Equality: Types, Forms, Relationship with Freedom, and Affirmative Action


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Equality: Types, Forms, Relationship with Freedom, and Affirmative Action



1. According to whom among the following thinkers, " equality as a monstrous fiction":

a) Carlye
b) Burke
c) Bentham
d) Coleridge 

Ans.  b) Burke


2. Who called equality as "an anarchic fallacy":

a) Carlye
b) Burke
c) Bentham
d) Coleridge 

Ans. c) Bentham


3. Who said, " Equality as an infeasible proposition ":

a) Carlye
b) Burke
c) Bentham
d) Coleridge 
Ans. d) Coleridge 


4. Who among the following thinker said, " Men are born equal, but they are born different as well":

a) Fromm
b) Kristol
c) Burke
d) Bentham

Ans. a) Fromm


5. The book 'Inequality Re-examined' is written by:

a) Amartya Sen
b) Dworkin
c) Kristol
d) Atul Kohli

Ans. a) Amartya Sen


6. Who among the following said, " Sameness is not equality ":

a) Dworkin
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Hobbes
d) None of these

Ans. b) Mahatma Gandhi


7. Who among the following said, " men are equal because everyone has an equal right to his natural freedom":

a) Dworkin
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Hobbes
d) Locke

Ans. d) Locke


8. Aristotle describes the concept of equality in his book:

a) The Politics
b) Nicomachean Ethics
c) The Republic
d) Metaphysics

Ans. b) Nicomachean Ethics


9. The book " Taking Rights Seriously " is written by:

a) Dworkin
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Hobbes
d) Locke

Ans. a) Dworkin


10. The book " Democracy in  America " is written by:

a) Hayek
b) Tocqueville
c) Kant
d) Laski

Ans. b) Tocqueville


11. The book " principle of social Justice "is written by:

a) David Miller
b) Dworkin
c) Amartya Sen
d) Kristol

Ans. a) David Miller


12. Who among the following thinker suggested for the 'equality of fair opportunity must go to the advantage of the weaker sections of society.':

a) Aristotle
b) Dworkin
c) John Rawls
d) David Miller

Ans. c) John Rawls


13. Who among the following thinker is a proponent of substantive equality:

a) Aristotle
b) Dworkin
c) Amartya Sen
d) None of these

Ans. c) Amartya Sen


14. Which among the following type of equality is otherly known as 'moral equality':

a) Foundational equality
b) Substantive equality
c) Formal equality
d) None of these

Ans. a) Foundational equality


15. Who among the following thinker is a proponent of foundational equality:

a) Aristotle
b) Dworkin
c) John Rawls
d) David Miller

Ans.  b) Dworkin


16. The famous line-" No citizen shall be rich enough to buy another and none so poor to be forced to sell himself.'':

a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Rousseau
d) Rawls

Ans. c) Rousseau


17. The term ' affirmative action ' was first used in:

a) USA
b) Germany
c) Italy
d) UK

Ans. a) USA


18. Mandal Commission was recommended 27% of the jobs for OBCs in central services and public undertakings was constituted in which of the following year:

a) 1978
b) 1995
c) 1987
d) 1967

Ans. a) 1978


19. which among the following is correctly matched.

a) Kaka Kalekar Commission Report - 1995
b) National Commission for women - 1992
c) Sachar Committee - 2006
d) All of the above

Ans. d) All of the above


20. Which among the following is related to the reservation of minorities like Muslims:

a) Kaka Kalekar Commission 
b) Mandal Commission 
c) Sachar Committee
d) All of the above

Ans. c) Sachar Committee





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