This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Thought > Classical > Political Thought – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Political Thought Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which philosopher did not write any books based on the belief that debating was better than writing? A) Socrates. B) Plato. C) Aristotle. D) Pluto. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Socrates. 2. Bharati's meeting with which Swami Vivekananda's disciple, added women's rights to his already wide repertoire of social issues? A) Sri Sarada Devi (Holy Mother). B) Sister Nivedita. C) Sister Christine. D) Mother Teresa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sister Nivedita. 3. "When the legislative and executive ..... are united in the same person, there can be no liberty ..... "-Spirit of Laws, Baron de Montesquieu, 1748 Which U.S. constitutional principle was influenced by this idea? A) Separation of powers. B) Popular sovereignty. C) Legal equality. D) Unalienable rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Separation of powers. 4. What did the Senate control in Ancient Rome? A) Finances and Foreign Affairs. B) Taxes and the Military. C) All citizens. D) All government decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Finances and Foreign Affairs. 5. What term do we use for the English laws that eventually came together under one united legal system? A) The 10 Commandments. B) Supreme Law. C) Common Law. D) Cabeas Horpus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Common Law. 6. What is the primary political ideology associated with Manuel L. Quezon, the first President of the Philippines? A) Communism. B) Fascism. C) Nationalism. D) Anarchism. E) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nationalism. 7. Followers of Judaism believe that God gives each person the choice between? A) Good and evil. B) Chicken or beef. C) Life and death. D) Belief or non-belief. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good and evil. 8. What is the definition of conservatism? A) A sudden change in the political, social, or economic structure of a society. B) A political philosophy based on tradition, favoring obedience to political authority. C) A period of intellectual and philosophical exploration. D) The authority of a state or nation to govern itself independently. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A political philosophy based on tradition, favoring obedience to political authority. 9. The U.S. Bill of Rights borrowed some of its rights from which other document? A) U.S. Amendments. B) Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. C) Code of Hammurabi. D) English Bill of Rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English Bill of Rights. 10. These groups supported an independent judiciary A) Radicals. B) Liberals and conservatives. C) Liberals and radicals. D) Liberals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Liberals and radicals. 11. The allegory of the cave argues what? A) We are born with infinite knowledge. B) There is value in ignorance. C) Perceptions are sources of absolute knowledge. D) Our perceptions may not be accurate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Our perceptions may not be accurate. 12. Where was Rousseau born? Where was Rousseau born? A) France. B) England. C) America. D) Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) France. 13. A citizen is A) A person who owes allegiance to a country. B) A person who is loyal to the flag. C) A person who is obedient to the president. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person who owes allegiance to a country. 14. The Bill of Rights was created to A) Revise the Articles of Confederation. B) To give the people the right to rebel. C) To create checks and balances. D) To provide amendments to the Constitution that would protect the rights of the citizens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To provide amendments to the Constitution that would protect the rights of the citizens. 15. According to Hobbes, what is the fundamental motive that drives human behaviour? A) Altruism. B) Fear and self-preservation. C) Social contract. D) Religious morality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fear and self-preservation. 16. Who was the teacher of Plato? Who is Plato's teacher? A) Aristotle. B) Socrates. C) Karl Mars. D) Machiavelli Machiavelli. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Socrates. 17. In Machiavelli's opinion, which of these rulers was particularly effective? A) Giovanni de Medici of Italy. B) Louis XIV of France. C) Isabella of Castile. D) Ferdinand of Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ferdinand of Spain. 18. What was Aristotle's most famous work, in which he addressed topics ranging from metaphysics to ethics? A) Nicomachean Ethics. B) Politics. C) Metaphysics. D) Poetics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nicomachean Ethics. 19. What are natural rights and how should these rights be protected, according to the US Constitution? A) The right to be selfish and ambitious protected by social contract. B) The right to life liberty and property protected by forming governments. C) The right to overthrow a government protected by the Constitution. D) The right to freedom of religion and speech protected by a republic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The right to life liberty and property protected by forming governments. 20. According to Rousseau, sovereignty in the social contract belongs to: A) The monarch. B) The people as a whole. C) The aristocracy. D) The clergy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The people as a whole. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesThought QuizzesPolitical Thought Quiz 1Political Thought Quiz 2Political Thought Quiz 3Political Thought Quiz 4Political Thought Quiz 6Political Thought Quiz 7Political Thought Quiz 8Political Thought Quiz 9Political Thought Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books