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1. Right to property is considered:
Religious right
Economic right
Civil right
Political right

2. According to Plato:
The individual should be given right to have private property
There should be communism of private property
Private property should be owned by philosopher king only
Only the few in power should possess private property

3. Which one of the following is true about Aristotles views about property?
It should be possessed by all
It should be under religious control
It should be managed by the king
There should be communism of property

4. According to St. Augustine property was:
Natural institution
Conventional institution
Economic institution
Political institution

5. Which one of the following is not true about John of Paris wiews about property?
Priest should have maximum property
Priest should have only minimum necessary property
General supervision of property should be in the hands of the king
Pope was custodian of property

6. Which one of the following is true about John of Paris views about private property?
King had no right to regulate property
Church should possess maximum property
King should respect the sentiments of the owners
Pope was the owner and not custodian of property

7. According to Wycliff the church should:
Have maximum property
Own that the king allowed much property as
Own only limited property
Have no property at all

8. John Huss had his views about property. Which one of the following is true about him?
It helped church in the performance of its duties
It stood on the way of church in the performance of duties
Church should not be deprived of its property
The king had no right to deprive the church of its property

9. Which of the following is true about Machiavellis views about property?
It should be abolished
It should be under church
It should be under state control
It should be used for collective welfare

10. During reformation period the thinkers believed that:
Church should have maximum property
Church should be deprived of its property
Property of church should be regulated
King should interfere in the affairs of the church

11. Who of the following believed that private property was needed for the development of individuals personality?
Karl Marx
J.S. Mill
Proudhan
Godwin

12. Which one of the following statements is true about Melanchthans views about property?
It is based on natural law
It is based on religious law
State was not justified in confiscating property of church
State had no right to confiscate property earned even by unethical means

13. According to Individualists property:
Is a divine institution
State control over it should be absolute
State control over it should be absolute
Acquisition should be left to individual

14. Who of the following believed that private property in the society came as a serpent?
John Huss
Wycliff
Machiavelli
Melanchthan

15. Who of the following is associated with Idealist theory of property?
Bodin
Machiavelli
Bakunin
Kant

16. Which of the follwing is not true about Kants views about private property?
It was essential for every individual
It was natural right of man
It was socially accepted right
All property was owned by the sovereign

17. Which one of the following is true about Liberals views about private property?
Individual should have no right to own it
State has right to confiscate it without payment of compensation
It should be under state control
State should pay compensation for its acquisition

18. Which one of the following is true about Kants views about private property?
It should be enough for meeting social needs
It was individuals right against each other
It was no a right of individual against nature
It was not given by society to its members

19. According to Syndicalists in their society of the future private property:
Will altogether be abolished
Will be retained under trusteeship control
Will be managed by the church
Will be accepted as a natural right

20. Which of the following is not true about Syndicalists views about private property?
It will be managed by syndicates
Syndicates shall be its owners
It will be owned by the society
Society will decide about means of production

21. Who of the following does not favour the idea of retention of private propertywho is he?
Machiavelli
Bakunin
J.S. Mill
T.H. Green

22. Which of the following is not true about private property?
It helps in the development of fine arts
It develops a sense of confidence in people
It checks exploitation
It develops a sense of respobsibility among owners

23. According to Anarchists private property:
Should be retained under state control
Should be placed under the control of few wise
It is cause of many social evils
Has helped the poor at the time of necessity

24. Which one of the following is not true about Anarchists views about private property?
It helps capitalists in squeezing the blood of the poor
It promotes selfish interests
It helps in producing socially useful goods
It does not care for social needs

25. Which one of the following is not true about private property?
It has resulted in exploitation
It makes the people selfish
It has helped in the development of civilisation
It has checked division of society into classes

26. Which one of the following is not true about Anarchists views about private property?
It is creating anarchy in production
It protects the interests of the rich
It protects the interests of all the sections of society
It should be altogether abolished

27. Who of the following is not associated with Anarchists views about property?
T.H.Green
Godwin
Proudhan
Bakunin

28. Which of the following is not a correct statement about Godwins views about property?
It is root cause of many evils
It hampers social progress
It should be retained with some restrictions
It should be abolished

29. Which of the following thinkers advocated the abolition of private property?
Locke
Green
Mill
Rousseau

30. With whom is the statement that: The man who after enclosing a piece of land saidthis is mine was the founder of society associated?
Green
Rousseau
Machiavelli
Proudhan

31. In his Republic Plato has said about private property that:
It should be socialised
It should be possessed by ruling classes
It should be owned by citizens alone
There should be nothing like private property

32. Which of the following is true about Proudhans views about property?
State noes not sustain private property
It should be retained under state control
It promoted monopolistic tendencies
It was not a theft

33. Which of the following statements is not true about Bakunins views about property?
It is root cause of many evils
It is instrument of exploitation
State could not exist without it
It made millions happy and joyous

34. Which one of the following is not applicable to Russells about his views about private property?
He condemns this old institution
It is theft
It is based on violence
It helped in the unity of community

35. Which one of the following is not true about private property?
It has checked incentive and initiative
It has divided society in classess
It has promoted social disharmony
It has deprived the poor of their pleasure

36. Which of the following is not true about Liberals about private property?
It gives rise to love for charity and culture
It is reward for labour
The state has no right to regulate it
Individual should be paid compensation for states taking away ones private property

37. Which one of the following is not true about Russells views about private property?
It is legal institution
It is protected by state
It creates misery among people
It makes man oppressor

38. Which of the following is not true about Liberals about private property?
It gives rise to love for charity and culture
It is reward for labour
The state has no right to regulate it
Individual should be paid compensation for states taking away ones private property

39. Which of the following is not true about private property?
It divides society
It creates an idle class
It promotes corruption in society
It checks social evils and corruptions

40. Which one of the following is not true about Laskis views about private property?
There should be no payment of compensation for property taken over by the state
Everybody should have a right to keep legally earned property
It created many economic problems
It is psychologically inadequate

41. The concept of property:
Has been known to the people since the earliest times
Came into existence in the 5th century AD.
Came into existence in the wake of industrial revolution
Came into existence in the wake of large scale production

42. The property is the creation of:
State
Government
Adventurist businessmen
Co-operative endeavour

43. The idea of private property emerged:
After the industrial revolution
After people started leading settled life
After the creation of the state
After the glorious revolution

44. The idea of trusteeship of private property emerged with:
People taking to agriculture
Rise of landed class
Spread of Christianity
Establishment of constitutional monarchy

45. Which one of the following statements is correct?
Right to property is a natural right
Right to property needs the backing of society
Right to property needs no sanction of society
Right to private property is absolute

46. hich one of the following statements is not correct?
Right to property implies the right to acquiredestroy or give away property
Right to property has the sanction of society behind it
Property can exist only in a stage
Property existed in the pre-civil society as well

47. Who of the followings considered property as natural?
Aristotle
Plato
Marx
Rousseau

48. Who of the followings opposed private property?
Anarchists
Communists
Individualists
None of the above

49. The natural theory of property helds that:
Property was one of the first rights granted after the creation of the state
Right to property existed prior to the creation of the state
Right to property is granted because it is considered natural for a citizens drvelopment
Right to property was granted by God

50. Who said that property is the source of power?
Machiavelli
Aristotle
Plato
Laski

51. he Legal theory of property is associated with:
Hobbes
Locke
Austin
Marx

52. he Legal theory of property believes that:
Property is a natural right and law merely recognises it:
Property is the creation of state
A person can be deprived of his property for the good of the community
The legal ownership of all property vests in the head of the state

53. Which one of the following thinkers challenged the right of the stte to curtail individuals right to property without his consent?
Hobbes
Locke
Rousseau
All the above three thinkers

54. The liberal thinkers of the nineteenth century were:
Opposed to right to private property
In favour of limited right to property only
In favour of absolute right to private property
In favour of equitable distribution property

55. Who of the followings was opposed to private property?
J.S. Mill
Adam Smith
Kant
Bakunin

56. With the emergence of the walfare stateemphasis begain to be laid on
Absolute right to private property
Regulation of property in the interest of community
Abolition of right to private property
None of the above

57. Who said property is necessary for the realisation of ones will?
Marx
Kant
Rousseau
Plato

58. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
Private property leads to exonomic equality
Private property ecourages exploitation of the one class by another
Private property leads to moral and physical degeneration
Private property gave rise to imperlialism and colonialism

59. The Labour theory of property was first of all advocated by:
John Locke
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
Lenin

60. The labour theory of property holds that:
Property should belong to labours alone
Property was created as result of mixing of labour
Property should be equitably distributed amongst the lobourers
A person who does not put in Physical labour should not be give anything to eat

61. The Individualistic Theory of property is associated with:
Hobbes
J.S. Mill
Adam Smith
TH. Green

62. According to the Individualistic theory of property:
Property should be equally distributed amongst all the individuals
An individual should be left free to acquire as much property as he can
The state should ensure equitable distribution of property through law
Property is a divine eift to man

63. The Socialist theory of property is:
In favour of equitable distribution of property
In favour of equitable distribution of property
In favour of state control over all property
In favour of absolute right to property

64. The view that all property is theift was expressed by:
J.S. Mill
Adam Smith
Marx
Proudhon

65. According to the idealistic theory of property:
Private property is a gift from God
All private property is theft
Property is an essential condition for the fulfilment of personality
Private property is the cause of social inequalities

66. The idealistic theory of property is associated with the name of:
Locke
Bentham
Kant
Marx

67. Which one the arguments in favour of private property given belowhas been wrongly listed?
Right to private property is in keeping with the principle of equality
Private property gives incentive to the individual to work hard
Private property gives a sense of security
Private property promotes qualities of charity and benevolence

68. The modern liberals are:
Opposed to private property
In favour of absolute right to private property
In favour of common ownership of property
In favour of regulation of property in larger interests of the seciety

69. The Liberals are in favour of:
Confiscation of all private property
Acquisition of property with compensation
Confiscation of property with nomical compensation
Abolition of all private property

70. The general opinion at present it is favour of:
Abolition of all private property
Absolute rights to property
Right to property within limitations
None of the above

71. Who believed that private property is essential for the development of individuals personality?
Karl Marx
Proudhon
J.S. Mill
Engels

72. The best exposition of Marxian concept of private property is available in:
Das Capital
Communist Manifesto
State and Revolution
The Origin of Family Private property and the State

73. Who was the author of The Origin of FamilyPrivate Property and the State?
Karl Marx
Engels
Stalin
Lenin

74. The theory of surplus value is associated with:
J.S. Mill
Herbert Spencer
Adam Smith
Karl Marx

75. According to the Marxistsin an ideal or Communist society there shall be:
Absolute right to private property
No right to private property
Only limited right to private property
Only right ot personal property

76. Laski was in favour of:
Absolute tight to property
Abolition of all property
Happy blinding of right to property
None of the above

77. Who said that state did not create propertybut was it created in order to protect it?
John Locke
T.H. Green
Karl Marx
H.J Laski

78. The Marxian thinkers are:
Opposed to all kinds of property
Opposed only to personal property
Opposed only to private property
In favour of both personal as well as private property

79. Which one of the followings has been wrongly listed as a merit of private property?
It provides incentive to worker
It leads to division of labour and great production
. It provide if sense of pleasure
It provides incentive to the developments of z artseienceliteratureetc.

80. Which one of the following defects of private has been wrongly listed?
It leads to division of society into two hostile classes
It encourages self-interest at the cost of social interest
It encourages scramble for power and wealth in place of nutual co-operation
It leads to political insta

81. Which one of the following was a strong opponent of the right to private property?
Locke
Hobbes
Mao Tse Tung
Adam Smith

82. There are certain writers who regarded the possession of property as a necessary qualification for franchise. One of them has writtenIt is important that the Assembly which votes the taxes should be elected exclusively by people who pay something towards the taxes imposed. Those who pay no taxesdisposing by their votes of other peoples moneyhave every motive to be lavish and none to economies. Who said this?
Laski
Bryce
J.S. Mill
Barker

83. Who of the followings first of all advocated communism of property.
Plato
Marx
Engels
Proudhon

84. Aristotle described mans instinct to acquire property as:
A natural instinct
An unnatural instinct
A base-instinct
None of the above

85. According to Aristotle the best method for holding of property was:
State ownership
Common ownership and common use
Individual ownership and common use
Individual ownership and private use

86. Which one of the following is not in keeping with Laskis views on property?
The property owned by most people is not commensurate with the duties performed by them
Property leads to wasteful production under a capitalist system
Inherited property is morally justified
The property is the reward for labour

87. The individualists regard the right to property as:
Root of all evils
A fundamental right
An absolute right
None of the above

88. Hobbes and Bentham were the supporters of:
Legal Theory of Property
Socialistic Theory of Property
Idealistic Theory of Property
Natural Theory of Property

89. The difference between the value of commodity produced by a labourer and the wages receivedby him is known as
Property
Surplus value
Capital
Savings

90. According to Laski private property contributes to:
The prosperity of the society
The development of society
The weakening of society
None of the above

91. The individualists are:
Staunch supporters of right to property
Strong opponents of the right to property
In favour of equitable distribution of private property
In favour of common ownership of property

92. That with which a man has mixed his labour becomes his property. The above statement was made by:
Rousseau
Karl Marx
Locke
Hobbes

93. According to the idealists:
All property is theft
Property is respobsible for the division of society into two groups haves and have nots
Property hinders the development of a mans personality
Property is essential for the development of a mans personality

94. Who said: The citizen has a right to work?
Bentham
Marx
Lenin
Laski

95. Property is essential for the development of characterfor without some property there can be no libertyand without liberty there can be no proper development of character. The above statement was made by:
Bentham
Aristotle
Bosanquet
T.H. Green

96. The rationale of the right to property is identifiable in three of the following nations. Identify the notion which does not belong to this group?
The measure of property nature has endowed to man is in keeping with his Labour and convenience of life
The right to property is in consonance with divine dispensation
The property nature has given to man is his own and nobody has any right to it but himself
Since man tillsplantsimproves and cultivates property and can use the product of each propertyit is his own

97. The Labour theory of property made its appearance in:
The ancient times
The medieval age
The modern time
The 20th century

98. The Labour theory of property implies that:
With the growth of capitalist economy
The capital is the major factor for the determination of the property
The property is acquired through the application of labour
None of the above

99. According to the occupational theory of property the property made its appearance only:
With the emergence of various occupations
With the growth of capitalist economy
After man occupied a piece of land for his exclusive use
With the dawn of the industrial age

100. Which one of the following thinkers did not favour the rulers to own property?
Aristotle
Plato
Laski
All the above

101. Landed property was a symbol of social status during:
Ancient times
Medieval times
Modern times
All the above

102. Who said. A man readily forgives the nurder of his father than the confiscation of his property.
Hobbes
Marx
Machiavelli
Aristotle

103. Which one of the following thinkers defended right to property on the ground of its utility?
Bentham
Kant
Marx
Laski

104. Laski opposed inheritance of private property on the ground?
It leads to stagnation of countrys economy
It encourages the children to lead life of luxury without working
It gives rise to tension among various claimants
On all the above grounds