R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Political Science-[FPSC-U.S A. CSS] (USA) Political Science Liberalism Set-2

In the economic sphere the liberal thinkers stood for:

1. System of monopolies
2. Laissez faire
3. State regulation
4. Large scale production

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Liberalism as a philosophy is based on the principle of:

1. Expediency
2. Reason
3. Blind faith
4. Moral upliftment

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Liberalism found its most detailed and lucid expression in the writings of:

1. Hobbes
2. Locke
3. Rousseau
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The classical liberals stood for:

1. Ending all hereditary advantages
2. Permitting the hereditary advantage unhindered
3. Curtailing the hereditary advantages
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The classical liberals believed that:

1. Strong nations had a right to dominate the weak nations
2. No nation had the right to exploit the otherThe rich nations must help the poor nations to eliminate international tension
3. Poor nations must join hands to protect themselves against the rich nations
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The classical liberals stood for: A.B. C.D.

1. Equal rights for all
2. Special rights for educated persons
3. Special rights for propertied classes
4. Special rights for women

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The classical liberals pleaded for economic liberty for: A. B. C. D.

1. The poor
2. The rich
3. The middle classes
4. All the classes

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The liberal thinkers of the nineteenth century considered state as:

1. A welfare agency
2. A necessary evil
3. A preserver of liberty
4. An instrument of exploitation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The liberal thinkers held that:

1. Each law promotes individual liberty
2. Each law restricts individual liberty
3. There is no relationship between law and liberty
4. Law is essential for moral development of man

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Individualism which was one of the theories of liberalism pleaded for:

1. Maximum state control
2. Maximum freedom for individual
3. Press censorship
4. Development of moral life

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The economic justification individualism was offered by:

1. Adam Smith
2. Herbert Spencer
3. Marx
4. J.S. Mill

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Wealth of Nations which is a classic treatise on the theory of non-intervention in economic sphere was written by: .

1. Adam Smith
2. Cairnes
3. Ricardo
4. Malthus

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The social and political justification for individualism was given by:

1. Herbert Spencer
2. Bentham
3. J.S. Mill
4. MacIver

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Individualism was justified on scientific grounds by:

1. Darwin Spencer
2. Herbert Spencer
3. Rousseau
4. Marx

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who said: Over himself over his own body and mind the individual is sovereign ?

1. Bentham
2. J.S. Mill
3. T.H. Green
4. H.J. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to the individualists:

1. The state was the best judge of man s interests
2. The Parliament was the best judge of individual s interests
3. The individual himself was the best judge of his interests
4. The King was the best judge of people s interests

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The principle of survival of the fittest was advocated by:

1. Darwin
2. Herbert Spencer
3. Adam Smith
4. J.S. Mill

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to the individualists state is:

1. A necessary evil
2. A welfare agency
3. Au instrument of exploitation
4. An unnecessary evil

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Individualism is also known as:

1. Idealism
2. Collectivism
3. Syndicalism
4. Laissez faire

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The objective of the individualists to establish:

1. A classless society
2. An equitable society
3. A stateless society
4. A free society

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The individualists favoured leaving the individual completely free because:

1. He is nor social
2. He is celfish
3. He is quarrelsome
4. So that he may learn to do things for himself

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In the economic sphere the individualists were in favour of:

1. Ending all free competition
2. Ecouraging free competition
3. State control over production and distribution
4. Dictatorship of proletariat

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The individualists favoured free competition in the economic sphere because:

1. It stimulates production
2. It protects the interests of weaker sections
3. It promotes art and good living
4. It makes the state powerful

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Liberalism assumed a new shape in modern times under the impact of:

1. Church
2. Mandan Socialism
3. Scientific inventions
4. Modern means of communications

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The credit for converting Liberalism into Positivist Liberalism In the nineteenth century goes to:

1. Bentham
2. Herbert Spencer
3. T.H. Green
4. Adam Smith

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The idealist revision of liberalism was effected by

1. Bernard Bosanquet
2. Hegel
3. Laski
4. Adam Smith

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to the twentieth century liberal thinkers like Laski and MacIver:

1. The state performs only negative functions
2. The state performs only positive functions
3. The state performs both negative as well as positive functions
4. The state is an instrument of exploitation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who of the following philosophers is considered the exponent of modern individualism?

1. Graham Wallas
2. Laski
3. Leacock
4. Hobbes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The modern Liberals are:

1. Opposed to nationalization of industries
2. In favour of nationalization of large scale industries only
3. In favour of nationalization of all industries
4. In favour of promoting small scale and cottage industries

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The modern liberals seek to protect the interests of:

1. Working classes
2. Capitalists
3. Landed aristocracy
4. All the above classes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Modern liberalism differs from classical liberalism in so far as:

1. It does not support individual liberty
2. It is against democratic institutions
3. It pleads for free enterprise
4. It stands for a world free from all forms of tyranny and exploitation

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The modern individualism which arose as a reaction against extreme Collectivism differs from nineteenth century individualism in so far as:

1. It focuses attention on group rather than the individual
2. It pleads for abolishing the state
3. It pleads for maximum functions for the state
4. It pleads for absolute freedom for individual

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The modern individualists consider the state as:

1. Omnipotent
2. Indispensable
3. One of many groups
4. Superfluous

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Utilitarianism which is another theory of liberalism is associated with the name of:

1. Hegel
2. Bentham
3. Locke
4. Green

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The principle of greatest good of the greatest number was advocated by:

1. Idealists
2. Individualists
3. Utilitarianism
4. Marxists

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The present day liberals who are known as Positivist Liberals are in favour of:

1. Pushing the state out of economic field
2. Doing away the state s interference in the economic sphere
3. State regulation of the economic conditions in the interests of workers
4. State regulation to protect the interests of the capitalists

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The credit for introducing far reaching changes in the Liberal philosophy goes to:

1. T.H. Green
2. J.S. Mill
3. Marx
4. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 1

One of the greatest contributions of Green to the liberal theory was:

1. Insistence on absence of all restraints on the individual liberty
2. Strong opposition to the right of private property
3. Insistence on collective well being as a precondition of individual freedom and responsibility
4. Concentration on the individual good alone

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Modern individualists are for:

1. Concentration of ail powers in the hands of the state
2. Abolition of state
3. Decentralization of authority
4. Increasing powers of state

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following criticisms against Liberalism has been wrongly listed?

1. Liberalism paves the way for anarchy by limiting the claims of authority
2. Liberalism lea-Ls to negation of individual liberty by concentration too much of power in the state
3. Liberalism does not provide any viable solution to the problems of the third world
4. Liberalism abandons freedom and rational discussion if poses a threat to the capitalist system

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Individualism is also known as:

1. Idealism
2. Syndicalism
3. Laissez Faire
4. Collectivism

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to the liberal theory private property is mainly:

1. Inherited from forefathers
2. Given by nature
3. The result of one s labour
4. The result of exploitation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Liberalism is the anti-thesis of:

1. Aristocracy
2. Democracy
3. Capitalism
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In the broader sense liberalism can be equated with:

1. Democracy
2. Capitalism
3. Socialism
4. Totalitarianism

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In the present century the evils of the theory of laissez-faire were sought to be checked through:

1. State intervention
2. Capitalist intervention
3. Socialist intervention
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Liberalism stands for:

1. Social liberty
2. Political liberty
3. Economic liberty
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who defined liberalism as The theory and practice of individual liberty judicial defence and constitutional state ?

1. J.S. Mill
2. Laski
3. Sartori
4. MacIver

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The term Liberalism originated from that world Tiber taken from:

1. Greek language
2. French language
3. Latin language
4. Spanish language

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to the Liberals the state should promote the welfare of:

1. Ruling classes
2. The upper classes
3. The bourgeoisie classes
4. All the sections of society

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The liberal theory regards the state:

1. As an end in itself
2. As a means to an end
3. As an instrument of exploitation
4. As an instrument for levelling of inequalities

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who said Liberalism is a passion for liberty ?

1. Bentham
2. J.S. Mill
3. Barker
4. Laski

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The modern individualism arose as a reaction against:

1. Extreme collectivism
2. Fascism
3. Misuse of individual
4. freedom

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who of the following is the most important exponent of modern individualism?

1. J.S. Mill
2. Herbert Spencer
3. Adam Smith
4. Graham Wallas

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who of the following is regarded as the father of liberal political philosophy?

1. John Locke
2. Hobbes
3. Laski
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said Liberalism is the expression less of trend them of a temperament. It implies a passion for liberty and that the passion may be compelling. It requires a power to be tolerant even sceptical about opinions and tendencies you hold to be dangerous which is one of the rarest human qualities.

1. Lord Bryce
2. Thomas Paine
3. Horold Laski
4. Marx Webber

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The Liberal philosophy found its best exposition in:

1. The American Declaration of Independence 1776
2. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789
3. The Indian Independence Act 1947
4. Both (a) and (b)

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Liberalism which flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is also known as:

1. Early Liberalism
2. Primitive Liberalism
3. Classical Liberalism
4. All the above three

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following Liberal thinkers advocated the principle of greatest good of the greatest number ?

1. J.S. Mill
2. Bentham
3. Laski
4. Green

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following expounded the philosophy of positive liberalism ?

1. Harold J.Laski
2. J.M. Robertson
3. J.A. Hobson
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who defined Liberalism as the theory and practice of individual liberty judicial defence and the constitutional state ?

1. Hacker
2. Laski
3. Sartori
4. T.H.Green

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following has been wrongly listed as a feature of positive liberalism?

1. It stands for freedom through the state
2. It looks upon the state as an instrument for the development of human personality
3. It holds that the state is capable of performing social welfare functions
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4