laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | Political Science-[FPSC-U.S A. CSS] (USA) Political Science Nature Theories and State Function Set 1

In the past stte used to perform:

1. Welfare functions
2. Police functions
3. Optional functions
4. Maximum functions for human development

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Karl Marx state:

1. Protects the interests of the poor
2. Gives maximum happiness to maximum number of people
3. Promotes exploitation of poor by the rich
4. Promotes moral welfare of the people

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Most important responsibility of a welfare state is:

1. To preserve private property
2. To promote religion of people
3. To check exploitation
4. To check encroachments on fundamental rights

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In ancient India most important function of the state was:

1. To expand
2. To give economic prosperity to the people
3. To prserve private property of citizens
4. To promote dharma

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In a secular state the religion:

1. Of majority is promoted
2. Of minority is protected
3. Of State is promoted
4. Has nothing to do with politics

✅ Correct Answer: 4

According to monistic theory about the functions of the state:

1. Individual has nothing to do with state
2. Individual and state must exist for each other
3. Individual should surrender very little to the state
4. State should perform minimum functions

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who believed that the state should protect and restrain and not foster and promote?

1. The Absolutists
2. The socialists
3. The Fabian Socialists
4. The Monistic

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who believed that the state has the same organs as the individuals?

1. The Dualists
2. The Socialists
3. The Organic Theory of State
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who believes that individual independent in his own way dependent on others?

1. The Monistic
2. The Dualists
3. The Socialists
4. The Anarchists

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said that the state is individual magnified?

1. Plato
2. G.B. Vico
3. Waltair
4. Marx

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that individual is an instinct part of the state?

1. Aristotle
2. Locke
3. Rousseau
4. Lenin

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who believed that head of the state is comparable to the spirit of human body?

1. Grotius
2. St. Paul
3. Bluntschli
4. Cicero

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said that state is image of human organism?

1. Locke
2. Bluntschli
3. Mosaca
4. August Comte

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Whose name is primarily associated with organic theory of the state?

1. August Comte
2. MacIver
3. Herbert Spencer
4. T.H. Green

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Organic theory of the state gave set back to:

1. Theory of Divine Origin
2. Anarchists
3. Syndicalists
4. Theory of Social Contract

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said that organic theory of the state is not a trustworthy guide to state activity?

1. Ebestein
2. Leacock
3. MacIver
4. Gettell

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Idealistic Theory is also called:

1. Socialistic theory
2. Divine theory
3. Anarchist theory
4. Metaphysical theory

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Idealists have:

1. Glorified state
2. Given minimum functions to state
3. Given only welfare functions to state
4. Have given individuals right to revolt against the state

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Whose name is associated with Idealist theory of the state?

1. Hegel
2. Grotius
3. J.S. Mill
4. James Mill

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Bosanquest s name is associated with:

1. Organic theory
2. Idealist theory
3. Anarchist theory
4. Socialist theory

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who said that state existed for the life and continues to exist for the sake of good life?

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Spencer
4. Montesquieu

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who said that state is march of God on earth?

1. Locke
2. Rousseau
3. Hegel
4. Montesquieu

✅ Correct Answer: 3

India is a secular state because in it there is:

1. Equality of status
2. Social Justice.
3. Equality before law
4. Liberty of worship

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Essential function of state these days is:

1. Maintenance of law and order
2. Collection of maximum revenues
3. Punishing of the criminals
4. To maintain good transport system

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Marx considers state:

1. A means of revolution
2. Class instrument
3. A welfare agency
4. A law-making agency

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following can be called a secular state namely which:

1. Is anti-religious
2. Is irreligious
3. Declares all religions as state religions
4. Does not distinguish people on the basis of religion

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Liberalism was written by:

1. Montesquieu
2. Spencer
3. Leacock Hobbes
4. Ludwig von Mises

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which is considered as optimal function of the state?

1. Opening educational institutions
2. Giving justice to the people
3. Preserving life of the people
4. Preserving law and order

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following to day is not considered as function of the state?

1. Imposing of taxes
2. Interfering in the religion of the people
3. Giving education to the people
4. Protecting one class of people against the other

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Syndicalists the functions of the state should be taken over by:

1. Bureaucrats
2. Priests
3. Syndicates
4. Capitalists

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to Individualists state should:

1. Be given maximum powers
2. Have maximum interference in individual affairs
3. Perform maximum optional functions
4. Should least interfere in the affairs of individuals

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The individualists believe that:

1. Individual is the best judge of his interests
2. He needs others to make min realise his welfare
3. State looks after best interests of the individuals
4. Guilds can promote individual s welfare

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Individualists state activities:

1. Should remain as these are
2. Should be kept to the minimum
3. Should be expanded
4. Should be at the highest ebb

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Absolutists:

1. Individual can develop in the state
2. State does not contribute in individual s development
3. State should not keep the individuals in his sphere of activity
4. Should not maintain law and order

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Absolutists:

1. The state authority can be challenged
2. The state is one of the associations
3. The state should be put on high pedestals and worshipped
4. The individual has the right to rise against state

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Absolutists:

1. Individual is much higher than the state
2. Individual should be scarified at the altar of the state
3. Individual s natural rights must be preserved
4. Individual should be guaranteed fundamental rights

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Anarchists:

1. The state authority is not being misused
2. The state authority is not being misused
3. The state is misusing its authority
4. The state is using its position in favour of workers

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to Anarchists the present system of representation

1. Is very sound
2. Needs great encouragement
3. Should be replaced by functional representation
4. Is a mockery

✅ Correct Answer: 4

According to Anarchists the state:

1. Should be given maximum functions
2. Should be given only compulsory functions
3. Should be given both compulsory as well functions
4. Should immediately be overthrown

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Guild Socialists believe that:

1. State should perform maximum functions
2. Most of the present day functions of the state should be performed by guilds
3. State should perform all optional functions
4. State should actively interfere in individual s affairs

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In our modern times the state is expected to perform:

1. Minimum functions
2. Only compulsory functions
3. Only optional functions
4. Both compulsory and optional functions

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The compulsory functions of the state are those which:

1. State is given by the society to perform
2. State compulsorily takes upon itself
3. State is forced to take upon itself
4. If not performed the state will disintegrate

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Optional functions of the state are those which:

1. If not performed the state will disintegrate
2. If not performed the very character of the state will change
3. If not performed the existence of state will not be in danger
4. If not performed the people will rise against the state

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A welfare of state of today is supposed to perform:

1. Only compulsory functions
2. Only optional functions
3. Minimum functions
4. Both compulsory and optional functions

✅ Correct Answer: 4

One of the compulsory functions of the state is to:

1. Defend the people from outside aggression
2. Regulate working hours of workers
3. To spread education
4. To maintain good transport system

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A modern state is expected:

1. To ensure that citizens have healthy relations
2. Not to bother about individual s mutual relations
3. Least interfere in individual s mutual relationship
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not the optional function of the state?

1. Maintenance of diplomatic relations
2. Spread of education
3. Provide scholoarships for brilliant students
4. To maintain good postal system

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following is not compulsory function of state?

1. Enacting a constitution for the people
2. Specifying rights and duties of the people
3. Maintaining armed forces
4. Regulation of labour laws

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In our times distinction between compulsory and optional functions:

1. Has consiiderably widened
2. Has remained as it was
3. Has altogether come to an end
4. Has considerably narrowed down

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Those who believe that the state is an end in itself believe that: .

1. Should be widened
2. Should be narrowed down
3. State should have no functions
4. State should perform optional functions

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Those who believe that the state is means to an end believe that:

1. Man is the highest aim of perfection
2. Nothing should be left to the individual
3. Individual is not the best judge of his interests
4. State should bother about removing hindrances

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that state came into being for the sake of life and continues for the sake of good life?

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Spencer
4. Spinoza

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who of the following believed that state was Leviathan?

1. Hobbes
2. Locke
3. Rousseau
4. Aristotle

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who believed that end of the state is good of humanity?

1. Locke
2. Hobbes
3. Spencer
4. Grotius

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that everystate activity should aim at perfection of national life?

1. Burgess
2. Garner
3. Gettell
4. Bluntschli

✅ Correct Answer: 4

For whom end of the state activity was advancement of civilisation and humanity as a whole:

1. Burgess
2. Locke
3. Bluntschli
4. Plato

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In so far as limitation on state authority is concerned important one is:

1. Discharge of international obligations
2. Fear of educational institutions
3. Fear of dacoits and robbers
4. Fear of dacoits and robbers

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not a limitation on state authority?

1. Religion and moral
2. Schools and colleges
3. Transport and communication
4. Labour laws

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which is the greatest limitation on the authority of the state?

1. Disruption of transport system
2. Disruption of consumption system
3. Sovereign will of the people
4. Slow land reform system

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that the state should aim at preserving destiny of humanity at international level?

1. Burgess
2. Bluntschli
3. Tucker
4. Sorel

✅ Correct Answer: 2