Deck 6: Indian Constitution and Judicial System

Question 1

The term 'polis' derived from Greek word, which means

A)Policy
B)State
C)City
D)City-state

Answer 1

City-state

Question 2

Who is regarded as the 'father' of political science

A)Aristotle
B)Plato
C)Euclid
D)None of the above

Answer 2

Aristotle

Question 3

The author of the book 'The Republic' is

A)Aristotle
B)Plato
C)Herodotus
D)Cicero

Answer 3

Plato

Question 4

Who among them was the teacher of Plato

A)Homer
B)Socrates
C)Aristotle
D)Herodotus

Question 5

'Man is by nature political animal' was quoted by

A)Plato
B)Socrates
C)Euclid
D)Aristotle

Question 6

The word 'theory' originated from Greek word

A)Theorem
B)Thor
C)Theoria
D)Thesis

Question 7

The word 'theoria' means

A)specific
B)fantasy
C)speculation
D)spy

Question 8

Which book had been written by Aristotle

A)The Republic
B)Political Theory
C)The Prince
D)Politics

Question 9

The significance of political theory provides

A)systematic thinking about the nature and purpose of state and government
B)study of ecology
C)study of the history of government only
D)none of the above

Question 10

Political theory is a branch of

A)Political philosophy
B)Political Science
C)Political Sociology
D)Public Policy

Question 11

Who among them claimed to coin the term 'Political Science' in 16^th Century

A)Bodin
B)Machiavelli
C)Aristotle
D)Milton

Question 12

Which is not the approach to study of political theory

A)Traditional approach
B)Sociological approach
C)Philosophical approach
D)None of the above

Question 13

Which of the following approach is part of traditional approaches to political theory?

A)Class
B)Philosophical
C)Scientific
D)Liberal

Question 14

Traditional approaches give the most important to the study of

A)Individual
B)Community
C)Family
D)State

Question 15

Traditional approach to political theory has been criticized on which ground?

A)Philosophical
B)Historical
C)Unscientific
D)None of the above

Question 16

Classical political theory is primarily concerned with a search for

A)a perfect individual liberty
B)the good life
C)a perfect political order
D)perfect theory

Question 17

Behavioural approaches to political theory do not gives importance to

A)Voters
B)Politicians
C)Philosophy
D)Election

Question 18

Behaviouralism analysed on the observable behaviours of

A)Social action
B)Political actors
C)Policies
D)Theory

Question 19

'Behavioural approach was a protest movement in political science' is quoted by

A)Robert H. Dalh
B)David Easton
C)Charles Merriam
D)None of the above

Question 20

Behaviouralism approach dominated the study of politics after

A)World War I
B)World War II
C)Cold War
D)Prussian War

Question 21

According to Easton, which of the following is the major tenets of behavioural credo?

A)Widened the study of political philosophy
B)Integration of political research with other social science
C)Deepen the legal approach through legislature
D)Widened the historical approach

Question 22

Behavioural approach has been criticised due to

A)The dependent on political thought
B)Historical analysis
C)Against scientific study
D)Mad craze for scientism

Question 23

Post Behaviouralism appeared as new approach in the late

A)1950s
B)1980s
C)1960s
D)1990s

Question 24

Post-behaviouralism is both a movement and

A)Intellectual tendency
B)Historical analysis
C)Sociological explanation
D)Economic revolution

Question 25

Post-behaviouralism is associated with

A)Galston
B)David Easton
C)Karl Popper
D)David Held

Question 26

The features of post-behaviouralism is based on

A)Facts and value
B)Normative and philosophical
C)Empirical and quantitative only
D)None of the above

Question 27

Post-behaviouralism is also regarded as

A)Anti-behaviouralism
B)Neo-behaviouralism
C)Neo liberalism
D)Neo-science

Question 28

With whom Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto?

A)Hegel
B)Thomas Moore
C)Hegel.
D)Friedrich Engels

Question 29

Marxist approaches to political theory emphasize against

A)Feudalism
B)Capitalism
C)Democracy
D)Classical theory

Question 30

'State' in Marxist approaches belong to

A)super structure
B)base
C)middle structure
D)lower structure

Question 31

Aristotle considered 'Politics' as

A)master science
B)non scientific
C)empirical inquiry
D)none of the above

Question 32

Who said, "Political Science begins and ends with the state".

A)David Held
B)Earnest Barker
C)James W. Garner
D)Hobhouse

Question 33

Who wrote, A Grammar of Politics

A)Karl Marx
B)Harold J. Laski
C)George H. Sabine
D)Wolin

Question 34

Who define politics as 'authoritative allocation of values'?

A)Garner
B)Karl Marx
C)MacIntyre
D)David Easton

Question 35

Who said, "Political Science investigates the phenomena of government."

A)Robert Dalh
B)Keynes
C)John Seeley
D)Aristotle

Question 36

One of the basic scope of political theory is to analyse

A)the nature and purpose of the State
B)natural science for human progression
C)the industrial revolution for economic development
D)the state economy to help the industrial sector

Question 37

Who said "capitalism is the highest form of imperialism"?

A)Engels
B)Kothari
C)Stalin
D)Lenin

Question 38

Who made the statement that, "Political theory was political science in the full sense, and there could be no science without theory"?

A)Wolin
B)Germino
C)Hume
D)Ferguson

Question 39

The ultimate goal of Marxist approaches advocate for

A)classless and stateless society
B)industrial and progressive society
C)aristocrat and capitalist society
D)none of the above

Question 40

Theories of origin of State is associated with

A)Environmentalism
B)Ecologist
C)Behaviouralism
D)Social contract

Question 41

Which of the following is not associated with Social Contract theory?

A)Bentham
B)Hobbes
C)John Locke
D)None of the above

Question 42

Social Contract theory was against

A)state of nature
B)veil of ignorance
C)divine right
D)civil society

Question 43

The life of man in Hobbes' 'state of nature' was

A)bright
B)peaceful
C)industrious
D)poor

Question 44

Who wrote the book The Social Contract?

A)John Locke
B)JS Mills
C)Grotius
D)Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 45

Who among the social contract theorist advocate for 'absolute sovereignty'

A)Bentham
B)Thomas Hobbes
C)Jean Jacques Rousseau
D)Pufendorf

Question 46

Who advocate the theory of natural rights?

A)John Locke
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Plato
D)Engels

Question 47

For Marx, state is an 'instrument' of exploitation of the workers by the

A)Capitalist class
B)Working class
C)Aristocrat
D)Zamindari

Question 48

Hobbes' social contract theory was written in a book called

A)Social Contract
B)Leviathan
C)Political Theory
D)Two Treatises

Question 49

Rousseau said the following sentence

A)"man is born free and he is everywhere in chains"
B)"man is a social animal"
C)"state is divine"
D)None of the above

Question 50

Marxist conceptualized 'State' as

A)natural
B)perpetual
C)artificial
D)divine