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NET Unit 2: Political Thought Part I

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1. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R: (NET November 2021 Shift II)

Assertion A: Every thinker was a child of his age

Reason R: Mary Wollstonecraft argued in the Vindication of Rights of Woman that women should be entitled to the same rights and privileges as men and should be given access to education

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

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2. Arrange chronologically, the texts of Plato in ascending order (NET November 2021 Shift II)

A. Apology

B. Republic

C. Laws

D. Statesman

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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3. John Rawls believed in: (NET November 2021 Shift II)

A. Difference principle

B. Entitlement principle

C. Egalitarianism

D. Libertarianism

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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4. Who among the following has dubbed Marxism as a totalitarian doctrine? (NET November 2021 Shift II)

A. Karl Popper

B. Isaiah Berlin

C. Hannah Arendt

D. Antonio Gramsci

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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5. Karl Popper attacked the historicism of: (NET November 2021 Shift II)

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6. Which of the following are correct? (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

  1. Hannah Arendt - The Post-Modern Conditions
  2. Jacques Derrida - The Post Card
  3. Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth
  4. Antonio Gramsci - The Human Condition

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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7. According to Hegel: (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

A. War is not to be regarded as an evil but a virtue.

B. War effectively displays the "irony of the divine idea".

C. War destroys the selfish egoism of the individual.

D. 'The State of War", "shows the omnipotence of the state in its individuality".

E. Humanity never needed war and the gun is a chance of invention.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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8. Which of the following is NOT written by Mary Wollstonecraft? (NET December 2021 and June 2022 Shift II)

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9. Consider the following correct statements- (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Anthony Smith wrote the book 'The Ethnic Origins of Nations'.

B. Ernest Gellner emphasised his idea of nationalism in book 'Nations and Nationalism."

C. Malcom X argued for rediscovery of Africa as a spiritual and cultural homeland.

D. John Loke's idea of General Will was the seed from which nationalist doctrines sprang during the French Revolution of 1789.

E. Eric Hobsbawn highlighted the idea of 'invented traditions."

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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10. Choose the correct statements regarding political ideas- (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. John Locke championed the cause of constitutional government.

B. Montesquieu proposed a system of checks and balances in the form of separation of powers which became the important feature of British Constitution.

C. Jeremy Bentham developed his idea of utilitarianism.

D. J. S. Mill argued for broadening of popular participation with inclusion of women.

E. Thomas Hobbes discussed the grounds of political obligation in his classical work 'Philosophy of Right'.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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11. Choose the correct statements regarding political theorists- (NET August 2024 Shift II)

A. Mary Wollstonecraft emphasized the equal rights of women.

B. Hannah Arendt examined the nature of both Nazism and Stalinism in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'.

C. Antonio Gramsei wrote the famous book 'On People's Democratic Dictatorship'.

D. Franz Fanon wrote the famous book 'Black Skin White Masks'.

E. In his famous book, 'Politics among Nations', Aristotle advocated a system of mixed government.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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12. Who stated- 'Sri Aurobindo has appropriated Hegel's notion of an Absolute Spirit and employed it to radically restructure the architectonic framework of the ancient Hindu Vedanta system in contemporary terms? (NET August 2024 Shift II)

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13. Arrange John Rawls writings in chronological order which indicates his evolution as a philosopher of eminence? (NET August 2024 Shift I)

(A) Political Liberalism

(B) A Theory of Justice

(C) Justice as Fairness

(D) The Law of Peoples

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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14. Hannah Arendt analyses the Vita activa via three categories which corresponds to the three fundamental activities of our being in the world. (NET August 2024 Shift I)

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15. Who observed that intellectuals "are the dominant groups 'deputies' exercising the subaltern functions of social hegemony and political government"? (NET August 2024 Shift I)

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16. Arrange the following political philosophers in the chronological order: (NET August 2024 Shift I)

(A) Karl Popper

(B) John Rawls

(C) B. Macpherson

(D) Robert Dahl

(E) Herbert Marcuse

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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17. Plato's Republic demonstrates that democratic form of Government is essentially: (NET December 2004)

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18. A Constitutional Govemment stands for: (NET December 2004)

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19. Match List I (concept) with List II (thinker) and give the answer by using the codes given below: (NET December 2004)

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20. Match the following form the correct pairs: (NET December 2004)

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21. Who wrote that the state is "perfected rationality"? (NET December 2004)

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22. According to John Locke one of the following is not a natural right: (NET December 2004)

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23. According to Aristotle, the best constitution should adopt the principle of: (NET December 2004)

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24. Identify the scholar who has remarked that 'The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape, its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge': (NET December 2005)

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25. Arrange the following ideas/concepts in order in which they appeared. Use the code given below: (NET December 2005)

I. Feed-back loop

II. Rule of Law

III. Due Process of Law

IV. Democratic centralism

Code:

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26. Who among the following is considered to be the founder of comparative study of government? (NET December 2005)

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27. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2005)

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28. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2005)

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29. Arrange the following events/concepts in order in which they appeared. Use the code given below: (NET December 2005)

i. Glorious Revolution

ii. Proletariat Revolution

iii. Total Revolution

iv. Behavioural Revolution

Code:

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30. Arrange the following books in order in which they appeared. Use the code given below: (NET December 2005)

i. 'Das Capital'

ii. The Laws

iii. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

iii. New Humanism: a Manifesto'

Code:

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31. Who among the following propounded the concept of 'organic intellectuals' (NET December 2005)

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32. Which one 'right' in the follwing includes two other rights according to locke? (NET December 2005)

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33. A constitutional government is: (NET December 2006)

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34. According to Aristotle, the best polity is that which is based on the principle of: (NET December 2006)

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35. According to Plato, the most inferior type of the State is: (NET December 2006)

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36. Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2006)

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37. Assertion (A): According to Locke, the functions of government as well as its powers are limited

Reason (R): Government exists, he says, to protect life, liberty and property.

(NET December 2006)

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38. According to Aristotle, which of the following is the best form of government? (NET December 2006)

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39. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2006)

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40. Who said, "Man is born free everywhere he is in chains"? (NET December 2006)

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41. The thinker who had accepted the fundamentals of Aristotle's political thought in the medieval period was (NET December 2006)

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42. Match List - II with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2007)

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43. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2007)

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44. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2007)

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45. Identify the correct chronological order in which the following concepts/theories were born: (NET December 2007)

(i) 'General Will'

(ii) 'Authority as Federal

(iii) 'Satyagraha'

(iv) 'Gram Swaraj

Codes:

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46. Identify the correct chronological order in which the following were published: (NET December 2007)

(i) Leviathan

(ii) Modern Political Analysis

(iii) A Theory of Justice

(iv) The calculus of Consent

Codes:

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47. Who, among the following, had introduced 'Christian Humanitarian Values' in an otherwise hedonistic philosophy? (NET December 2007)

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48. Whose name is associated with the concept 'Relative Autonomy of State’? (NET December 2007)

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49. Who, among the following is the author of 'The Laws'? (NET December 2007)

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50. Match the List-I with the List-II: (NET December 2008)

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51. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R): (NET December 2008)

Assertion (A): Nozic was a libertarian

Reason (R): Nozic stood for individual liberty and just property.

Which one of the following is correct?

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52. The problem of 'minority opinion' was tackled by: (NET December 2008)

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53. The theory of contradictions was propounded by: (NET December 2008)

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54. Who propounded the idea of 'felicific calculus'? (NET December 2008)

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55. Who said that some men are ruled by force and some others by law? (NET December 2008)

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56. The idea of the cave and shadows is associated with: (NET December 2008)

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57. Which one of the following has a close affinity to the rule of law? (NET June 2008)

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58. Match the List-I with the List-II: (NET June 2008)

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59. Match the List-I with the List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2008)

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60. Identify the correct order in which the political thinkers propounded their respective theories: (NET June 2008)

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61. For propounding their theories the 'social contract theory' was used by: (NET June 2008)

(i) Marx

(ii) Rawls

(iii) Lenin

(iv) Nozick

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62. The concept of 'hegemony' is associated with: (NET June 2008)

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63. The theory of 'political obligation' was propounded by: (NET June 2008)

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64. Who propounded the principle that the political ruler should be amoral? (NET June 2008)

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65. Aristotle is called the 'father of Political Science' because of his idea of: (NET June 2008)

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66. Assertion (A): Rawls's A Theory of Justice is a powerful, deep, subtle, wide-ranging, systematic work in political and moral philosophy

Reason (R): Political philosophers now must either work within Rawls's theory or explain why not.

(NET June 2009)

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67. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (NET June 2009)

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68. Give, with the help of the code given below, the correct chronological order of publication of the following books: (NET June 2009)

(i) A Grammar of Politics

(ii) The End of History and the Last Man

(iii) The Two Treatises of Government

(iv) Anarchy, State and Utopia

Code:

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69. "One can forget the death of one's father but not the loss of patrimony" - Who said this? (NET June 2009)

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70. Arrange the following in a sequence that historically and conceptually presents the concepts of civil society. (NET DECEMBER 2023)

A. It can be understood as a collective entity that springs from society and exists for specific and limited purposes

B. The concept was part of the economic and political liberalism that arose with John Locke and was celebrated by Scottish enlightenment.

C. Civil society is one among many spheres of the larger society along with family, economy, polities etc

D. The concept found a significant place in the writings of Hegel and Marx in the 19th century

E. The first articulation of the concept took place in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe.

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71. Match List I with List II: (NET DECEMBER 2023)

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72. Aristotle criticized popular rule on the ground that masses would resent the wealth of the few, and too easily, fall under the sway of the following: (NET DECEMBER 2023)

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73. Which of the following concepts are not related to John Rawls? (NET DECEMBER 2023)

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74. Assertion (A): To J.S. Mill, the scope of liberty includes that of conscience, thought and feeling, so long as it is voluntary, informal and without harmful intent.

Reason (R): A liberal social order can be justified on utilitarian grounds, without appeal to doctrines of natural rights.

Select your answers to these items using the codes given below: (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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75. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer with the help of the codes given below: (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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76. Limited Government has a close affinity to (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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77. Who, among the following philosophers, is famous for adopting the “golden mean”? (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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78. The core idea of ancient Greek political philosophy is (NET December 2009 Paper II)

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79. Dialectic method was first introduced by (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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80. Who insisted that type of Government depended on economic and geographic factors? (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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81. Who condemned Natural Rights as an invention of Fantasy? (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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82. Saint Augustine “The City of God” was considered as the first book on the (NET December 2010 Paper II)

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83. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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84. The Entitlement Theory of Property has been propounded by (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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85. One of the criticism for the theory of Natural Rights is that it (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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86. Who said that “the world at every stage is both a product and a prophecy”? (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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87. The method of proceeding from general to the particular is (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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88. Who said, “Men are equal by nature; society, through the institution of property, has made them unequal”? (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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89. “The public good ought to be the object of the Legislator.” – Who said it? (NET June 2010 Paper II)

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90. Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2011 Paper II)

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91. Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2011 Paper II)

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92. Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2011 Paper II)

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93. Arrange the following books in chronological order as per codes given below: (NET December 2011 Paper II)

(i) An Essay concerning Toleration

(ii) De Cive

(iii) Confessions

(iv) Political Liberalism

Codes:

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94. Arrange the following in chronological order and choose correct answer from the codes given below: (NET December 2011 Paper II)

(i) The Statesman – Plato

(ii) Emile – Rousseau

(iii) A Fragment of Government – Bentham

(iv) Art of War – Machiavelli

Codes:

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95. Which one of the following is not a supporter of Deontological view? (NET December 2011 Paper II)

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96. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2011 Paper II)

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97. Match List – I with List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2011 Paper II)

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98. Arrange the following revolutions in order they took place. Use the code given below: (NET June 2011 Paper II)

(i) French Revolution

(ii) Bolshevik Revolution

(iii) Menshevik Revolution

(iv) October Revolution

Code:

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99. Arrange the following books in order in which they appeared. Use the code: (NET June 2011 Paper II)

(i) Comparative Politics Today

(ii) The Process of Government

(iii) Comparative Politics : A Developmental Approach

(iv) The Spirit of Laws

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100. Arrange the following thinkers in chronological order. Use the code given below: (NET June 2011 Paper II)

(i) Montesquieu

(ii) John Locke

(iii) Almond

(iv) Arthur Bentley

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