CSS Political Science Questions & Answers - Part-3 - Set 18

1)   Which one of the followings is the most acceptable theory regarding the origin of the state:

a. Social Contract
b. Divine Origin
c. Force theory
d. Historical theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Historical theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   The earliest territorial State was:

a. Greek city-state
b. Oriental Empire
c. Roman Empire
d. Feudal State
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Oriental Empire

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   The early Oriental Empires rested on:

a. Fear of God
b. Despotism of King
c. Sweet will of the people
d. Laws of nature
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Despotism of King

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   The early Oriental Empires were mostly located:

a. One the sea coasts
b. In the fertile valleys
c. On the banks of rivers
d. In Europe
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: In the fertile valleys

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Tribal State means:

a. A political organization which existed before the creation of the state
b. The state, which are ruled by the Kings of the same tribe
c. The states possessing population from the same tribe
d. The states which have majority of tribal population
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A political organization which existed before the creation of the state

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   The City-states which made their appearance before the birth of Christ are generally associated with:

a. China
b. India
c. Rome
d. Greece
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Greece

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   The City-states:

a. Believed in arbitrary rule
b. Granted feeedom to all the people
c. Granted freedom only to the citizens
d. Granted freedom to citizen as well as aliens
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Granted freedom only to the citizens

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   The Roman Empire was characterized by:

a. A Highly centralized administration
b. Complete autonomy for its units
c. Division of powers between the centre and state
d. Popular Assemblies
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A Highly centralized administration

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   One of the outstanding contributions of the Roman Empire was:

a. Individual liberty
b. Autonomy of units
c. Introduction of democracy
d. Universal code of law
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Universal code of law

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   The most outstanding contributions of the Roman Empire were:

a. Unity, uniformity of law, sovereign organisation and world peace
b. Unity, individual freedom, democratic system and patriotism
c. Popular Assemblies, democracy, individual freedom and sovereignty
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Unity, uniformity of law, sovereign organisation and world peace

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   Under the Feudal State offices were distributed on the basis of:

a. Merit
b. Principle of heredity
c. Draw of lots
d. Highest bidding
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Principle of heredity

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   In the Feudal State authority rested with:

a. Military classes
b. Commercial classes
c. Landed classes
d. Religious classes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Landed classes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   Which one of the following statements is correct?

a. The Feudal state promoted individual liberty
b. The feudal state promoted unity
c. The Feudal state neither promoted liberty nor unity
d. The Feudal state promoted individual liberty and autonomy of units
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The feudal state promoted unity

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   The most important factor in the development of the modern state was:

a. Scientific advancement
b. Revival of ancient culture
c. Growth of national consciousness
d. Growing importance of religion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Growth of national consciousness

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Which one of the following factors prompted countries like Britain, France etc, to carve out the colonial empire?

a. Urge to civilize the backward people
b. Urge to propagate christianity
c. To make use of the resources of colonies for mother country
d. To collect foodstuffs which were badly needed by their people
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: To make use of the resources of colonies for mother country

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   The various stages through which the modern state evolved itself were:

a. Tribal state, Greek-city state, Roman Empire, Feudal state and Modern state
b. Greek city-state, Tribal state, Feudal state, Roman state and Modern State
c. Greek city-state, Tribal state, Roman state, Fedudal state and Modern state
d. Tribal state, Greek city-state, Feudal state, Roman state and Modern state
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Tribal state, Greek-city state, Roman Empire, Feudal state and Modern state

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   In modern times the Force theory of the origin of state found a strong advocate in

a. Lenin
b. Winston Churchill
c. Hitler
d. Mahatma Gandhi
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hitler

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   Which one of the following thinkers did not criticise the theory of social contract?

a. Karl Marx
b. Wright
c. Vaughan
d. T.H. Green
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Karl Marx

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   The area test contribution of Hobbes to Political theory was:

a. Natural State Theory
b. Social Contract Theory
c. Monarchical Theory
d. Patriarcal Theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Monarchical Theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   According to Hobbes the primitive people were encouraged to conclude social contract on account of:

a. Anarchy
b. Growth of political consciousness
c. Their desire to preserve private property
d. Their desire to preserve individual liberty
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Anarchy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   The main profounder of the evolutionary theory were:

a. Hobbes and Locke
b. Lenin and Marx
c. Plato and Aristotle
d. Burgess and Leacock
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Burgess and Leacock

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Which one of the followings has not been included by Locke 2in the list of natural rights?

a. Right of life
b. Right to liberty
c. Right to property
d. Right to work
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Right to work

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Who said that man's life in the state of nature was 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'?

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

ANSWER: Hobbes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   "The state is neither the handiwork of God, nor the result of superior physical force, nor the creation of a resulution or convention nor a mere expansion of the family" who said this?

a. Laski
b. Garner
c. Hegel
d. T.H. Green
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Laski

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   The modern state is described as:

a. A police state
b. A welfare state
c. A laissez faire state
d. Autocratic state
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A welfare state

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Which one of the following theories regarding the origin of state was very popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

a. Divine Origin Theory
b. Force Theory
c. Social Contract Theory
d. Historical Theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Social Contract Theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   Which one of the following theories regarded the origin of state evoked maximum controversy?

a. Force Theory
b. Divine Origin Theory
c. Social Contract Theory
d. Evolutionary Theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Social Contract Theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   Who of the followings was a staunch supporter of the 'Divine Origin Theory'?

a. George III of England
b. Napoleon of France
c. James II of England
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: James II of England

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   Which one of the followings enjoys the distinction of being the first to offer a systematic theory of the social contract?

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

ANSWER: Hobbes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   Hobbes put forth theory of Social Contract with a view to:

a. Defend the absolute powers of the monarchy
b. Assert the right of the people to rule themselves
c. Assert the authority of the Parliament
d. Justify the dominance of the aristocratic classes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Defend the absolute powers of the monarchy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   Which one of the following methods was adopted by Hobbes?

a. Comparative Method
b. Historical Method
c. Scientific Method
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Scientific Method

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   "He breathes the bitterest hatred not only of individualism, but even of those elementary rights, which none but the most backward nations now deny to the individual, yet this preposterous system, consciously or unconsciously represents an exremeform of individualism" The quotation given above applies to

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

ANSWER: Hobbes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   "Let the Sovereign but step outside the power derived from the Social Contract, and resistance becomes a natural right" Which one of the followings gives the right understanding to the above statement?

a. The individual is left with no other alternative but to obey the commands of the sovereign
b. Men are free from any superior power on earth, and they act as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature
c. The Government exists for the good of the people, and can be removed if it violates the trust reposed in it
d. The State is composed of equal individuals, some having authority over others and all participate in the General will
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The Government exists for the good of the people, and can be removed if it violates the trust reposed in it

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   According to Locke people left the state of nature for the sake of:

a. An effective government
b. Preservation of their natural rights
c. Creating a state
d. Creating an independent judiciary
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Preservation of their natural rights

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   Which one of the following social Contractualists was born at Geneva?

a. Hobbes
b. Locke
c. Rousseau
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Rousseau

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   Rousseau's contributed to:

a. Glorious revolution in England
b. American War of Independence
c. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
d. The French Revolution
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The French Revolution

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Who said "So long as the General will is Sovereign, it does not matter what form of government it may be

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

ANSWER: Rousseau

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   Rousseau championed the cause of:

a. Elites
b. Representative Democracy
c. Direct Democracy
d. Absolute Monarchy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Direct Democracy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   According to Prof. Jones the most original, the most interesting and historically the most important contribution of Rousseau to Political Theory was theconcept of:

a. Popular sovereignty
b. Direct Democracy
c. General Will
d. Constitutional Monarchy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: General Will

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   The early Oriental Empires were ruled by:

a. Military leaders
b. Elected leaders
c. Priests
d. Hereditary monarchs
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hereditary monarchs

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   The Greek city-states are regarded as the best specimens of:

a. Military rule
b. Direct democracy
c. Representative democracy
d. Absolute rule
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Direct democracy

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   The two most outstanding city-states of ancient Greece were:

a. Athens and Rome
b. Rome and Sparta
c. Athens and Venice
d. Athens and Sparta
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Athens and Sparta

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   The nation state came into existence after:

a. The decline of the Roman Empire
b. The decline of the Feudal state
c. The decline of the Colonial Empires
d. The decline of the imperial states of orient
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The decline of the imperial states of orient

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   The evolutionary theory regarding the origin of states on:

a. Revolutionary principle
b. Evolutionary principle
c. Religious principles
d. Scientific-cum-religious principles
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Evolutionary principle

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   Which one of the following condition was not associated with the state of nature as expounded by Locke?

a. The state of nature was a state of peace, mutual assistance and cooperation
b. There were natural rights of life, liberty and property
c. The prevalence of natural law
d. There was continuous fear and danger of violent death
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: There was continuous fear and danger of violent death

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Who wrote the following terms of the social contract? "I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition that thou give up thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in the like manner".

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

ANSWER: Rousseau

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Which one of the following is wrong as per Rousseau's theory of General will in mind?

a. General Will is always good, just and right
b. General Will is the will of the masses
c. General Will is supreme, inalienable and indivisible
d. Individual's freedom consists in acting in conformity with General Will
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: General Will is the will of the masses

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   The historical theory of the origin of the state asserts that the state is:

a. A creation of God at a point of time in the past
b. A product of compact between individuals in the remote past
c. A result of surrender of the vanquished tribe to the conquering tribe
d. An outcome of gradual and continuous development of human society out of an imperfect beginning towards a more perfect organisation
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: An outcome of gradual and continuous development of human society out of an imperfect beginning towards a more perfect organisation

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   The state is a product of society at a certain stage of development when it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms, which it is powerless to dispel. To which of the following theories of the origin of the state does this statement belong?

a. Social Contract
b. Liberal
c. Historical-Evolutionary
d. Marxists
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Marxists

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   In Ancient city-state citizenship was available to:

a. All adult discrimination
b. All persons except the slaves and foreigners
c. All persons who rendered military service
d. All persons who either paid taxes or rendered military service
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All persons except the slaves and foreigners

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!