property Mcqs
51. Which of the following is not true about Liberals about private property?
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A. Individual should be paid compensation for states taking away ones private property

B. The people should have limited right over property

C. The state has no right to regulate it

D. It is reward for labour

E. It gives rise to love for charity and culture

52. The individualists are:
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A. In favour of equitable distribution of private property

B. Staunch supporters of right to property

C. In favour of common ownership of property

D. Strong opponents of the right to property

53. Aristotle described mans instinct to acquire property as: _____________?
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A. An unnatural instinct

B. A base-instinct

C. A natural instinct

D. None of the above

54. John Huss had his views about property. Which one of the following is true about him?
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A. It helped church in the performance of its duties

B. It stood on the way of church in the performance of duties

C. The king had no right to deprive the church of its property

D. Church should not be deprived of its property

E. None of the above

55. The best exposition of Marxian concept of private property is available in:___________?
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A. Das Capital

B. The Origin of Family Private property and the State

C. Communist Manifesto

D. State and Revolution

56. The Marxian thinkers are:
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A. Opposed to all kinds of property

B. Opposed only to personal property

C. Opposed only to private property

D. In favour of both personal as well as private property

58. According to Anarchists private property:_______________?
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A. Should be placed under the control of few wise

B. It is cause of many social evils

C. Has helped the poor at the time of necessity

D. Should be retained under state control

60. Who said that property is the source of power?
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A. Laski

B. Plato

C. Machiavelli

D. Aristotle

62. Which one of the following is true about Kants views about private property?
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A. It was not given by society to its members

B. It should be enough for meeting social needs

C. It was individuals right against each other

D. It was no a right of individual against nature

63. The labour theory of property holds that:
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A. A person who does not put in Physical labour should not be give anything to eat

B. Property should be equitably distributed amongst the lobourers

C. Property was created as result of mixing of labour

D. Property should belong to labours alone

64. The concept of property:
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A. Came into existence in the 5th century AD.

B. Came into existence in the wake of industrial revolution

C. Came into existence in the wake of large scale production

D. Has been known to the people since the earliest times
65. Laski opposed inheritance of private property on the ground?
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A. It gives rise to tension among various claimants

B. It encourages the children to lead life of luxury without working

C. It leads to stagnation of countrys economy

D. On all the above grounds

66. The Liberals are in favour of: ___________?
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A. Confiscation of property with nomical compensation

B. Abolition of all private property

C. Confiscation of all private property

D. Acquisition of property with compensation
67. Which one of the following is not true about private property?
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A. It has checked incentive and initiative

B. It has promoted social disharmony

C. It has divided society in classess

D. It has deprived the poor of their pleasure

E. It has made the rich richer and poor still poorer

68. According to Syndicalists in their society of the future private property:
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A. Will be accepted as a natural right

B. Will be managed by the church

C. Will be retained under trusteeship control

D. Will altogether be abolished
69. The individualists regard the right to property as:____________?
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A. Root of all evils

B. None of the above

C. A fundamental right

D. An absolute right

70. During reformation period the thinkers believed that:_____________?
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A. Property of church should be regulated

B. King should interfere in the affairs of the church

C. Church should be deprived of its property

D. Church should have maximum property

E. None of the above

71. The idea of private property emerged:
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A. After people started leading settled life

B. After the glorious revolution

C. After the industrial revolution

D. After the creation of the state

72. Which of the following statements is not true about Bakunins views about property?
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A. It made millions happy and joyous

B. It is root cause of many evils

C. It provides superfluous luxury to few

D. State could not exist without it

E. It is instrument of exploitation

73. Which of the following is not true about private property?
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A. It promotes corruption in society

B. It helps in floating dishonest enterprises

C. It divides society

D. It creates an idle class

E. It checks social evils and corruptions
74. The view that all property is theift was expressed by:
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A. J.S. Mill

B. Marx

C. Adam Smith

D. Proudhon
75. According to the idealists:
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A. Property is respobsible for the division of society into two groups haves and have nots

B. Property hinders the development of a mans personality

C. All property is theft

D. Property is essential for the development of a mans personality
76. The Legal theory of property believes that:
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A. The legal ownership of all property vests in the head of the state

B. Property is the creation of state

C. A person can be deprived of his property for the good of the community

D. Property is a natural right and law merely recognises it:

77. Which of the following is not true about Kants views about private property?
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A. All property was owned by the sovereign

B. It was natural right of man

C. It was socially accepted right

D. It was essential for every individual

78. Who of the followings was opposed to private property?
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A. Bakunin

B. J.S. Mill

C. Adam Smith

D. Kant

79. Which one of the following is not in keeping with Laskis views on property?
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A. The property is the reward for labour

B. The property owned by most people is not commensurate with the duties performed by them

C. Inherited property is morally justified

D. Property leads to wasteful production under a capitalist system

80. According to the occupational theory of property the property made its appearance only:
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A. With the emergence of various occupations

B. With the dawn of the industrial age

C. With the growth of capitalist economy

D. After man occupied a piece of land for his exclusive use
81. The Individualistic Theory of property is associated with:
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A. Hobbes

B. Adam Smith

C. TH. Green

D. J.S. Mill

84. Which one of the following is not true about Russells views about private property?
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A. It makes man oppressor

B. It devoid man of the values of pleausre

C. It is protected by state

D. It is legal institution

E. It creates misery among people

85. Which one of the following is not true about private property?
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A. It has given incentive to people to work hard

B. It makes the people selfish

C. It has checked division of society into classes

D. It has helped in the development of civilisation

E. It has resulted in exploitation

86. Which one of the followings has been wrongly listed as a merit of private property?
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A. It provides incentive to the developments of z art, seience, literature, etc.

B. It provide if sense of pleasure

C. It provides incentive to worker

D. It leads to division of labour and great production
87. According to the Individualistic theory of property:
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A. The state should ensure equitable distribution of property through law

B. Property should be equally distributed amongst all the individuals

C. Property is a divine eift to man.

D. An individual should be left free to acquire as much property as he can
91. According to Individualists property:
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A. State control over it should be absolute

B. State should distribute all property

C. Acquisition should be left to individual

D. Is a divine institution

E. State should have nothing to do with property

92. Laski was in favour of:____________?
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A. None of the above

B. Happy blinding of right to property

C. Absolute tight to property

D. Abolition of all property

93. The Socialist theory of property is:____________?
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A. In favour of equitable distribution of property

B. In favour of state control over all property

C. In favour of equitable distribution of property

D. In favour of absolute right to property

94. Which one of the following is true about John of Paris views about private property?
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A. King should respect the sentiments of the owners

B. Pope was the owner and not custodian of property

C. Church should possess maximum property

D. King had no right to regulate property

95. According to St. Augustine property was:____________?
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A. Economic institution

B. Conventional institution

C. Political institution

D. Religious institution

E. Natural institution

97. Which of the following is not true about private property?
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A. It checks exploitation

B. It helps in the development of fine arts

C. It develops a sense of confidence in people

D. It develops a sense of respobsibility among owners

E. It helps in political stability

99. Who of the following believed that private property in the society came as a serpent?
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A. Melanchthan

B. Wycliff

C. John Huss

D. Machiavelli

E. Rousseau