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MCQ1: What is the Greek name for their city state?
Answer: polis

MCQ 2: Â Which of these is the major characteristic of Greek city state according to
Plato and Aristotle?
Answer: Self-sufficiency

MCQ 3: What is the dominant socio-political and economic system in the middle ages?
Answer: Feudalism

MCQ 4: Â What authority did the Reformation thinkers want to subject ecclesiastical
authorities?
Answer: Civil authority

MCQ 5: Â Who is the author of the book, The Leviathan? Answer:

Thomas Hobbes

MCQ 6: Whose political thought is said to have freed kings from the shackles of
morality?
Answer: Machiavelli

MCQ 7: In what did the Enlightenment thinkers placed so much hope to free man from
oppressive political and religious regimes? Answer: Reason

MCQ 8: To whom do we attribute the invention of check and balance in political

system?
Answer: Montesquieu

MCQ 9: What first emphasised that the state should not encroach on the individual
liberty of the citizens?
Answer: The Code Napoleon

MCQ 10: What is the name of the thought system championed by Jeremy Bentham?
Answer: Utilitarianism

MCQ 11: What is equated with knowledge in Socrates' philosophy?

Answer: Virtue

MCQ 12: Who first regarded all laws as social conventions rather than a product of
nature?
Answer: Antiphon

MCQ 13: Who is regarded as the earliest proponent of communism?

Answer: Aristophanes

MCQ 14: On what did Plato build his ideal state?

Answer: Justice
MCQ 15: The human spirit is equated with what in the politics of Plato?
Answer: Soldiers

MCQ 16: Which of the following defines aristocracy?

Answer: Government of the best

MCQ 17: At what age is the philosopher king in Plato matured to rule?
Answer: 50

MCQ 18: Who held the position that: “The Gods do not care about men and do not
interfere either for good or bad in their affairs?†Answer: Epicureans

MCQ 19: What is the constitution that would govern the stoic’s world state?
Answer: Reason

MCQ 20: Which law did Cicero regard as the governor of all other laws?
Answer: Natural Law

MCQ 21: Who is the author of Two Treatises of Government?

Answer: Locke

MCQ 22: What did Aristotle regard as the highest form of government?
Answer: Monarchy

MCQ 23: A statement which consists of two simple statements or sub-statements is

known as __?
Answer: A compound statement

MCQ 24: Who pioneered the application of scientific method in the study of politics?
Answer: Nicollo Machiavelli

MCQ 25: Who held that in addition to its truth, religion has social consequences?
Answer: Marsilio

MCQ 26: Who pioneered the discussion of politics and society without any recourse to
ethics and jurisprudence? Answer: Machiavelli

MCQ 27: The idea that a Christian is bound to obey the orders of a pagan ruler was
championed by who? Answer: Aquinas

MCQ 28: Which of these is the name of Augustine’s book?

Answer: City of God

MCQ 29: From who did Marx borrow the idea of dialectics?
Answer: Hegel

MCQ 30: The theory that our social status, either as slaves or as nobility, was neither a
product of nature nor the gods, was first promoted in the Greek society by who?
Answer: Sophists
MCQ 31: Who are the ultimate rulers in Plato's political thought?
Answer: Philosopher kings

MCQ 32: Which of these is not among the best form of government according to
Aristotle?
Answer: Democracy

MCQ 33: J. S. Mill's hope of forestalling the tyranny of the majority lies in ___________
Answer: Representative government

MCQ 34: What are man's two sovereign masters according to Bentham?
Answer: Pleasure and pain

MCQ 35: Which of these is not a thinker of the enlightenment?

Answer: Augustine

FBQ1: Epicureans regard ____________ as the guiding principle of all men? Answer:
Self interest

FBQ2: Seneca conceived the greater state which all humans belong to as
_______________"
Answer: Society

FBQ3: ____________ defined happiness as the avoidance of pains and worries

Answer: Epicureans

FBQ4: The thesis that progress in arts and sciences has led to idleness, inequality and
luxury was argued by who? Â Answer: Rousseau

FBQ5: ___________ regarded the law as the greatest good of the state Answer:
Cicero

FBQ6: ___________________ regarded man as a citizen of two states Answer:

Augustine

FBQ7: According to Machiavelli the good ruler must possess the character of an animal
called _____________Â Answer: Fox

FBQ8: The idea of slaves as live property was held by_________________Â Answer:
Aristotle

FBQ9: According to Marsilio's two good lives, the first good life consists of proper study
of _____________

Answer: Philosophy

FBQ10: The debate concerning the dual recognition authority of the church and that of
the state is famously regarded as the _______________
Answer: Doctrine of the two swords
FBQ11: Rousseau believed that the first man who, having fenced in a piece of land,
said, “This is mine,†and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man
was the true founder of_____________ Answer: Civil society

FBQ12: In the communist society, distribution of surplus will be based on everyone

according to their _______________ Answer: Need

FBQ13: In the philosophy of Karl Marx, ____________ interest determines human

values
Answer: Economic

FBQ14: Despite his possession of absolute power, the Roman king was bound to
govern his state on the advice of the ______________
Answer: senate

FBQ15: The medieval political system saw the joint exercise of political power between
the emperor and the ________________ Answer: pope

FBQ16: The Leviathan was written to promote political __________

Answer: absolutism

FBQ17: The theory that securing the greatest happiness of the greatest number of
people is the duty of government is known as ______________
Answer: Utilitarianism

FBQ18: Rousseau’s political thought emphasised the primacy of the ________ in

determining political authority Answer: General will

FBQ19: According to early Greek writers, the corruption of _________ leads to mob rule
Answer: Democracy

FBQ20: The major characteristic of the soldier in Plato's ideal state is

__________________
Answer: Courage

FBQ21: Unless the state is a community for ethical purposes it is nothing more than a
highway robbery on large scale, is a view attributed to __________
Answer: Augustine

FBQ22: Jean Bodin held that for the power kings to remain unquestioned his rules
must conform to__________________ Answer: Natural laws

FBQ23: The first political thinker to insist that man has no supernatural end is
___________
Answer: Machiavelli

FBQ24: In Aristotle’s ideal state ____________ is the set of people that should not
be granted citizenship Answer: Traders

FBQ25: Karl Marx attributes the emergence of state to emergence of____

_________________
Answer: Private property

FBQ26: Historical idealism is to Hegel as __________ is to Marx

Answer: Historical materialism

FBQ27: In Hegel's political thought, the individual actualises his material and spiritual
needs in the________ Answer: State

FBQ28: In Locke's political thought, all men are God's _________________

Answer: Property

FBQ29: The chief end or purpose of man on earth, according to Locke is _________
Answer: Survival

FBQ30: In Hobbes' state of nature man is governed by____________________

Answer: Emotion

FBQ31: According to Locke, __________________teaches all mankind that no one

ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions Answer: Natural Law

FBQ32: According to Aquinas, another name for divine law is _____________

Answer: Will of God

FBQ33: Marriage and ownership of property is the sole preserve of ________in Plato's
ideal state
Answer: Workers

FBQ34: __________ regarded truth and justice as the inherent qualities of law
Answer: Cicero

FBQ35: __________ ____ is referred as the father of comparative politics

Answer: Aristotle