CSS Political Science Questions & Answers - Part-1 - Set 7

1)   In the political shpere justice consists in:

a. Entrusting the responsibility of government to propertied people who know the art of governing
b. Entrusting power to the educated people
c. Giving share to all persons in the administration of their country
d. Maintaining the status quo
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Giving share to all persons in the administration of their country

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   In the economic sphere justice implies:

a. A person whould be permitted to keep the unearned income
b. Every body should be given same salary irrespective of the nature of job
c. There should be free play of economic forces in the society
d. The basic needs of all the people must be met
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The basic needs of all the people must be met

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   The history of political philosophy is the history of quest for:

a. Justice
b. Equality
c. Liberty
d. Power
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Justice

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   The idealist theory of Justice, which emphasised the moral element of justice, was first of all propounded by:

a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Machiavelli
d. Marx
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Plato

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Aristotle speaks of two types of justice one, particular justice and the other:

a. Social Justice
b. General justice
c. Distributive justice
d. Political justice
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Political justice

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   The view that there is close relationship between justice and equality is attributed to:

a. Socialists
b. Individualists
c. Idealists
d. Anarchists
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Socialists

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   Socially, to Plato, Justice meant that:

a. A class should do its work in social carde or political plane to which it was called by its peculiar properties
b. Society should defend with all its might the right of its members
c. All the members and groups of society should be treated equal
d. There should be an elaborate system of law to provide justice to the citizens
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A class should do its work in social carde or political plane to which it was called by its peculiar properties

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   Which one of the following institutions gives shape to the dimensions of justice?

a. The Constitution
b. The Parliament
c. The Courts
d. All the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   Kautilya is associated with the exposition of:

a. Legal Theory of Justice
b. Retributive Theory of Justice
c. Deterrent Theory of Justice
d. Reformative Theory of Justice
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Deterrent Theory of Justice

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   "Eye for eye and tooth for a tooth" is the guiding principle of:

a. Retributive theory of justice
b. Deterrent theory of justice
c. Reformative theory of justice
d. All the above theories
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Retributive theory of justice

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   Which theory of justice is based on the principle 'kill the sin and not the sinner'?

a. Retributive theory of justice
b. Reformative Theory
c. Deterrent Theory of Justice
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Reformative Theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Which aspect of justice was emphasises by the Greeks?

a. Social
b. Moral
c. Legal
d. Political
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Moral

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   In which book Plato elaborated his theory of justice?

a. Republic
b. Statesman
c. Laws
d. All the above books
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Republic

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   The Retributive Theory of Justice is rooted in:

a. The principle of deterrent punishment to criminals
b. The principle of revenge
c. The principle that punishment should aim at reforming the criminals
d. The principle of hate the sin and not the sinner
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The principle of revenge

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Who asserted that justice implies allotment of functions to a person in accordance with his ability and training?

a. Barker
b. Plato
c. Aristotle
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: None of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   According to Earnest Barker, justice is:

a. A virtue that cannot be separated from the virtues of temperance, courage and wisdom
b. Not a matter of outright equality but is rather a matter of right proportion
c. A mtter of human relations which change and grow in the process of time with changes of social thought, and it adjusts itself and changes accordingly
d. The first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A mtter of human relations which change and grow in the process of time with changes of social thought, and it adjusts itself and changes accordingly

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Which one of the following states is most conducive to justice?

a. Socialist State
b. Democratic State
c. Aristocratic State
d. Authoritarian State
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Democratic State

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   The modern state tries to ensure justice to its citizens through:

a. Management institutions
b. Regulation of the economy of the country
c. Maintenance of system of law courts
d. All the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Maintenance of system of law courts

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   Constitution is an instrument of:

a. Legal Justice
b. Social Justice
c. Political Justice
d. Economic Justice
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Legal Justice

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   The denial of right to a particular section of society in the law-making and making process is a violation of the principle of:

a. Natural Justice
b. Political Justice
c. Legal justice has no relationship with punishment
d. All the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Political Justice

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   Who pleaded for the harmonization of individual and collective interests?

a. Socialists
b. Early Liberal thinkers
c. Liberal writers of 20th century
d. All the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Liberal writers of 20th century

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Public opinion means:

a. Opinion of educated persons
b. Opinion of elites of the society
c. Majority opinion
d. Minority opinion
e. Opinion of the majority, which takes into consideration the interests of all
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Opinion of the majority, which takes into consideration the interests of all

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Which one of the following does not help in the formation of public opinion?

a. Newspapers
b. Educational system
c. Radio
d. Television
e. Playground
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Playground

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   Which one of the following is not very necessary for the formation of public opinion?

a. Cinema
b. Press
c. Neighbourhood
d. T.V.
e. Political parties
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Neighbourhood

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   Which one of the following is not true about the role of political parties in the formation of public opinion?

a. These hold public meetings
b. These spread political literature
c. These help in the selection of candidates
d. These highlight main political problems
e. These draw attention to national affairs
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: These help in the selection of candidates

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Which one of the following is not true about political parties in the formation of public opinion?

a. These help in maintaining link between the people and the representatives
b. These provide political education to common man
c. These focus attention of the people on international political issues
d. These highlight failings and faltering of each other
e. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: These help in maintaining link between the people and the representatives

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   If sound public opinion is to be formed for that it is essential that:

a. Press should be free
b. Religious bodies should be active
c. People should be given the right to property
d. There should be right to education
e. There should be right to leisure
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Press should be free

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   For the formation of sound public opinion it is essential that:

a. The government should be coalition one
b. The government should be non-aligned
c. The government should bot control mass media
d. There should be single party system
e. The women should have right to vote
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The government should bot control mass media

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   Which of the following is an essential element of public opinion?

a. Public issues
b. Views of the majority but not of all
c. National thinking
d. Sense of common good
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sense of common good

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   Which of the following is not expected to be discharged by the public opinion?

a. To control the arbitrariness of the government
b. To awaken public consciousness on ;oblic issues
c. To help contact between de-facto and de-jure sovereign
d. To enable people to participate directly in the process of legislation
e. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: To help contact between de-facto and de-jure sovereign

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   Which one of the following is not a great hindrance in the formation of sound public opinion?

a. Disparity in wealth
b. Right to leisure
c. Lethargy of the people
d. Illiteracy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Right to leisure

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Which one of the following is a great hindrance on the way of sound public opinion?

a. Controlled press
b. Free mass media
c. Cinema
d. Political literature
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Controlled press

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   Public opinion can effectively be found out when:

a. There is economic inequality
b. There is no sharp social division
c. There is strict party discipline
d. There is spread of education
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: There is spread of education

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   One of the important agencies, which help in the formation of public opinion, is:

a. Cooperative societies
b. Controlled
c. Committed judiciary
d. Open platform
e. Single party legislature
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Open platform

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   One of the important agencies, which help in the formation of public opinion, is:

a. Free mass media
b. Unicameral legislature
c. Single party dominant government
d. Communist system of government
e. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Free mass media

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   Which one of the following is not a hindrance in the formation of public opinion?

a. Committed press
b. Controlled mass media
c. Single party political system
d. Widespread education
e. Disparities in wealth
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Widespread education

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Which one of the following is a hindrance in the formation of sound public opinion?

a. Circulation of political literature
b. Freedom to political parties to spread ideas
c. Removal of illiteracy
d. Widespread illiteracy
e. Periodical elections
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Widespread illiteracy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   Which one of the following is not a good method for removal of hindrance on the formation of good public opinion?

a. Press should be made free
b. Illiteracy may be removed
c. Economic inequality may be wiped out
d. Committed education should be encouraged
e. Political activities should be encouraged
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Committed education should be encouraged

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   Press can help in the formation of public opinion if:

a. It is under party control
b. It is under government control
c. It is highly critical of opposition policies
d. It is highly critical of government policies
e. It is impartial and free
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: It is impartial and free

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   Education can help in the formation of public opinion when it:

a. Imparts committed education
b. Helps in developing moral character
c. Helps in developing sound physique
d. Helps in developing freethinking
e. Ensures that all get free education
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Helps in developing freethinking

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   Legislature helps in the formation of public opinion because:

a. It is an important organ of government
b. It has the respobsibility of enacting laws
c. It practically controls the executive
d. It consists of elected representatives of the people
e. It focuses attention on issues public importance
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: It consists of elected representatives of the people

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   Public opinion means:

a. Sum-total of confused and incoherent opinions held by different groups of citizens
b. Unanimous opinion of all the citizens
c. A definite opinion, which is the result of a process of clarification and co-ordination of views held by different persons
d. Majority opinion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A definite opinion, which is the result of a process of clarification and co-ordination of views held by different persons

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Certain features of public opinion are given below, but one of them has been wrongly listed. Tick the same.

a. Public opinion is definite opinion
b. Public opinion is based on sound arguments and reasons
c. Gererally it is the opinion of the intellectual minority
d. Public opinion is based on common good
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Gererally it is the opinion of the intellectual minority

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Amongst the agencies of public opinion the press plays an inportant role. Press can be an effective agency of public opinion only if:

a. It is committed to the policies of the government
b. It is free and impartial
c. It supports the cause of the weaker sections
d. It is highly critical of government policies
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: It is free and impartial

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   There are numerous agencies for the formulation of public opinion. One of them has been wrongly listed below. Tick the same:

a. Political Parties
b. Radio and Cinema
c. Legislature
d. Judiciary
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Judiciary

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   One of the strongest hindrances in the way of formation of sound public opinion is:

a. Propaganda of radio, relevision and cinema
b. A dishonest and mischievous press
c. Progagands of political parties
d. Religious institutions
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A dishonest and mischievous press

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Public platform is a better agency of public opinion than the press because:

a. It has direct appeal
b. It is the best way to win the support of the educated people
c. It can influence comparatively larger number of people
d. It has wider appeal
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: It has direct appeal

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   The political parties influence the public opinion by:

a. Propagating their own programme
b. By criticizing the government
c. By acquainting the people with important public questions
d. By keeping direct contact with the people
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: By acquainting the people with important public questions

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   Educational institutions help in the formulation of public opinion by:

a. Imparting education
b. By paying attention to the physical and mental development of students
c. By inculcating moral qualities
d. By cultivating habit of independent thinking and formulating correct opinion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: By cultivating habit of independent thinking and formulating correct opinion

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   The legislature in a democratic country can influence public opinion by:

a. Enacting laws
b. By prescribing the duties of citizens
c. By granting rights
d. By focusing public attention on various problems facing the country during the course of parliamentary debates
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: By focusing public attention on various problems facing the country during the course of parliamentary debates

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!