Questions on Liberty
The Article includes 25 important questions on Liberty that is helpful for the political science students for better understanding of the concept and also important for the CUET and UGC NET aspirants of Political Science.
- The term Liberty derived from the Latin word —?
a) Libr
b) Leebar
c) Liber
d) Liberalism
Ans: c) Liber
2. What is the meaning of Liberty?
a) Freedom from restraints
b) Opposite of over government
c) Freedom to do anything
d) None of these
Ans: a) Freedom from restraints
3. Who said, “Liberty is the opposite of over Government”?
a) Seeley
b) Rousseau
c) Laski
d) Green
Ans: a) Seeley
4. According to whom, ‘liberty consist in obedience to General Will’?
a) G.D.H Cole
b) Rousseau
c) Laski
d) Green
Ans: b) Rousseau
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5. Who said ‘Liberty is freedom of individuals to express his personality without external hindrances’?
a) G.D.H Cole
b) Rousseau
c) Laski
d) Green
Ans: a) G.D.H Cole
6. Who among the following thinker said ‘liberty is the positive power of doing and enjoying those things which are worthy of doing and enjoying’?
a) G.D.H Cole
b) Seeley
c) Laski
d) Green
Ans: d) Green
7. Who wrote the book ‘On Liberty’?
a) Isaiah Berlin
b) J.S. Mill
c) Laski
d) Green
Ans: b) J.S. Mill
8. The book ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ is written by whom?
a) Montesqueiu
b) Isaiah Berlin
c) J.S. Mill
d) Laski
Ans: b) Isaiah Berlin
9. Who recognize the difference between liberty as the freedom to act and liberty as the absence of coercion?
a) Montesqueiu
b) Isaiah Berlin
c) J.S. Mill
d) Laski
Ans: c) J.S. Mill
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10.The book ‘Capitalism and Freedom’ is written by whom ?
a) Montesquieu
b) Laski
c) Tocqueville
d) Milton and Friedman
Ans: d) Milton and Friedman
11. Who said, ‘ Liberty is the eager maintenance of that atmosphere in which men have the opportunity to be their best selves’ ?
a) Montesquieu
b) Laski
c) Tocqueville
d) Milton and Friedman
Ans: b) Laski
12.Who wrote the book ‘ Democracy in America’ is written by whom ?
a) David Hume
b) Laski
c) Tocqueville
d) Milton and Friedman
Ans: c) Tocqueville
13. Who formally framed the differences between positive liberty and negative liberty ?
a) J.S. Mill
b) Laski
c) Tocqueville
d) Isaiah Berlin
Ans: d) Isaiah Berlin
14. Who first coined the term ‘Soft Tyranny and Mutual Liberty’?
a) Montesquieu
b) Laski
c) Tocqueville
d) Milton and Friedman
Ans: c)Tocqueville
15.Who wrote the book ‘Four Essay’s on Liberty’?
a) J.S. Mill
b) Laski
c) Tocqueville
d) Isaiah Berlin
Ans: d) Isaiah Berlin
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16.Who among the following is not a proponent of positive liberty ?
a) Rousseau
b) Kant
c) Hegel
d) Thomas Paine
Ans: d) Thomas Paine
17.Who among the following are the believers of Positive liberty ?
a) Rousseau and Green
b) Kant and Laski
c) Hegel and Bosanquet
d) All of the above
Ans: d) All of the above
18. Who is not an exponent of Negative Liberty ?
a) J.S. Mill
b) Burke
c) Nozick
d) Laski
Ans: d) Laski
19.In which book, Isaiah Berlin gave the distinction between negative liberty and positive liberty ?
a) On Liberty
b) Two Concepts of Liberty
c) Three Essays on Liberty
d) Four Essays on Liberty
Ans: b)Two Concepts of Liberty
20. Who wrote the book ‘ Constitution of Liberty’ ?
a) Hayek
b) Kant
c) Hegel
d) Thomas Paine
Ans: a) Hayek
21.Who use the terms liberty and freedom interchangeably ?
a) Hayek
b) Isaiah Berlin
c) Robert Nozick
d) Thomas Paine
Ans: a) Hayek
22. According to Hayek, what are the three meaning of freedom ?
a) political freedom, social freedom, economic freedom
b) political freedom, inner freedom, societal freedom
c) political freedom, inner freedom, freedom as power
d) None of the above
Ans: c) political freedom, inner freedom, freedom as power
23. According to whom, ‘Freedom is the absence of coercion’ ?
a) Friedman
b) Isaiah Berlin
c) Robert Nozick
d) Thomas Paine
Ans: a) Friedman
24.Who wrote the book ‘Anarchy, State, Utopia’ ?
a) Herbert Marcuse
b) Isaiah Berlin
c) Robert Nozick
d) Thomas Paine
Ans: c) Robert Nozick
25. Who gave the idea of Creative Freedom ?
a) C.B. Macpherson
b) Isaiah Berlin
c) Robert Nozick
d) Thomas Paine
Ans. a) C.B. Macpherson