) Holland
(c) Follet
(d) Laski

Answer: D

Question. Who among the following thinker combined ‘ natural rights’ with ‘physiological metaphor’ ?
(a) Lock
(b) Spencer
(c) T. H. Green
(d) Burke

Answer: A

Question. Which part of Indian constitution guarantees liberty to citizen.
(a) d.P.S.P
(b) Fundamental Right
(c) Preamble
(d) VII

Answer: B

Question. Who said justice as the mixture of liberty and equality ?
(a) Plato
(b) Aristotle
(c) Rousseau
(d) Hobbes

Answer: A

Question. Who stated political science is a ‘ descriptive and normative science’
(a) Marx Webber
(b) Robson
(c) Paul Janet
(d) Wilson

Answer: A

Question. " Men are born , and always continue , free and equal in respect of their rights". It is the declaration of ……………?
(a) American war of Independence
(b) Indian freedom struggle
(c) Russian Revolution
(d) The French Declaration of Rights of Man

Answer: D

Question. 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

Question. Who is the father of Political Science?
(a) Marx
(b) Plato
(c) Austin
(d) Aristotle

Answer: D

Question. The exponent of legal theory of Rights.
(a) Green
(b) Locke
(c) Austin
(d) Rousseau

Answer: C

Question. Which theory deals with natural liberty.
(a) Divine Origin Theory
(b) Force Theory
(c) Social Contract Theory
(d) Evolutionary Theory

Answer: C

Question. Aristotle’s concept of justice implies:
(a) equality
(b) liberty
(c) rights
(d) duties

Answer: A

Question. Who said “The God , who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time “ ?
(a) Hobbes
(b) David Easton
(c) Jefferson
(d) Karl Deutsch

Answer: C

Question. Who said , “ History not only explains institutions but it helps us to make certain deduction for future guidance”.
(a) Gilchrist
(b) Robert Dhal
(c) Weber
(d) Deutsch

Answer: A

Question. " The organization is based on the principles of sovereign equality of all its members". It is expressed in the ……………
(a) United Nations Charter
(b) Indian constitution
(c) British Constitution
(d) SAARC

Answer: A

Question. The rule of law is an effective instrument of ……………
(a) Social liberty
(b) Communal liberty
(c) Natural liberty
(d) Individual liberty.

Answer: D

Question. The modern concept of justice is related to :
(a) economic equality
(b) political rights
(c) social justice
(d) laws only

Answer: C

Question. …………. increase the capacity and capability of the political system to find and utilize the resources of the country ?
(a) Political Development
(b) Political Modernization
(c) Political Change
(d) Political Power

Answer: B

Question. The term ‘state’ in its modern sense was first used by ---------
(a) Aristotle
(b) Plato
(c) Machiavelli
(d) Bodin

Answer: C

Question. 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

Question. Rousseau was the advocate of …….
(a) Individual Sovereignty
(b) Popular Sovereignty
(c) Political Sovereignty
(d) Legal Sovereignty

Answer: B

Question. Who is the author of the book the ‘ Law of the Constitution’ ?
(a) A.V. Dicey
(b) Finer
(c) Gettle
(d) Willoughby

Answer: A

Question. Political sub-culture is the part of …………………?
(a) social culture
(b) General culture
(c) Political culture
(d) Culture

Answer: C

Question. 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

Question. Who asserted that the state would ultimately wither away
(a) Plato
(b) Kant
(c) Laski
(d) Marx

Answer: D

Question. The term ‘state’ is derived from the word:
(a) Polis
(b) City
(c) Status
(d) Society.

Answer: C

Question. Rousseau supports the idealist theory of Rights on the basis of:
(a) Morality
(b) Natural law
(c) General will
(d) Social consciousness

Answer: C

Question. An Indian Philosopher stated, ” Liberty does not mean the absence restraint but it lies in development of Liberty."
(a) (b) R. Abedker
(b) Gandhi
(c) Dr. Radhakrishan
(d) Nehru

Answer: B

Question. Constitution is an instrument of …… justice
(a) political
(b) social
(c) legal.
(d) economic

Answer: C

Question. Indirect democracy is otherwise known as
(a) Socialist democracy
(b) Representative democracy
(c) Elite democracy
(d) Democratic republic

Answer: B

Question. The exponent of Scientific Socialism.
(a) Lock
(b) Rousseau
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Laski

Answer: C

Question. Who developed the concept of Behavioural approach in the study of political science ?
(a) J.S. Mill
(b) David Easton
(c) Parson
(d) Karl Deutsch

Answer: B

Question. Who defined justice as the “ interest of the stronger “ ?
(a) Sophists
(b) Plato
(c) Aristotle
(d) Romans

Answer: A

Question. “ sovereignty was absolute , no state exists” who said this ?
(a) Bodin
(b) Austin
(c) Lock
(d) Hobbes

Answer: B

Question. Who defines, " Political socialization is a is a process by which an individual becomes acquainted with the political system which determine the reaction to political phenomenon".
(a) Rush and Althoff
(b) Ward
(c) Allan Ball
(d) Easton

Answer: A

Question. Who among the following thinkers is connected with the concept of ‘ General Will ‘ ?
(a) Plato
(b) Rousseau
(c) Aristotle
(d) T. H. Green

Answer: B

Question. The modern democracy is known as
(a) Peoples democracy
(b) Limited democracy
(c) Representative democracy
(d) Direct democracy

Answer: C

Question. 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

Question. 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

Question. Who described law as a command of the sovereign.
(a) Locke
(b) Hobbes
(c) Laski
(d) Austin

Answer: D

Question. Latin word for ‘justice’ is :
(a) virtue
(b) Dikaiosume
(c) morality
(d) a bond or tie

Answer: D

Question. 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

Question. Who defined liberty as “ the positive and equal opportunity of self- realization “ ?
(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Laski
(c) Parson
(d) Thomas Hobbes

Answer: B

Question. Who regarded, 'life ,liberty and property as inalienable rights of men'?
(a) Locke
(b) Aristotle
(c) Rousseau
(d) Hobbes

Answer: A