CHAPTER 1 POLITICAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION

OBJECTIVE BASED QUESTIONS

1. Identify the leader who advocated the cause of the scheduled

castes.
(a) Machiavelli
(b) B.R. Ambedkar
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Aristotle
2. An important non-state actor in any democracy in present times is
(a) Judiciary
(b) Local government
(c) Civil society organisations
(d) Civil services
3. The term ‘Politics’ is derived from:
(a) Latin word ‘Polis’
(b) Greek word ‘Polis’
(c) English word ‘Political’
(d) Greek word ‘City-State’
4. Human beings are unique because they
(a) Possess power of reasoning and reflection
(b) Are social beings and depend on society
(c) Participate in politics
(d) Never fight with one another
5. Mark the correct statement related to the Traditional View of
politics.
(a) Politics is the study of state and the government
(b) Study of analysis of the whole of the political system
(c) Class struggle between haves and haves not
(d) Relationship between an environment and the system
6. Politics has been divided into two separate parts theoretical
politics and applied politics by:
(a) Aristotle
(b) Machiavelli
 (c) Polloch
(d) Catlin
7. Scope of Political Theory is:
(a) Study of power
(b) To determine the political principles
(c) Study of state and government
(d) All of the above
8. A man by nature is a social and political animal is the cornerstone
of the philosophy of:
(a) Plato
(b) Socrates
(c) Aristotle
(d) Montesquieu
9. Who among the following is not Political Theorist
(i) Marx
(ii) Rousseau
(iii) M.K. Gandhi
(iv) Napolian

10. One of the oldest theories about right is?

(i) natural rights
(ii) legal rights
(iii) idealistic theory
(iv) historical theory
11. Which of the following is not the characteristic of Theory.
(i) Conceptualisation
(ii) Generalisation
(iii) Value judgement
(iv) Hypothesis
12. A new threat to freedom that has emerged in the contemporary
world is
(i) Colonialism.
(ii) Slavery.
(iii) Terrorism.
(iv)Gender discrimination.
 13. Identify the leader who advocated the cause of the scheduled
castes.
(i) Machiavelli
(ii) B.R. Ambedkar
(iii) Karl Marx
(iv) Aristotle
14. In Modern political rights are guaranteed to :
(i) all citizens
(ii) adult citizens only
(iii) property owners only
(iv) men only
15. Who is author of Hind Swaraj ?
a. B.R Ambedkar
b. Gandhiji
c. Plato
d. Karl Marx
16.”Politics envelops us like the coils of a snake and there is no
other way out but to wrestle it.”
Who observes this?
a. Plato
b. B.R Ambedkar
c. Gandhiji
d. Jean Jacques Rousseau
1. What is depicted in the
cartoon?
2. List down some bad opinion
about the politicians.

Q. Following are some of the

prominent theorists mention
their subject matter.

1.Kautliya
2.Plato
3.Aristotle
4.Rousseau
5.Marx
6.M.K. Gandhi
7.B.R Ambedkar