R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Political Science-[FPSC-U.S A. CSS] (USA) Political Science The State Set-1

Which of the following is the distinguishing characteristic of State as compared with other associations?

1. Population
2. Territory
3. Government
4. Sovereignty

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following are the four characteristics of state?

1. Government territory population association
2. Association sovereignty territory population
3. Army territory population and sovereignty
4. Population territory government and soverignty

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The term state has often been confused with:

1. Sovereignty
2. Association
3. Nation
4. Government

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not true about difference between the State and the Government?

1. The will of the State is expressed through Government
2. The State is concrete while the Government is abstract
3. The State has original whereas Government has delegated powers
4. The State is large whereas Government is a small body.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Plato the population of the State should be about:

1. 5000
2. 6000
3. 7000
4. 8000

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is true about difference between the State and Government?

1. Origin of both is shrouded in mystery
2. Loyalty of both is essential
3. Changes in the State do not come frequently whereas in the Government these are frequent
4. Sovereignty vests in the both

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who said that stte is a community permanently established for a political end ?

1. Hall
2. Laski
3. Woodrow Wilson
4. McIver

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that State is a territorial society divided into government and the subjects?

1. Garner
2. Finer
3. Austin
4. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said that the state is a people organised for law within a definite territory?

1. Oppenheim
2. Woodrow Wilson
3. Laski
4. Hall

✅ Correct Answer: 1

State has been defined as human society with political differentiations existing in it between the governed and the governors by?

1. Oppenheim
2. Duguit
3. McIver
4. T.H. Green

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The most acceptable definition of state that it has four exxential ingredients was given by?

1. Garnet
2. Gettell
3. Finer
4. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 1

These days recognition to the new born state is given by a state when:

1. It possesses all the four essential elements
2. When other nations begin to recognise it
3. When the state concerned fights a big war
4. When it is politically convenient for state giving recognition.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

These days for studying problems of state the approach followed is:

1. Traditional
2. Disciplinary
3. Inter-disciplinary
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Main difference between the state and association is that?

1. One can t be member of both
2. One can t live without the other
3. One can use force while other cannot
4. One is hindrance on the parth of the other

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Main difference between the state and the Government is that:

1. One has horizontal jurisdictions while the other has not
2. Both do not work for the welfare of the people
3. Both are not well organised
4. Both do not touch many aspects of human life

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Compared with society scope of state activity is?

1. Wider
2. Narrow
3. Just equal
4. No comparison between the two

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that a nation is a body of men who cherish a common will and tend to have a separate state?

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Barker
4. Masaca

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who said that nation is a nationality which has organised itself into a political body desiring to be independent ?

1. MacLver
2. Nimkoff and Ogburn
3. Barker
4. James Mill

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Technically speaking which one of the following cannot be termed as state?

1. Lahore
2. U.S.A.
3. U.S.S.R.
4. Bangladesh

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A state becomes an internationally recognised state only when:

1. It has acquired vast armies
2. Its natureal resources have come to be known and exploited
3. It possesses territory and population big enough to meet its needs
4. It is admitted in the family of nations

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not true about the state and society?

1. State does not have all aspects of life but society does
2. Society came prior to state
3. Both have no territorial jurisdictions
4. State has sovereignty whereas society does not possess it

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not true about the state and Governemtn?

1. Loyalty to both is most essential
2. State has one whereas Government has several forms
3. State is more compreensive than the Government
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following methods for the study of problems of State of his times was used by Aristotle?

1. Inductive
2. Deductive
3. Philosophical
4. Comparative

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not true about state and association?

1. Membership of state is compulsory whereas that of the other is not
2. Membership of the state cannot be left whereas that of the association can be
3. State has fixed territory whereas association has not
4. Both the state and the association are permanent bodies

✅ Correct Answer: 4

About the state and study of political problems the Behaviouralists believe:

1. Scope of state activity is narrow
2. For studying poliitical problem approach may be disciplinary
3. State should not interfere in social life of the people
4. Inter-disciplinary approach should be followed

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is true about scope of the activity as compared with the society?

1. It is broader
2. It is identical
3. There is no comparison between the two
4. It is narrower

✅ Correct Answer: 4

City States were common in ancient:

1. Greece
2. Rome
3. Pakistan
4. China

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In our modern times trend is towards:

1. Nation state
2. City state
3. State with small population
4. State with small areas

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Plato who elaborately dealt with stae belonged to:

1. Egypt
2. India
3. Greece
4. Rome

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In order to write Politics which deals with state Aristotle compared :

1. 157 Constitutions
2. 158 Constitutions
3. 159 Constitutions
4. 160 Constitutions

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is not an essential element of association?

1. Optional membership
2. Definite and common purpose
3. Definite territory
4. Necessity of rules and regulations

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is true about state?

1. It is not permanent
2. It is only a cultural association
3. It has territorial limits
4. It has only limited membership

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who of the following believe that the state is a necessary evil?

1. Marxists
2. Individualists
3. Anarchists
4. Socialists

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who of the following believe that the state is bound to wither away?

1. Guild Socialists
2. Syndicalists
3. Anarchists
4. Marxists

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following statements is true about society?

1. It is creation of state
2. It came along with state
3. It came after state
4. It came prior to state

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The sterm City-State denotes:

1. States of a federation
2. Small independent states of modern world
3. States which have not been admitted in the UNO
4. States of ancient Greece

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who of the following believe that the the state all along has been protecting the interests of the rich?

1. The capitalists
2. The Marxists
3. The Idealists
4. The Fabian Socialists

✅ Correct Answer: 2

About State Aristotle believed that it was:

1. Natural
2. Artificial
3. Imposed
4. Contractual

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who of the following has laid stress on inter-disciplinary approach about the study of the problems of state?

1. Hobbes
2. Machiavelli
3. T.H. Green
4. Easton

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who of the following is champion of traditional approach about state problems?

1. Almond
2. Dahl
3. Easton
4. Machiavelli

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The term City State is generally associated with:

1. Ancient Egypt
2. Ancient Greece
3. Ancient China
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The term state in the modern sense was for the first time used by:

1. Aristotle
2. Machiavelli
3. Hobbes
4. T.H. Green

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The state consists of:

1. Four elements
2. Five elements
3. Three elements
4. Nine elements

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Plato fixed the population of an ideal state at:

1. 19000 persons
2. 5040 persons
3. 10000 persons
4. 100000 persons

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Rousseau believed that an idean state should consist of:

1. 10000 persons
2. 50000 persons
3. 27000 persons
4. did not fix any number

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following writers does not consider territory as an essential element of state?

1. Aristotle
2. Hobbes
3. Seeley
4. JH.J. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following is not an element of state?

1. Population
2. Religion
3. Territory
4. Sovereignty

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following is a state?

1. Burma
2. Punjab
3. Commonwealth of Nations
4. United Nations Organisation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following is not a state?

1. Bhutan
2. Burma
3. Sikkim
4. Bangladesh

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The four essential elements of the state are:

1. Population territory government and army
2. Population territory government and nationality
3. Sovereignty government religion and population
4. Population territory government and soverignty

✅ Correct Answer: 4