Political Science MCQs

Option A: Subordination of women

Option B: Equality of men and women

Option C: Equality of races

Option D: Internationalism

Correct Answer: Subordination of women ✔

Option A: Constitutional and peaceful methods

Option B: Persuasion and propaganda

Option C: Violent methods

Option D: Fascism is opposed to all changes

Correct Answer: Violent methods ✔

Option A: Because they did not believe in the inherent worth of man

Option B: Because they felt that the masses were not competent to govern themselves

Option C: Because they believed in human inequality

Option D: Because majority consists of fools

Correct Answer: Because majority consists of fools ✔

Option A: Fascism glorifies war and violence

Option B: Fascism restricts individual freedom and curbs human personality

Option C: Fascism, insists on cooperation between two classes to increase national production

Option D: Fascism lay too much emphasis on peace and moral transformation

Correct Answer: Fascism, insists on cooperation between two classes to increase national production ✔

Option A: A corporative state

Option B: A classless state

Option C: Lasisez faire state

Option D: A Socialist state

Correct Answer: A corporative state ✔

Option A: Individual liberty

Option B: Territorial reporsentation

Option C: Function representation

Option D: representation of minorities

Correct Answer: Function representation ✔

Option A: A state is the embodiment of class conflict

Option B: Existence of a strong opposition is essential far a good government

Option C: Capitalism is the best system which primates the good of all sections of society

Option D: A state must expand or period

Correct Answer: A state must expand or period ✔

Option A: In favour of absolute right to private property

Option B: Opposed to private property

Option C: Silent about right to private property

Option D: In favour of right to property subject to the condition that it does not came into clash with the national interests

Correct Answer: In favour of right to property subject to the condition that it does not came into clash with the national interests ✔

Option A: Peace was the first condition of civilization

Option B: Peace war the only condition for just reghteous society

Option C: Peace was the first condition of civilization

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Peace was the first condition of civilization ✔

Option A: Only under a strong state

Option B: Only in a democratic state

Option C: Only in a state where judiciary is independent

Option D: Only in a state with a written constitution

Correct Answer: Only under a strong state ✔

Option A: Single Party dictatorship

Option B: Intense nationalism

Option C: Internationalism

Option D: Racialism

Correct Answer: Internationalism ✔

Option A: Imperialism

Option B: Individualism

Option C: Socialism

Option D: Internationalism

Correct Answer: Imperialism ✔

Option A: Hitler

Option B: Mussolini

Option C: Stalin

Option D: Napoleon

Correct Answer: Mussolini ✔

Option A: International peace and order

Option B: War and imperialism

Option C: Elimination of racial discrimination

Option D: Grant of freedom to all colonial people who were politically fit to assume respobsibility for self governiment

Correct Answer: A. International peace and order
B. War and imperialism ✔

Option A: Individual

Option B: Leader

Option C: Nation

Option D: Party

Correct Answer: Nation ✔

Option A: In the political sphere alone

Option B: In the economic sphere alone

Option C: In the political as well as economic spheres

Option D: In social economic, political moral, religious spheres etc

Correct Answer: In social economic, political moral, religious spheres etc ✔

Option A: Faith in the importance of religion

Option B: Hatred for democracy

Option C: Supermacy of the leadership

Option D: Opposition to individual freedom

Correct Answer: Faith in the importance of religion ✔

Option A: Hitler

Option B: Marx

Option C: Mussolini

Option D: Stalin

Correct Answer: Mussolini ✔

Option A: Socialism

Option B: Guild Socialism

Option C: Corporativism

Option D: A combination of good features of all the above systems

Correct Answer: Corporativism ✔

Option A: Showed admiration for democracy

Option B: Condemend democracy

Option C: Showed complete towards democracy

Option D: Favoured adoption of direct democracy

Correct Answer: Condemend democracy ✔

Option A: The individual as superior to nation

Option B: The nation as superior to the individual

Option C: The individual and nation as supreme within their allotted spheres

Option D: views on relationship between the individual and the nation

Correct Answer: The nation as superior to the individual ✔

Option A: The people

Option B: The leaders

Option C: The elected Parliament

Option D: The nation

Correct Answer: The nation ✔

Option A: Renaissance

Option B: First World War

Option C: Napoleonic Wars

Option D: Industrial Revolution

Correct Answer: First World War ✔

Option A: They do not favour individual liberty against state

Option B: They assume that the state will wither away

Option C: The believe that the state is means to an end

Option D: They believe that state has always been siding with propertied classes

Correct Answer: The believe that the state is means to an end ✔

Option A: The state will be replaced by classless society

Option B: They favour negative freedom for members

Option C: They hold faith in planned economy

Option D: They are opposed to production for the sake of profit

Correct Answer: They favour negative freedom for members ✔

Option A: Strong and centralised workers

Option B: Trade Unions

Option C: The landlords

Option D: Industrial owners

Correct Answer: Strong and centralised workers ✔

Option A: It is rule of capitalist class

Option B: It is government by the people

Option C: It means rule of educated classes

Option D: It means rule of the working classes

Correct Answer: It means rule of the working classes ✔

Option A: Dialectical materialism

Option B: Historical materialism

Option C: The theory of surplus value

Option D: The theory of class struggle

Correct Answer: The view that the state is an ethical idea ✔

Option A: Capital in vested in it

Option B: Machinery used for production

Option C: The extent of its dependence on the foreign market

Option D: The extent of its demand in the foreign market

Correct Answer: The socially useful labour put in it ✔

Option A: Stalin

Option B: Lenin

Option C: Khrushchev

Option D: Karl Marx

Correct Answer: Karl Marx ✔

Option A: Social factor

Option B: Political factor

Option C: Economic factor

Option D: Religious factor

Correct Answer: Social factor ✔

Option A: Growth of trade unions

Option B: Extent to which the social and political institutions are reorganised

Option C: The growthe of bureaucracy

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Extent to which the social and political institutions are reorganised ✔

Option A: There will be all honour to mental labour

Option B: Mental labour will be preferred over manual labour

Option C: Manual labour will be preferred over mental labour

Option D: There will be no distinction between the mental and the manual labour

Correct Answer: There will be no distinction between the mental and the manual labour ✔

Option A: The workers wish so

Option B: Machines installed by him produce more

Option C: There is difference between exchange value of what is produced and what is paid

Option D: Capitalist can win the cooperation of the workers

Correct Answer: There is difference between exchange value of what is produced and what is paid ✔

Option A: The capitalists so desire

Option B: The religious people manipulate that

Option C: Continuous class struggle is going on

Option D: Educated masses get dissatisfied

Correct Answer: Continuous class struggle is going on ✔

Option A: The rich and the poor

Option B: The educated and the elite

Option C: The religious and the educated people

Option D: The rich and the religious people

Correct Answer: The rich and the poor ✔

Option A: He has given one sided interpretation of history

Option B: He has given undue place to social forces in history

Option C: His theory of class struggle is untenable

Option D: It sacrifices individual at the cost of society

Correct Answer: He has given undue place to social forces in history ✔

Option A: They are opposed to capitalist system

Option B: Capitalism cannot introduce reforms

Option C: They lay stress on social good

Option D: They want system of production to meet needs of community

Correct Answer: They stress need for conflict in economic sphere ✔

Option A: Capital is a theft

Option B: Condemnation of state

Option C: Classless society

Option D: Root causes for evils in society

Correct Answer: Trade unionism ✔

Option A: That capital is a theft

Option B: Private property is source of exploitation

Option C: Religion is the opium of the people

Option D: He has prounded no guarantee for non-working classes in his society

Correct Answer: He has prounded no guarantee for non-working classes in his society ✔

Option A: Giving labour theory of value

Option B: Modifying theory of class struggle

Option C: Theory of surplus value

Option D: The principle of democratic centralism

Correct Answer: None of these ✔

Option A: His idea that state will wither away has not come true

Option B: His ideas that workers will unite has proved failure

Option C: For his philosophy that state will expand

Option D: For his views about capitalist system

Correct Answer: His idea that state will wither away has not come true ✔

Option A: He advocated abolition of capitalism

Option B: He stood for classless society

Option C: He pleaded stateless society

Option D: He advocated abolition of religion

Correct Answer: He pleaded for democracy as a means of social transformation ✔

Option A: J.S. Mill

Option B: Hegel

Option C: T.H. Green

Option D: Karl Marx

Correct Answer: Karl Marx ✔

Option A: God’s will

Option B: Great ideas

Option C: Great personalities

Option D: Forces of production

Correct Answer: Forces of production ✔

Option A: Materialistic philosophy

Option B: The labour theory of value

Option C: The ideal of statesless society

Option D: Dialectical method

Correct Answer: Dialectical method ✔

Option A: The benefit of producers

Option B: Social good

Option C: The benefit of consumers

Option D: The welfare of the working labourers

Correct Answer: Social good ✔

Option A: Private sector should be allowed to continue as it is

Option B: Private sector should be strengthened

Option C: There should be nationalisation of all industries

Option D: There should be nationalisation of small scale industries alone

Correct Answer: Private sector should be allowed to continue as it is ✔

Option A: Evolutionary means only

Option B: Revolutionary means only

Option C: By spread of education only

Option D: With the help of both evolutionary and revolutionary methods

Correct Answer: With the help of both evolutionary and revolutionary methods ✔

Option A: Property

Option B: Equality

Option C: Democracy

Option D: All the above

Correct Answer: Property ✔

Option A: Class struggle theory

Option B: Surplus value theory

Option C: Dialectical method

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Dialectical method ✔

Option A: Scientific Socialism

Option B: Revolutionary Socialism

Option C: Evolutionary Socialism

Option D: Utopian Socialism

Correct Answer: Scientific Socialism ✔

Option A: Stalin

Option B: Marx

Option C: Mao Tse Tung

Option D: Lenin

Correct Answer: Marx ✔

Option A: State ownership of all the means of production

Option B: Complete freedom in the economic sphere

Option C: Mixed economy with only key industries under state control

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: State ownership of all the means of production ✔

Option A: Personal Rights

Option B: Social Rights

Option C: Political Rights

Option D: Economic Rights

Correct Answer: Economic Rights ✔

Option A: Wither away

Option B: Become omnipotent

Option C: Come under the control of the workers

Option D: Come under the control of the Communist Party

Correct Answer: Wither away ✔

Option A: A society in which people enjoy complete political liberty

Option B: A casteless society

Option C: A society based on religion and morality

Option D: A classiess society

Correct Answer: A classiess society ✔

Option A: Religion exercises a moralising effect on the people

Option B: Religion is the opium of people

Option C: Religion provides a sense of contentment

Option D: Religion creates tension amongst various sections of society

Correct Answer: Religion is the opium of people ✔

Option A: Conduct free and fair elections to elect its own rulers

Option B: Stamp out the counter revolutionaries and capitalists

Option C: Protect the capitalists from the wrath of the workers

Option D: Give complete freedom in the economic sphere

Correct Answer: Stamp out the counter revolutionaries and capitalists ✔

Option A: History is nothing but a record of the wars between the various people

Option B: History is nothing but a succession of struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed classes

Option C: History is a faithful record of the past

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: History is nothing but a succession of struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed classes ✔

Option A: Was a continuation of Hegel’s dialectic

Option B: Was a reversal of Hegel’s dialectic

Option C: Had no relationship with the dialectic

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: B. Was a reversal of Hegel’s dialectic ✔

Option A: Religion

Option B: Social status

Option C: Family status

Option D: Hostile interests

Correct Answer: Hostile interests ✔

Option A: Political equality

Option B: Social equality

Option C: Legal equality

Option D: Economic equality

Correct Answer: Economic equality ✔

Option A: Promotes better living

Option B: Provides an incentive for hard work

Option C: Serves as an instrument of social good

Option D: Is an instrument of exploitation

Correct Answer: Is an instrument of exploitation ✔

Option A: Material forces

Option B: Religious forces

Option C: Political forces

Option D: Combination of material, religious and political forces

Correct Answer: Material forces ✔

Option A: A divine institution

Option B: A positive good

Option C: A necessary evil

Option D: An instrument of exploitation

Correct Answer: An instrument of exploitation ✔

Option A: France

Option B: England

Option C: Germany

Option D: Canada

Correct Answer: England ✔

Option A: It believes in common ownership of means of production

Option B: It believes in peaceful means

Option C: It believes in democracy

Option D: It believes in class struggle

Correct Answer: It believes in class struggle ✔

Option A: It regards individual an end

Option B: It stands for abolition of private property

Option C: It stands for democracy

Option D: It stands for gradual transformation of society from capitalism to socialism

Correct Answer: D. It stands for gradual transformation of society from capitalism to socialism
E. It believes in stateless society ✔

Option A: Capitalist class

Option B: Working class

Option C: Educated class

Option D: Middle class

Correct Answer: Mass of mankind ✔

Option A: Herbert Spencer

Option B: John Dewey

Option C: Bentham

Option D: C.E.M. Joad

Correct Answer: John Dewey ✔

Option A: Rights of all were equal

Option B: The educated should have more rights

Option C: More rights should be enjoyed by propertied class

Option D: The rulers should have more rights than others

Correct Answer: Rights of all were equal ✔

Option A: One nation had a right to exploit the other

Option B: Strong nations could exploit the weak ones

Option C: Poor nations could be exploited by the rich

Option D: No nation had right to exploit the other

Correct Answer: No nation had right to exploit the other ✔

Option A: Brought to an end

Option B: Continued

Option C: Continued but in a limited manner

Option D: Continued but in a modified form

Correct Answer: Continued ✔

Option A: Provision for state intervention

Option B: Provision for church to invade privacy

Option C: Spying on activities where necessary

Option D: Without governmental or church control

Correct Answer: Without governmental or church control ✔

Option A: Rich

Option B: Poor

Option C: Land owners

Option D: Middle classes

Correct Answer: Middle classes ✔

Option A: No one should be sentenced without trial

Option B: No property should be confiscated without compensation

Option C: Application of law could not depend on the whims of law makers

Option D: Any person could be put to death without trial

Correct Answer: Any person could be put to death without trial ✔

Option A: Men should be governed by men

Option B: Men should be governed by law

Option C: Men should be governed by the system of administrative law

Option D: There should be no rule of law

Correct Answer: Men should be governed by law ✔

Option A: Gilbert Murray

Option B: Spinoza

Option C: Gallil

Option D: Harvey

Correct Answer: Hobhouse ✔

Option A: Revolution

Option B: General strike

Option C: Propaganda

Option D: Hatred

Correct Answer: Propaganda ✔

Option A: Revolution was only solution to many problems

Option B: Revolution created problems

Option C: Revolution was unavoidable

Option D: Revolution and change must go hand in hand

Correct Answer: Revolution created problems ✔

Option A: State was instrument of exploitation

Option B: State sided only with capitalist class

Option C: State could not be utilised for collective welfare

Option D: State was useful instrument for society

Correct Answer: State was useful instrument for society ✔

Option A: Germany

Option B: France

Option C: U.K.

Option D: U.S.S.R

Correct Answer: U.K. ✔

Option A: That they narrowed down the scope of state activity

Option B: They made philosophy broad based

Option C: They openly criticised state

Option D: They championed the cause of private property

Correct Answer: They made philosophy broad based ✔

Option A: They gave new ideas about private property

Option B: Original views about religion

Option C: Concrete proposals about use of profits

Option D: Turned socialist doctrines from rigidity of flexibility

Correct Answer: Turned socialist doctrines from rigidity of flexibility ✔

Option A: With the help of propaganda

Option B: With the use of force

Option C: With the assistance of terror and coercion

Option D: Only by powerful people in society

Correct Answer: With the help of propaganda ✔

Option A: By revolutionary means

Option B: Through parliamentary system

Option C: Reforming the present system of production

Option D: By introducing radical land reforms

Correct Answer: Through parliamentary system ✔

Option A: Private property should be encouraged

Option B: Private property should be distributed among the poor

Option C: Private property should be abolished

Option D: Private property should be placed under trusts

Correct Answer: Private property should be abolished ✔

Option A: Wealth should not be allowed to get concentrated in few hands

Option B: Inequalities in wealth should be reduced

Option C: Progressive taxation should be checked

Option D: Production should eb community controlled

Correct Answer: Progressive taxation should be checked ✔

Option A: Collective social interests should be promoted

Option B: Free trade should be encouraged

Option C: Trade should be state regulated

Option D: There should be cooperation than competition in society

Correct Answer: Free trade should be encouraged ✔

Option A: They should be given vast powers

Option B: They should be given no powers

Option C: Bureaucracy is unavoidable

Option D: Bureaucrats should be trained in a spirit that they serve as public servants

Correct Answer: Bureaucrats should be trained in a spirit that they serve as public servants ✔

Option A: Should be left to the care of the private individuals

Option B: Should be nationalised

Option C: Only big industries be kept in the hands of individuals

Option D: Only big industries should be under the care of the state

Correct Answer: Should be nationalised ✔

Option A: With the use of force

Option B: Violence should be used when necessary

Option C: By terrorism

Option D: By creating law and order problems

Correct Answer: With the help of parliamentary institutions ✔

Option A: Is an evil to be ended immediately

Option B: It is necessary evil

Option C: It should be happily tolerated

Option D: It is a positive good

Correct Answer: It is a positive good ✔

Option A: Favoured Marxian philosophy

Option B: Opposed Marxian philosophy

Option C: Tried to reconcile Marxian views with his own views

Option D: Tried to twist Marxian philosophy to suit his own views

Correct Answer: Opposed Marxian philosophy ✔

Option A: Revolution was justified in the absence of democracy

Option B: General strike should be first step towards revolution

Option C: It was not correct that present state assisted the capitalists only

Option D: That the state should immediately be overthrown

Correct Answer: That the state should immediately be overthrown ✔

Option A: The workers were not economically sinking

Option B: It the revolution workers will not be better of

Option C: Class conflict was a reality

Option D: Even after proletariat revolution class conflict will continue

Correct Answer: Class conflict was a reality ✔

Option A: German

Option B: Italian

Option C: Russian

Option D: French

Correct Answer: French ✔

Option A: They have no fatherland

Option B: They have share in the making of their Governments

Option C: They can participate in development of national wealth

Option D: They have a fatherland

Correct Answer: They have no fatherland ✔

Option A: Syden Webb

Option B: MacIver

Option C: Robert Owen

Option D: Edward Bernstein

Correct Answer: Edward Bernstein ✔