1. Who among the following stated that "All states, all powers, that have held or hold rule over men have been and are either republic or principalities"?(KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

2. Who among the following argued that 'taxation is equivalent to forced labour'? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

3. Assertion (A): Aristotle believed that emotions have intellectual dimensions.

Reason (R): Emotions are interconnected to judgement of particular situation.

In the context of above two statements, which among the following is correct? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

4. Who among the following political theorists has argued that distributing public good should be done in such a way that it should be to the benefit of the least advantaged? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

5. Assertion (A): When Aristotle wrote "Politics" his aim was to ameliorate the then existing Constitutions?

Reason (R): Best Constitution was his ultimate goal.

In the context of the above two statements, which among the following is true? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

6. Who among the following theorists is credited with the origin of the modern conception of identity and self? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

7. John Locke was a great supporter of (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

8. Which of the following statements of Plato is correct? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

1)      Plato's communism covered not only property but also the wives

2)      Plato's communism lays emphasis on common renunciation of all private property by guardian class

3)      Plato's communism was essentially meant for the Greek city-states

4)      Plato's communism stood for drastic changes for all sections of society.

Of the above statements:

9. The concept of natural right is associated with the name of (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

10. 'The reason why men enter into civil society is the preservation of their property'. Who said this? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

11. Who criticised social contract as 'bad history, bad logic and bad ethics'? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

12. Who among the following made the greatest contribution to the application of Marxism? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

13. The central point of social contract theory is that the state is (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

14. Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government set out a theory of (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

15. Who has described election as the heart of Democracy? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER III)

16. The separation of Church and State is often credited in the writings of (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

17. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

18. Modern conceptions of Democracy are rooted in (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

19. Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan justified. (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

20. Who among the following was the first Political thinker to recognise the distinctive quality of Politics as one of the basic human activities? (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

21. John Rawl's Theory of Justice essentially aims at (KARNATAKA SET 2014 PAPER II)

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

23. In which one of the following do we find Karl Marx’s description of the early Indian society and economy (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

24. 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)

25. Assertion (A): Constitutionalism as an idea is identified with John Locke.

Reason (R): John Locke was highly critical of non-democratic government.

In the context of the above statements, which among the following is correct? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

26. Assertion (A): Plato argued that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Reason (R): Plato strongly believed the suffering in justice makes man perfect

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27. Assertion (A): Gramsci opposed dividing common sense from good sense.

Reason (R): Common sense may turn out to be utterly wrong and good sense is nearer to reality.

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28. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

Assertion (A): In the Church-State controversy the Monarch not only ruled the secular state but also encroached upon the spiritual rule of the Church.

Reason (R): It was meant to denounce the authority of the Church.

In the context of the two statement which one of the following correct?

29. Who among the following maintains that persons carried into the state their natural rights from the state of nature? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

30. Who among the following Marxist thinkers has been described as ‘a genius theoretician’ (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

31. According to Marx ‘The Dictatorship of the proletariat’ signifies (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

32. Who among the following thinkers is credited with developing the concept of ‘distributive justice’ for the first time? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

33. Which one of the following, according to John Locke, is not a natural right? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

34. Who said, “Where there is no law, there is no freedom”? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

35. 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)

36. Which political thinker advocated “Plural Voting” to the higher educated citizen? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER III)

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

Assertion (A): Rousseau argued that foundation of civil society lies in private property.

Reason (R): Rousseau believed that private property is the reason for “theft”.

38. 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.

39. With the help of the following code give the proper sequence of different stages in Locke’s Social Contract (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

I. Civil society

II. Government

III. State of nature

IV. Social contract

40. Arrange the following books in which they appeared using the code given below (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

1.      The Elements of Law

2.      Leviathan

3.      De. Hominc

4.      De. Corpore

Code:

41. Which among the following constitute coalition of classes for Mao’s New Democratic Revolution? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

42. Who among the following argued “Justice is the political good and this consists in what is of common advantage”? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

43. Arrange the following books in order by using the following code. (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

1.      Das Capital

2.      Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

3.      The Poverty of Philosophy

4.      Theses on Feurbach

44. Which of the following is correctly matched? (KARNATAKA SET 2015 PAPER II)

45. Which one of the following was consisted by J. S. Mill for voter? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

46. Who among the following did not make use of historical approach for the study of politics? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

47. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

48. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

49. The two principles on which Aristotle based his classification of Governments (States) were (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

50. Consider the following statements of Hobbes. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

1.      Power to make laws is one of the important attribute of sovereignty

2.      Law is an important instrument which regulates the behaviour of the individual.

3.      There is not limitation on the laws enacted by the sovereign in the form of natural law, divine law and international law.

4.      The sovereign is not above law

51. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

52. Questions are matching type. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

53. Which one of the following works has been wrongly attributed to Hegel? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

54. Consider the following statements regarding state of nature as depicted by Hobbes (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

1.      Life was short, brutish and nasty.

2.      No distinction was made between the just and unjust.

3.      There was no right to private property in the state of nature.

4.      People were governed in accordance with law and laid downs by the sovereign.

Of the above statements which one is correct?

55. Questions are matching type. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer code. (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

56. During the medieval period the King was (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

57. Consider the following statement: (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

1.      Marsiglio of Padua showed preference for city state.

2.      Marsiglio asserted that the reason for the existence of the state was to be found in the welfare of the ruled and not the rulers.

3.      Marsiglio held that politics must be founded on reason, not on theology or faith.

4.      Marsiglio held that rule by elites was far superior to the rule by the multitude.

Of the above statements:

58. Which one of the following political thinkers is revered by half of the world as a God and condemned by the other half as a devil? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER III)

59. The nature and aims of a perfectly just society is the fundamental part of the theory of justice. To whom is this statement attributed? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

60. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

1.      Contractualists - John Rawls

2.      Libertarian - Robert Nozick

3.      Communitarian - Charles Taylor

4.      Totalitarian - Michels Oakeshott

Codes:

61. Assertion (A): A successful revolt is a revolution.

Reason (R): A failed revolution is a revolt.

Codes:

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62. Who among the following first spoke of Supreme power of the State? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

63. State does not come out of an Oak or rock, but from the minds of men that dwell therein. Who held this? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

64. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched? (KARNATAKA SET 2016 PAPER II)

65. “Poverty of Philosophy”, was written in response to “philosophy of poverty”. Which one of the following pairs of authors was involved with these two? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

66. Rawl’s principle of distributive justice is based on the notion of (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

67. Who regarded Locke’s theory of the State as the manifestation of “Possessive individualism”? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

68. “Freedom is the real possibility of being relevant, of being meaningful, of being total” Who said this? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

69. Who authored the book ‘Nichomachean Ethics’? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

70. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R) (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

Assertion (A): According to Ancient Greek thinkers the State was a man made institution.

Reason (R): State is a Union of families.

Codes:

71. Which of the following statements about Hegel’s theory of State is not correct? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

72. Who one among the following was an English Idealist? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

73. Who said that “We want to abolish classes, in this sense we are for equality”? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

74. Who among the following said that “cunning and deceit will serve a man better than force to rise from base condition to great fortune”? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

75. The ‘Lyceum’ of Aristotle is oftenly called as (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

76. ‘The City of God’ of St. Augustine in the middle ages was considered as the first book on  (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

77. Who said “State is prior to the individual”? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

78. Match the Following List. (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

79. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the list. (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

80. “J.S. Mill was the prophet of empty liberty”. Who said this statement? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER III)

81. The statement “the greatest happiness of the greatest number” is attributed to (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

82. Match the following criticisms of the social contract theory: (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

83. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

Assertion (A): Thomas Hobbes was inclined towards absolutism.

Reason(R): Thomas Hobbes was an Englishman who lived in the days of the civil war.

Codes:

84. Which is the correct chronological order in which the following emerged? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

1.      The Greek City State

2.      The Roman Empire

3.      The Feudal State

4.      The Nation State

Codes:

85. Which one of the following does not match? (KARNATAKA SET 2017 PAPER II)

86. Gandhiji’s ‘Theory of ends and means’ is unlike to theory of (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

87. The essence of Mao Tse Tung’s ‘New Democracy’ is (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

88. Match the List - I with List - II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

89. John Rawls revived the idea of negotiators to build his theory of Justice. The notion of ‘rational negotiators’ originally belonged to (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

90. Lenin says that “Imperialism is the (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

91. Who said “voice of the people may be the voice of God”? (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

92. Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the code given below: (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

93. According to Acquinas, which of the following was a perverted form of Government? (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

94. J. J. Rousseau was influenced by (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

95. Who stated that “Democracy is based on a false assumption of equality”? (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

96. According to Locke, man is by nature (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

97. In the medieval times, the king was considered as (KARNATAKA SET 2018 PAPER II)

98. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R). (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

Assertion (a): Plato is an ideal philosopher.

Reason (R): This is proved through Aristotle’s Philosophy.

In the context of the above statements, which of the following is true?

99. Consider the following statements with regard to Rousseous’s Philosophy. (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)

1.      All individuals is the political community should be involved in the law making.

2.      People themselves would be the sovereign authority.

3.      There is a distinction between the State and the community.

4.      There is a distinction between the Government and the people.

Select the correct answer:

Codes:

100. Who among the following observed that “State is the March of God on Earth”? (KARNATAKA SET 2020 PAPER II)