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ENTRANCE TEST-2023
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

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1. “Plato is philosophy and philosophy is Plato, for out 6. Identify the incorrect pair:
of Plato come all the things that are still written and (A) Machiavelli: Separation between politics and
debated among men of thought” is a remark of: ethics
(A) Chester Maxey
(B) Hobbes: Absolutism and Individualism
(B) George Sabine
(C) Locke: Consent and Toleration
(C) R. W. Emerson
(D) Rousseau: Panopticon
(D) Will Durant
7. Amongst the following, whose political philosophy is
2. ‘Nothing was permanent in this sensory world’ is
based on nominalism?
borrowed by Plato from:
(A) Rousseau
(A) Parmenides
(B) Locke
(B) Heraclitus
(C) Hobbes
(C) Gorgias
(D) Protagoras (D) Green

3. According to Aristotle, the perverted form of 8. John Locke’s State of Nature is:
Aristocracy is: (A) Pre-Social
(A) Oligarchy (B) Pre-Political
(B) Tyranny (C) Pre-Social and Pre-Political
(C) Democracy (D) Social and Political
(D) None of the above 9. Who among the following used the expression ‘forced
4. Which of the following is incorrect about Aristotle? to be free’ in connection with the notion of individual
(A) He was in favour of Slavery liberty?
(B) He is regarded as the father of Political Science (A) Jean Jacques Rousseau
(C) He founded his own school of Philosophy in (B) John Locke
Athens named Lyceum
(C) Thomas Hill Green
(D) He believed in equality between man and
(D) Thomas Hobbes
woman in public sphere
10. Who criticized Bentham’s Philosophy as ‘Pig
5. To whom did Niccolo Machiavelli dedicate his
Philosophy’?
political treatise ‘The Prince’ ?
(A) C. B. Macpherson
(A) Rodrigo Borgia
(B) Piero Soderini (B) Karl Marx

(C) Lorenzo de Medici (C) Thomas Carlyle

(D) Marcello Adriani (D) J.S. Mill

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11. Which of the following books is not authored by John 16. Bounded Rationality Model of decision making is
Stuart Mill? given by:
(A) System of Logic (A) Charles Lindblom
(B) Principles of Political Economy (B) Yehezkel Dror
(C) Utilitarianism (C) Herbert Simon

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(D) The Principles of Morals and Legislation (D) Amitai Etzioni

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12. Which of the following capture the argument of Karl 17. ‘Development Administration is the engineering of

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(B) Martin Landau
according (C) George Gant
(C) ‘The history of all hitherto existing society is the (D) Harry Friedman
history of class struggle’ 18. Which of the following is incorrect about New Public
(D) All of the above Management?
13. Who is regarded as the father of American Public (A) It came into existence in 1970s

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(D) Elton Mayo
14. Scientific Management movement took shape as (D) It takes ‘what’ and ‘why’ from public
‘Stakhanovite’ movement during 1920-1940 in: administration and’ how’ from private
administration
(A) USA
(B) USSR 19. The correct sequence of phases of public policy is:

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20. India’s largest National Health Protection Scheme 25. The headquarters of Securities and Exchange Board
launched in 2018 has been implemented under the of India (SEBI) are in:
name of: (A) Mumbai
(A) Adarsh Bharat (B) New Delhi
(B) Ayushman Bharat (C) Chennai
(C) Nirman Bharat (D) Kolkata
(D) None of the above 26. What is the full form of TRAI?
21. Who categorised Indian Federation as bargaining (A) Television Regulatory Authority of India
federalism?
(B) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(A) Morris Jones
(C) Teleservices Regulatory of India
(B) Ivor Jennings
(D) Telephone Regulatory of India
(C) K. C. Wheare
27. Which of the following is correct about Competition
(D) None of the above
Commission of India (CCI)?
22. The L. M. Singhvi Committee for ‘Revitalisation of
(A) It was established by the Central government
Panchayat Raj Institutions for Democracy and
under the provisions of Competition Act, 2002
Development’ was appointed by:
(B) It is a constitutional body
(A) Indira Gandhi
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(B) Morarji Desai
(D) Neither (A) nor (B)
(C) V. P. Singh
28. Who was the finance minister of India when economic
(D) Rajiv Gandhi
reforms were placed under New Economic Policy in
23. Which of the following amendments is termed as ‘Mini
1991?
Constitution’?
(A) Dr. Manmohan Singh
(A) 42nd Constitutional Amendment
(B) Dr. Narsimha Rao
(B) 44th Constitutional Amendment
(C) P. Chidambaram
(C) 73rd Constitutional Amendment
(D) Pranab Mukherjee
(D) 74th Constitutional Amendment
29. “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”. This was
24. Which of the following is not a session of the Lok
advocated by:
Sabha?
(A) V. D. Savarkar
(A) Budget Session
(B) M. N. Roy
(B) Monsoon Session
(C) B. G. Tilak
(C) Summer Session
(D) Winter Session (D) Madan Mohan Malviya

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(A) Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan of India’s independence made by:

(B) Machiavelli’s The Prince (A) Sardar V. Patel

(C) Hitler’s Mein Kampf (B) Jawahar Lal Nehru

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(C) Lahore 1940
(D) The Gandhian Confusion
(D) Karachi 1943
32. Who awarded Gandhi with the title ‘Mahatma’?
37. Which one of the following is not a traditional
(A) Rabindranath Tagore approach to study Political Science?
(B) M. N. Roy
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was given by: 38. Antonio Gramsci’s term for the cultural consensus
(A) Mahatma Gandhi supporting capitalism is:

(B) Bhagat Singh (A) Ascendancy

(C) Jayaprakash Narayan (B) Hegemony
(C) Ideology
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40. Which of the following is not a core theme of 46. Which of the following is incorrect regarding
Anarchism?
American President?
(A) Anti-rationalism
(A) He is the supreme commander of the armed
(B) Utopianism
forces of US
(C) Economic Freedom
(D) Anti-Statism (B) He can call special sessions of the Congress for
41. ‘Justice as Fairness’ is attributed to consideration of urgent matters
(A) T.H. Green (C) He prepares the national budget and submits it
(B) John Rawls to the Congress for approval
(C) Isaiah Berlin (D) He can be elected any number of times
(D) J. S. Mill
47. According to Gabriel Almond and Sydney Verba,
42. Which of the following identifies freedom as ‘freedom
which of the following is not a type of Political
from constraints of the state’?
(A) F.A. Hayek Culture?

(B) J.S. Mill (A) Participant Political Culture
(C) Jeremy Bentham (B) Homogenous Political Culture
(D) All of the above (C) Subject Political Culture
43. International Human Rights Day is celebrated on:
(D) Parochial Political Culture
(A) 20 February
(B) 02 May 48. Who is the incumbent prime minister of Canada?

(C) 10 December (A) Justin Trudeau
(D) 31 July (B) Emmanuel Macron
44. The book ‘Gender Trouble: Feminism and the (C) Charles Michel
Subversion of Identity’ is written by:
(D) None of the above
(A) Judith Butler
(B) Simone de Beauvoir 49. Which of the following portrays globalisation as the
(C) Betty Friedan ‘compression of the world and intensification of the
(D) Mary Wollstonecraft consciousness of the world as a whole’?
45. In which country the institution of ‘Shadow Cabinet’ (A) Ulrich Beck
exists?
(B) David Harvey
(A) USA
(B) Canada (C) Ronald Robertson

(C) India (D) Saskia Sassen
(D) Britain

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political parties of: split?
(A) Britain (A) 10
(B) USA
(B) 15
(C) Australia
(C) 20

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52. The concept of ‘Human Development’ was (D) India
introduced by: 58. The European Union is a political and economic union
(A) Mahbub ul Haq of how many member states?
(B) Pranab Bardhan
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59. India’s neighbourhood policy based on the ‘principle
of non-reciprocity’ is attributed to:
(C) Gideon Rose
(D) None of the above (A) Indira Gandhi

54. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (B) Manmohan Singh
(A) Cuban Missile Crisis: 1970 (C) I.K. Gujral
(B) Fall of Berlin Wall: 1989 (D) Rajiv Gandhi

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