R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Political Science-[FPSC-U.S A. CSS] (USA) Political Science Western Political Thoughts Set-2

How does Socrates suggest Euthyphro might help him in his case against Meletus?

1. Euthyphro could speak in Socrates defense
2. Euthyphro could persuade Meletus to drop his charges
3. Euthyphro could teach Socrates about the art of rhetoric
4. Euthyphro could teach Socrates about religious matters

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is NOT part of the description of Meletus?

1. He s not very smart
2. He s has a hooked nose
3. He s an unknown
4. He has a sparse beard

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not the father or son of one of the others?

1. Zeus
2. Uranus
3. Hesiod
4. Kronos

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why does Socrates not accept Euthyphro s definition that prosecuting criminals is holy?

1. Because prosecuting criminals can often be an unholy act
2. Because there are other acts which are also holy
3. Because Euthyphro doesn t specify what kind of crinimals should be prosecuted
4. Because Euthyphro doesn t specify what kind of punishment these criminals deserve

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the elenchus?

1. A state of perplexity
2. Cross-examination
3. Deductive proof
4. The Theory of Forms

✅ Correct Answer: 2

On which of the following questions might the gods disagree according to Socrates?

1. The relationship between the legs of a right triangle and its hypotenuse
2. Plato s Theory of Forms
3. Whether or not it is just to punish one s father
4. The distance between Athens and Sparta

✅ Correct Answer: 3

On what grounds do we argue over whether or not someone should be punished according to Socrates?

1. We disagree about whether or not the person committed the crime as stated
2. We disagree about whether or not that crime warrants pubishment
3. We disagree about whether or not that crime warrants so harsh a pubishment
4. We disagree about whether the person prosecuting has any right to prosecute given the circumstances

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following claims is Euthyphro not committed to?

1. Something is approved of by the gods because it gets approved of by the gods
2. What is holy is what is approved of by the gods
3. Something gets approved of by the gods because it is holy
4. Something is holy because it is approved of by the gods

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is an unwanted consequence of Euthyphro s reasoning?

1. Something is approved of by the gods because it is holy
2. Something gets approved of by the gods because it is holy
3. What is holy is what is approved of by the gods
4. Something is approved of by the gods because it gets approved of by the gods

✅ Correct Answer: 1

ccording to Rousseau what is legitimate political authority based on?

1. Slavery
2. A social contract
3. Nature
4. Force

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What do people get in return for surrendering their freedom to an absolute monarch according to Rousseau?

1. Preservation
2. Security
3. Peace
4. Nothing of any value

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on:

1. 28th June 1711
2. 28th June 1712
3. 26th June 1713
4. 28th June 1714

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on:

1. London Britain
2. Geneva Switzerland
3. Ermenonville France
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Jean-Jacques Rousseau died on:

1. 14th July 1778
2. 12th July 1778
3. 2nd July 1778
4. 27th July 1778

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How does Rousseau describe man in his primal natural state?

1. A Noble Savage
2. Solitary nasty and brutish
3. A blank slate
4. Totally corrupted

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Rousseau felt that social living corrupted us leading to such ills as private property and social classes. Which of the following is his famous phrase arising from this reasoning?

1. Workers of the world unite
2. Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
3. Put the child in his place and keep him there
4. Man was born free but he is everywhere in chains

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was Rousseau s remedy for the corruption and slavery of civilized society?

1. A new social contract
2. Democratic reforms
3. Revolution
4. Socialism

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In Rousseau s view what would constitute true liberty?

1. Free enterprise unrestrained by government interference
2. A Republic in which there is universal suffrage (for property owning males)
3. Replacement of autocratic governments by Athenian style democracy
4. Submission to the general will of the citizenry

✅ Correct Answer: 4

At the age of sixteen when rightly accused of stealing from a wealthy employer how did Rousseau respond?

1. He initially denied the crime but then admitted it and made restitution
2. He blained a maid and remained silent when she was punished
3. He immediately confessed
4. He ran away but not before returning the stolen items

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Jean-Jacques Rousseau died at the age of:

1. 68 years
2. 66 years
3. 60 years
4. 78 years

✅ Correct Answer: 2

ean-Jacques Rousseau died in:

1. London Britain
2. Geneva Switzerland
3. Ermenonville France
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

School Social contract theory is related with:

1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3. Bob Woodward
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Rousseau had a number of detractors among whom Rousseau himself should the included. What was the title of his seemingly candid autobiography?

1. My Life and Times
2. The Triumph of Reason
3. If You re Paranoid you only have to be right once
4. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques rousseau

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Rousseau believed that man in the state of nature was naturally good. Still he admitted that a true state of nature probably existed except as an ideal a standard for comparison. His mothod for dealing with this discrepancy between reality and theory was to:

1. Lay the facts aside as they do not affect the question.
2. He blamed a maid and remained silent when she was punished
3. He immediately confessed
4. He ran awa but not before returning the stolen items

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why is the Leviathan called artificial ?

1. It is outside of nature
2. It is manufactured by humans
3. It is only a fictional civilization
4. It is outside of nature and it is manufactured by humans

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the original source for the name Leviathan ?

1. Hobbes s Levisithan
2. The of job
3. John Milton s Paradise Lost
4. Homer s Iliad

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How does matter move In Hobbes s philosophy?

1. Matter moves itself
2. Matter is animated by the spirit
3. Metter moves only when pushed by other matter
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In the state of nature why will two natural men inevitably fight if they desire the same thing?

1. They are naturally equal
2. If they were altruistic they would be exploited
3. Scarcity of resources
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who wrote the book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid ?

1. Gabriel A. Almond
2. Jimmy Carter
3. Bob Woodward
4. Jan Crawford Greensburg

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who wrote the book Supreme Conflict ?

1. Jan Crawfod Greenburg
2. Francis Fukuyama
3. Catherine Boone
4. Small Melvin

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Black Rednecks and White Liberals book is written by:

1. Catherine Boone
2. Horn David Bayne
3. Thomas Sowell
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who wrote the book Conservatives Without Conscience ?

1. Thompson J.W. And S.K. Padover
2. T.E. Cronin
3. Catherine Boone
4. John Dean

✅ Correct Answer: 4

War on the Middle Class book is written by:

1. Lou Dobbs
2. Gabriel A. Ahmond
3. Horn David Bayne
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who wrote the book American Theocracy ?

1. Small Melvin
2. Kevin Phillips
3. Gant Michael M
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What else is being miserable asks Socrates.....

1. than not to know the truth?
2. than to seek virtue and fail to find it
3. than to desire bad things and secure them?
4. than to be a sophist?

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What mistake does Socrates eventually reveal in Meno s definition of virtue as the desire for beautiful things and the power to attain them?

1. This is a list not a definition
2. The definition implicitly contains the term it is to define
3. The definition does not correspond to an eidos
4. The definition does not cover all cases of virtue

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What paradox does Meno raise?

1. How can one look for what one does not know?
2. How can those without virute be elected if democracy is virtuous?
3. Xeno s paradox
4. How can virtue be wisdom but not knowledge?

✅ Correct Answer: 1

where was Karl Marx born?

1. Trier. Germany
2. Berlin Germany
3. Bonn Germany
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What degree did Karl Marx achieve in Berlin?

1. Masters degree
2. He did not graduate from university
3. Doctoral degree
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following goals is the immediate aim of the Communists?

1. The unification of the proletariat into a ruling class
2. The overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy
3. Both (a) & (b)
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Marx?

1. Vladimir Lenin
2. Joseph Stalin
3. Friedrich Engels
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who is the author of Human Rights and American Foreign Polley ?

1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Noam Chomsky
3. Gilbert Achcar
4. Bob Woodward

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When is it justified for subjects to rebel against the sovereign?

1. When the sovereign has committed crimes against the people
2. When the sovereign is no longer popular and the people want to elect a new leader
3. Never
4. Both (a) & (b)

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What innate faculty prevents civilized man from breaking the social contract?

1. Reason
2. Fear
3. Altruism
4. Greed

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What does Hobbes see as the immediate result of a rebellion against the sovereign or against the social covenant as in civil war?

1. The establishment of a new government
2. A return to the state of nature
3. The sovereign punishes the rebels and peace is restored to the Leviathan
4. Civil wars only occur in governments that have not been structured according to Hobbesian rules

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who is the author of Radical Priorities ?

1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Noam Chomsky
3. Gilbert Achcar
4. Bob Woodward

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who is the author of Superpowers in Collision : The Cold War Now?

1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Noam Chomsky
3. Gilbert Achcar
4. Bob Woodward

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who is the author of The Fateful Triangle : The United States Israel and the Palestinians?

1. Thomas Hobbes
2. Noam Chomsky
3. Gilbert Achcar
4. Bob Woodward

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Socrates learning is a kind of:

1. Recollection
2. Virtue
3. Political Skill
4. Gift of the gods

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Socrates Questions Meno s slave about:

1. The radius of a circle
2. The height of the Parthenon
3. The double of a square s area
4. The golden ratio of a given square

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Socrates says that all that the soul endures if directed by ______ ends in happiness.

1. Virtue
2. Wisdom
3. Prophets
4. Truth

✅ Correct Answer: 2