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1. Who said that, ’property is a
theft’?
(A) Plato (B) Grotius
(C) Laski (D) Prodhoun
Answer.D

2. Supporters of Pluralism believe
that sovereignty should be divided because-
(A) lt is a result of a contract
(B) It is a result of force
(C) It is a divine creation
(D) It is not helpful for world
peace
Answer.D

3. Which of the following natural
rights were available to individuals in the state of nature
according to Locke
(A) Life, liberty and equality
(B) Life, equality and property
(C) Life, liberty and property
(D) Life, liberty and fraternity
Answer.C

4. Given below are two statements,
one labelled as Assertion (A) and
the other labelled as Reason

Assertion (A) : Positive law of
any State is a general command
to do certain act.
Reason (R) : Sovereign is independent.
ln the context of the above two
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R) is the correct explanation
of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true,
but (R) is not the correct
explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true

Answer.B

5. Who supposed the concept of
revolution from above
(A) Lenin (B) Stalin
(C) Mao (D) Grarnsci

Answer.A

6. Who among the following is not
a supporter of Elitist form of
democracy
(A) Schumpeter
(B) Sartori
(C) Dahl
(D) Rawls

Answer.D

7. Which one of the following statements is correct
(A) Revolutionary socialism is
liberalism
(B) Revolutionary socialism is
fabianism
(C) Revolutionary socialism is
syndicalism
(D) Revolutionary socialism is
communism

Answer.D

8. Political representation is ensured
by—
(A) Political parties, judiciary
and Constitution
(B) Legislature, Political Parties
and judiciary
(C) Political Parties, Legislature
and Constitution
(D) Legislature, Judiciary and
Executive

Answer.C

9. Who among the following championed the cause of direct demo—
cracy
(A) Adam Smith
(B) Marx
(C) Hegel
(D) Rousseau

Answer.D

10. What is wrong about the
demerits of political parties
(A) They encourage political
favouritisrn
(B) They deny freedom of
speech
(C) They break the rigidity of
the separation of powers
(D) They divide the people

Answer.B

ll. Which one of the following is a
correct feature of the nature of
State as per Marxist view point

(A) Reconciliation of conflict
(B) Suppression of conflict
(C) Common interest
(D) Public power

Answer.B

12. Who among the following
denounces State as an instrument
of violence and exploitation ?
(A) Sorel
(B) Kropotkin
(C) Oppenhiemer
(D) GDH. Cole

Answer.B

13. According to Rousseau passage
from the state of nature to the
civil society produces a remark-
able change. It is—
(A) Substituting instinct for
justice
(B) Substituting physical
impulse to duty
(C) Substituting civil liberty for
unlimited rights
(D) Substituting justice for
instincts

Answer.D

14. Which one of the following is not
a conclusion drawn from Austin”s
Monistic Theory of Sovereignty ?
(A) Positive law of State is a
general command to do certain
act
(B) Sovereignty cannot 4 be
legally divided between two or
more persons _
(C) Community is orderly
(D) Community is not independent

Answer.D

15. According to G.D.H. Cole which
one of the following marked the
degraded status of labour ?
(A) Wage system restricts
abstraction of labour
(B) Wages must be paid even in
the event in the loss to employer
(C) Worker surrenders all control over the organisation of
production
(D) Payment during sickness

Answer.C

16. For Governors, guidelines should
be determined. This has been
recommended by— `
(A) Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
(B) Gorawala Report
(C) Ashok Mehta Committee
(D) Administrative Reform
Commission

Answer.D

17. Which one of the following is a
feature of Presidential Government?
(A) Single Judicial System
(B) Federal System of Government
(C) Separation of Power
(D) Division of Powers

Answer.C

18. The view that the form of
Governments changes according
to a set cycle was expressed by—
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) Montesquieu
(D) Herman Finer

Answer.A

19. Who has made the statement that
”Planning Commission has can-
celled Federalism” ?
(A) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
(B) Ashok Chanda
(C) lawaharlal Nehru
(D) K. S. Hegde

Answer.B

20. Who has defined that “Parliamentary System provides a daily
as well as periodic assessment of
the Government” ?
(A) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
(B) Bagehot
(C) M. Ci Chagla
(D) Bryce

Answer.A

21. Who regards equality as a
’Tadpole Philosophy’ ?
(A) Robert Owen
(B) Ebenstieri ‘
(C) R. H. Tawney
(D) Sydney Webb

Answer.C

22. Which brand of socialists believe
that elite groups such as politicians of all parties, civil servants,
scientists, and academics could
be converted to socialism through
education ?
(A) Syndicalists
(B) Social Democrats
(C) Revolutionary Socialists
(D) Fabian Socialists

Answer.D

23. Which one of the following is a
chief agent of historical change
according to Marx ?
(A) Individuals
(B) Masses
(C) Classes
(D) Parties

Answer.C

24. Who among the following tend
to view nation as an artificial
division of human kind
(A) Anarchists
(B) Fascists
(C) Liberals
(D) Socialists

Answer.A

25. ]ohn Locke is regarded as pro-
pounder of Natural Right Theory.
Who else considers natural right
as inalienable
(A) ]ohn Rawls
(B) R. H. Tawney
(C) Thomas jefferson
(D) Frederick Hayek

Answer.C

26. Who argues that economic inter—
vention is the single most serious
threat to individual liberty
(A) Frederick Hayek
(B) Ferdinand Lasselle
(C) I. K. Galbraith
(D) Milton Friedman

Answer.A

27. lf the House is prorogued who is
empowered to summon it ?
(A) Speaker
(B) President
(C) Prime Minister
(D) Vice—l’resident

Answer.B

28, How many subjects are kept
under the jurisdiction of Panchayats in the Eleven Schedule of
the Constitution `
(A) 27 (B) 28
(C) 29 (D) 30

Answer.C

29. Which one of the following
Committees recommended the
inclusion of Fundamental Duties
in the Indian Constitution
(A) Barua Committee
(B) Ramaswamy Committee
(C) Sikri Committee
(D) Swarn Singh Committee

Answer.D

30. A bill is sent to the Select Committee after—
(A) introduction
(B) First reading

(C) Second reading
(D) Third reading

Answer.C

31. Which one of the following is not
the main provision of the Morley
Minto Reforms Act 1909 ?
(A) Increase in the size of the
Legislative Council
(B) Official majority in the
Central Legislative Council
(C) Communal and separate
electorate system
(D) No elected members were
given place in the Central
Legislative Council

Answer.B

32. Wliich one of the following is not
concerned with the doctrine of a
Constitution ?
(A) Structure of the Political
System
(B) Rule of Law
(C) lnert Document
(D). To define and delimit the
powers

Answer.C

33. Which one of the following is not
related to the Constitutional
Government ?
(A) Coalition Government
(B) Presidential Government
(C) Hierarchy Government
(D) Federal Government

Answer.C

34. ln a Presidential Government-
(A) President is responsible to
the Legislature
(B) Cabinet is collectively res-
ponsible to the Lower House of
the Legislature
(C) Cabinet is responsible to
both Houses of Legislature
(D) President is responsible to
the people

Answer.D

354 Assertion (A): Parliament is
pivot of Indian Political System.
Reason (R) : Indian Constitution
gives absolute power to Parliament.
Given above are two statements,
one labelled as Assertion (A) and
the other labelled as Reason (R),
In the context of the above two
statements, which one of the
following is correct?
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and
(R) is the correct explanation
of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true,
but (R) is not the correct
explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false and (R) is true

Answer.C

36. judicial Review signifies that the
Supreme Court
(A) Has final authority in over-
all cases
(B) Can declare a State law as
unconstitutional
(C) Can review cases whose
decisions has been given by High
Court
(D) None of the above

Answer.B

37. The Responsive Cooperation list party led by Jaykar Kelkar
and Moonje was a faction of—
(A) Congress Party
(B) Swaraj Party
(C) Congress Socialist Party
(D) None of these

Answer.B

38. The Vice—President of India is
elected by the members of an _
electoral college consisting off
(A) Elected members of both
Houses of Parliament
(B) All members of the Council
of States
(C) Elected members of the
Council of States
(D) All members of both Houses
of Parliament
Answer. D


Q. 1. The Marxist principle accepted by the Fabian Socialists is:

(a) The dictatorship of the proletariat

(b) The principle of class struggle

(c) The establishment of classless society

(d) The establishment of state ownership of the means of production and distribution

Ans. (d)

Q. 2. “An uncriticised individualism is always in danger of transformation into an uncritical collectivism.” Who among the following thinkers held this view?

(a) Herbert Spencer

(b) J.S. Mill

(c) Bernard Bosanquet

(d) F.H. Bradley

Ans. (b)

Q. 3. Which one of the following has been described as the intellectual child of English Fabianism and French Syndicalism?

(a) Collectivism

(b) Liberalism

(c) Guild Socialism

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

Q. 4. Which one of the following types of representations is accepted by Guild Socialism as necessary?

(a) Territorial representation

(b) Functional representation

(c) Proportional representation

(d) Communal representation

Ans. (b)

Q. 5. Fascism is opposed to all of the following except:

(a) Democracy

(b) Pacifism

(c) Individual liberty

(d) Nationalism

Ans. (d)

Q. 6. Totalitarian state is the one which:

(a) Commands unquestioning obedience to the authority of the ruler

(b) Guarantees conditions in which the individual can realize his true self

(c) Claims to regulate every sphere of individual’s life and activities

(d) Possesses a will of its own to promote a good life

Ans: (c)

Q. 7. Mussolini’s concept of ‘Corporate State’ was designed to eliminate all conflicts between:

(a) Capital and Labour

(b) Capital and Government

(c) Labour Government

(d) People and Government

Ans. (a)

Q. 8. The distinguishing mark of totalitarianism is:

(a) Absolute power of the state

(b) Absence of representative institutions

(c) Lack of institutional checks and balances

(d) Autonomous power of state

Ans. (a)

Q. 9. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

1. Racism : Fascism

2. Communes : Utopian Socialism

3. Economic Parliament : Fabianism

(a) 1, 2 and 3

(b) 1 and 2

(c) 2 and 3

(d) 1 and 3

Ans. (a)

Q. 10. “The highest purpose of the Folkish state is the case for the preservation of those social primal elements which, supplying culture, create the beauty and dignity of a higher humanity.” To which one of the following theories does this statement pertain?

(a) Fascism

(b) National Socialism

(c) Fundamentalism

(d) Apartheid

Ans. (a)

Q. 11. According to Marxian Socialism, in the socialism stage, the state:

(a) is totally superfluous

(b) is necessary

(c) does not represent the ideology of any class

(d) is abolished

Ans. (b)

Q. 12. Who among the following propounded the doctrine of ‘socialism in one country’?

(a) Lenin

(b) Trotsky

(c) Kautsky

(d) Stalin

Ans. (d)

Q. 13. Who among the following attacked majoritarianism of the utilitarian?

(a) T.H. Green

(b) Bernard Bosanquet

(c) J.S. Mill

(d) John Rawls

Ans. (c)

Q. 14. Which one of the following ideologies regards general strike as a myth?

(a) Socialism

(b) Syndicalism

(c) Fabianism

(d) Guild Socialism

Ans. (b)

Q. 15. Which one of the following statements is attributed to ‘Utopian Socialism”?

(a) Class struggle is inevitable

(b) The “Laissez-faire” is the best economic policy

(c) Capitalist system needs to be overthrown by revolution

(d) Society needs to be organized in the interest of all

Ans. (d)

Q. 16. “A planned social order is necessarily, inimical to individual freedom.” This view is held by:

(a) Harold Laski

(b) Fredric Hyek

(c) Lord Keynes

(d) Sidney. Webb

Ans. (a)

Q. 17. Who among the following based this liberalism on the primacy of rights?

(a) J.S. Mill

(b) Jeremy Bentham

(c) T.H. Green

(d) Ronald Dworkin

Ans. (c)

Q. 18. What distinguishes modern liberalism from the classical one is:

(a) the co1cept of socialist planning

(b) egalitarianism

(c) libertarianism

(d) corporatism

Ans. (b)

Q. 19. The Utilitarian foundation of liberalism has been criticized from the view point of Kantian ethics by:

(a) John Rawls

(b) Harold Laski

(c) Isaiah Berlin

(d) H.L.A. Hart

Ans. (a)

Q. 20. “Property appropriated by the revolution should be immediately distributed among the workers’ groups and every precaution should be taken to prevent the formation of anything resembling a government.”

Which one of the following theory upholds this view?

(a) Anarchism

(b) Marxism

(c) Socialism

(d) Fabianism

Ans. (b)

Q. 21. Match List -I (Functions of the State) with List -II (The school of thought which believes in such functions of the State) and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

List-I List-II

A. Regulation and co-ordination of the activities 1. Idealism

of associations of society

B. To maintain order and to enforce contracts 2.Utiiitarianism

C. To remove obstacles that comes in the way of 3. Pluralism

moral life of the individual

D. To promote greatest good of the greatest 4. Individualism

numbers.

Codes:

A B C D

(a) 4 3 1 2

(b) 3 4 2 1

(c) 3 4 1 2

(d) 4 3 2 1

Ans. (c)

Q. 22. “A division is made between the economic order and the political; the political is relegated to a lower place, in which it is a reflection of and a derivation from the economic, and within both orders a plural system of federalism is enthroned.”

This view refers to:

(a) Democratic socialism

(b) Guild socialism

(c) Syndicalism

(d) Marxism

Ans. (b)

Q. 23. Match List- I with List -II and select the correct answer:

List- I List -II

(Theory of function of state) (Thinkers)

A. Marxian View 1. Herbert Spencer

B. Liberal View 2. Rosa Luxemberg

C. Fascist View 3. G. B. Shaw

D. Fabian View 4. Giovanni Gentile

Codes:

A B C D

(a) 1 2 4 3

(b) 2 1 3 4

(c) 1 2 3 4

(d) 2 1 4 3

Ans. (d)

Q. 24. In the Marxian Political discourse, ideology signifies:

(a) the universal principles of justice

(b) any system of ideas, beliefs, values and aspirations that inform a social system

(c) political ideals of the proletariat

(d) false consciousness

Ans. (d)

Q. 25. Which one of the following statements about present day liberalism is not correct?

(a) It is based on the principle of ‘possessive individualism’

(b) It accepts the idea of positive liberty

(c) It believes in the principles of welfare state

(d) It advocates the idea of distributive justice

Ans. (a)

Q. 26. Which one of the following statements is correct? Welfare state envisages

(a) a filly egalitarian society

(b) state ownership of the means of production

(c) abolition of private property

(d) a system which combines right to personal property with state intervention for social security and providing help to the needy and indigent

Ans. (d)

Q. 27. There are now four doctrines of liberalism.

The correct order in which they appeared is:

(a) Mercantilism, Free Trade, Social Darwinism, Interventionism

(b) Mercantilism, Free Trade, Social Darwinism, Interventionism

(c) Free Trade, Mercantilism, Interventionism, Social Darwinism

(d) Free Trade, Mercantilism, Social Darwinism Interventionism

Ans. (a)

Q. 28. Which one of the following statements provides the best representation of Hayek’s opposition to planning?

(a) A market gives just deserts and hence, is morally more acceptable than planning

(b) A market does not distribute according to any moral criterion and hence maintains a free society

(c) Planning is liable to be faulty

(d) Distribution through market is more efficient than distribution through planning

Ans. (d)

Q. 29. Early socialists who confused capitalism with industrialism and wanted to retain only agricultural labour included:

(a) Fourier and Cabet

(b) Fourier and Proudhon

(c) Proudhon, Fourier and Cabet

(d) Jefferson, Proudhon and Cabet

Ans. (d)

Q. 30. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(a) Nazism Italy

(b) Guild : France Socialism

(c) Fascism : Germany

(d) Fabianism: Britain

Ans. (d)

Q. 31. In the process of modifications of Marxism’ after Marx, ‘Socialism in one country’ Vs. “Permanent Revolution” was the crux of the controversy between:

(a) Bakunin and Engels

(b) Engels and Lenin

(c) Lenin and Stalin

(d) Stalin and Trotsky

Ans. (d)

Q. 32. Who among the following pairs of thinkers are regarded as the founders of Scientific Socialism?

(a) Charles Fourier and Saint

(b) Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb

(c) Marx and Engles

(d) R. H. Tawney and William Ebenstein

Ans. (c)

Q. 33. Consider the following political theorists:

1. Bernstein

2. Tawney

3. Starchey

4. Crossland

Amount them, those who defended democratic socialism as their ideology and saw themselves as revising Marxism included:

(a) 1, 2 and 3

(b) 2, 3 and 4

(c) 1 and 4

(d) 2 and 3

Ans. (a)

Q. 34. Fascism views the states as

(a) a necessary evil

(b) a product and manifestation of the irreconcilability of classes antagonism

(c) an absolute power over the individuals

(d) a union of families and villages, having for its end, perfect and self sufficing life

Ans. (a)

Q. 35. “War is to man what maternity is to women”, according to:

(a) Mussolini

(b) Napoleon

(c) Matternick

(d) Bismarck

Ans. (a)

Q. 36. The myth of racial superiority is an outstanding feature of:

(a) Dictatorship

(b) Fascism

(c) Nazism

(d) Totalitarianism

Ans. (c)

Q. 37. Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above The state. This tenet has been propounded by:

(a) socialism

(b) communism

(c) liberalism

(d) totalitarianism

Ans. (d)

Q. 38. In the statements, “In its attitude towards the State ‘X’ is a halfway house between Syndicalism and Collectivism, ‘X’ stands for:

(a) democratic socialism

(b) fabian socialism

(c) guild socialism

(d) liberalism

Ans. (c)

Q. 39. Match list -I (Name) with List- II (Political Philosophy) and select the correct answer:

List I List-II

A. Herbert Spencer 1. Guild Socialism

B. H. J. Laski 2. Individualism

C. G. D. H. Cole 3. Anarchism

D. T. H. Green 4. Pluralism

5. Idealism

Codes:

A B C D

(a) 2 1 5 4

(b) 2 4 1 5

(c) 3 2 4 1

(d) 1 2 3 5

Ans. (b)

Q. 40. Which one of the following does not pertain to Marxism?

(a) Surplus Value

(b) Materialist Interpretation of History

(c) Laissez faire

(d) Class struggle

Ans. (c)

Q. 41. Consider the following pairs:

1. Louis Althusser : For Marx

2. J.V. Stalin : Foundation of Leninism

3. Mao Zedon : People’s Democratic Dictatorship

Which of these pairs are correctly matched?

(a) 1 and 2

(b) 1, 2 and 3

(c) 2 and 3

(d) 1 and 3

Ans. (b)

Q. 42. The Marxist theory maintains that in the highest phase of development, the society will adopt the principle of:

(a) from each according to his ability, to each according to his need

(b) form each according to his ability, to each according to his work.

(c) he who does not work, neither shall be eat

(d) that government is the best, which governs the least

Ans. (a)

Q. 43. According to the Marxian theory of the Materialist Interpretation of History the most fundamental factor in the evolution of the state and society is:

(a) force of production

(b) relations of product ion

(c) science and technology

(d) class antagonism

Ans. (b)

Q. 44. Rawlsian liberalism is based on:

(a) the utilitarian theory of good

(b) kantian constructivism in moral theory

(c) a comprehensive moral theory

(d) a substantive metaphysical theory

Ans. (b)

Q. 45. According to the classical liberals:

(a) democracy and. liberty are complementary to each other

(b) democracy is a threat to liberty

(c) liberty is the end of democracy

(d) liberty is the right of self-realization

Ans. (d)

Q. 46. Terms such “as ‘Purna Swaraj’, ‘Ramarajya’ Sarvodaya and ‘Panchayati Raj’

Were used by M.K. Gandhi to indicate:

(a) citizenship

(b) a blissful state in the past

(c) political obligation

(d) an ideal political order

Ans. (d)

Q. 47. The nature of the French revolution was:

(a) bourgeoisie

(b) proletarian

(c) socialist

(d) new democratic

Ans. (a)

Q. 48. “The personal is political”, is a central slogan of the

(a) neoliberals

(b) fascists

(c) socialists

(d) feminists

Ans. (d)

Q. 49. Which one of the following is not a tenet of Liberalism?

(a) Limited Government

(b) Social classes as basic social units

(c) Upholding rights

(d) Separation of powers

Ans. (b)

Q. 50. The belief that unregulated marked capitalism will result in efficiency, growth and widespread prosperity is associated with:

(a) neoliberalism

(b) neo-conservatism

(c) neomarxism

(d) market socialism

Ans. (a)