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

1. Which of the following is the distinguishing characteristic of State as compared with other associations?
Population
Territory
Government
Sovereignty

2. Which of the following are the four characteristics of state?
Government territory population association
Association sovereignty territory population
Army territory population and sovereignty
Population territory government and soverignty

3. The term state has often been confused with:
Sovereignty
Association
Nation
Government

4. Which of the following is not true about difference between the State and the Government?
The will of the State is expressed through Government
The State is concrete while the Government is abstract
The State has original whereas Government has delegated powers
The State is large whereas Government is a small body.

5. According to Plato the population of the State should be about:
5000
6000
7000
8000

6. Which of the following is true about difference between the State and Government?
Origin of both is shrouded in mystery
Loyalty of both is essential
Changes in the State do not come frequently whereas in the Government these are frequent
Sovereignty vests in the both

7. Who said that stte is a community permanently established for a political end ?
Hall
Laski
Woodrow Wilson
McIver

8. Who said that State is a territorial society divided into government and the subjects?
Garner
Finer
Austin
Laski

9. Who said that the state is a people organised for law within a definite territory?
Oppenheim
Woodrow Wilson
Laski
Hall

10. State has been defined as human society with political differentiations existing in it between the governed and the governors by?
Oppenheim
Duguit
McIver
T.H. Green

11. The most acceptable definition of state that it has four exxential ingredients was given by?
Garnet
Gettell
Finer
Laski

12. These days recognition to the new born state is given by a state when:
It possesses all the four essential elements
When other nations begin to recognise it
When the state concerned fights a big war
When it is politically convenient for state giving recognition.

13. These days for studying problems of state the approach followed is:
Traditional
Disciplinary
Inter-disciplinary
None of the above

14. Main difference between the state and association is that?
One can t be member of both
One can t live without the other
One can use force while other cannot
One is hindrance on the parth of the other

15. Main difference between the state and the Government is that:
One has horizontal jurisdictions while the other has not
Both do not work for the welfare of the people
Both are not well organised
Both do not touch many aspects of human life

16. Compared with society scope of state activity is?
Wider
Narrow
Just equal
No comparison between the two

17. Who said that a nation is a body of men who cherish a common will and tend to have a separate state?
Plato
Aristotle
Barker
Masaca

18. Who said that nation is a nationality which has organised itself into a political body desiring to be independent ?
MacLver
Nimkoff and Ogburn
Barker
James Mill

19. Technically speaking which one of the following cannot be termed as state?
Lahore
U.S.A.
U.S.S.R.
Bangladesh

20. A state becomes an internationally recognised state only when:
It has acquired vast armies
Its natureal resources have come to be known and exploited
It possesses territory and population big enough to meet its needs
It is admitted in the family of nations

21. Which of the following is not true about the state and society?
State does not have all aspects of life but society does
Society came prior to state
Both have no territorial jurisdictions
State has sovereignty whereas society does not possess it

22. Which of the following is not true about the state and Governemtn?
Loyalty to both is most essential
State has one whereas Government has several forms
State is more compreensive than the Government
None of the above

23. Which one of the following methods for the study of problems of State of his times was used by Aristotle?
Inductive
Deductive
Philosophical
Comparative

24. Which of the following is not true about state and association?
Membership of state is compulsory whereas that of the other is not
Membership of the state cannot be left whereas that of the association can be
State has fixed territory whereas association has not
Both the state and the association are permanent bodies

25. About the state and study of political problems the Behaviouralists believe:
Scope of state activity is narrow
For studying poliitical problem approach may be disciplinary
State should not interfere in social life of the people
Inter-disciplinary approach should be followed

26. Which of the following is true about scope of the activity as compared with the society?
It is broader
It is identical
There is no comparison between the two
It is narrower

27. City States were common in ancient:
Greece
Rome
Pakistan
China

28. In our modern times trend is towards:
Nation state
City state
State with small population
State with small areas

29. Plato who elaborately dealt with stae belonged to:
Egypt
India
Greece
Rome

30. In order to write Politics which deals with state Aristotle compared :
157 Constitutions
158 Constitutions
159 Constitutions
160 Constitutions

31. Which of the following is not an essential element of association?
Optional membership
Definite and common purpose
Definite territory
Necessity of rules and regulations

32. Which of the following is true about state?
It is not permanent
It is only a cultural association
It has territorial limits
It has only limited membership

33. Who of the following believe that the state is a necessary evil?
Marxists
Individualists
Anarchists
Socialists

34. Who of the following believe that the state is bound to wither away?
Guild Socialists
Syndicalists
Anarchists
Marxists

35. Which one of the following statements is true about society?
It is creation of state
It came along with state
It came after state
It came prior to state

36. The sterm City-State denotes:
States of a federation
Small independent states of modern world
States which have not been admitted in the UNO
States of ancient Greece

37. Who of the following believe that the the state all along has been protecting the interests of the rich?
The capitalists
The Marxists
The Idealists
The Fabian Socialists

38. About State Aristotle believed that it was:
Natural
Artificial
Imposed
Contractual

39. Who of the following has laid stress on inter-disciplinary approach about the study of the problems of state?
Hobbes
Machiavelli
T.H. Green
Easton

40. Who of the following is champion of traditional approach about state problems?
Almond
Dahl
Easton
Machiavelli

41. The term City State is generally associated with:
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient China
None of the above

42. The term state in the modern sense was for the first time used by:
Aristotle
Machiavelli
Hobbes
T.H. Green

43. The state consists of:
Four elements
Five elements
Three elements
Nine elements

44. Plato fixed the population of an ideal state at:
19000 persons
5040 persons
10000 persons
100000 persons

45. Rousseau believed that an idean state should consist of:
10000 persons
50000 persons
27000 persons
did not fix any number

46. Which one of the following writers does not consider territory as an essential element of state?
Aristotle
Hobbes
Seeley
JH.J. Laski

47. Which one of the following is not an element of state?
Population
Religion
Territory
Sovereignty

48. Which one of the following is a state?
Burma
Punjab
Commonwealth of Nations
United Nations Organisation

49. Which one of the following is not a state?
Bhutan
Burma
Sikkim
Bangladesh

50. The four essential elements of the state are:
Population territory government and army
Population territory government and nationality
Sovereignty government religion and population
Population territory government and soverignty