R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Political Science-[FPSC-U.S A. CSS] [USA] Political Science The State Set-2

The territory of a state consists of:

1. Land
2. Land and sea
3. Land rivers and mountains
4. Land territorial water and air space

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The term territorial water means:

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

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The largest state in terms of population is

1. USA
2. USSR
3. India
4. China

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The largest state in terms of territory is:

1. China
2. India
3. USA
4. Soviet Union

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following statements is correct?

1. The government is the master while the state is its agent
2. The state is the master while the government is its agent
3. Government and state are one and the same thing
4. The authority of the state is limited while that of the government is unlimted

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A state becomes a state only if:

1. It is recognised by majority of the members of the UNO
2. It is recognised by all the states
3. It is recognised by at least ten sovereign states
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A state must possess:

1. A democratic government
2. Parliamentary government
3. Presidential government
4. Some kind of government

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following statements is correct?

1. An individual has to be loyal to state
2. An individual may be disloyal to state but he has to be loyal to the government
3. An individual has to be loyal to the Parliament
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Membership of state is:

1. Compulsory
2. Voluntary
3. Unnecessary
4. Not desirable

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Aristotle:

1. State is a divine institution
2. State is an artificial creation
3. State is a creation of force
4. State is a natural institution

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The statement that A man who lives outside the Polis is either a beast or a god is attributed to:

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Hobbes
4. Hegel

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Marxist hold that:

1. The state is a class structure
2. State represents only the workers
3. State represents the entire community
4. State is a power system

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A person can be a member of:

1. Not more than two states at a time
2. Only one state at a time
3. Not more than three states at a time
4. Can be member of any number of states

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The statement that the state is an ethical institution which is indispensable for the full moral development of man is attributed to:

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who said Man is a social animal ?

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Rousseau
4. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The view that the state is a necessary evil is associated with:

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

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The view that the state is an unmitigated evil is attributed to:

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

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The view that the state is an executive committee of the exploiting class is associated with:

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The term city state is used for:

1. The states in ancient Greece
2. The local government bodies England
3. Small states of modern times
4. The states of a federation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The modern state is:

1. National state
2. International state
3. Regional state
4. Federal state

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A secular state is one which is:

1. Irreligious
2. Anti-religious
3. Pro-religious
4. Has no religious of its own

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said that the state is expansion of family?

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Locke
4. Newton

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following statements is correct?

1. Society is a creation of state
2. Society receives its power from state
3. Society is prior to the state
4. Society is a territorial organisation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The State is:

1. A cultural association
2. A philanthropic association
3. An ethical association
4. A compulsory association

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

1. State is an association of associations
2. The state is a territorial institution
3. The membership of the state is open to all
4. State is not a permanent association

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following statements is correct?

1. State and nation are identical
2. State and nation are opposed to each other
3. Homogeneity is an essential feature of state
4. Nation is a territorial community

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following statements is correct?

1. The scope of state activity is narrower than the society
2. The scope of state activity is broader than the society
3. The scope of the activities of state and society is identical
4. No comparison is possible between the activities of the state and the society

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that the state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues for the sake of good life?

1. Aristotle
2. Plato
3. Cicero
4. Machiavelli

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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.:

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

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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?

1. Laski
2. Garner
3. Bluntschli
4. Holland

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said: A state is that agency in a society that is authorised to exercise coercive control within a territory.

1. MaclIver
2. Anderson and Parker
3. Durkheim
4. Max Weber

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How is the change in government in modern states carried out?

1. Through violence and bloodshed
2. Through elections and smooth transfer of power
3. Through compromise and electoral adjustments among the competing forces
4. By bringing all aspects of life to a standstill

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who said I am the State

1. James II of England
2. Napoleon I of France
3. Louis XIV of France
4. Hitler of Germany

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who of the following first of all propounded the organic theory of state?

1. Machiavelli
2. Plato
3. Marx
4. Herbert Spencer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The organic theory of state holds:

1. The state is the result of a social contract
2. The state is a divine creation
3. The state is the result of force
4. The state is a living organism rather a living spiritual being

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said The state is prior to the individual just as a whole is prior to its parts:

1. Herbert Spencer
2. Laski
3. Karl Marx
4. Aristotle

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The state is primarily a:

1. Social association
2. Economic association
3. Political association
4. Socio-economic-cum-political association

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following statements is associated with Aristotle?

1. The state is an association of families and their common possessions governed by a supreme power and by reason.
2. The state is a union of families and villages having for its end a perfect and self-sufficing life.
3. The state is a particular portion of mankind viewed as an organized unit
4. The state is a politically organised community with a definite territory.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The term state as drawn from the word status was for the first time used by:

1. The Greeks
2. The Germans
3. The Teutons
4. The Romans

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which group of the following thinkers emphasised the legal notion of state?

1. Aristotle Plato Hobbes and Bentham
2. Bodin Hobbes Bentham and Laski
3. Bodin Austin Hobbes Bentham
4. Aristotle Austin Laki and Hobbes

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Legal nation of state emphasises that:

1. The state alone has the right to make laws
2. The laws existed prior to the creation of the state and state was created for the preservation of these laws
3. All the laws enacted by the state must be approved by the people before they are enforced
4. The states make laws for the maintenance of law and order and protection of rights

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The legal notion of state has been discarded in lodern times because:

1. It emphasizes only the negative functions of states
2. It over-emphasizes the role of the law in the governance of the state
3. It subordinates the laws which represent cumulated wisdom of several generations to te will of the people
4. Of all the above factors

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Will not force is the basis of state was stated by:

1. Hegel
2. Bosanquet
3. Green
4. Kant

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who regarded the state as an instrument of exploitation of one class by another?

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Grotious
4. Marx

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who regarded the state as the highest embodiment of morality?

1. Aristotle
2. Kant
3. Marx
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following is the popular notion of state in modern times?

1. Legal notion
2. Ethical Notion
3. Constitutional notion
4. Welfare nation

✅ Correct Answer: 4

According to Locke the State of Nature was given up because:

1. It was a condition of war of each against all
2. Man was unsocial solitary and poor
3. There were some inconveniences
4. Man was basically good but the growth of civilization corrupted him

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The state is both the child and the parent of law because:

1. The constitutional law defines the duties of ultimate authority
2. The state creates elaborate system of rights and obligations
3. These laws are made by the state for and on behalf of the community
4. The state can enforce laws against their enforcement against itself

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who said that State is a society of societies ?

1. A.D. Lindsay
2. H.J.Laski
3. Aristotle
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Tretschke the essence of the state is:

1. Consent
2. Morality
3. General WILL
4. Force

✅ Correct Answer: 4