Political Science MCQs

Option A: State was respobsible for exploitation of the poor

Option B: State did not side with one class

Option C: State was useful for bringing far reaching changes

Option D: State should be used for collective welfare

Correct Answer: State was respobsible for exploitation of the poor ✔

Option A: Revolution was no solution to problems

Option B: History demonstrated progress of democracy

Option C: Revolution was likely to being social upheavals

Option D: Changes could come only with the help of revolution

Correct Answer: Changes could come only with the help of revolution ✔

Option A: I leads to concentratior of wealth

Option B: It favours establishment of private enterprises

Option C: It wants to establish just and equitable society

Option D: It gives more importance to individual

Correct Answer: It wants to establish just and equitable society ✔

Option A: Working classes

Option B: Middle classes

Option C: Bureaucracy

Option D: Political elite

Correct Answer: Middle classes ✔

Option A: The rich and the poor

Option B: The employers and employees

Option C: The poor and middle classes

Option D: Community and the capitalists

Correct Answer: Community and the capitalists ✔

Option A: They condemned violence

Option B: G.B. Shah

Option C: J.S. Mill

Option D: Karl Marx

Correct Answer: J.S. Mill ✔

Option A: They believed in democratic system

Option B: They championed the cause of all sections of society

Option C: They stood for revolutionary means

Option D: They stood for secularism

Correct Answer: They stood for revolutionary means ✔

Option A: Retained by the capitalists

Option B: Distributed among all the workers

Option C: Distributed among all traders

Option D: Located in trade unions for workers’ welfare

Correct Answer: Used for the welfare of the society ✔

Option A: Ever increasing population

Option B: Changing fashion

Option C: Increased demands by the capitalists

Option D: Non-availability of technical labour

Correct Answer: Ever increasing population ✔

Option A: Was decided by the labour involved

Option B: Was determined by capital invested

Option C: Was decided by socially useful labour put in that

Option D: Was decided by the society

Correct Answer: Was decided by the society ✔

Option A: With the help of parliamentary institutions

Option B: With violent revolution

Option C: When capitalists will end

Option D: When new proletariat dominant society will come into being

Correct Answer: With the help of parliamentary institutions ✔

Option A: Close contacts with the working classes

Option B: Were the people who belonged the poor middle class

Option C: Were very rich capitalists

Option D: Were holding high political positions in the Government

Correct Answer: Were highly intellectual people ✔

Option A: have failed in promoting the interests of the people

Option B: Are delivering goods and should be strengthened

Option C: Should be abolished

Option D: Are instruments of exploitation

Correct Answer: Are delivering goods and should be strengthened ✔

Option A: Given maximum functions

Option B: Assigned minimum functions

Option C: Given only compulsory functions

Option D: Given the responsibility of defending the people and removing hindrances

Correct Answer: Given maximum functions ✔

Option A: State was a necessary evil

Option B: State was a welfare agency

Option C: State stood to promote common good

Option D: State helped in intellectual development

Correct Answer: State was a necessary evil ✔

Option A: State could help in achieving objects of socialism

Option B: Socialism and democracy were opposed to each other

Option C: Socialism and democracy were complementary to each other

Option D: Democratic institutions should be preserved

Correct Answer: Socialism and democracy were opposed to each other ✔

Option A: He did not favour the idean of revolution

Option B: Revolution should be brought at the earliest

Option C: He suggested workers to follow democratic ideas

Option D: The proletariat will get the support of small business in their struggle against capitalists

Correct Answer: Revolution should be brought at the earliest ✔

Option A: It was decreasing

Option B: It was main g the rich richer and the poor, poorer

Option C: It was sowing the seeds of its destruction

Option D: It has helped increase small business

Correct Answer: It has helped increase small business ✔

Option A: It could not solve existing problems

Option B: It could solve existing problems

Option C: It could solve only some of the problems

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: It could not solve existing problems ✔

Option A: It is based on exploitation

Option B: It has encouraged production of costly goods

Option C: It is antagonistic of state

Option D: It does not allow full payment of wages to workers

Correct Answer: It is antagonistic of state ✔

Option A: Ideal

Option B: Most Rotten

Option C: Unjustified as it concentrates wealth in the hands of few persons alone

Option D: None of These

Correct Answer: Most Rotten ✔

Option A: Capitalism should be abolished

Option B: Capitalism is promoting social welfare

Option C: Capitalism is promoting international trade

Option D: Capitalism is moral strength of a nation

Correct Answer: Capitalism should be abolished ✔

Option A: G.B. Shah

Option B: Bentham

Option C: Mill. J.S.

Option D: T.H. Green

Correct Answer: A. G.B. Shah ✔

Option A: By paying lowest wages to workers and reducing their purchasing capacity

Option B: Nby not permitting the workers any

Option C: By bringing more people from lower classes in its own ranks

Option D: By large scale production and making the working classes economically

Correct Answer: By paying lowest wages to workers and reducing their purchasing capacity ✔

Option A: History is the creation of materialistic forces

Option B: History is the creation of spiritual forces

Option C: History is the creation of religion and force events

Option D: History is created as result of clash of contrary material forces

Correct Answer: History is created as result of clash of contrary material forces ✔

Option A: Two classes

Option B: A number of classes arranged in hierarchical order

Option C: Only one class

Option D: Four classes

Correct Answer: Two classes ✔

Option A: Common good

Option B: Good of the society as a whole

Option C: Promotion of the interests of the economically dominant classes

Option D: Promotion of the interests of the economically backward classes

Correct Answer: Promotion of the interests of the economically dominant classes ✔

Option A: The course of history remains unchanged

Option B: The course of history is determined by the leaders of society

Option C: The course of history is determined by the conscience of men

Option D: The course of history is determined by the mode of production

Correct Answer: The course of history is determined by the mode of production ✔

Option A: Germany

Option B: Holland

Option C: France

Option D: Britain

Correct Answer: Germany ✔

Option A: Marx

Option B: Lenin

Option C: Stalin

Option D: Laski

Correct Answer: Marx ✔

Option A: Fabian Socialism

Option B: Evolutionary Socialism

Option C: State Socialism

Option D: Syndicalism

Correct Answer: None of these ✔

Option A: They agree with Marx that history of hitherto existing struggle is class struggle

Option B: Working class is not a separate class from society

Option C: Capitalism is not an evil

Option D: Democracy can help in solving present day many problems

Correct Answer: They agree with Marx that history of hitherto existing struggle is class struggle ✔

Option A: Matter is more important than spirit

Option B: Spirit is more important than matter

Option C: Spirit and matter are equally important

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Matter is more important than spirit ✔

Option A: Labour

Option B: Land

Option C: Capital

Option D: Combination of all the above factors

Correct Answer: Labour ✔

Option A: Labour must be paid minimum wages irrespective of the quantum of goods produced and the profit be passed on to the state

Option B: The labourers be paid fixed salary and all the profits earned should be used for social good

Option C: There is difference between what a labourer produces and what he is paid. This difference is known as surplus value and is pocketed by the capitalists.

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: There is difference between what a labourer produces and what he is paid. This difference is known as surplus value and is pocketed by the capitalists. ✔

Option A: Abolishing capitalism

Option B: Reforming capitalism

Option C: Retaining capitalism as it is

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Reforming capitalism ✔

Option A: Due to foreign interference

Option B: Due to increasing importance of political elites

Option C: Due to growing antagonism between the haves and have-notes

Option D: Because of dissatisfaction of the educated people with the system

Correct Answer: Due to growing antagonism between the haves and have-notes ✔

Option A: Capitalism concentrates large

Option B: Capitalism reduces the purchasing capacity of workers by paying them lowest wages

Option C: Capitalism concentrates the capital in the hands of fewer persons and pushes the smaller capitalists in the rank of working classes

Option D: Capitalism frees the workers from economic worries and thus makes it possible for them to wage a strong struggle against capitalism

Correct Answer: Capitalism frees the workers from economic worries and thus makes it possible for them to wage a strong struggle against capitalism ✔

Option A: The state shall be used to safeguard interest of the capitalist

Option B: The state should be used to safeguard the interests of the working classes

Option C: The states whall try to bring about reconciliation between the Capitalists and working classes

Option D: The state shall not exist

Correct Answer: The state should be used to safeguard the interests of the working classes ✔

Option A: There shall be least interference in the economic sphere by the state

Option B: The means of production and distribution shall be used for the benefit of working classes

Option C: The means of production whall be used for social good

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: The means of production whall be used for social good ✔

Option A: Through elections

Option B: Through strikes

Option C: By killing the bourgeoisie class

Option D: Through guilds of workers

Correct Answer: By killing the bourgeoisie class ✔

Option A: Bourgeois will dominate the proletariat

Option B: The proletariat will dominate the bourgeois

Option C: The spheres of the bourgeois and proletariat will be clearly demarcated and none will dominate the other

Option D: Distinction between bourgeois and proletariat shall not exist

Correct Answer: Distinction between bourgeois and proletariat shall not exist ✔

Option A: Peaceful and constitutional methods

Option B: Change of heart and mind

Option C: Revolutionary methods

Option D: Combination of peaceful and revolutionary methods according to the requirements of the situation

Correct Answer: Revolutionary methods ✔

Option A: It attaches too much importance to the religious factor in the interpretation of history

Option B: It attaches too much importance to the materialistic factor in interpretation of history

Option C: It wrongly asserts that the value of goods is determined by labour alone

Option D: It wrongly considers the state as an instrument of oppression

Correct Answer: It attaches too much importance to the religious factor in the interpretation of history ✔

Option A: It provides a social system with a definite purpose and a clear programme

Option B: It emphasises the inadequacy of the present social organisation

Option C: It lays emphasis on bringing about changes in the present system through peaceful and constitutional methods

Option D: It aims at the welfare of the proletariat

Correct Answer: It lays emphasis on bringing about changes in the present system through peaceful and constitutional methods ✔

Option A: Primitive communism

Option B: Slave system

Option C: Capitalism system

Option D: Aeo-colonialism

Correct Answer: Aeo-colonialism ✔

Option A: Machiavelli and Hegel

Option B: Fishte and Laski

Option C: Hegel and Feurbach

Option D: Rousseau and Machiavelli

Correct Answer: Hegel and Feurbach ✔

Option A: Theory of class struggle

Option B: Dictatorship of proletariat

Option C: Theory of surplus value

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Dictatorship of proletariat ✔

Option A: State is the executive committee of the bourgeoisie

Option B: The state uses force for the protection and promotion of interests of the poor people

Option C: The state uses force for the protection and promotion of the interests of the ruling class

Option D: All the phenomena of human society have their irigin in material conditions of life

Correct Answer: The state uses force for the protection and promotion of interests of the poor people ✔

Option A: It tried to promote the welfare of the entire community

Option B: It ensures liberty as well as equality

Option C: It ensures real democracy

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: None of the above ✔

Option A: An executive committee of the workers

Option B: An executive committee of elites

Option C: An executive committee of the bourgeois

Option D: An executive committee of various sections of society

Correct Answer: An executive committee of the bourgeois ✔

Option A: Were earned by individuals and should be kept with them

Option B: Should be used for the welfare of individuals

Option C: Should be used for social welfare

Option D: Should never be earned

Correct Answer: Should be used for social welfare ✔

Option A: Remain in the hands of capitalists

Option B: Remain with the churches

Option C: Remain with the sovereign

Option D: Be transferred from individual to society

Correct Answer: Be transferred from individual to society ✔

Option A: Capital investment in production

Option B: Land and capital needed in production

Option C: Labour of the labourers put in it

Option D: Extent to which society created its value

Correct Answer: Extent to which society created its value ✔

Option A: Consumers

Option B: Producers

Option C: Capitalists

Option D: Workers

Correct Answer: Society as a whole ✔

Option A: Only political democracy

Option B: Only social democracy

Option C: Only economic democracy

Option D: Social, economic and political democracy

Correct Answer: Social, economic and political democracy ✔

Option A: Inequalities in wealth should be reduced

Option B: Free way of life to every one should be allowed

Option C: Civil rights should be guaranteed

Option D: No political rights should be allowed

Correct Answer: No political rights should be allowed ✔

Option A: They believe in Central State

Option B: They believe that state will work for collective welfare

Option C: They believe in non-bureaucratic state

Option D: They imagine state will protect the interests of the governed

Correct Answer: They believe in non-bureaucratic state ✔

Option A: It was a social theory

Option B: It was political philosophy

Option C: It was political viewpoint

Option D: It was set of economic principles

Correct Answer: It was a social theory ✔

Option A: given to the elite of the society

Option B: costly

Option C: given to those who can afford

Option D: left to the care of voluntary bodies

Correct Answer: given to those who have aptitude for this ✔

Option A: It is the responsibility of the state to give social justice

Option B: State has nothing to do with social justice

Option C: Concept of social justice is absured

Option D: Social justice should be the respobsibility of organised associations

Correct Answer: It is the responsibility of the state to give social justice ✔

Option A: Revolution

Option B: Church

Option C: Elites of society

Option D: Spread of education propaganda

Correct Answer: Spread of education propaganda ✔

Option A: Adam Smith

Option B: Bentham

Option C: J.S. Mill

Option D: Marx

Correct Answer: Marx ✔

Option A: 17th century

Option B: 18th century

Option C: 19th century

Option D: 20th century

Correct Answer: 19th century ✔

Option A: Hobbes

Option B: Locke

Option C: Rousseau

Option D: Thomas Paine

Correct Answer: Locke ✔

Option A: Feudalism

Option B: Church

Option C: Absolutism of the king

Option D: Deteriorating social system

Correct Answer: Deteriorating social system ✔

Option A: It has faith in world peace

Option B: It has faith in the philosophy of live and let live

Option C: It has faith in constitutional Government

Option D: It has no faith in pluralistic society

Correct Answer: It has no faith in pluralistic society ✔

Option A: MacGovern

Option B: Sartori

Option C: Laski

Option D: Karl Marx

Correct Answer: MacGovern ✔

Option A: It is opposed to artificial pressures on freedom

Option B: It stands for free trade these days

Option C: It wants limited state activities

Option D: It favours separation of powers

Correct Answer: It stands for free trade these days ✔

Option A: English

Option B: German

Option C: Roman

Option D: French

Correct Answer: Latin ✔

Option A: It is a fluid philosophy

Option B: Its thinkers have divergent views

Option C: It is essentially a capitalist philosopy

Option D: It is basically philosophy of working classes

Correct Answer: It is basically philosophy of working classes ✔

Option A: T.H. Green

Option B: J.S. Mill

Option C: Bentham

Option D: Locke

Correct Answer: Karl Marx ✔

Option A: He wanted the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people

Option B: He stood for legal reforms

Option C: He wanted status quo in educational system

Option D: He wanted changes in the electoral system

Correct Answer: He wanted status quo in educational system ✔

Option A: MacGovern

Option B: Schumpeter

Option C: Sartori

Option D: Robert A. Dahl

Correct Answer: Sartori ✔

Option A: It advocates individual liberty

Option B: It stands for equality among citizens

Option C: It is champion of democracy

Option D: It upholds seculatism

Correct Answer: It wants abolition of private property ✔

Option A: Liberal philosophy of free trade

Option B: Improved conditions of the workers

Option C: Improved conditions of the workers

Option D: Change in the approach of capitalists towards workers

Correct Answer: Liberal philosophy of free trade ✔

Option A: Rights of the individual

Option B: Free trade

Option C: The ideal of the secular state

Option D: Right to national self determination

Correct Answer: A stateless society ✔

Option A: It laid stress on dignity of individual

Option B: It emphasised on rationality

Option C: It believed that freedom was absence of restraints

Option D: It cared least for capitalists and maximum for the welfare of common man

Correct Answer: It cared least for capitalists and maximum for the welfare of common man ✔

Option A: He supported constitutional government

Option B: He wanted limitations on state sovereignty

Option C: He wanted limited rights for the individuals

Option D: He considered individual prior to state

Correct Answer: He wanted limited rights for the individuals ✔

Option A: Private ownership

Option B: Public ownership

Option C: Mixed economy

Option D: Gradual nationalisation of means of production

Correct Answer: Private ownership ✔

Option A: Britain

Option B: Switzerland

Option C: U.S.S.R.

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: U.S.S.R. ✔

Option A: Britain

Option B: U.S.A.

Option C: China

Option D: France

Correct Answer: China ✔

Option A: Only one pressure group at time

Option B: Any number of pressure groups at the same time

Option C: Not more than three pressure groups at a time

Option D: Either a pressure group or a political party

Correct Answer: Any number of pressure groups at the same time ✔

Option A: Resorts to use of military force

Option B: Exerts pressure on government to enact laws in the interest of its members

Option C: Resort to other than constitutional methods

Option D: Resorts to general strike and band

Correct Answer: Exerts pressure on government to enact laws in the interest of its members ✔

Option A: China

Option B: Switzerland

Option C: Britain

Option D: West Germany

Correct Answer: China ✔

Option A: It leads to cabinet dictatorship

Option B: People have very limited choice in the selection of their representatives

Option C: The opposition cannot freely criticise the policies of the government

Option D: It leads to frequent constitutional crisis

Correct Answer: It leads to frequent constitutional crisis ✔

Option A: It leads to formation of stable governments

Option B: Change in government is very convenient

Option C: It is convenient for the voters to clect their representatives

Option D: People have wider choice in the selection of their representatives

Correct Answer: Change in government is very convenient ✔

Option A: Pakistan

Option B: China

Option C: Britain

Option D: U.S.A.

Correct Answer: Pakistan ✔

Option A: Government is formed by all the political parties present in the country

Option B: There are number of political parties but the government is formed by that single party which secures largest number of seats

Option C: That the country has more than two political parties which aim at capturing power

Option D: There is one dominant party which keeps the other political parties under its umbrella

Correct Answer: That the country has more than two political parties which aim at capturing power ✔

Option A: It gives despotic powers to the Cabinet

Option B: It given an opportunity to the opposition party to indulge in an irresponsible criticism of government

Option C: It makes smooth changes in government possible

Option D: It leads to the formation coalition governments

Correct Answer: It makes smooth changes in government possible ✔

Option A: Independent and Democratic

Option B: Republican and Democratic

Option C: Democratic and Socialist

Option D: Republican and Communist

Correct Answer: Republican and Democratic ✔

Option A: Labour and Conservative

Option B: Labour and Liberal

Option C: Conservative and Socialists

Option D: Conservatives and Liberals

Correct Answer: Labour and Conservative ✔

Option A: Single-Party system

Option B: Bi-party System

Option C: Multi-Party system

Option D: No party system

Correct Answer: Bi-party System ✔

Option A: Pakistan

Option B: France

Option C: USSR

Option D: U.S.A

Correct Answer: France ✔

Option A: There are only two political parties in the country

Option B: There are only two major political parties which share power

Option C: There is only one political party but its followers are divided into two parts those who form the government and those who form opposition

Option D: None of the above things

Correct Answer: There are only two major political parties which share power ✔

Option A: Giving tickets for election to party supporters without due regard to their merit

Option B: Allocation of offices to the people from the locality even though they do not deserve the same on merit

Option C: Distribution of jobs to the supporters of the party in power

Option D: None of the baove things

Correct Answer: Distribution of jobs to the supporters of the party in power ✔

Option A: Assisting poor candidates with financer to contest the election

Option B: By providing organised majority to back the Council of minsters

Option C: By maintaining peace in the country

Option D: By educating the public about the variour problems facing the country

Correct Answer: By educating the public about the variour problems facing the country ✔

Option A: They try to contest elections and capture power

Option B: They criticise the policies of the government

Option C: They try to implement their programme once they come into power

Option D: They do not permit their members to express their views independently

Correct Answer: They do not permit their members to express their views independently ✔

Option A: A parliamentary system government

Option B: A presidential system of government

Option C: Monarchical system of government

Option D: Dictatorial regime

Correct Answer: A parliamentary system government ✔

Option A: Political parties divide the people and disrupt national unity

Option B: Political parties break the rigidity of the separation of power

Option C: Political parties deny freedom of speech and expression to an individual and he becomes a mere cog in the party machinery

Option D: Political parties encourage political favouritism

Correct Answer: Political parties break the rigidity of the separation of power ✔