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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
Political scientists have borrowed such, ideas as 'cultural relativism', 'social evolution', 'cultural diffusion' from:
  1. A
    Anthropology
  2. B
    Sociology
  3. C
    Philosophy
  4. D
    Economics
Question 37Single Answer
Who among the following said that politics has its roots, psychologically, in the study of mental habits and vocational activities of mankind?
  1. A
    Barker
  2. B
    Plato
  3. C
    Bryce
  4. D
    Wallas
Question 38Single Answer
Ivor Brown points out that economics deals mainly with and politics is concerned with
  1. A
    Wealth, government
  2. B
    Business, state
  3. C
    Commodities, human beings
  4. D
    Production, administration
Question 39Single Answer
Which of the following theories of the origin of the state was accepted by liberalism?
  1. A
    Pluralist theory
  2. B
    Marxist theory
  3. C
    Historical theory
  4. D
    Institutional theory
Question 40Single Answer
Which of the following views believes that the state originated with class division and class struggle in society?
  1. A
    Liberal view
  2. B
    Marxist view
  3. C
    Pluralist view
  4. D
    Traditional view
Question 41Single Answer
"It is not the consciousness of man which determines the material conditions of life but it is material conditions of life which determine their consciousness" - this statement is given by
  1. A
    Gettell
  2. B
    Karl Marx
  3. C
    C. Galbraith
  4. D
    Catlin
Question 42Single Answer
"Politics is that part of social science which treats of the foundations of state and the principles of government". Who made this statement?
  1. A
    Willoughby
  2. B
    Seeley
  3. C
    Paul Janet
  4. D
    S.L. Wasby
Question 43Single Answer
Guild and Palmer strongly pleaded that the subject of politics should be:
  1. A
    The political parties
  2. B
    To secure obedience
  3. C
    Negative
  4. D
    Power instead of the state
Question 44Single Answer
The Father of modern sociology, A. Comte, portrayed society as a potentially harmonious and ordered structure in which all social classes.
  1. A
    worked for social change
  2. B
    worked for the common good
  3. C
    worked for the individual
  4. D
    worked for capitalists
Question 45Single Answer
Socialist states are based on marxian ideology and are known as the:
  1. A
    Blue world
  2. B
    Green world
  3. C
    Red world
  4. D
    Yellow world
Question 46Single Answer
Which one of the following pairs is mismatched?
  1. A
    Fascism - Mussolini
  2. B
    Anarchism - Bakunin
  3. C
    Socialism - Thomas Moore
  4. D
    Pluralism - Kropotkin
Question 47Single Answer
Who has used the concept of "hegemony"?
  1. A
    Laski
  2. B
    Maclver
  3. C
    Gramsci
  4. D
    Marx
Question 48Single Answer
"Politics is struggle for power" was said by
  1. A
    Morgenthau
  2. B
    Quincy Wright
  3. C
    Sprout
  4. D
    Thomson
Question 49Single Answer
Kautilya wrote his Arthasastra on the subject of:
  1. A
    History
  2. B
    Practical politics
  3. C
    Religion
  4. D
    Science
Question 50Single Answer
Lord James Bryce is considered to be the best advocate of the
  1. A
    Experimental method
  2. B
    Historical method
  3. C
    Observational method
  4. D
    Comparative method
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