1. Match ideas of List I one with names of List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (WB SET 2017 Paper III)

2. Match the books with respective authors: (WEST BENGAL SET 2022)

3. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (NET June 2012 Paper II)

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

5. Montesquieu's theory of separation of powers is related to (WB SET 2015 Paper III)

6. Constitutions are classified into Republican, Monarchic and Despotic by: (KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

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

8. Martin Luther launched the Reformation Movement against (WEST BENGAL SET 2018 PAPER II)

9. Which thinker opposed the claim to Papal supremacy? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2016 PAPER II)

10. “Will, not force is the basis of the state.” Who said this? (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2002)

11. 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

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12. Who one of the following regarded Plato as an enemy of open society? (BHU MA 2014)

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

14. Match the following: (WEST BENGAL SET 2022)

15. Who among the following regarded democracy as the ‘tyranny of the majority’? (Bihar PGT 2023)

16. 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.

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17. Who authored The Human Condition? (PUMDET 2024)

18. Who wrote the book "The Origins of Totalitarianism"? (NET June 2024 Paper II)

19. "Revolutionary violence is not just cathartic but it also allows the colonial subjects to recreate themselves". Whose statement is this? (NET December 2020 & June 2021 Paper-II)

20. Which of the following book(s) was/were written by Frantz Fanon? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

21. "Violence is a precondition to liberation. It operates in two directions: internal to the colony among the colonizers and external in the formative conflict between the colonized and the colonizer" - who among the following considered this in the context European colonialism in the Third World? (TELANGANA SET 2023)

22. 'Great Leap Forward' is: (WB SET 2017 Paper III)

23. Who adopted communism to Asiatic form? (NET June 2012 Paper III)

24. Who said that 'power flows from the barrel of a gun' (GUJARATE SET JULY 2006 PAPER II)

25. Who advocated the principles of "non-antagonistic contradictions" in a socialist society? (GUJARAT SET 2017 AUG PAPER II)

26. Rawls rejects Marxism because (WB SET 2015 Paper III)

27. Who among the following dismissed John Rawl's concept of social justice as a 'mirage'? (NET July 2016 Paper III)

28. Who had condemned utilitarianism in his Theory of justice? (NET December 2019 Paper II)

29. Who propagated the concept of ‘original position’? (WB PSC 2022)

30. Rawls’ principle of distributive justice is based on the notion of:  (MAHARASHTRA SET 2020 PAPER II)

31. The concept of 'well ordered society' is associated with which one of the following? (Himachal Pradesh SET 2017)

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

33. Natural rights are simple nonsense, rhetorical nonsense, nonsense upon stilts”- whose   view is this? (KERALA SET 2021 JULY)

34. "Man is governed by two masters—Pleasure and Pain." Who said? (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2002)

35. For Robert Nozick, taxation of earnings from labour is at par with forced labour because: (JNU MA 2021)

36. Author of ‘Anarchy, State and Utopia’ (KERALA SET 2022 JANUARY)

37. The entitlement theory of property has been propounded by: (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

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

(i) Marx

(ii) Rawls

(iii) Lenin

(iv) Nozick

39. Who divided Constitutions into Autocratic, Aristocratic, and Democratic? (KERALA SET 2017 FEBRUARY)

40. Arrange chronologically, the texts of Valdimir Illyich Lenin in ascending order. (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET JUNE 2022)

1. The State and Revolution.

2. What Is to Be Done?

3. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

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41. The dictum, 'Imperialism is the highest stage of Capitalism' was propounded by:- (DU MA 2018)

42. The idea of democratic centralism was developed by (KERALA SET 2018 JULY)

43. Roy-Lenin debate centred around: (NET November 2017 Paper II)

44. According to Confucius, which concept emphasizes the importance of individuals fulfilling their roles and responsibilities within the social hierarchy? (Maharashtra SET 2024 Paper II)

45. The ruler's main function in the Confucian state was: (TELANGANA SET 2023)

46. The 'Analects' is related to: (NET March 2023 Shift I)

47. The concept of 'form' is primarily associated with (CUET PG 2021)

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

49. The author "The History of of Peloponnesian War" is (JMI M.A. 2016)

50. Who said "Plato's communism is a half- communism"? (WEST BENGAL SET 2015)

51. Dialectic method was used for the first time in the writing of which one of the following thinkers? (NET June 2019 Paper II)

52. 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'

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53. Who said that State is prior to man? (BHU MA 2014)

54. Who is a supporter of Natural Inequality? (BHU MA 2019)

55. Aristotle’s Nichomachaen Ethics primarily explores (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

56. Democracy is not an ideal form of government because it associates all with government. – who believed in this statement? (RAJASTHAN SET 2023)

57. The name ‘Christianised Aristotle’ is associated with: (KERALA SET 2019 FEBRUARY)

58. The idea "The Golden Mean' is associated with (Presidency University Masters Entrance Questions 2017)

59. Arrange the following philosophers in a chronological order from the earliest to the latest.  Choose the correct option. (University of Hyderabad MA 2020)

60. Aristotle predicted slavery will be abolished when: (GUJARAT SET DECEMBER 2017 PAPER III)

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

62. Justice, for Aristotle, was a: (JMI M.A. 2019)

63. Aristotle's classification of constitu- tions was based on the categories of: (NET November 2017 Paper II)

64. Match the following: (NET December 2015 Paper II)

65. Who termed Kautilya's Arthasastra as "truly radical 'Machiavellianism' in the popular sense of that word"? (PUMDET 2024)

66. Man is “ungrateful, fickle deceitful cowardly and avaricious”. Who among the following  made this observation? (KERALA SET 2019 FEBRUARY)

67. Which of the following work(s) is/are authored by Niccolo Machiavelli? (GUJARAT SET 2019 DEC)

(a) Discourses on Livy

(b) The Art of War

(c) Emile

(d) Leviathan

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68. Human beings are by nature jealous and cannot see others prosper. – Who believed in this? (RAJASTHAN SET 2023)

69. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (WEST BENGAL SET JANUARY 2023)

70. Who is regarded as strong advocate of the concept of absolute executive sovereignty which is the supreme end of state? (MAHARASHTRA SET 2017 PAPER II)

71. 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)

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

73. For Hobbes, 'Felicity' means (NET December 2013 Paper III)

74. Who presents a mixture of Individualism and Totalitarianism? (BHU MA 2019)

75. Who said “Nature has made man so equal in the faculties of body and mind”? (KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

76. Locke was critical of patriarchy argument of: (WB SET 2017 Paper III)

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

78. The Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution and the writings of John Locke all contributed to the strengthening of Great Britain: (NET December 2015 Paper III)

79. John Lockes contribution chiefly lies in his: (NET December 2015 Paper III)

(A) Consent theory.

(B) Limited Government.

(C)Theory of state as a corporate body.

(D) Organic conception of state.

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80. For Locke, which of the following statements is not true? (NET July 2016 Paper III)

(A) The state must be a constitutional state.

(B) Government must posses discretionary power.

(C) It is a tolerant state.

(D) The right to property is not a natural right.

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81. Rousseau's General Will stands for: (WB SET 2017 Paper III)

82. The principle of ‘Public Good’ was borrowed by Rousseau from: (Kerala SET July 2024)

83. Who described Rousseau as a totalitarian democrat? (NET November 2017 Paper III)

84. Which of the following is not an idea of Rousseau? (NET June 2015 Paper III)

85. Match the following: (WB SET 2017 Paper II)

86. 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.

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87. Marching through the stages of thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis, consciousness is the essence of the creation and driving force of development. The above view is associated with (NET June 2011 Paper II)

88. Hegel's dialectical method was: (NET November 2017 Paper II)

89. Who said that art, religion and philosophy differ only in form, their purpose is the same? (NET June 2019 Paper II)

90. Who was Mary Wollstonecraft? (WB PSC 2022)

91. Sophie or Sophia is a character in which of the following books? (NET March 2023 Shift I)

92. Which of the following work of Mary Wollstonecraft is considered as a standard text for feminist political philosophy? (TELANGANA SET 2022)

93. Who wrote "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign"? (NET June 2012 Paper II)

94. The book ‘Subjection of Women’ was written by (WB SET 2017 Paper II)

95. In "The Considerations on Representative Government", J.S. Mill did not elaborate upon (NET June 2020 Paper II)

96. 'Quality of happiness is not less important than Quantity of happiness'. Who opined this? (BHU MA 2015)

97. Which of the following book is not authored by Karl Marx? (WB SET 2017 Paper III)

98. "Man must eat before he thinks. To eat he must produce. Production is a basic activity". Who said this? (NET December 2015 Paper III)

99. Who feared that Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat would become dictatorship on the proletariat? (NET November 2017 Paper III)

100. Marx's concept of alienated labour includes (NET June 2020 Paper II)

(A) Alienation from the Product

(B) Alienation from the Process

(C) Alienation from Species

(D) Alienation from Nature

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