Question 1:

The Greek word “philosophia” means ________.
a) philosophical thought
b) love of knowledge
c) how we know
d) thinking about ideas
e) intelligent mind

Question 2:

The first Greek thinker (who we know of) to write down his thoughts on politics and philosophy in a comprehensive fashion was ________.
a) Heraclitus
b) Pythagoras
c) Aristotle
d) Cicero
e) Plato

Question 3:

John Rawls wrote the book ________.
a) A Theory of Justice
b) The Republic
c) Politics
d) The Nicomachean Ethics
e) The Prince

Question 4:

Aquinas’s “scholastic” method uses ________.
a) secular, non-religious thinking
b) deductive reasoning
c) inductive reasoning
d) humanist philosophy
e) the Socratic method

Question 5:

Aristotle was a student of ________.
a) Socrates
b) Thrasymachus
c) Plato
d) Thales
e) Machiavelli

Question 6:

Niccolò Machiavelli advocated a philosophy known as ________.
a) liberalism
b) socialism
c) tyranny
d) humanism
e) political realism

Question 7:

Niccolò Machiavelli suggested that it is better to be ________ than loved.
a) admired
b) ignored
c) feared
d) disdained
e) honoured

Question 8:

The order of progression that makes ideologies is ________.
a) images, attitudes, values, beliefs
b) images, values, attitudes, beliefs
c) images, beliefs, attitudes, values
d) values, images, beliefs, attitudes
e) values, attitudes, beliefs, images

Question 9:

________ political thought finds its roots in the philosophy of John Locke.
a) Nationalist
b) Liberal
c) Mercantilist
d) Socialist
e) Monarchical

Question 10:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book “The Second Discourse” is also known as ________.
a) The Discourse on Equality
b) Harmonious State of Nature
c) The Social Contract
d) The Discourse on Inequality
e) Peaceful State of Nature

Question 11:

The principle of the “invisible hand” was advocated by ________.
a) John Locke
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Adam Smith
e) John Stuart Mill

Question 12:

Socialism in France emerged with the Saint-Simonians and ________ movements.
a) Fleur-de-lis
b) Owenite
c) Fourierists
d) Charlemagne
e) Rousseau

Question 13:

Adam Smith wrote “The ________ of Nations.”
a) Work
b) Wealth
c) Politics
d) Political Economy
e) Finances

Question 14:

According to Karl Marx, the ________ is the property-owning class that exploits the working class.
a) bourgeois
b) petite bourgeois
c) socialist
d) proletariat
e) materialist

Question 15:

Rosa Luxemburg championed ________ socialism.
a) revolutionary
b) reformist
c) pluralist
d) ethical
e) market

Question 16:

In sixteenth-century England, ________ used religion and the Anglican Church for political purposes.
a) Henry I
b) William II
c) Richard I
d) Mary I
e) Henry VIII

Question 17:

Edmund Burke developed the conservative system of thought after reflecting on the ________.
a) Napoleonic Wars
b) French Revolution
c) American Revolution
d) English Civil War
e) Russian Revolution

Question 18:

The ideological roots of environmentalism may be found in ________.
a) romanticism, pacifism, socialism, and conservatism
b) romanticism, conservatism, socialism, and anarchism
c) romanticism, pacifism, minarchism, and anarchism
d) romanticism, pacifism, socialism, and anarchism
e) minarchism, pacifism, socialism, and anarchism

Question 19:

The ideology of fascism is closely related to ________ Socialism.
a) Liberal
b) Conservative
c) National
d) Marxist
e) Anarchical

Question 20:

The caliphate is a government that rules over its subjects using ________ law.
a) Ummah
b) Islamic
c) Khaldun
d) Jihad
e) Qutb

Question 21:

Niccolò Machiavelli was a “scholastic” medieval political philosopher.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

To John Locke, “liberty” refers to freedom from interference by authority.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Thomas Hobbes’s writings were influenced by the Napoleonic Wars.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

Jeremy Bentham is best known for his book “On Liberty.”
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

John Locke felt that the English monarchy lacked legitimacy.
a) True
b) False

Question 26:

Karl Marx believed that the state should represent the will of the people.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

Mary Wollstonecraft is famous for her book “The Subjection of Women.”
a) True
b) False

Question 28:

The “green movement” emerged in the 1990s.
a) True
b) False

Question 29:

Anarchism means “absence of government.”
a) True
b) False

Question 30:

John Rawls’s writings were very similar to those of Robert Nozick.
a) True
b) False

Question 31:

In Marxism, “materialist” refers to understanding the physical and economic basis for society.
a) True
b) False

Question 32:

Sayyid Qutb wrote during the fourteenth century.
a) True
b) False

Question 33:

The ummah advocates a form of holy war.
a) True
b) False

Question 34:

Robert Nozick wrote “Anarchy, State, and Utopia.”
a) True
b) False

Question 35:

Confucianism advocates behaviour in accordance with laws.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Politics: An Introduction, Second Edition: Chapter 3