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Practise focused political parties and pressure group questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

political parties and pressure group Mcqs
61. Political parties are indispensable in: _________?
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A. Dictatorial regime

B. A parliamentary system government

C. Monarchical system of government

D. A presidential system of government

62. A radical political party believes in:
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A. In doing away with the present institutions and replacing them with new ones

B. Bringing changes revolutionary methods

C. Maintaining present institutions with modifications

D. Maintaining old institutions

63. Britain possesses:
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A. Bi-party System

B. No party system

C. Single-Party system

D. Multi-Party system

64. In bi-party system chances are that:
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A. Cabinet might become dictator

B. There may be wider choice of candidates

C. Majority party might feel submissive and adjusting

D. Vested interests will not get promoted

65. In our times a political party means:
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A. People who have different political viewpoints

B. People have common opinion

C. People who have united for achieving political ends

D. People who have joined because they have common opinion
66. Which one of the following functions is performed by political parties?
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A. They assist candidates in contesting elections

B. They manage newspapers

C. They render help to poor people

D. They run hospitals

67. A reactionary political party is one which:
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A. Wants to abolish the present institutions and establish absolutely new institutions in their place

B. Clings to the old institutions

C. Believesin conserving the present institutions as they are

D. Believes in reforming the old institutions and retaining them

68. Which one of the following is not true about pressure group?
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A. Group tries to create bolly in its favour

B. Member of one pressure group cannot become that of the other

C. Its membership is narrower

D. It acts from behind

E. Group does not contest elections

69. Which one of the following is not a feature of pressure group?
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A. It tries to influence from outside

B. Its membership is large

C. Its members can join any number of groups

D. It actively joins political parties
70. In single party system the organ of Government whose importance increases is:
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A. Judiciary

B. Tribunals

C. Legislature

D. Executive

71. In Pakistan we have: ________________?
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A. Single party system

B. Multi-party system

C. Bi-party system

D. No party system

72. Who describes the Pressure groups as the Third House of the Legislature?
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A. G.D.H. Code

B. Finer

C. A.V.Dicey

D. Bryce

73. The main political parties in England are: _________?
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A. Liberal Socialists and Radical Socialists

B. Liberal and Communist

C. Conservative and Labour

D. Democratic and Republic

74. The pressure groups are:
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A. Moral organisations

B. Economic organisation

C. Political organisations

D. Organisations of universal character
75. The means of the two major political parties in Britain are:
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A. Conservatives and Liberals

B. Conservative and Socialists

C. Labour and Liberal

D. Labour and Conservative
76. A political party is a body of men, united for the purpose of promoting, by the purpose of promoting, by their joint endeavours, the public interest upon. Some principles on which they are agreed. Who said this?
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A. Burke

B. Karl Marx

C. Laski

D. MacIver

E. Gettel

77. Which one of the following demerits of political parties has been wrongly indicated?
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A. Political parties encourage political favouritism

B. Political parties break the rigidity of the separation of power

C. Political parties divide the people and disrupt national unity

D. Political parties deny freedom of speech and expression to an individual and he becomes a mere cog in the party machinery

78. Which one of the following features of a political party has been wrongly listed?
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A. Political parties aim at capturing power through any method

B. Members of political parties hold identical views on basic political, economic and other matters

C. Once the political party comes to power it tries to promote national rather than sectarian interests

D. Political party is a voluntary association

79. A liberal party believes in:
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A. Retaining the present institutions

B. Retaining the present institutions by new and radical institutions

C. Making reforms in the existing institutions

D. Conserving the old institutions

80. In which of the following countries two party system first of all originated?
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A. Greece

B. U.S.A

C. U.S.S.R

D. Britain