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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
The history of Science is a study of the history of …………. |
| A. | Nature |
| B. | Ideas |
| C. | Earth |
| D. | Ages |
| Answer» C. Earth | |
| 2. |
Name the fourth element which Anaximander added to the existing three elements? |
| A. | Solids |
| B. | Gases |
| C. | Fire |
| D. | Liquids |
| Answer» D. Liquids | |
| 3. |
The chief engineer of Stockholm patient office died in an accident in |
| A. | 1896 |
| B. | 1897 |
| C. | 1898 |
| D. | 1899 |
| Answer» C. 1898 | |
| 4. |
………… is the theory that all behaviour, belief and desire are governed by our genetic make up. |
| A. | Environmental determinism |
| B. | Biological determinism |
| C. | Casual determinism |
| D. | Logical determinism |
| Answer» C. Casual determinism | |
| 5. |
Principia is a work by ……… |
| A. | Robert Boyle |
| B. | Hooke |
| C. | Isaac Newton |
| D. | James I |
| Answer» D. James I | |
| 6. |
What does the mother offer the general to eat? |
| A. | Apple |
| B. | Grapes |
| C. | Oranges |
| D. | Peeches |
| Answer» D. Peeches | |
| 7. |
Who prepared the Rudolphian Tables which appeared in 1627? |
| A. | Johannes Kepler |
| B. | Michael Martlin |
| C. | Tycho Brahe |
| D. | Rheticus |
| Answer» B. Michael Martlin | |
| 8. |
The first High Speed, General‐Purpose Electronic Computer using vacuum tubes, was ….. |
| A. | ENIAC |
| B. | UNIVAC |
| C. | EDVAC |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. UNIVAC | |
| 9. |
_________________is American author and professor of Biochemistry. |
| A. | J.F Nash |
| B. | Issac Newton |
| C. | Charles Darwin |
| D. | Issac Asimov |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
The immediate consequences of mechanical means of production is |
| A. | Weakening of purchasing power |
| B. | Devaluation of labours |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None of these. |
| Answer» D. None of these. | |
| 11. |
The Formation of Scientific Mind is a work by……………… |
| A. | Gaston Bachelard |
| B. | Isaac Newton |
| C. | Albert Einstein |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Isaac Newton | |
| 12. |
Greeks called Determinism…………. |
| A. | Necessity |
| B. | Compulsion |
| C. | Decomposition |
| D. | Utilitarianism |
| Answer» C. Decomposition | |
| 13. |
‘Revolutions are engines of history’. Who said this? |
| A. | Marx |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Gandhi |
| Answer» B. Laski | |
| 14. |
The Fabians consist of |
| A. | anarchist |
| B. | socialist |
| C. | Marxists |
| D. | syndicalists |
| Answer» C. Marxists | |
| 15. |
Which is Canada’s political system? |
| A. | a confederal state |
| B. | a direct democracy |
| C. | a unitary state |
| D. | a parliamentary democracy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Who wrote politics is ‘who gets, what, when and how’? |
| A. | Lasswell |
| B. | Kaplan |
| C. | Almond |
| D. | Powel |
| Answer» B. Kaplan | |
| 17. |
Who wrote the work ‘The Great Issues Politics’? |
| A. | MacIver |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Lipson |
| D. | Catlin |
| Answer» D. Catlin | |
| 18. |
Which one of the following is an apt description of Bodin’s theory of sovereignty? |
| A. | Political sovereignty |
| B. | Limited sovereignty |
| C. | Absolute sovereignty |
| D. | Popular sovereignty |
| Answer» D. Popular sovereignty | |
| 19. |
Who among the following, characterized bureaucracy as ration-legal authority ? |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Herbert A. Simon |
| C. | Vilfredo Pareto |
| D. | F.M. Marx |
| Answer» B. Herbert A. Simon | |
| 20. |
Secret ballot is also known as |
| A. | Australian ballot |
| B. | Austrian ballot |
| C. | Canadian ballot |
| D. | Greek |
| Answer» C. Canadian ballot | |
| 21. |
“State and Revolution” is written by |
| A. | Gramsci |
| B. | Anthony Giddens |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Michel Waltzer |
| Answer» D. Michel Waltzer | |
| 22. |
SAARC was established in |
| A. | 1986 |
| B. | 1984 |
| C. | 1987 |
| D. | 1985 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
Federation implies |
| A. | division of powers |
| B. | devolution of powers |
| C. | fusion of powers |
| D. | separation of powers |
| Answer» B. devolution of powers | |
| 24. |
Which Article vide the power of Judicial Review is clearly engrafted into the Constitution ofIndia ? |
| A. | Article 12 |
| B. | Article 13 |
| C. | Article 14 |
| D. | Article 15 |
| Answer» C. Article 14 | |
| 25. |
Territorial society divided into government and subjects whose relationships aredetermined by the exercise of this supreme coercive power”. Who said this? |
| A. | Harold J. Laski |
| B. | Wright Mills; c. Woodrow Wilson |
| C. | Ralph Miliband |
| Answer» B. Wright Mills; c. Woodrow Wilson | |
| 26. |
Who is among advocate of negative theory of liberty? |
| A. | Kant |
| B. | Marx |
| C. | Sidgwick |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
Who used to say “ I am the state”? |
| A. | Louis XIV |
| B. | Machiavelli |
| C. | John Austin |
| D. | MacIver |
| Answer» B. Machiavelli | |
| 28. |
Which of the following is known as the Charter of liberties? |
| A. | Bill of Rights |
| B. | Magna Carta |
| C. | both A and B |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. both A and B | |
| 29. |
Who said “state is a political instrument a machine for maintaining the rule of one class overanother” ? |
| A. | Lenin |
| B. | Popper |
| C. | Gettell |
| D. | Mao |
| Answer» B. Popper | |
| 30. |
Who defined an association as “a group organised for the pursuit of an interest or a group ofinterest in common”? |
| A. | Mao |
| B. | Iver |
| C. | Willoughby |
| D. | Jellinick |
| Answer» C. Willoughby | |
| 31. |
Who wrote the book “Hind Swaraj”? |
| A. | Ram Manohar Lohia |
| B. | Subash Chandra Bose |
| C. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| D. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Who introduced hegemony in the concept of civil society? |
| A. | Lenin |
| B. | Gramsci |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» C. Hegel | |
| 33. |
Who wrote the work “The Great Issues of Politics” |
| A. | MacIver |
| B. | Laski |
| C. | Lipson |
| D. | Catlin |
| Answer» D. Catlin | |
| 34. |
Neo-marxists view the economic globalization as |
| A. | hierarchical process |
| B. | equalitarian process |
| C. | uneven hierarchical process |
| D. | development process |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
Who is the great liberal writer of the 17th century ? |
| A. | Austin |
| B. | Locke |
| C. | Gilchrist |
| D. | None of them |
| Answer» C. Gilchrist | |
| 36. |
“Territorial society divided into government and subjects who relationships are determined bythe exercise of this supreme coercive power” who said this? |
| A. | Harold J Laski |
| B. | C Wright Mills |
| C. | Woodrow Wilson |
| D. | Ralph Miliband |
| Answer» B. C Wright Mills | |
| 37. |
According to the libertarians, the state is |
| A. | a necessary evil |
| B. | an evil |
| C. | a necessary institution |
| D. | a positive organization |
| Answer» B. an evil | |
| 38. |
Whose work is “The Law of War and Peace”? |
| A. | John Austin |
| B. | Jean bodin |
| C. | Hugo Grotius |
| D. | John Locke |
| Answer» D. John Locke | |
| 39. |
Who criticise sovereignty does not reside in a determinate human superior ? |
| A. | Hobbes |
| B. | Austin |
| C. | Grotius |
| D. | Maine |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
Political democracy is associated with the following |
| A. | Bryce |
| B. | Webb |
| C. | Tocqueville |
| D. | Sartori |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
Who introduced ‘hegemony’ in the concept of civil society? |
| A. | Lenin |
| B. | Gramsci |
| C. | Hegel |
| D. | Marx |
| Answer» C. Hegel | |
| 42. |
Democracy is meaningless without |
| A. | President and Congress |
| B. | Supreme Court and President |
| C. | A federal form of government |
| D. | Freedom of speech |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
Who introduced ‘politics of consent’ ? |
| A. | Lasswell |
| B. | Kaplan |
| C. | Popper |
| D. | Lucian Pie |
| Answer» B. Kaplan | |
| 44. |
Who said “Marxian approach is not a matter of problems to be solved but a state of dominationand subjugation to be ended by a total transformation of the conditions which give rise to it” |
| A. | Lenin |
| B. | Mao |
| C. | Miliband |
| D. | Engels |
| Answer» D. Engels | |
| 45. |
Who is regarded as the greatest exponent of the Monistic theory of sovereignty? |
| A. | Jean Bodin |
| B. | Anthony Giddens |
| C. | John Austin |
| D. | Michel Waltzer |
| Answer» D. Michel Waltzer | |
| 46. |
Who said “the concept of power is the most fundamental in the whole of Political Science: thePolitical Process is the shaping, dissolution and exercise of power” ? |
| A. | Merriam and Easton |
| B. | Lasswell and Kaplan |
| C. | Catlin and Bentley |
| D. | None of them |
| Answer» C. Catlin and Bentley | |
| 47. |
Politics science is a discipline |
| A. | That cannot ignore values |
| B. | Which provides value free analysis |
| C. | Which does not subscribe to any values |
| D. | Meant to study values |
| Answer» D. Meant to study values | |
| 48. |
Who said, “War is to men what maternity is to woman” |
| A. | Napoleon |
| B. | Bismarck |
| C. | Lenin |
| D. | Mussolini |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
Which is the most powerful legislature in the world? |
| A. | U.S. Congress |
| B. | Swiss legislature |
| C. | Indian Parliament |
| D. | British Parliament |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
The word sarvodaya implies |
| A. | upliftment of the poor |
| B. | upliftment of the poorest of the poor |
| C. | upliftment of each with all and all with each |
| D. | upliftment of all the people |
| Answer» D. upliftment of all the people | |