100 MCQ on Political Science with answer
100 MCQ on Political Science with answer
100 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) on Political Science with answers, covering a wide range of topics such as government, political theory, international relations, and public policy. This is a great resource for students preparing for exams, or anyone who wants to learn more about political science.
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1. Who among the following strongly said that
“Man is a Political Animal”?
A.
Socrates
B. Plato
C.
Aristotle
D. None of the Above.
Answer C
2. Traditional approach gives stress on:
A. Values.
B. Facts.
C. Objectivity.
D. Precision.
Answer A
3. ‘Credo of Relevance’ Signaled
A. Modernism.
B. Behaviouralism.
C. Post-Behaviouralism.
D. Rationalism.
Answer B
4. ‘The Intellectual God Father’ of
Behaviouralism is
A. Charles. E. Merriam
B. David Easton.
C. Laswell.
D. None of the above.
Answer A
5. Hobbes's Theory of Social Contract is
explained in his book.
A. Republic.
B. Prince.
C. Social Contract.
D. Leviathan.
Answer D
6. ‘Two Treatises of Government’ Was Written
By
A. John Locke.
B. J.J Rousseau.
C. Thomas Hobbes.
D.
Spencer.
Answer A
7. Which one of the following is not relevant
to the Traditional Approach.
A. Philosophical
B. Historical.
C. Institutional
D. Behavioral.
Answer D
8. Integration of Political Science with
other Social Sciences Is a basic principle of
A. Traditionalism.
B. Behaviouralism.
C. Liberalism.
D. Post – Behaviouralism.
Answer B
9. The success of democracy depends upon
A. Periodic Elections.
B. Voting.
C. Campaigning in The Elections.
D. All the above
Answer D
10. Which of the following is a permanent feature
of a representative form of government?
A. Voting.
B. Decision Making.
C. Military Force.
D. None of The Above.
Answer A
11. “A right is a claim recognized by society
and enforced by the state” who said this?
A. Laski
B. Bosanquet
C. Rousseau
D. Green
Answer B
12 Who described democracy as “a form of
government in which everyone has a share”?
A. John Seeley
B. J.S Mill
C. Bryce
D. None of The Above
Answer A
13. Who said “Rights are those conditions of
social life without which no man can be his best self”
A. Hobhouse
B. Bosanquet
C. Laski
D. Hegel
Answer C
14. Who wrote the book ‘A Grammar of
politics’
A. Laski
B. Hegal
C. J.S Mill
D T.H Green
Answer A
15. The concept of Greek, ‘Justice’ was
A. Legal
B. Moral
C. Social
D. Political
Answer B
16. The origin of democracy can be traced
back to
A.
Ancient Greek City States
B. Medieval Period
C. Modern Era
D. Feudalism
Answer A
17. Who among the following said, “Liberty is
the opposite of over government”?
A. Seeley
B. Prof. Ramsay Muir
C. Laski
D. J.S Mill
Answer A
18. What is meant by Social Justice.
A. All should have the same Political Rights.
B. All should have the same Economic rights.
C. All kinds of discrimination and privileges
based on caste, color, creed, and sex should be
eliminated.
D. All should have the right to freedom of
religion.
Answer C
19. A democratic society is one in which
A. Government is popularly elected.
B. Liberty is given the highest value.
C. The spirit of equality and fraternity
prevails.
D. All the above.
Answer D
20. Who wrote the book ‘Politics’
A. Socrates
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Rousseau
Answer C
21. Behavioral approach in political science
is “an attempt to make the empirical content of political science more
scientific” who said this?
A. Charles. E. Merriam
B. David Easton
C. Powell
D. Robert A Dahl
Answer A
22. Eight principles of the Behavioral Approach
of political science is generally known as:
A. Regularities
B. Pure Science
C. Verifications
D. Intellectual Foundations
Answer D
23. Who wrote the book ‘On liberty’?
A. Henry Maine
B. J.S Mill
C. T.H Green
D. Laski
Answer B
24. ‘A theory of justice ‘is the work of
A. J.S Mill
B. Bodin
C. John Rawls
D. Montesquieu
Answer C
25. The term ‘Globalization’ was coined by
A. Kaplan
B. Theodore Levitt
C. Burton
D. Spiro
Answer B
26. Democracy is the rule of
A. Voters
B. People
C. Members of parliament
D. Political Parties.
Answer B
27. Who defined democracy as “Government of
the people, by the people, for the people”?
A. Woodrow Wilson
B. Lord Bryce
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Laski
Answer C
28. Lord Bryce has written, “That form of
government in which the ruling power of a state is legally vested, not in any
particular class, but in the members of the community as a whole”. Which form
of government he is referring to?
A. Democracy
B. Parliamentary Government
C. Federal Government
D. Unitary Government
Answer A
29. The two words ‘demos’ and ‘Kratos’ from
which democracy draws its origin belong to
A. Latin Language.
B. Greek Language.
C. French Language.
D. Spanish Language.
Answer B
30. The two forms of democracy are
A. Parliamentary and presidential.
B. Direct and indirect.
C. Monarchical and Republican.
D. None of the above.
Answer B
31. Which one of the following theories of
democracy accords high priority to the political rights of citizens?
A. Pluralist theory of democracy.
B. Elitist of democracy.
C. Marxist theory of democracy.
D. Liberal theory of democracy.
Answer D
32. Which theory of democracy attaches great
importance to the economic rights of man?
A. Marxist theory
B. Elite Theory
C. Pluralist Theory
D. All the above
Answer A
33. The term ‘liberty’ has been drawn from
the Latin term
A. Libel
B. Lingua
C. Labor
D. Liber
Answer D
34. One of the major factors that have stimulated
the globalization process is
A. Effective utilization of resources.
B. Increase in income and wealth.
C. Willingness to cooperate.
D. Rapid Improvement in technology.
Answer D
35. Removing barriers or restrictions said by the government is called
A. Liberalization
B. Investment
C. Favorable trade
D. Free trade
Answer A
36. Globalization by connecting countries
leads to
A. Lesser competition among producers.
B. Greater competition among producers.
C. No competition between producers.
D. None of these.
Answer B
37. ‘Euro centrism’ as the term for an
ideology was coined by whom?
A. Karl Marx
B. Green
C. Samir Amin
D. Rousseau
Answer C
38. During the enlightenment of the 18th
century:
A. Scholars emphasized the supernatural.
B. Scholars denied the possibility of a
scientific study of humans.
C. Several scholars believed human social
life could be studied scientifically.
D. None of these.
Answer C
39. Economics deals with
A. Production of goods and services.
B. Consumption of goods and services.
C. Distribution of goods and services.
D. All the above.
Answer D
40. The social science that deals with human
use of the natural environment is:
A. Genetics
B. Geography
C. Political science
D. Sociology
Answer B
41. Political science stresses the study of:
A. Government
B. State
C. Power
D. All the above
Answer D
42. Psychology deals with
A. Only violent behavior.
B. Only normal behavior.
C. Mental states of individual humans.
D. Groups of people in interaction
Answer C
43. The study of human group behavior is the
definition of
A. Psychology
B. Sociology
C. Geology
D. None of the above
Answer B
44. The social sciences lack
A. Theories
B. Concepts
C. Scientific laws
D. Generalizations
Answer C
45. Ethical neutrality is the opposite of
A. Objectivity
B. Generalization
C. Judgmental Social science
D. Participant observation
Answer C
46. Anthropology is restricted to the study
of:
A. Primitive people only.
B. Pre-historic people only.
C. Modern people only.
D. None of these.
Answer D
47. Objectivity means
A. Precision
B. Taking nothing for granted
C. Eliminating bias
D. Repeating observations
Answer C
48. The study and analysis of preliterate
societies is one of the chief concerns of
A. Sociology
B. Psychology
C. Anthropology
D. History
Answer C
49. The social sciences were initially
concerned with the consequences of
A. American Revolution
B. The French Revolution
C. The Russian Revolution
D. The Industrial Revolution
Answer D
50. The study of traits that appear in specific
populations as an adaptation to a specific environment is called
A. Physical Anthropology
B. Cultural Anthropology
C. Demography
D. Psychology
Answer A
51. Furnishing historical data about the past
with no written records Is the task of
A. Archeology
B. Cultural geography
C. History
D. Anthropology
Answer A
52. The most experimental of social sciences
is
A. Sociology
B. Psychology
C. Archeology
D. Economics
Answer B
53. The discipline that studies such
disparate subjects as the environment religion, politics, criminality,
organization and so on is
A. History
B. Sociology
C. Political science
D. Psychology
Answer B
54. Which of the following does not fall
within the preview of the political liberty
A. Right to vote.
B. Right to contest elections.
C. Right to criticize the government.
D. Right to move the court for the
enforcement of rights.
Answer D
55. Political liberty ensures
A. Protection against oppressive rule
B. Economic equality
C. Basic Amenities of life
D. None of the above
Answer A
56. Who said “Political liberty without
economic equality is a myth”
A. T.H. green
B. J.S Mill
C. G.D.H Cole
D. H.J. Laski
Answer C
57. Liberty and equality are
A. Complementary to each other
B. Contradictory to each other
C. Unrelated to each other
D. None of the above
Answer A
58. Which of the following best describes
eurocentrism?
A. Eurocentrism is a style of analysis in
which European societies are compared to non –
European societies to produce an unbiased
comparison of the relative merits of each.
B. Eurocentrism is a thought style in which
the assessment and evaluation of non-European
societies are couched in terms of the
cultural assumptions and biases of Europeans.
C. Eurocentrism describes studies or
scholarly work that only consider European political or
economic systems.
D. All the above.
Answer B
59. The credit for developing a behavioral
approach to the study of political science goes to
A. The American political scientists.
B. The British political scientists.
C. The German political scientists.
D. The Political scientist of the third
world.
Answer A
60. Though the Behaviorist Approach to the
study of political science was developed after the first
world war it gained popularity only
A. In the thirties of the twentieth century.
B. After the second world war.
C. In the sixties of the twentieth century.
D. In the eighties of the twentieth century.
Answer B
61. The behaviorist approach to the study of
political science was developed as a protest against
A. The historical approach.
B. The philosophical approach.
C. Descriptive-institutional approach.
D. All the above.
Answer D
62. The behaviorist approach differs from the
traditional approach for the study of political science in so far as
A. It is analytical
B. It is general rather than particular
C. It is explanatory rather than ethical
D. It has all the above features
Answer D
63. Which one of the following is regarded as
the most important contribution of behaviouralism to political science
A. It greatly helped in theory building
B. It developed several new concepts
C. It developed several new tools of research
D. It emphasized the important role which
history can’t play in research
Answer C
64. Civil liberty is inherent in the laws of
A. State
B. Nature
C. Society
D. All the above
Answer A
65. Who said: “Where there is no law there is
no freedom”?
A. T.H. Green
B. Locke
C. Hobbes
D. Mac Iver
Answer B
66. Which one of the following statements is
correct
A. Liberty means the absence of all restraints
B. Liberty means the power to do whatever one
pleases
C. Liberty means the absence of objection
D. Liberty is not the total absence of restraint
but the existence of socially acceptable restrains
Answer D
67. The concept of natural liberty is
associated with
A. Divine origin theory
B. Social contract theory
C. Force Theory
D. Evolutionary theory
Answer B
68. Who among the following was the chief
exponent of natural liberty
A. Rousseau
B. Laski
C. Plato
D. Herbert Spencer
Answer A
69. Political liberty is often taken as
synonymous with
A. Democracy
B. Majority rule
C. Freedom
D. Independence of division
Answer A
70. Which one of the following statements is
not correct?
A. Civil liberty is basic to other kinds of
liberties
B. Civil liberty is granted only to the
citizens
C. Civil liberty is available to both
citizens and non-citizens
D. Civil liberty exists only in civil society
Answer B
71. Which one of the following statements is
not correct
A. Economic liberty means freedom from fear
and starvation
B. Self-government in the industry is an important
feature of economic liberty
C. Economic liberty means common ownership of
the means of production and distribution
D. Economic liberty aims at establishing a
self-sufficient society
Answer C
72. The term ‘Social Sciences’ first appeared
in the work of
A. William Thomson
B. J. Schumpeter
C. Aristotle
D. Harry Johnson
Answer A
73.’ Republic’ is the work of
A. Socrates
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. None of these
Answer B
74.
The book ’Principles of Political Science’ was written by
A. Socrates
B. Gilchrist
C. Machiavelli
D. Jean Bodin
Answer B
75. In Renaissance human reason placed above
A. Culture
B. Faith
C. Arts
D. Literature
Answer B
76. The conflict between religious learning
and believes and rationality learning and beliefs is the basic
characteristics of
A. Modern Era
B. Educated Society
C. Renaissance
D. None of These
Answer C
77. The period from 1453 to the end of the
17th century was characterized by the rebirth and proliferation of
A. Modern knowledge
B. Ancient knowledge
C. Modern thinking
D. Ancient thinking
Answer B
78. Enlightenment was to a large extent based
on
A. Profit Motive
B. Humanitarian Principles
C. Practical wisdom
D. All the Above
Answer B
79. Enlightenment thinkers opened new and
very significant areas of
A. Observation
B. Field Study
C. Inquiry
D. Thinking
Answer C
80. In the period of enlightenment as the
organizing principle of knowledge, rationality replaced
A. Culture
B. Civilization
C. Religion
D. Speculation
Answer C
81. The period of enlightenment was in
A. 1650 CE and 1700 CE
B. 1500 CE and 1550 CE
C. 1400 CE and 1450CE
D. None of these
Answer A
82. Which of the following is not correctly
matched
A. Herodotus – Political Science
B. Auguste Comte – Sociology
C. Adam Smith – Economics
D. Sigmund Fraud - Psychology
Answer A
83. Who is regarded as the ‘Father of
History
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. August Comte
D. Herodotus
Answer D
84. The age of _____ saw a revolution within
natural philosophy
A. Reformation
B. Renaissance
C. Enlightenment
D. Modern Age
Answer C
85. The history of the social sciences begins
in the routes of the ancient _______
A. Philosophy
B. Epics
C. Epigraphy
D. Literature
Answer A
86. ________ is regarded as the father of
Political Science.
A. Herodotus
B. Aristotle
C. Plato
D. Rousseau
Answer B
87. The term sociology was derived from the Greek
term logos and _____ word socius meaning ‘companion’
or ‘society’
A. French
B. Latin
C. German
D. Austria
Answer B
88. _____ is central to the procedures of the scientific method
A. Oral History
B. Comparison
C. Objectivity
D. Customs
Answer C
89. _____ affect the objectivity of the study
A. Personal Bias
B. Morality
C. Customs
D. Ethics
Answer A
90. The word Psychology comes from the
ancient Greek psyche which means _____
A. Society
B. Man
C. Mind
D. Brain
Answer C
91. Positivism is advocated by _____
A. Karl Marx
B. Herbert Spencer
C. Auguste Comte
D. Durkheim
Answer C
92. The term Ethical Neutrality is related to
the
A
Knowledge
B Social Research
C Philosophy
D Commerce
Answer B
93. The Book ‘Das Capital’ was written by
A-Max Weber
B Karl Marx
C Herbert Spencer
D Laski
Answer B
94. A set of moral principles and values are
called
A Methods
B Rules
Tools
D Ethics
Answer D
95. ‘General view of positivism’ was written
by?
A Hebert Spencer
B Max Weber
C Auguste Comte
D Talcott Parsons
Answer C
96. The word ________ is from the Greek for ‘human
being’ or ‘person’
A. Socius
B Anthropos
C Logos
D Oikos
Answer B
97. ______ is commonly used as an umbrella
term to refer to a plurality of fields
A. Natural Sciences
B. Human Sciences
C. Social Sciences
D. Psychical Sciences
Answer C
98. Enlighten thought laid the groundwork for
the development of
A. Religious notions
B. Speculations
C. Social Scientific Thought
D. All the above
Answer C
99. Which one of the following has been
wrongly listed as the basis of behaviouralism moment by David
Easton
A. Quantifications
B. Values
C. Systematization
D.
Pure science
Answer B
100. The branch of philosophy that studies
assumptions about the nature of reality and existence are
A. Epistemology
B. Ontology
C. Methodology
D. Phenomenology
Answer B
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