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Questions on Liberty

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.

  1. 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