Political Science MCQs

Option A: Police state

Option B: Welfare state

Option C: Stateless society

Option D: Totalitarian state

Correct Answer: Welfare state ✔

Option A: Democratic principles

Option B: Aristocratic principles

Option C: Anarchist principle

Option D: Marxist principle

Correct Answer: Democratic principles ✔

Option A: Reluctance of government servants to assume more responsibility

Option B: Indifferent attitude of the politicians

Option C: Lack of interest by the common people

Option D: Reluctance of people to pay high taxes

Correct Answer: Reluctance of people to pay high taxes ✔

Option A: Ending all free competition

Option B: Encourging free competition

Option C: State control over production and distribution

Option D: Dictatorship of the proletariat

Correct Answer: Encourging free competition ✔

Option A: The state was the best judge of man’s interest functions of state

Option B: The individual was the best judge of his own interest

Option C: The king was the best judge of people’s interests

Option D: The Parliament was the best judge of individual’s Interests

Correct Answer: The individual was the best judge of his own interest ✔

Option A: Herbert Spencer

Option B: Darwin

Option C: Locke

Option D: Marx

Correct Answer: Herbert Spencer ✔

Option A: Locke

Option B: Adam Smith

Option C: Herbert Spencer

Option D: J.S.Mill

Correct Answer: J.S.Mill ✔

Option A: Herbert Spencer

Option B: Marx

Option C: J.S.Mill

Option D: Adam Smith

Correct Answer: J.S.Mill ✔

Option A: J.S.Mill

Option B: Adam Smith

Option C: Herbert Smith

Option D: Locke

Correct Answer: Adam Smith ✔

Option A: Maximum state control over the individual

Option B: Least state interference in the affairs of the individual

Option C: Concentration of all powers in the hands of a single ruler

Option D: Guarantee of individual liberty through law

Correct Answer: Least state interference in the affairs of the individual ✔

Option A: Karl Marx

Option B: John Locke

Option C: Montesquieu

Option D: Machiavelli

Correct Answer: John Locke ✔

Option A: Each law promotes individual liberty

Option B: Each law restricts individual liberty

Option C: There is no relationship between law and liberty

Option D: Law is the first condition of liberty

Correct Answer: Each law restricts individual liberty ✔

Option A: Plato

Option B: Aristotle

Option C: Bentham

Option D: Idealists

Correct Answer: Aristotle ✔

Option A: Is anti-religious

Option B: Is irreligious

Option C: Declares all religions as state religions

Option D: Does not distinguish people on the basis of religion

Correct Answer: Does not distinguish people on the basis of religion ✔

Option A: Defend the people from outside aggression

Option B: Regulate working hours of workers

Option C: To spread education

Option D: To maintain good transport system

Correct Answer: Defend the people from outside aggression ✔

Option A: To ensure that citizens have healthy relations

Option B: Not to bother about individual’s mutual relations

Option C: Least interfere in individual’s mutual relationship

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: To ensure that citizens have healthy relations ✔

Option A: Maintenance of diplomatic relations

Option B: Spread of education

Option C: Provide scholoarships for brilliant students

Option D: To maintain good postal system

Correct Answer: Maintenance of diplomatic relations ✔

Option A: Enacting a constitution for the people

Option B: Specifying rights and duties of the people

Option C: Maintaining armed forces

Option D: Regulation of labour laws

Correct Answer: Regulation of labour laws ✔

Option A: Has consiiderably widened

Option B: Has remained as it was

Option C: Has altogether come to an end

Option D: Has considerably narrowed down

Correct Answer: Has considerably narrowed down ✔

Option A: Disruption of transport system

Option B: Disruption of consumption system

Option C: Sovereign will of the people

Option D: Slow land reform system

Correct Answer: Disruption of transport system ✔

Option A: Religion and moral

Option B: Schools and colleges

Option C: Transport and communication

Option D: Labour laws

Correct Answer: Religion and moral ✔

Option A: Discharge of international obligations

Option B: Fear of educational institutions

Option C: Fear of dacoits and robbers

Option D: Absence of payment of taxes

Correct Answer: Discharge of international obligations ✔

Option A: Burgess

Option B: Locke

Option C: Bluntschli

Option D: Plato

Correct Answer: Burgess ✔

Option A: Burgess

Option B: Garner

Option C: Gettell

Option D: Rousseau

Correct Answer: Bluntschli ✔

Option A: Locke

Option B: Hobbes

Option C: Spencer

Option D: Grotius

Correct Answer: Locke ✔

Option A: Hobbes

Option B: Locke

Option C: Rousseau

Option D: Plato

Correct Answer: Hobbes ✔

Option A: Plato

Option B: Aristotle

Option C: Spencer

Option D: Spinoza

Correct Answer: Spinoza ✔

Option A: Man is the highest aim of perfection

Option B: Nothing should be left to the individual

Option C: Individual is not the best judge of his interests

Option D: State should bother about removing hindrances

Correct Answer: Man is the highest aim of perfection ✔

Option A: Should be widened

Option B: Should be narrowed down

Option C: State should have no functions

Option D: State should perform optional functions

Correct Answer: Should be narrowed down ✔

Option A: State is a necessary evil

Option B: State is march of God on earth

Option C: State is unnecessary evil

Option D: State promotes common good

Correct Answer: State promotes common good ✔

Option A: It should promote morality

Option B: It should protect private property

Option C: It should ensure justice

Option D: It should maintain law and order

Correct Answer: It should promote morality ✔

Option A: The Idealists

Option B: The Fascists

Option C: The Individualists

Option D: The Anarchists

Correct Answer: The Socialists ✔

Option A: It is an unnecessary evil

Option B: It is ethical idea

Option C: It is march of God on earth

Option D: It is necessary evil

Correct Answer: It is necessary evil ✔

Option A: It is individualism

Option B: It is democracy

Option C: It is socialism

Option D: It is totalitarianism

Correct Answer: It is individualism ✔

Option A: Imposition of taxes

Option B: Administration of justice

Option C: Opening of employment exchanges

Option D: Fixing legal relations between individuals

Correct Answer: Opening of employment exchanges ✔

Option A: Individualists

Option B: Liberals

Option C: Socialists

Option D: Communists

Correct Answer: Individualists ✔

Option A: Interference in the religion of the people

Option B: Restrictions on economic activities

Option C: Protection of an particular class of citizens

Option D: Putting of restrictions on the sale of intoxicating drugs

Correct Answer: Interference in the religion of the people ✔

Option A: Syndicalists

Option B: Welfare liberals

Option C: Socialists

Option D: Marxists

Correct Answer: Guild socialists ✔

Option A: Fascists

Option B: Guild Socialists

Option C: Anarchists

Option D: Syndicalists

Correct Answer: Anarchists ✔

Option A: Theocratic

Option B: ascist

Option C: Anarchist theory

Option D: Secular

Correct Answer: Secular ✔

Option A: Burgess

Option B: Bluntschli

Option C: Tucker

Option D: Sorel

Correct Answer: Bluntschli ✔

Option A: It aims at abolotion of private property

Option B: It aims at promoting freedom of individual

Option C: It aims at the abolotion of state

Option D: It aims at establishment of dictatorship of the proletariat

Correct Answer: It aims at promoting freedom of individual ✔

Option A: It means doing what one wants to do

Option B: It means obeying the orders of the state

Option C: It means obeying the commands of the Pope

Option D: It means development of all the powers latent in a man

Correct Answer: It means development of all the powers latent in a man ✔

Option A: It should hinder hindrances

Option B: Individual is the best judge of his interests

Option C: It is enemy of the interests of the individuals

Option D: Rights of the individual are natural

Correct Answer: Rights of the individual are social ✔

Option A: To maintain law and order

Option B: To own means of production

Option C: To regulate working hours of workers

Option D: To remove social evils

Correct Answer: To promote religion ✔

Option A: It should help in the abolition of private property

Option B: It should help in the aboliition of state

Option C: It should aim at abolition of educational institutions

Option D: It should aim at promoting material welfare of the individual

Correct Answer: It should aim at promoting material welfare of the individual ✔

Option A: To own the means of production

Option B: To open employment exchanges

Option C: To end social evils

Option D: To maintain internal order

Correct Answer: To own the means of production ✔

Option A: It is means to an end

Option B: It is an end in itself

Option C: It is both means and an end

Option D: It is neither means nor end

Correct Answer: It is an end in itself ✔

Option A: It believes in imposition of uniform taxes

Option B: It believes in no taxation

Option C: It allows economic liberty only

Option D: It believes in graded taxation

Correct Answer: It believes in graded taxation ✔

Option A: There should be social control both over means of production and distribution

Option B: There should be social control over means of production only

Option C: There should be social control over means of distribution only

Option D: There should be no social control over either means of production or distribution

Correct Answer: There should be social control both over means of production and distribution ✔

Option A: The individual and the state exist for each other

Option B: The individual exists for sake of the state

Option C: The state exists for the sake of the individual

Option D: The individual and the state are opposed to each other

Correct Answer: The individual and the state exist for each other ✔

Option A: A police state

Option B: A totalitarian state

Option C: A totalitarian state

Option D: A capitalist state

Correct Answer: A capitalist state ✔

Option A: Early Greek thinkers

Option B: Individualists

Option C: Marxists

Option D: Socialists

Correct Answer: Early Greek thinkers ✔

Option A: A welfare agency

Option B: A necessary evil

Option C: Preserver of Liberty

Option D: Instrument of exploitation

Correct Answer: A necessary evil ✔

Option A: Individualism

Option B: The socialists

Option C: Utilitarianists

Option D: Idealism

Correct Answer: Individualism ✔

Option A: The Individualists

Option B: The socialists

Option C: Idealists

Option D: Utilitarianists

Correct Answer: Utilitarianists ✔

Option A: The Divine Origin Theory

Option B: The idealists

Option C: Historical Theory

Option D: The Anarchists

Correct Answer: The idealists ✔

Option A: Socialist Theory

Option B: Welfare Theory

Option C: Anarchist Theory

Option D: Metaphysical Theory

Correct Answer: Metaphysical Theory ✔

Option A: Hobbes

Option B: Hegel

Option C: J.S.Mill

Option D: Laski

Correct Answer: Hegel ✔

Option A: Maintaining status quo with regard to functions of state

Option B: Granting larger powers to state

Option C: Granting only co-ordinate powers to the state

Option D: Abolishing the state

Correct Answer: Granting only co-ordinate powers to the state ✔

Option A: It pleads for greater freedom for the individual

Option B: It pleads for abolition of the state

Option C: It pleads for the elimination of military force

Option D: It attaches greater importance to ‘group’ rather than ‘individual’

Correct Answer: D. It attaches greater importance to ‘group’ rather than ‘individual’ ✔

Option A: Graham Wallas

Option B: Laski

Option C: Leacock

Option D: Hobbes

Correct Answer: Graham Wallas ✔

Option A: He is quarrelsome

Option B: He is unsocial

Option C: He is a rational being

Option D: He knows his interest best

Correct Answer: He knows his interest best ✔

Option A: The state is the March of God on this earth

Option B: State is a positive good

Option C: State is a moral institution

Option D: State is a necessary evil

Correct Answer: State is a necessary evil ✔

Option A: Only compulsory functions

Option B: Only optional functions

Option C: Minimum functions

Option D: Both compulsory and optional functions

Correct Answer: Both compulsory and optional functions ✔

Option A: If not performed, the state will disintegrate

Option B: If not performed the very character of the state will change

Option C: If not performed the existence of state will not be in danger

Option D: If not performed the people will rise against the state

Correct Answer: If not performed, the state will disintegrate ✔

Option A: State is given by the society to perform

Option B: State compulsorily takes upon itself

Option C: State is forced to take upon itself

Option D: If not performed, the state will disintegrate

Correct Answer: If not performed, the state will disintegrate ✔

Option A: Minimum functions

Option B: Only compulsory functions

Option C: Only optional functions

Option D: Both compulsory and optional functions

Correct Answer: Both compulsory and optional functions ✔

Option A: State should perform maximum functions

Option B: Most of the present day functions of the state should be performed by guilds

Option C: State should perform all optional functions

Option D: State should actively interfere in individual’s affairs

Correct Answer: Most of the present day functions of the state should be performed by guilds ✔

Option A: Should be given maximum functions

Option B: Should be given only compulsory functions

Option C: Should be given both compulsory as well functions

Option D: Should immediately be overthrown

Correct Answer: Should immediately be overthrown ✔

Option A: Is very sound

Option B: Needs great encouragement

Option C: Should be replaced by functional representation

Option D: Is a mockery

Correct Answer: Is a mockery ✔

Option A: The state authority is not being misused

Option B: The state is using its authority for collective welfare

Option C: The state is misusing its authority

Option D: The state is using its position in favour of workers

Correct Answer: The state is misusing its authority ✔

Option A: Individual can develop in the state

Option B: State does not contribute in individual’s development

Option C: State should not keep the individuals in his sphere of activity

Option D: Should not maintain law and order

Correct Answer: Individual can develop in the state ✔

Option A: Should remain as these are

Option B: Should be kept to the minimum

Option C: Should be expanded

Option D: Should be at the highest ebb

Correct Answer: Should be kept to the minimum ✔

Option A: Individual is the best judge of his interests

Option B: He needs others to make min realise his welfare

Option C: State looks after best interests of the individuals

Option D: Guilds can promote individual’s welfare

Correct Answer: Individual is the best judge of his interests ✔

Option A: Be given maximum powers

Option B: Have maximum interference in individual affairs

Option C: Perform maximum optional functions

Option D: Should least interfere in the affairs of individuals

Correct Answer: Should least interfere in the affairs of individuals ✔

Option A: Bureaucrats

Option B: Priests

Option C: Syndicates

Option D: Capitalists

Correct Answer: Syndicates ✔

Option A: Imposing of taxes

Option B: Interfering in the religion of the people

Option C: Giving education to the people

Option D: Protecting one class of people against the other

Correct Answer: Interfering in the religion of the people ✔

Option A: Opening educational institutions

Option B: Giving justice to the people

Option C: Preserving life of the people

Option D: Preserving law and order

Correct Answer: Opening educational institutions ✔

Option A: A means of revolution

Option B: Class instrument

Option C: A welfare agency

Option D: A law-making agency

Correct Answer: Class instrument ✔

Option A: Maintenance of law and order

Option B: Collection of maximum revenues

Option C: Punishing of the criminals

Option D: To maintain good transport system

Correct Answer: Maintenance of law and order ✔

Option A: Equality of status

Option B: Social Justice.

Option C: Equality before law

Option D: Liberty of worship

Correct Answer: Courts have power of judicial interpretation ✔

Option A: Locke

Option B: Rousseau

Option C: Hegel

Option D: Montesquieu

Correct Answer: Hegel ✔

Option A: Plato

Option B: Aristotle

Option C: Spencer

Option D: Montesquieu

Correct Answer: Aristotle ✔

Option A: Hegel

Option B: Grotius

Option C: J.S. Mill

Option D: James Mill

Correct Answer: Hegel ✔

Option A: Organic theory

Option B: Idealist theory

Option C: Anarchist theory

Option D: Socialist theory

Correct Answer: Idealist theory ✔

Option A: Glorified state

Option B: Given minimum functions to state

Option C: Given only welfare functions to state

Option D: Have given individuals right to revolt against the state

Correct Answer: Glorified state ✔

Option A: Socialistic theory

Option B: Divine theory

Option C: Anarchist theory

Option D: Metaphysical theory

Correct Answer: Metaphysical theory ✔

Option A: Ebestein

Option B: Leacock

Option C: MacIver

Option D: Gilchrist

Correct Answer: Gettell ✔

Option A: Theory of Divine Origin

Option B: Anarchists

Option C: Syndicalists

Option D: Theory of Social Contract

Correct Answer: Theory of Social Contract ✔

Option A: August Comte

Option B: MacIver

Option C: Herbert Spencer

Option D: T.H. Green

Correct Answer: Herbert Spencer ✔

Option A: Locke

Option B: Bluntschli

Option C: Mosaca

Option D: August Comte

Correct Answer: Bluntschli ✔

Option A: Grotius

Option B: St. Paul

Option C: Bluntschli

Option D: Cicero

Correct Answer: Cicero ✔

Option A: Aristotle

Option B: Locke

Option C: Rousseau

Option D: Lenin

Correct Answer: Aristotle ✔

Option A: Plato

Option B: G.B. Vico

Option C: Waltair

Option D: Marx

Correct Answer: Plato ✔

Option A: The Monistic

Option B: The Dualists

Option C: The Socialists

Option D: The Anarchists

Correct Answer: The Anarchists ✔

Option A: The Absolutists

Option B: The socialists

Option C: The Fabian Socialists

Option D: The Monistic

Correct Answer: The Monistic ✔

Option A: Individual has nothing to do with state

Option B: Individual and state must exist for each other

Option C: Individual should surrender very little to the state

Option D: State should perform minimum functions

Correct Answer: Individual and state must exist for each other ✔

Option A: Locke

Option B: Rousseau

Option C: Bentham

Option D: Laski

Correct Answer: Bentham ✔

Option A: A welfare state

Option B: An exploitative state

Option C: A moral institution

Option D: A police state

Correct Answer: A welfare state ✔