Karnataka State Eligibility Test Political Science Model Question Paper : kset.uni-mysore.ac.in

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Exam : Karnataka State Eligibility Test (KSET) Center for Lecturership
Document Type : Model/Previous Question Paper
Subject : Political Science
Year : 2015

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Political Science Model Question Paper :

Paper : II
Subject : Political Science
Time : 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Maximum Marks : 100

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Note :
** This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions.
** Each question carries two (2) marks.
** All questions are compulsory.

1. Which of the following is correctly matched ?
(A) Plato – Justice as Right
(B) Hobbes – Popular Sovereignty
(C) Gandhi – Violence
(D) M.N. Roy – New Humanism**

2. According to Kautilya, which are the two main goals of the State ?
1. Acquisition of land
2. War
3. Preservation of land
4. Danda
(A) 1 and 2 (B) 1 and 3
(C) 2 and 3 (D) 3 and 4

3. Arrange the following books in order by using the following code.
1. Das Capital
2. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
3. The Poverty of Philosophy
4. Theses on Feurbach
(A) 1, 2, 3, 4 (B) 2, 4, 3, 1
(C) 4, 3, 2, 1 (D) 3, 2, 1, 4

4. Who is of the view that the sovereign cannot tax his subjects without their consent ?
(A) Grotius
(B) Bodin
(C) Rousseau
(D) Hobbes

5. Who among the following argued “Justice is the political good and this consists in what is of common advantage” ?
(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) John Rawls
(D) Sonats

6. Which among the following constitute coalition of classes for Mao’s New Democratic Revolution ?
(A) Proletarian workers, peasants, petty bourgeoisie and agrarian capitalist class
(B) Proletarian workers, industrial workers, petty bourgeoisie and national capitalist
(C) Proletarian workers, nationally based capitalist, petty bourgeoisie and peasants
(D) Industrial working class, petty bourgeoisie, peasants, agricultural labourers

7. Arrange the following books in which they appeared using the code given below
1. The Elements of Law
2. Leviathan
3. De. Hominc
4. De. Corpore
Code :
(A) 1, 2, 4, 3
(B) 2, 3, 1, 4
(C) 1, 3, 4, 2
(D) 2, 3, 4, 1

8. Which among the following is not the sub-parvas of Shanti-Parva ?
(A) Rajadharma Anushasana Parva
(B) Apadharma Anushasana Parva
(C) Moksha Dharma Parva
(D) Loukika Dharma Anushasana Parva

9. With the help of the following code give the proper sequence of different stages in Locke’s Social Contract
I. Civil society
II. Government
III. State of nature
IV. Social contract
(A) IV, I, III, II
(B) I, II, III, IV
(C) II, III, I, IV
(D) III, IV, I, II

10. Three of the following are external protections and one is an internal restriction. Which is an internal restriction ?
(A) Requirement to attend a particular church
(B) Special representation right
(C) Language right
(D) Land claims

11. ‘Hard critics’ of constitutional forms of government argue that liberal democratic constitutions
(A) hamper the authority to operate efficiently and in the best interest of citizens
(B) foster oppression by providing a veneer of legitimacy to vested interest groups and privileged sections of civil society
(C) are based on an atheist world view and violate the fundamental right to freedom of religious practice
(D) hamper the education and progress of humanity at large by protecting freedom of religion

13. Which of the following is NOT true with regard to bi-cameral legislatures ?
(A) Bi-cameral legislatures grew out of the need in European countries to represent aristocracy
(B) Bi-cameral legislatures grew out of the need to provide adequate representation to individual states within the federal system of US
(C) Bi-cameral legislatures typically are more efficient than uni-cameral legislatures in their ability to divide up legislation
(D) Bi-cameral legislatures are generally better able than unicameral legislatures to represent variety of interest groups and views

14. Which of the following statement is NOT correct ?
(A) A totalitarian political system could be a Communist or Fascist type
(B) Monarchical political systems may be authoritarian or democratic
(C) The exercise of political power by a small group of people is called an oligarchy or aristocracy
(D) The representative democracy is meant to enable small group of people to exercise power

15. Which of the following is an example of the sociological approach to explaining political party formation ?
(A) The number and relative strength of political parties can be traced back to the construction of modern states and the industrial revolution
(B) Political parties are representative of population in name only and determine the behaviour and preferences of the people they represent
(C) Political parties grow endogenously with the economic development of given society
(D) Political parties are always reactive to and determined by development in society