Karl Marx and Marxism

MODEL MCQs  FOR NTA NET AND FOR COMING PG ENTRANCE TEST

KARL MARX

1. Karl Marx is the chief exponent of marxism belongs to:

(a) France

(b) Germany

(c) Italy

(d) Japan

Ans. (b) Germany

2. Karl Marx was influenced by the political philosophy of:

(a) Plato

(b) Aristotle

(c) Hegel

(d) Rousseau

Ans. (c) Hegel

3. Which among the following is not a work of Karl Marx:

(a) The poverty of philosophy

(b) The class struggle in France

(c) Theses on Feuerbach

(d) Anti-Duhring

Ans. (d) Anti-Duhring

4. Who believed that 'idea' or 'consciousness' was the essence of the universe:

(a) Karl Marx

(b) G.W.F. Hegel

(c) Engels

(d) Both (a) and (c)

Ans. (b) G.W.F. Hegel

5. Which among the following is not a major contribution of Karl Marx:

(a) Dialectical idealism

(b) Historical materialism

(c) Theory of Revolution

(d) Role of private property

Ans. (a) Dialectical idealism

6. Who said, 'nation-state as the march of God on earth':
(a) Marx
(b) Engels
(c) Hegel
(d) Mao

Ans. (c) Hegel

7. The book 'Anti-Duhring' is written by:

(a) Hegel

(b) Marx

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) Engels

Ans. (d) Engels

8. Who said, ' property is theft':
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Engels
(c) P.J. Proudhon
(d) Locke

Ans. (c) P.J. Proudhon

9. Who dubbed, ' Religion is the opium of the people':
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Engels
(c) P.J. Proudhon
(d) Locke

Ans. (a) Karl Marx

10. Which can be called as Superstructure:
(a) Religion
(b) Morals
(c) Literature and Arts
(d) All of the above

Ans. (d) All of the above

11. Who among the following  describe Revolution as the indispensable midwife of social change:

(a) Aristotle

(b) Karl Marx

(c) Hobbes

(d) Locke

Ans. (b) Karl Marx

12. The famous book 'Communist Manifesto' is published in the year:
(a) 1888

(b) 1838
(c) 1848
(d) 1898

Ans. (c) 1848

13. Who among the following is the propounder of  the ' doctrine of permanent revolution'
(a) Marx
(b) Lenin
(c) Hegel
(d) Mao

Ans. (d) Mao

14. The book 'Marxism and the open mind' (1976) is written by:

(a) Miliband

(b) Engels

(c) John Lewis

(d) Mao

Ans. (c) John Lewis

15. Who among the following is not an exponent of dependency theory:
(a) Andre Gunder frank
(b) Samir Amin
(c) Mao
(d) None of these

Ans. (c) Mao

16. Which among the following is correctly matched :

(a) Bolshevik Revolution  ----  1917

(b) Communist Revolution ---- 1776

(c) French Revolution ----------- 1879

(d) Industrial Revolution ------- 1748

Ans. (a) Bolshevik Revolution  ----  1917

17. The book 'Holy Family' (1845) is written by:

(a) Karl Marx

(b) Engels

(c) Karl Marx and Engels

(d) None of these

Ans. (c) Karl Marx and Engels

18. Status of class conflict in modern  capitalist society is described in the book:

(a) Holy Family(1845)

(b) Communist Manifesto(1848)

(c) Class Struggle in France(1850)

(d) Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts(1844)

Ans. (b) Communist Manifesto(1848)

19. Who among the following is an exponent of Political Structuralism:

(a) Immanuel Wallerstein

(b) Paul Baran

(c) Nicos Poulantzas

(d) None of these

Ans. (c) Nicos Poulantzas

20. ' The Power Elite'(1956) is a celebrated work of:

(a) Pareto

(b) Robert Michels

(c) C. Wright Mill

(d) Ralph Miliband

Ans.  (c) C. Wright Mill