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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. ACodes :
    (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. ABentham
  2. BJ.S. Mill
  3. CHegel
  4. DKarl 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. ACodes :
    (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. AGenrmino
  2. BDavid Held
  3. CR.A. Dahl
  4. DG.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. ACodes :
    (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
Who among the following conceived the society as 'a co-operative venture for mutual advantage' ?
  1. ARawls
  2. BNozick
  3. CHayek
  4. DGramsci
Question 7Single Answer
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Assertion (A): For Rousseau a thinking man is a depraved animal.
Reason (R): Common emotions give value to life.
  1. ACodes :
    Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  2. BBoth (A) and (R) are ture but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  3. C(A) is true but (R) is false.
  4. D(A) is false but (R) is true.
Question 8Single Answer
Who among the following rejected the idea that caste status was the result of divine reward or punishment ?
  1. ABipin Chandra Pal
  2. BM.A. Jinnah
  3. CJawaharlal Nehru
  4. DM.K. Gandhi 
Question 9Single Answer
Who among the following said : "Research untutored by theory may prove trivial and theory unsupported by data, futile" ?
  1. AB. Crick
  2. BCharles Merriam
  3. CDavid Easton
  4. DR.A. Dahl 
Question 10Single Answer
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Assertion (A): For Fukuyama, liberal democracy may constitute the end point of mankind's ideological evolution.
Reason (R): The earlier forms of government were characterised by grave defects and irrationalities that led to their eventual collapse.
  1. ACodes :
    Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  2. BBoth (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  3. C(A) is true but (R) is false.
  4. D(A) is false but (R) is true. 
Question 11Single Answer
In Hegel's notion the highest possible achievement of Mind as expressed in social life was in
  1. AThe contemporary Prussian State
  2. BRome
  3. CAthens
  4. DContemporary Great Britain   
Question 12Single Answer
Machiavelli  advised the Prince to pursue
  1. AModerate behaviour
  2. BExtreme generosity
  3. CPerfect strictness
  4. DGreat kindness 
Question 13Single Answer
Which is not a part of Rawls' well ordered society ?
  1. AStable
  2. BEfficient
  3. CJust
  4. DEqual 
Question 14Single 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. ABentham
  2. BHegel
  3. CHobbes
  4. DRousseau 
Question 15Single 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. ACodes :
    d, c, b, a
  2. Ba, c, d, b
  3. Cc, a, b, d
  4. Db, d, c, a 
Question 16Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :  
List-I                                                 List-II
a. On Liberty                                 1.      Amartya Sen
b. Lectures on the Principles    2.      T.H. Green of Political Obligation
c. Idea of Justice                           3.      Robert Nozick
d. Anarchy, State                          4.      J.S. Mill and Utopia
  1. ACodes :
    a       b       c        d
    3       1       2       4
  2. B1       3       2       4
  3. C2       4       3       1      
  4. D4       2       1       3 
Question 17Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :  
List-I                                                                       List-II
a. Justice as one person, one duty,           1.     Plato one class one work
b. Justice as fairness                                      2.     Aristotle
c. Justice as Proportionate equality            3.     Rawls
d. Justice as the interest of the strong        4.   Thrasymachas
  1. ACodes :
    a       b       c        d
    1       2       3       4
  2. B2       1       3       4
  3. C2       1       4       3
  4. D1       3       2       4 
Question 18Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :  
List-I                                        List-II
a. Perpetual peace              1.Plato
b. Golden Mean                   2.Kant
c. Analogy of the cave       3.Aristotle
d. Fortune as woman        4.Machiavelli
  1. ACodes :
    a       b       c        d
    1       2       3       4
  2. B2       3       1       4
  3. C2       1       4       3
  4. D4       3       2       1 
Question 19Single Answer
Assertion (A): Marx was a revolutionary.
Reason (R): Marx was not concerned about the process of history.
  1. ACodes :
    Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  2. BBoth (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  3. C(A) is true but (R) is false.
  4. D(A) is false but (R) is true. 
Question 20Single Answer
Assertion (A): Aristotle is justifiably called the Father of Political Science.
Reason (R): His criticism of Plato's idealism Justifies this claim.
  1. ACodes :
    Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  2. BBoth (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  3. C(A) is true but (R) is false.
  4. D(A) is false but (R) is true.  
Question 21Single Answer
Which of the following book is not authored by Karl Marx ?
  1. AGerman Ideology
  2. BCritique of the Gotha Programme
  3. CParis Manuscripts
  4. DScience of Logic 
Question 22Single Answer
Who wrote "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign" ?
  1. AJ. S. Mill
  2. BM. K. Gandhi
  3. CJeremy Bentham
  4. DRobert Nozick  
Question 23Single Answer
Rajni Kothari's book Politics in India is written on the basis of the methodology of
  1. AStructural functionalism
  2. BNormative theory
  3. CMarxism
  4. DUtilitarianism 
Question 24Single Answer
Who is the first modern political thinker who deliberately ignores Aristotle ?
  1. AMachiavelli
  2. BBodin
  3. CHobbes
  4. DLocke
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. ACodes :
    (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
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :         
List-I                                                                                List-II
(a) Twentieth century Jacobinism                          (i)  Gandhi
(b) Voluntary Poverty                                               (ii)   Aurobindo
(c) I was born a Hindu but will not die as one    (iii)   Ambedkar
(d) Integrated theory of evolution                        (iv)   M.N. Roy
  1. ACodes :
    (a)     (b)     (c)     (d)
    (i)      (ii)      (iii)     (iv)
  2. B(iv)    (i)      (iii)     (ii)
  3. C(ii)      (iii)     (i)      (iv)
  4. D(iii)     (i)      (ii)      (iv) 
Question 27Single Answer
Who was the founder of Utilitarianism ?
  1. ABentham
  2. BJames Mill
  3. CDavid Hume
  4. DPriestley
Question 28Single Answer
The doctrine of overlapping consensus is advocated by
  1. ABerlin
  2. BBarry
  3. CNozick
  4. DRawls 
Question 29Single Answer
Who amng the following first developed the concept of general systems theory ?
  1. ALudwig Von Bertallanfy
  2. BColin cherry
  3. CRobert K. Merton
  4. DTalcott Parsons 
Question 30Single Answer
Structural functionalism as a method was developed to study the politics of
  1. AAdvanced capitalism
  2. BDeveloped socialism
  3. CModern totalitarianism
  4. DPolitics of developing countries
Question 31Single Answer
The thinker who synthesized German and English Liberalism was
  1. ABosanquet
  2. BHobhouse
  3. CG.D.H. Code
  4. DT.H. Green  
Question 32Single Answer
Which one of the following is not a theorist of Political Realism?
  1. AKenneth Waltz
  2. BNorman Angell
  3. CMorgenthau
  4. DJoseph Grecho
Question 33Single Answer
'Hind Swaraj' depends
  1. AMazzini's Italy
  2. BDiseraeli's England
  3. CLincoln's USA
  4. DBismarck's Germany 
Question 34Single Answer
Which one of the following is not one of the indicators of political development ?
  1. ACapacity
  2. BEquality
  3. CFraternity
  4. DDifferentiation
Question 35Single Answer
The ideal type of federalism is
  1. ADual federalism
  2. BBargaining federalism
  3. CNew federalism
  4. DCo-operative federalism
Question 36Single Answer
Independence of executive is the principle of
  1. AIndian Constitution
  2. BBritish Constitution
  3. CAmerican Constitution
  4. DSwiss Constitution 
Question 37Single Answer
Who says that a proper revolution should be restricted to the political and should not extend to the social ?
  1. AChe Guevara
  2. BRegis Debray
  3. CCrane Brinton
  4. DHannah Arendt  
Question 38Single Answer
Which of the following Commissions does not have the constitutional status ?
  1. AFinance Commission
  2. BUnion Public Service Commission
  3. CNational Commission for Scheduled Castes
  4. DPlanning Commission
Question 39Single Answer
Which of the following cases propounded the concept of basic structure of the Indian Constitution ?
  1. AGolak Nath case
  2. BMinerva Mills case
  3. CKeshvananda Bharti case
  4. DManeka Gandhi case  
Question 40Single Answer
"Swaraj will not be a free gift to the British Parliament, it will be a declaratioin of India's full expression." -Among the following who made this statement
  1. AJawaharlal Nehru
  2. BRadhakrishnan
  3. CMahatma Gandhi
  4. DMaulana Abul Kalam Azad 
Question 41Single 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. ARobson
  2. BPollocks
  3. CMaitland
  4. DCatlin
Question 42Single Answer
Is the parent science of all the social sciences.
  1. ASociology
  2. BHistory
  3. CPhilosophy
  4. DNone of these
Question 43Single Answer
Which of the following deals with morality and formulates rules which should influence the behaviour of man while living in society?
  1. APhilosophy
  2. BEthics
  3. CSociology
  4. DNone of the above
Question 44Single Answer
Ethics is concerned with man as a man and as such, it is prior to:
  1. ASociety
  2. BScience
  3. CPolitical Science
  4. DHistory
Question 45Single Answer
Who among the following prominent writers has given psychological explanations of almost all the political problems? 
  1. ALe Bon
  2. BBaldwin
  3. CGraham Wallas
  4. DAll of the above
Question 46Single Answer
Political scientists have borrowed such, ideas as 'cultural relativism', 'social evolution', 'cultural diffusion' from:
  1. AAnthropology
  2. BSociology
  3. CPhilosophy
  4. DEconomics
Question 47Single Answer
Who among the following said that politics has its roots, psychologically, in the study of mental habits and vocational activities of mankind?
  1. ABarker
  2. BPlato
  3. CBryce
  4. DWallas
Question 48Single Answer
Ivor Brown points out that economics deals mainly with and politics is concerned with
  1. AWealth, government
  2. BBusiness, state
  3. CCommodities, human beings
  4. DProduction, administration
Question 49Single Answer
Which of the following theories of the origin of the state was accepted by liberalism?
  1. APluralist theory
  2. BMarxist theory
  3. CHistorical theory
  4. DInstitutional theory
Question 50Single Answer
Which of the following views believes that the state originated with class division and class struggle in society?
  1. ALiberal view
  2. BMarxist view
  3. CPluralist view
  4. DTraditional view
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