CSS Political Science Questions & Answers - Part-3 - Set 15

1)   According to Locke state originated because:

a. Nasty man was to be crushed
b. Private property came as a serpent
c. There was need to interpret laws
d. None of the above reasons
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: There was need to interpret laws

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   According to Locke sovereign of the civil state in the beginning was:

a. Elected
b. Nominated
c. Sent by God
d. A high priest
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Elected

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   The main respobsibility according to Locke's sovereign was:

a. To protect the property of the people
b. To collect land revenue
c. To maintain good transport system
d. To encourage formation of associations
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: To protect the property of the people

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   Main function of Locke's sovereign was:

a. To enact laws
b. To amend already existing laws
c. To interpret laws
d. To enforce laws
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: To interpret laws

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Locke's sovereign:

a. Was above all laws
b. Was bound by the laws given by him
c. Was main source of original laws
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Was bound by the laws given by him

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   Rousseau was born in:

a. England
b. Germany
c. France
d. Switzerland
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Switzerland

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   Rousseau's name is associated with:

a. Patriarchal theory
b. Theory of Divine origin
c. Theory of force
d. Theory of General Will
e. Matriarchal theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Theory of General Will

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   Rousseau's theory of social contract very much influenced the organizers of:

a. Industrial Revolution
b. French Revolution
c. Glorious Revolution
d. Glorious Revolution
e. Russian Revolution
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: French Revolution

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   Rousseau's individual in the state of nature was:

a. Noble savage
b. Nasty and brutish
c. Peace loving and law abiding
d. Quarrelsome
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Noble savage

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   According to Rousseau main reason for the social contract was that:

a. There was need to interpret law
b. Private property came as a serpent
c. Social laws began to be disrespected
d. Man became nasty.
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Private property came as a serpent

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   General will, according to Rousseau was:

a. Majority will
b. Sum total of good wills
c. Sum total of bad wills
d. Sum total of the will of minority
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sum total of good wills

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Who said that theory of social contract about the origin of the state was most worthless?

a. Sir Henry Maine
b. T.H. Green
c. Bentham
d. Sorel
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sir Henry Maine

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   Who said that state is neither the handiwork of God, nor the result of brute force, nor expansion of families but only growth?

a. Gilchrist
b. Friedrich
c. Aristotle
d. Ebenstein
e. Leacock
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Gilchrist

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Which of the following factors has not contributed in the evolution of state, point that:

a. Social instinct
b. Kinship
c. Private property
d. Desire to live in peace
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Private property

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   One of the following factors has not contributed in the evolution of state, point that:

a. Natural Rights
b. Political consciousness
c. Economic needs
d. Desire to live in peace
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Natural Rights

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Which of the following is correct about the relationship of state and Government?

a. Complementary
b. Complimentary
c. Contradictory
d. Indifferent
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Complementary

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Who said 'will' not 'force' is the basis of state?

a. T.H. Green
b. Plato
c. Rousseau
d. Hobbes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: T.H. Green

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   Whose name is associated with the organic theory of the state?

a. Karl Marx
b. St. Augustine
c. Plato
d. Bernard Shah
e. Herbert Spencer
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Plato

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   A good state is usually supposed to perform one of the following functions, which one:

a. Police functions
b. Welfare functions
c. Supervisory functions
d. Military functions
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Welfare functions

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   Which of the following is not correct?

a. Hobbe's man was nasty
b. Rousseau's man was noble savage
c. Hobbes social contract was bilateral
d. Locke's social contract was bi-lateral
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hobbes social contract was bilateral

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   Social contract theory primarily dealt with:

a. Nature of state
b. Origin of state
c. Purpose of state
d. Function of state
e. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Origin of state

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Point out one of the theories which stresses that state is handiwork of God:

a. Evolutionary theory
b. Patriarchal theory
c. Matriarchal theory
d. Theory of Divine origin
e. Theory of Divine origin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Theory of Divine origin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Who advocated that the state is the expansion of family?

a. Aristotle
b. Hobbes
c. Rousseau
d. T.H. Green
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Aristotle

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   General will as expounded by Rousseau is sum total of:

a. Real wills
b. Majority wills
c. Minority wills
d. Will of the elites
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Real wills

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   Which of the following theory about the origin of the state is closest to Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest?

a. Force theory
b. Patriarchal theory
c. Matriarchal theory
d. Evolutionary theory
e. Theory of Divine Rights
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Evolutionary theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   One of the earliest theories about the origin of the state is:

a. Evolutionary theory
b. Social contract theory
c. Theory of Divine origin
d. Theory of dialectical materialism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Theory of Divine origin

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   The theory which is today accepted as the most widely accepted theory about the origin of the state is:

a. Divine origin theory
b. Social contract theory
c. Marxist theory
d. Evolutionary theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Evolutionary theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   Who supported Patriarchal theory about the origin of the state?

a. Sorel
b. Duguit
c. Laski
d. Morgar
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Duguit

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   Theory of Divine Origin of State supports:

a. Aristocracy
b. Bureaucracy
c. Constitutional monarchy
d. Absolute monarchy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Absolute monarchy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   The state of nature was substituted by:

a. Civil society
b. Anarchy
c. Lawlessness
d. Police state
e. Natural contract
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Civil society

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   According to exponents of theory of Divine Origin of the State the Kings derived their authority from:

a. God
b. People
c. Constitutional monarchy
d. Church
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: God

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Who has said that social contact theory is fatal to political impostures?

a. Sir Henry Maine
b. Sir Fredrick Pollock
c. Bluntschli
d. Sedgwick
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sir Fredrick Pollock

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   Who of the following said that in the state of nature hands of all were against one and hand of one against all?

a. Hobbes
b. Locke
c. Rousseau
d. Marx
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hobbes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Pick up one, which is not connected with the origin of the state:

a. Population
b. Territory
c. Industry
d. Religion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Industry

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   According to Garner the state is the outcome of:

a. Expansion of families
b. Handiwork of God
c. Outcome of force
d. A sudden revolution
e. Growth and evolution
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Growth and evolution

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   Which one of the following is not associated with social contract theory?

a. Hobbes
b. Herbert Spencer
c. Locke
d. Rousseau
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Herbert Spencer

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Who of the following said that in the state of nature man was nasty and brutish?

a. Hegel
b. Green
c. Hobbes
d. Bodin
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hobbes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   Which of the following is considered as the most appropriate theory about the origin of the state?

a. Theory of Divine origin
b. Force theory
c. Patriarchal and matriarchal theory
d. Social contract theory
e. Evolutionary theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Evolutionary theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   Which one of the following statements is correct about social contract theory?

a. The state is a natural institution
b. The state is gradual evolution
c. The state was created by God
d. The state is the result of a contract
e. The state is the result of a conquest
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The state is the result of a contract

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   Which one of the following is not a contributory factor in the growth of the state, according to Historical theory?

a. Religion
b. Economic factor
c. Political consciousness
d. Kinship
e. Class consciousness
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Class consciousness

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   According to social contract theory the state:

a. Is created by God
b. Is a growth
c. Is created by contract
d. Is the result of human conquest
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Is created by contract

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   Rousseau was influenced by:

a. The writings of Machiavelli
b. The philosophy of Bodin
c. Civil War of England
d. The French Revolution
e. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The French Revolution

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   According to Rousseau Sovereignty resides in:

a. Majority will
b. Minority will
c. The king
d. Actual will
e. General will
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: General will

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   The tribal system of state organisation was:

a. Well developed
b. Rudimentary
c. Based on sound footings
d. Properly organised
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Rudimentary

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   The first territorial states developed and appeared:

a. On high mountains
b. Valleys of the rivers
c. Near sea shores
d. Near the jungles
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Valleys of the rivers

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Which one of the following is not correct about the imperial state of the orient?

a. It helped in the evolution of political institutions
b. It developed in quality of obedience
c. The authority was obeyed as long as it was strong
d. The chief looked after all welfare activities in the state
e. Real authority in the state was fear
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The chief looked after all welfare activities in the state

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   In the Greek City State the Government was:

a. Little concerned with the life of the people
b. It did not try to establish mora values of the people
c. It touched every aspect of human life
d. In was indifferent to the needs of the people
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: It touched every aspect of human life

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   Which one of the following is not true about Greek city states?

a. The state looked after the welfare of the people
b. A sizeable population consisted of slaves
c. All states followed monarchical system
d. The size of the state used to be small
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All states followed monarchical system

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   At the height of glory in the Roman Empire, which was not?

a. Conquest of territories
b. A highly centralised administrative system
c. The despotic emperor
d. The state did not come under the influence of the emperor
e. Emperor's decrees were recognised as law
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The state did not come under the influence of the emperor

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   Which one of the following is not true of Roman Empire?

a. It proved that large states could be administered properly
b. It proved that large states could remain stable
c. That it failed to establish a universal code of law
d. It scarified individual liberty
e. It laid too much stress on unity
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: That it failed to establish a universal code of law

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!