1. Who did help to humanize J.S. Mill's revised version of Utilitarianism? (NET December 2013 Paper III)

2. According to Hobbes people left the state of nature and created state through a contract. This contract was concluded by (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

3. Which great political thinker commented that the state comes into being originating in the bare needs of the life of man and continuing in existence for the sake of good life? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2017 PAPER III)

4. Which of the following thinkers presented the idea of historical materialism? (CUET PG 2021)

5. "Freedom is the positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying". Who said this? (JNU MA 2019)

6. Arrange these in a chronological order: (NET December 2019 Paper II)

(1) Benn and RS Peters' Social Principles and Democratic State

(2) John Rawls' A Theory of Justice

(3) Susan Mollerokin's Justice Gender and Family

(4) Rousseau's Social Contract

Choose the correct option from below:

7. The inequality termed by Rousseau as ‘Conventional Inequality’: (KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

8. Which of the following statements given below are in line with the political thought of J. S. Mill? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

(i) Mill's work straddled the divide between classical and modern liberalism.

(ii) He was great supporter of female suffrage.

(iii) He had sympathy for workers cooperatives.

(iv) He was staunch supporter of state intervention.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

9. Two statements are given in the following. One is Assertion (A) another one Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

Assertion (A): Ancient Greek political thought provided a well articulated concept of good politics.

Reason (R): Because it argued for the abolition of private property.

10. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET 2018)

11. The term Legitimation crisis is most associated with: (MAHARASHTRA SET 2019 PAPER II)

12. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (GUJARAT SET 2022)

13. The champion of Individual Freedom is (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

14. Which among the following ideas are part of the Cultural Revolution? (NET 2022 Paper II October Shift I)

(A) Children are the master of new society.

(B) Only the poor peasants can and must be the basic force to be relied upon the land reforms.

(C) Under feudal domination marriage is barbaric and inhuman institution.

(D) The women are reserve for home making.

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

15. ‘The Nocturnal Council’ is related to: (KERALA SET 2018 FEBRUARY)

16. Who categorised Intellectuals as ‘Traditional Intellectuals’ and ‘Organic Intellectuals’? (KERALA SET 2017 FEBRUARY)

17. In John Rawls's Theory of Justice, what is the significance of the Original Position? (JNU MA 2021)

18. Plato’s thoughts were chiefly inspired by (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

19. Consider the following statements: (GUJARAT SET 2018)

(a)   Niccolo Machiavelli permitted the prince to act in violation of moral principles in the interest of the state.

(b)   Niccolo Machiavelli proposed two different standards of morality -one for the ruler and the other for the citizens.

(c)   Niccolo Machiavelli did not advocate the separation of politics and morality.

(d)   Niccolo Machiavelli suggests that the prince should appear to be the embodiment of qualities which are held in esteem.

Of the above statements:

20. The historical background of the Second Treatise by John Locke was? (JMI M.A. 2021-2022)

21. Which form of the government was preferred by Jeremy Bentham? (RAJASTHAN SET 2023)

22. The term 'veil of ignorance' is to be found in the work of (University of Hyderabad MA 2018)

23. Assertion (A): Lenin advocated imperialism to understand the growth of monopoly capitalism.

Reason (R): It was to reformulate Marxism as part of revisionism. (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

24. Who said, "J. J. Rousseau is the Father of Jacobin despotism, of Caesarian dictatorship and the inspirer of the absolute doctrines of Kant and of Hegel"? (NET June 2013 Paper III)

25. For Hobbes, 'felicity' means: (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2017 PAPER III)

26. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R): (CUET PG 2023)

Assertion (A): According to Plato, "the State is individual writ large".

Reason (R): The virtues found in an individual are found in larger form in the State.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

27. Who among the following propagated the entitlement theory of justice? (KERALA SET 2019 FEBRUARY)

28. 'The Emile' was the treatise of: (BHU MA 2019)

29. The form of revolution put forward by Mao Tse Tung: (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

30. Who said, "Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override"? (Maharashtra SET 2024 Paper II)

31. Match the List - I with List - II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

32. Who among the following advocates the 'Entitlement theory of Justice'? (CUET PG 2022)

33. Which of the following pairs is not correct?  (MAHARASHTRA SET 2020 PAPER II)

34. Who wrote A Contribution to the Critique of Potitical Economy? (University of Hyderabad MA 2015)

35. When it is argued that Hobbes 's social contract situation is not 'like a single shot prisoner's dilemma but more like a self-interested agreement where the optimal strategy is to fulfill the agreement,' the interpretive method stems from (University of Hyderabad Ph.D 2023)

36. Who initiated the idea of "hegemony" for explaining the failure of communist revolutions? (GUJARAT SET 2010)

37. Match the following and select the correct answer using the codes below: (SLET 17th March 2024)

38. Which one of the following is not correctly matched? (BHU MA 2014)

39. Which of the following thinkers rejected the Marxist understanding of scientific determinism by employing the theory of hegemony? (GUJARAT SET 2021 DEC)

40. Who among the following considered that contradictions would remain even in a socialist society, but antagonisms would not and formulated the notions of antagonistic contradictions and non-antagonistic contradictions? (TELANGANA SET 2022)

41. Match the following: (DU MA 2018)

42. Who said that the state is the centre of those practical and theoretical activities through which the ruling class not only seeks to keep its hegemony but also tries to justify the same ? (Himachal Pradesh SET 2017)

43. Who among the following views political power in terms of rational consent of the governed and obligation of the power holders towards the subjects? (Madhya Pradesh SET 2022)

44. 'Leviathan' was written by (CUET PG 2022)

45. In whose theory of social contract, the ruler is not a party to the contract? (GUJARAT SET 2011)

46. Who said 'Family is the First School of Social life'? (RAJASTHAN SET 2012 PART 1)

47. Which one of the following themes would you not expect to find in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics? (JNU MA 2021)

48. Who stated “The world can be moulded only with the gun. Whoever wants to seize the political power of the state and to maintain it must have strong army"? (NET June 2024 Paper II)

49. The Greek word "Polis", refers to: (Presidency University Bachelor Degree Entrance Test 2019)

50. Who amongst the following wrote The Art of War? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)