JOHN LOCKE

MODEL MCQs  FOR NTA NET AND FOR COMING PG ENTRANCE TEST

JOHN LOCKE

1. Who is known as 'father of liberalism':

(a) Hobbes

(b) Locke

(c) J.S Mill

(d) Bentham

Ans: (b)Locke

2. Which among the following is not a book written by John Locke:

(a) Two Treaties of Civil Government

(b) An Essay concerning Human Understanding

(c) Thoughts on Education

(d) None of these

Ans: (d) None of these

3. 'An essay concerning Human Understanding'(1690) is written by:

(a) Hobbes
(b) Locke

(c) J.S Mill

(d) Bentham

Ans: (b) Locke

4. Locke laid down that state is:

(a) An end in itself

(b) Means to an end

(c) Unavoidable evil

(d) Legal necessity

Ans: (c) Unavoidable evil

5. According to John Locke, the best form of government is:

(a) Monarchy

(b) Aristocracy

(c) Democracy

(d) None of these

Ans: (c) Democracy

6. Who postulated, 'State was created for the protection of natural rights of man':

(a) Hobbes

(b) Locke

(c) J.S Mill

(d) Bentham

Ans:(b) Locke

7. In describing the 'state of nature' the concept of 'the veil of ignorance was introduced by:

(a) Hobbes

(b) Locke

(c) Rousseau

(d) Rawls

Ans. (d) Rawls

8. Who said,' where there is no law, there is no freedom':

(a) Hobbes
(b) Locke
(c) Rousseau
(d) Rawls

Ans.  (b)Locke

9. 'All men are by nature free, equal and independent':

(a) Plato

(b) Aristotle

(c) Locke

(d) None of the above

Ans:(c) Locke

10. Who makes the right to property as a natural right:
(a) Hobbes
(b) Locke
(c) Rousseau
(d) Rawls

Ans. (b) Locke

11. According to Locke which are the 3 natural rights:

 (a)Right to life, liberty and property

 (b)Right to life, work and religion

 (c) Right to life, property and religion 

 (d) Right to life, religion and family 

Ans. (a)Right to life, liberty and property

12. Who termed Locke's concept of right to property as a natural right as a typical expression of the idea of 'possessive individualism':

(a) Locke

(b) C.B. Macpherson

(c) Sabine

(d) None of these

Ans. (b) C.B. Macpherson

13. Who among the following laid the foundation of constitutionalism:
(a) Hobbes
(b) Locke
(c) Rousseau
(d) Rawls

Ans. (b) Locke

14. Who observes, ' Locke was indeed at the fountain-head of English Liberalism':

(a) M. Seliger

(b) C.B. Macpherson

(c) Sabine

(d) None of these

Ans. (b) C.B. Macpherson

15. The book ' The Liberal Politics of John Locke'( 1968 ) was written by:

(a) M. Seliger

(b) C.B. Macpherson

(c) Sabine

(d) None of these

Ans. (a) M. Seliger