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Political Science

Question 1Single Answer
For Plato which of the following statements is not true ?
(a) Ideas are substances.
(b) Ideas are essences of all things.
(c) Ideas are reflections of things.
(d) Ideas are universal.
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below :
  1. A
    Codes :
    (a) and (b)
  2. B
    (b) and (d)
  3. C
    (b) only
  4. D
    (c) only
Question 2Single Answer
Who among the following called Machiavellis's "Prince" the great and true conception of a real political genius with the highest and noblest purpose ?
  1. A
    Bentham
  2. B
    J.S. Mill
  3. C
    Hegel
  4. D
    Karl Marx   
Question 3Single Answer
Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
List-I                                 List-II
(Authors)                      (Books)
(a) Quentin Skinner    (i) Philosophy and Human Sciences
(b) Michael Sandel     (ii) The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
(c) Giovanni Sartori    (iii) Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
(d) Charles Taylor       (iv) Democratic Theory 
  1. A
    Codes :
    (a)     (b)     (c)     (d)
    (ii)      (iii)     (iv)    (i)
  2. B
    (i)      (ii)      (iii)     (iv)
  3. C
    (iii)     (iv)    (ii)      (i)
  4. D
    (iv)    (i)      (iii)     (ii)
Question 4Single Answer
Who among the following considers Marxism to be an ideology rather than a political theory ?
  1. A
    Genrmino
  2. B
    David Held
  3. C
    R.A. Dahl
  4. D
    G.H. Sabine
Question 5Single Answer
Arrange the following works of Isaiah Berlin in chronological order of his publications. Select the correct answer form the codes given below:
(a) Concepts and Categories : Philosophical Essays
(b) Four Essays on Liberty
(c) Vico and Herder : Two Studies in the History of Ideas
(d) Karl Marx : His Life and Environment
  1. A
    Codes :
    (a),(b),(c) and (d)
  2. B
    (c),(b),(a) and (d)
  3. C
    (d),(b),(c) and (a)
  4. D
    (b),(d),(a) and (c)
Question 6Single Answer
In Arthashastra, how many departments of the government find mention ?
  1. A
    32
  2. B
    33
  3. C
    34
  4. D
    35  
Question 7Single Answer
Who of the following fled Athens for Calchis, 'in order that the Athenians might not commit a second crime against philosophy' ?
  1. A
    Socrates
  2. B
    Plato
  3. C
    Aristotle
  4. D
    Euclid  
Question 8Single Answer
Who among the following said of Rousseau, "Ardent apostle of Reason, he has done more than most to prepare the way for the age of unreason in which he live" ?
  1. A
    Maxey
  2. B
    Sabine
  3. C
    Wayper
  4. D
    Karl Popper 
Question 9Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :
List-I                    List-II
(a) Hobbes         (i) defence of sovereignty and assertion of the
                            claims of political authority over religion
(b) Locke            (ii) defence of Individual freedom of thought and
                             expression
(c) Rousseau     (iii) limited form of constitutional government
(d) J.S. Mill         (iv) claim that sovereignty has its origin in the
                          people and remains with the people
  1. A
    Codes :
    (a)     (b)     (c)     (d)
    (i)      (iii)     (ii)      (iv)
  2. B
    (ii)      (iv)    (iii)     (i)
  3. C
    (ii)      (iii)     (i)      (iv)
  4. D
    (i)      (iii)     (iv)    (ii)
Question 10Single Answer
Who among the following compares the organisations of civil society to a powerful system of Fortresses and earthworks' standing behind the state ?
  1. A
    McLellan
  2. B
    Bernstein
  3. C
    Lenin
  4. D
    Gramsci 
Question 11Single Answer
To Kautilya, the concept "rupadarshak" means :
  1. A
    Beautician
  2. B
    Magistrate
  3. C
    Inspector of coins
  4. D
    Zamindar
Question 12Single Answer
Plato appropriated the ideas of
  1. A
    Heraclitus
  2. B
    Parmenides
  3. C
    Socrates
  4. D
    All the above
Question 13Single Answer
For whom "All existence is simply a matter in motion." ?
  1. A
    Plato
  2. B
    Hobbes
  3. C
    T.H. Green
  4. D
    Rousseau
Question 14Single Answer
Rousseau won the prize in an essay contest sponsored by the Academy of Dijon in 1749 on the subject
  1. A
    "Has the progress of the sciences and the Arts contribute to corrupt or purify morals ?"
  2. B
    "Has the progress of the sciences con-tributed to corrupt morals ?"
  3. C
    "Has the development of the sciences contributed to corrupt or purify morals?"
  4. D
    None of the above
Question 15Single Answer
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A): For Plato, Knowledge is neither perception nor opinion.
Reason (R): Right opinion is knowledge.
  1. A
    Codes :
    Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  2. B
    Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  3. C
    (A) is true and (R) is false.
  4. D
    (A) is false but (R) is true.
Question 16Single Answer
In Hegel's notion the highest possible achievement of Mind as expressed in social life was in
  1. A
    The contemporary Prussian State
  2. B
    Rome
  3. C
    Athens
  4. D
    Contemporary Great Britain   
Question 17Single Answer
Machiavelli  advised the Prince to pursue
  1. A
    Moderate behaviour
  2. B
    Extreme generosity
  3. C
    Perfect strictness
  4. D
    Great kindness 
Question 18Single Answer
Which is not a part of Rawls' well ordered society ?
  1. A
    Stable
  2. B
    Efficient
  3. C
    Just
  4. D
    Equal 
Question 19Single Answer
Who among the following wrote, "Laws are the rules of just and unjust; nothing being reputed unjust that is not contrary to some law"?
  1. A
    Bentham
  2. B
    Hegel
  3. C
    Hobbes
  4. D
    Rousseau 
Question 20Single Answer
Arrange the following works of Rousseau chronologically, using the codes given below :
a. The Social Contract
b. A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
c. Emile
d. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
  1. A
    Codes :
    d, c, b, a
  2. B
    a, c, d, b
  3. C
    c, a, b, d
  4. D
    b, d, c, a 
Question 21Single Answer
Which of the following book is not authored by Karl Marx ?
  1. A
    German Ideology
  2. B
    Critique of the Gotha Programme
  3. C
    Paris Manuscripts
  4. D
    Science of Logic 
Question 22Single Answer
Who wrote "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign" ?
  1. A
    J. S. Mill
  2. B
    M. K. Gandhi
  3. C
    Jeremy Bentham
  4. D
    Robert Nozick  
Question 23Single Answer
Rajni Kothari's book Politics in India is written on the basis of the methodology of
  1. A
    Structural functionalism
  2. B
    Normative theory
  3. C
    Marxism
  4. D
    Utilitarianism 
Question 24Single Answer
Who is the first modern political thinker who deliberately ignores Aristotle ?
  1. A
    Machiavelli
  2. B
    Bodin
  3. C
    Hobbes
  4. D
    Locke
Question 25Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :         
List-I                                                      List-II
(a) Dictatorshiip of proletariat       (i) Gramsci
(b) Communist Party                      (ii)  Marx
(c) Hegemony                                 (iii) Lenin
(d) Polycentricism                           (iv) Togliatti
  1. A
    Codes :
    (a)     (b)     (c)     (d)
    (ii)      (iii)     (i)      (iv)
  2. B
    (i)      (ii)      (iii)     (iv)
  3. C
    (iii)     (i)      (ii)      (iv)
  4. D
    (ii)      (i)      (iii)     (iv) 
Question 26Single Answer
The thinker who synthesized German and English Liberalism was
  1. A
    Bosanquet
  2. B
    Hobhouse
  3. C
    G.D.H. Code
  4. D
    T.H. Green  
Question 27Single Answer
Which one of the following is not a theorist of Political Realism?
  1. A
    Kenneth Waltz
  2. B
    Norman Angell
  3. C
    Morgenthau
  4. D
    Joseph Grecho
Question 28Single Answer
'Hind Swaraj' depends
  1. A
    Mazzini's Italy
  2. B
    Diseraeli's England
  3. C
    Lincoln's USA
  4. D
    Bismarck's Germany 
Question 29Single Answer
Which one of the following is not one of the indicators of political development ?
  1. A
    Capacity
  2. B
    Equality
  3. C
    Fraternity
  4. D
    Differentiation
Question 30Single Answer
The ideal type of federalism is
  1. A
    Dual federalism
  2. B
    Bargaining federalism
  3. C
    New federalism
  4. D
    Co-operative federalism
Question 31Single Answer
Who among the following defines political science as " the study of the act of human and social control" or the "study of control relationship of wills"?
  1. A
    Robson
  2. B
    Pollocks
  3. C
    Maitland
  4. D
    Catlin
Question 32Single Answer
Is the parent science of all the social sciences.
  1. A
    Sociology
  2. B
    History
  3. C
    Philosophy
  4. D
    None of these
Question 33Single Answer
Which of the following deals with morality and formulates rules which should influence the behaviour of man while living in society?
  1. A
    Philosophy
  2. B
    Ethics
  3. C
    Sociology
  4. D
    None of the above
Question 34Single Answer
Ethics is concerned with man as a man and as such, it is prior to:
  1. A
    Society
  2. B
    Science
  3. C
    Political Science
  4. D
    History
Question 35Single Answer
Who among the following prominent writers has given psychological explanations of almost all the political problems? 
  1. A
    Le Bon
  2. B
    Baldwin
  3. C
    Graham Wallas
  4. D
    All of the above
Question 36Single Answer
Which among the following are elements of Liberalism ?
I. Individual should have the right to develop his own personality
II. Man is a rational creature
III. Society should not be plural
IV. It believes in constitutionalism
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
  1. A
    I, II and III
  2. B
    II, III and IV
  3. C
    l, III and IV
  4. D
    I, II and IV
Question 37Single Answer
In which year did Pandita Ramabai open her Sharda Sadan (Home for Learning) ?
  1. A
    1889
  2. B
    1798
  3. C
    1898
  4. D
    1857
Question 38Single Answer
Given below are two statements .
Statement I Tagore and Gandhi met for the first time at Shantiniketan
Statement II Tagore and Gandhi met for the first time at Gurukul Kangri
In light of the above statements, choose the answer from the options given below
  1. A
    Both statement I and statement II are true
  2. B
    Both statement I and statement Il are false
  3. C
    Statement I is true, but statement II is false
  4. D
    Statement I is false, but statement II is true
Question 39Single Answer
Local Bodies Ombudsman may be established to hear complaints of corruption against local bodies .
This was the view of the
  1. A
    Ashok Mehta Committee
  2. B
    Balvant Rai Mehta Committee
  3. C
    LM Singhvi Committee
  4. D
    Second Administrative Reforms Commission
Question 40Single Answer
Who among the following envisaged that liberal democracy as a political apparatus would ensure the accountability of the Governors to the governed ?
  1. A
    John Stuart Mill
  2. B
    John Locke
  3. C
    Jeremy Bentham
  4. D
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Question 41Single Answer
Which theory of Rights claims that Rights are inalienable and cannot be separated or taken away from the individual as they are inharent and prior to society and state ?
  1. A
    Theory of Natural Rights
  2. B
    Theory of Legal Rights
  3. C
    Theory of Contractual Rights
  4. D
    Theory of Social Welfare Rights
Question 42Single Answer
Who among the following coined the term Ecofeminism ?
  1. A
    Francoise d' Eaubonne
  2. B
    Okin
  3. C
    Kate Millett
  4. D
    Germaine Greer
Question 43Single Answer
Which of the following are correctly matched ?
I. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights-1966
II. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities-2000
III. Convention on the Rights of Child-1989
IV. Optional Protocol on Economic Social Rights-2006
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
  1. A
    III and IV
  2. B
    I and III
  3. C
    I and II
  4. D
    I and IV
Question 44Single Answer
Which of the following book is NOT written by Machiavelli ?
  1. A
    Art of War
  2. B
    The Discourses on Livy
  3. C
    Discourses on Inequality
  4. D
    The Prince
Question 45Single Answer
Which of the following is NOT written by Mary Wollstonecraft ?
  1. A
    A Vindication of the Rights of Men
  2. B
    A Vindication of the Rights of Women
  3. C
    Thoughts of the Education of Daughters
  4. D
    Discourses on Education
Question 46Single Answer
Lohia opined .
l. Freedom and bread are inseparable
II. The removal of inequality from human society was one of the seven revolutions
III. If socialism is to be defined in two words then they are equality and prosperity
IV. The desire for equality in the modern world has become the desire of being similar and not equal
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
  1. A
    III and IV
  2. B
    I and IV
  3. C
    II and IV
  4. D
    I, II, III and IV
Question 47Single Answer
Who wrote 'Neo-Colonialism : The Last Stage of Capitalism' ?
  1. A
    Lenin
  2. B
    Nelson Mandela
  3. C
    Joseph Nye
  4. D
    K Nkrumah
Question 48Single Answer
'Leadership is the activity of influencing people to strive willingly for mutual objectives .' This was said by .
  1. A
    James Rost
  2. B
    Keith Davis
  3. C
    MP Follett
  4. D
    GR Terry
Question 49Single Answer
How many new languages were added by the 92nd Constitutional Amendment, 2003 ?
  1. A
    3
  2. B
    4
  3. C
    2
  4. D
    5
Question 50Single Answer
Consider the following movements and arrange them in chronological order .
I. Naxalbari Movement
II. Kheda Movement
III. Champaran Movement
IV. Khilafat Movement
Choose the correct answer from the options given
  1. A
    III, II, IV, I
  2. B
    I, II, III, IV
  3. C
    IV, III, II, I
  4. D
    II, III, I, IV
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