political science MCQs – Page 29

Practise multiple-choice questions from political science for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

political science Mcqs
562. Rousseau advocated his theory of Social Contract in the book:
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A. Social Contract

B. Origin of the Species

C. Modern State

D. Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

563. One of the earliest theories about the origin of the state is:
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A. Theory of Divine origin

B. Social contract theory

C. Evolutionary theory

D. Theory of dialectical materialism

564. Whose name is associated with the organic theory of the state?
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A. Herbert Spencer

B. St. Augustine

C. Karl Marx

D. Bernard Shah

E. Plato
565. Which of the following factors has not contributed in the evolution of state, point that:
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A. Social instinct

B. Private property

C. Kinship

D. Desire to live in peace

566. The Social Contract theory holds ______________?
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A. State is the result of slow process of evolution

B. Man is a social animal and cannot live outside the society

C. State was created through a contract concluded in the sixteenth century

D. State was created as a result of contract concluded by the people living in the pre-civil society
567. Locke propounded his theory of Social Contract in the book entitled:
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A. Representative Government

B. Two Treatises on Civil Government

C. Lectures on Jurisprudence

D. Social Contract

569. The General Will is:
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A. Sovereign

B. Ejoys only limited sovereignty

C. Legally sovereign

D. Non-sovereign

570. According to Hobbes in the state of nature man was: __________?
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A. Nasty and brutish

B. Selfless and had fellow feelings

C. Very law abiding

D. Cultured and mannered

571. Who of the following regarded the state as necessary evil?
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A. Individualists

B. Anarchists

C. Marxists

D. All the above

572. The Social Contract Theory of Rousseau is: ____________?
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A. Identical to the theory of Hobbes

B. Identical to the theory of Locke

C. Has no resemblance with the views of either Hobbes or Locke

D. Combines the points of theories of both Hobbes and Locke
573. Rousseaus name is associated with: __________?
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A. Theory of force

B. Matriarchal theory

C. Theory of Divine origin

D. Theory of General Will

E. Patriarchal theory

574. According to Marx the modern bourgeois society is characterized by struggle between:
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A. Patrician and Plebeian

B. Capitalist and socialists

C. Free men and slaves

D. Capitalist and worker
575. In the social contract theory of Hobbes, the masses had:
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A. Natural rights

B. No natural rights

C. Natural rights were partly enjoyed by the people

D. Natural rights already enjoyed by the people were abolished

576. The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles. This expression is to be found in:
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A. German Ideology

B. State and Revolution

C. The Communist Manifesto

D. Anti-Duhring

578. The tribal system of state organisation was: __________?
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A. Properly organised

B. Based on sound footings

C. Rudimentary

D. Well developed

579. Rousseau hailed from __________?
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A. Russia

B. Britain

C. France

D. Germany

580. A Socialist state stands for: _________?
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A. Raising the living standard of the poor and down-trodden

B. Assigning only police functions to state

C. Leaving the individual completely free

D. Provision of maximum opportunities of progress to all members of the community