Political Science-[FPSC-U.S A. CSS] MCQ Quiz Hub

1. The territory of a state consists of:
Land
Land and sea
Land rivers and mountains
Land territorial water and air space

2. The term territorial water means:
The water found within the country in the shape of rivers and lakes
The water secured from other countries
The water which is supplied to other countries
Water of sea located close to the coast of a country

3. The largest state in terms of population is
USA
USSR
India
China

4. The largest state in terms of territory is:
China
India
USA
Soviet Union

5. Which one of the following statements is correct?
The government is the master while the state is its agent
The state is the master while the government is its agent
Government and state are one and the same thing
The authority of the state is limited while that of the government is unlimted

6. A state becomes a state only if:
It is recognised by majority of the members of the UNO
It is recognised by all the states
It is recognised by at least ten sovereign states
None of the above

7. A state must possess:
A democratic government
Parliamentary government
Presidential government
Some kind of government

8. Which one of the following statements is correct?
An individual has to be loyal to state
An individual may be disloyal to state but he has to be loyal to the government
An individual has to be loyal to the Parliament
None of the above

9. Membership of state is:
Compulsory
Voluntary
Unnecessary
Not desirable

10. According to Aristotle:
State is a divine institution
State is an artificial creation
State is a creation of force
State is a natural institution

11. The statement that A man who lives outside the Polis is either a beast or a god is attributed to:
Plato
Aristotle
Hobbes
Hegel

12. The Marxist hold that:
The state is a class structure
State represents only the workers
State represents the entire community
State is a power system

13. A person can be a member of:
Not more than two states at a time
Only one state at a time
Not more than three states at a time
Can be member of any number of states

14. The statement that the state is an ethical institution which is indispensable for the full moral development of man is attributed to:
Individualists
Anarchists
Idealists
Marxists

15. Who said Man is a social animal ?
Aristotle
Plato
Rousseau
Laski

16. The view that the state is a necessary evil is associated with:
Individualists
Anarchists
Marxists
Sophists

17. The view that the state is an unmitigated evil is attributed to:
Idealists
Individualists
Socialists
Anarchists

18. The view that the state is an executive committee of the exploiting class is associated with:
Individualists
Idealists
Marxists
Anarchists

19. The term city state is used for:
The states in ancient Greece
The local government bodies England
Small states of modern times
The states of a federation

20. The modern state is:
National state
International state
Regional state
Federal state

21. A secular state is one which is:
Irreligious
Anti-religious
Pro-religious
Has no religious of its own

22. Who said that the state is expansion of family?
Plato
Aristotle
Locke
Newton

23. Which one of the following statements is correct?
Society is a creation of state
Society receives its power from state
Society is prior to the state
Society is a territorial organisation

24. The State is:
A cultural association
A philanthropic association
An ethical association
A compulsory association

25. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
State is an association of associations
The state is a territorial institution
The membership of the state is open to all
State is not a permanent association

26. Which one of the following statements is correct?
State and nation are identical
State and nation are opposed to each other
Homogeneity is an essential feature of state
Nation is a territorial community

27. Which one of the following statements is correct?
The scope of state activity is narrower than the society
The scope of state activity is broader than the society
The scope of the activities of state and society is identical
No comparison is possible between the activities of the state and the society

28. Who said that the state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues for the sake of good life?
Aristotle
Plato
Cicero
Machiavelli

29. Who defined state as a union of families and villages having for its end a perfect and self-sufficing life by which we mean a happy and honourble life.:
Plato
Aristotle
Hobbes
Barker

30. Who defined state as a community of persons more or less numerous permanently occupying a difinite portion of territory independent or nearly so of external control and possessing an organized government to which the great body of inhabitants render habitual obedience?
Laski
Garner
Bluntschli
Holland

31. Who said: A state is that agency in a society that is authorised to exercise coercive control within a territory.
MaclIver
Anderson and Parker
Durkheim
Max Weber

32. How is the change in government in modern states carried out?
Through violence and bloodshed
Through elections and smooth transfer of power
Through compromise and electoral adjustments among the competing forces
By bringing all aspects of life to a standstill

33. Who said I am the State
James II of England
Napoleon I of France
Louis XIV of France
Hitler of Germany

34. Who of the following first of all propounded the organic theory of state?
Machiavelli
Plato
Marx
Herbert Spencer

35. The organic theory of state holds:
The state is the result of a social contract
The state is a divine creation
The state is the result of force
The state is a living organism rather a living spiritual being

36. Who said The state is prior to the individual just as a whole is prior to its parts:
Herbert Spencer
Laski
Karl Marx
Aristotle

37. The state is primarily a:
Social association
Economic association
Political association
Socio-economic-cum-political association

38. Which one of the following statements is associated with Aristotle?
The state is an association of families and their common possessions governed by a supreme power and by reason.
The state is a union of families and villages having for its end a perfect and self-sufficing life.
The state is a particular portion of mankind viewed as an organized unit
The state is a politically organised community with a definite territory.

39. The term state as drawn from the word status was for the first time used by:
The Greeks
The Germans
The Teutons
The Romans

40. Which group of the following thinkers emphasised the legal notion of state?
Aristotle Plato Hobbes and Bentham
Bodin Hobbes Bentham and Laski
Bodin Austin Hobbes Bentham
Aristotle Austin Laki and Hobbes

41. Legal nation of state emphasises that:
The state alone has the right to make laws
The laws existed prior to the creation of the state and state was created for the preservation of these laws
All the laws enacted by the state must be approved by the people before they are enforced
The states make laws for the maintenance of law and order and protection of rights

42. The legal notion of state has been discarded in lodern times because:
It emphasizes only the negative functions of states
It over-emphasizes the role of the law in the governance of the state
It subordinates the laws which represent cumulated wisdom of several generations to te will of the people
Of all the above factors

43. Will not force is the basis of state was stated by:
Hegel
Bosanquet
Green
Kant

44. Who regarded the state as an instrument of exploitation of one class by another?
Plato
Aristotle
Grotious
Marx

45. Who regarded the state as the highest embodiment of morality?
Aristotle
Kant
Marx
All the above

46. Which one of the following is the popular notion of state in modern times?
Legal notion
Ethical Notion
Constitutional notion
Welfare nation

47. According to Locke the State of Nature was given up because:
It was a condition of war of each against all
Man was unsocial solitary and poor
There were some inconveniences
Man was basically good but the growth of civilization corrupted him

48. The state is both the child and the parent of law because:
The constitutional law defines the duties of ultimate authority
The state creates elaborate system of rights and obligations
These laws are made by the state for and on behalf of the community
The state can enforce laws against their enforcement against itself

49. Who said that State is a society of societies ?
A.D. Lindsay
H.J.Laski
Aristotle
None of the above

50. According to Tretschke the essence of the state is:
Consent
Morality
General WILL
Force