JNU CPS MA MOCK TEST 1

Time 3 Hrs

No Negative Marking

Total Number of questions 50

Subject MA in POLITICAL SCIENCE

Centre FOR POLITICAL STUDIES

MCQs Framed by
 NITISH 
BA POLITICAL SCIENCE 
BHU 2017-20

1. Who explains liberty as a triadic relationship in the following manner-- X is free from Y to do or become Z?

A.Charles Taylor
B. Susan Moller Okin
C. Gerrald MacCallum
D. Herbert Marcuse

2. Which thinker emphasizes on the insufficiency of the negative liberty?
A. JS Mill
B. Aristotle
C. Judith Butler
D. Charles Taylor

3. Who advocates the distribution system of goods according to their social value?
A. Alexis de Tocqueville
B. Ronald Dworkin
C. Martha C. Nussbaum
D. Michael Walzer

4. Who criticized Rawls theory of Justice in her book Justice, Gender and the family?
A. Judith Butler
B. Carole Pateman
C. Susan Moller Okin
D.Carol Gilligan

5. According to Marx, the distribution of goods in the transitional phase of communism would be
A. each according to his/her ability and according to his/her needs
B. each according to his/her ability and according to his/her work
C. each according to his/her wealth and according to his/her status in society
D. None of the above

6. Taking Rights seriously is a book written by
A. Bhiku Parekh
B. Isaiah Berlin
C. Ronald Dworkin
D. Roberts Nozick

7. In which form of democracy, it is believed that people's preferences are formed during the political process
A. Liberal Democracy
B. Deliberative democracy
C. Developmental democracy
D. Consociational democracy

8. Who believes that the representative should act according to their own judgements
A. JS Mill
B. Ernest Barker
C. Rousseau
D. All of the above

9. Who distinguished between the rights of man( mainly natural rights) and rights of citizens
A. Karl Marx
B. David Hume
C. Herbert Spencer
D. Peter Kropotkin

10. Who gives the three faces of power namely stick, deal and kiss?

A. Kenneth Boulding

B. Steven Lukes
C. Michel Foucault
D. Hannah Arendt

11. Who used the term 'convention consent' and the example of babysitters for imposing limitations on the sovereignty of the state when the authority of the state turns into irrational and immoral?
A. Jean Hampton
B. James Buchanan
C. Thomas Hobbes
D. Harold J. Laski

12. Who said, " You may not be interested in the state but the state is certainly interested in you"
A. Charles Tilly
B. Friedrick Angels
C. Leon Trotsky
D. Max Weber

13. According to Hegel, in the sphere of civil society X prevails

A. Particular Altruism
B. Universal egoism
C. Common Binding
D. None of the above

14. Who firstly used the term 'enough and as good' in his theory of property?
A. Robert Nozick
B. John Locke
C. Aristotle
D. Augustine

15. Who said, Every state is known by the rights that it maintains
A. Austin
B. Laski
C. TH Green
D. Ernest Barker

16. Who used the structural-functional framework for study the congress system
A.Pranab Bardhan
B. Akhil Gupta
C. Sudipta Kaviraj
D. Rajni Kothari

17. India is a
A. Demos enabling coming together federation
B. Demos constraining coming together federation
C. Demos enabling holding together federation
D. Demos constraining holding together federation

18. Who famously articulated in 1989 in a famous journal that congress system is dead:. Long live the party system and Democratic India
A. Ashutosh Varshney
B. Kanchan Chandra
C. Sunil khilnani
D. Vernon Hewitt

19. The subaltern impress in Ramchandra Guha's research on Chipko is the influence of
A. Ranjit Guha( Elementary aspects of Peasant movement)
B. EP Thompson( history from below)
C. James Scott(  Unheroic times)
D. AOTA

20. Who in his essay," the impossibility of constitutional justice" uses postmodern perspective
A. Rajeev Dhawan
B. Upendra Baxi
C. G. Austin
D. Pratap Bhanu Mehta

21. Who tries to marry Aristotelianism with Christianity
A. St. Augustine
B. Thomas Aquinas
C. Cicero
D. Isaiah Berlin

22. Who defends Machiavelli in his book 'The originality of Machiavelli' against the charge of that Machiavelli wanted to separate politics from morality?
A. Isaiah Berlin
B. Antonio Gramsci
C. John Locke
D. Robert Putnam

23. According to Hobbes, what is the engine of all human action?
A. Fear
B. Desire
C. Reason
D. Ambition

24. Rousseau's general will is based on
A. Actual will
B. Real will
C. Will of all
D. All of the above

25. Being at home with oneself in one's other, said by
A. Hegel
B. Karl Marx
C. Immanuel Kant
D. JS mill

26. Firestone in her book 'The dialectic of sex' located the roots of patriarchy in
A. Social conditioning
B. Biology
C. Economic Structures
D. All of the above

27. Who used the Darwin theory of evolution and attempted to provide a biological foundation for social solidarity just opposite to the social Darwinism theory of Herbert Spencer?
A. Michael Bakunin
B. William Godwin
C. Peter Kropotkin
D. Benjamin Tucker

28. Which theory is a blend of Marxist political economy, Hegelian Philosophy and Freudian Psychology?
A. New Right
B. Critical theory
C. Post Modernism
D. Post Structuralism

29. Who regarded the idea of rights as 'nonsense on stilts?'
A. Karl Marx
B. Jeremy Bentham
C. JS Mill
D. Hegel

30. C.B MacPherson characterized early liberalism(Classic Liberalism) as
A. Possessive Individualism
B. Productive Individualism
C. Repressive Individualism
D. All of the above depends upon a person's own capabilities

31. Which Classical theorist of administration used the term constructive Conflict and sees the conflict as an opportunity for the betterment of administration?
A. Henry Fayol
B. FW. Taylor
C. Mary Parker Follet
D. Urwick

32. Hawthorne experiment is related to
A. Decision-making theory
B. Ecological approach
C. Human Relations theory
D. Bureaucratic theory

33. Who used the term like Transitia, Sala Model and Bazaar Canteen model for the explanation of his administrative approach?
A. FW Riggs
B. Barnard
C. Warren Bennis
D. Victor Thompson

34. In which judgement The Supreme Court said in the context of DPSP and Fundamental rights, that both are like two wheels of a chariot
A. Golaknath Case
B. Keshwanand Bharti case
C. Champaran Doraijan Case
D. Minerva Mills Case

35. Shadow Cabinet is a unique institution of the British cabinet system, formed by
A. Labour Party
B. Conservative Party
C. Citizens
D. Opposition

36. National Financial Emergency can be imposed for the period of
A. 3 years
B. 6 Months
C. Till the session.of Loksabha
D. Unlimited Period

37. Which Committee was set up under the government of India act 1919 in 1921
A. Public account committee
B. Estimate committee
C. Committee on public undertaking
D. All of the above

38. Disqualification of members in case of anti-defection law is decided by
A. President
B. Head of the party
C. CJI
D. Speaker

39.Apart from Zero Hour, Which motion is also an invention of Indians Parliament procedure
A. Calling attention motion
B. Guillotine Closure
C. Special Mention
D. Kangaroo Closure

40. The Supreme court issued writs only for the
A. Directive Principle
B. Fundamental Rights
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

41. In which judgement, The supreme court opened the process of judicial review also in the matters listed in the ninth schedule which is added after the April 24,1973
A. Indra Sahney case
B. I.R. Coehlo Case
C. Minerva Mills Case
D. Subash Kumar Vs State of Bihar

42. Which NGOs filed a petition in the supreme court for the implementation of NOTA
A. People union for civil liberties
B. Centre for the study of developing societies
C. Both A and B
D. Suo Moto of Supreme Court

43. Michael Doyle's theory of Democratic peace is inspired by
A. Immanuel Kant
B. Hegel
C. Richard Cobden
D. Bentham

44. Which theory of IRs is associated with 'World travelling' methodology?
A. Critical Theory
B. Neo-Liberalism
C. Post-Colonialism
D. Neo-Marxism

45. Which feminist international theories are often against the embedded feminism of USA?
A. Poststructural Feminist IR
B. Critical Feminist IR
C. Postcolonial Feminist IR
D. Both B and C

46. Which IR theorist divides the influence of liberalism through three phases like Liberal Internationalism 1.0, 2.0, 3.0?
A. Kenneth Waltz
B. John Mershimer
C. G. John Ikenberry
D. Joseph Nye

47. A country that possesses the infrastructure, material and technical capabilities to quickly assemble a nuclear weapon, but has never done so is called
A. Nuclear Opacity
B. Latent Nuclear Capacity
C. Deterrence Nuclear Strategy
D. None of the above

48. Janata is a newspaper edited and founded by
A. Jyoti Rao Phule
B. Aurbindo
C. BR Ambedkar
D. MN Roy

49. Bread labour is often associated with
A. Gandhi
B. Nehru
C. Jayprakash Narayan
D. Lohia

50. Who said, "Man abiding happiness is not in getting anything but im giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of the country, of humanity, of god."
A. R. Tagore
B. Aurbindo
C. Iqbal
D. M. Gandhi 

ANSWERS

1.C 2.D 3.D 4.C 5.B 6.C 7.B 8.A 9.A 10.A 11.A 12.C 13.B 14.B 15.B 16.D 17.C 18.D 19.A 20.B 21.B 22.A 23.B 24.B 25.A 26.B 27.B 28.B 29.B 30.A 31.C 32.C 33.A 34.D 35.D 36.D 37.A 38.D 39.A 40.B 41.B 42.A 43.A 44.C 45.D 46.C 47.B 48.C 49.A 50.A

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