Socio Peace Studies MCQs : This section focuses on the "Socio Peace Studies". These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) should be practiced to improve the Socio Peace Studies skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placement, entrance exam and other competitive examinations.
Question 1
According to Gandhi is Untouchability is
A. love of mankind
B. crime
C. equality
D. none of these.
Question 2
Swadesi means
A. globalization
B. decentralization
C. indegenous
D. none of the above
Question 3
‘There is no way to peace.peace itself is the way’ who told this?
A. dalai llama
B. gandhi
C. buddha
D. tolstoy
Question 4
Gandhiji's "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" was originally written in Gujarati.Who translated it into English?
A. maganlal gandhi
B. mahadev desai
C. pyarelalji
D. sushila nayyar
Question 5
In February 1933 Gandhiji started the publication of a weekly paper, Harijan, to promotethe anti - untouchability campaign. Its first issue was out on February 11, 1933 from
A. bombay
B. ahmedabad
C. poona
D. nasik
Question 6
Gandhi’s Book ‘The Satyahrah’ was originally written in
A. english
B. hindi
C. gujarati
D. bengali
Question 7
Which is the largest democracy in the world
A. brazil
B. india
C. canada
D. china
Question 8
No –soul theory is attributed to
A. buddhism
B. jainism
C. yoga
D. nyaya
Question 9
In which language were Buddhist literature written in?
A. sanskrit
B. prakrit
C. hindi
D. pali
Question 10
Which of the following contain Buddhist teachings?
A. chaityas
B. jatakas
C. tripitakas
D. none of these
Question 11
What is the meaning of “Buddha“?
A. teacher
B. priest
C. enlightened
D. monks
Question 12
‘Aryasatya’ enunciated by Buddha has
A. 3 truth
B. 4 truth
C. 5 truth
D. 6 truth
Question 13
in which clan prince Siddhartha born?
A. sakya
B. koliya
C. maurya
D. gupta
Question 14
‘ignorance is the root cause of all types of suffering’. This statement is related with
A. jainism
B. buddhism
C. carvaka
D. nyaya
Question 15
What are the ratnas of Buddhism?
A. buddha
B. sangha
C. dhamma
D. all of these
Question 16
where did the Buddha attain enlightenment?
A. sarnath
B. bodh gaya
C. kapilavastu
D. rajagriha
Question 17
Buddha, damma and sangha together are known as
A. triratnas
B. trivarga
C. trisarga
D. trimurthi
Question 18
“desire is the cause of all suffering”. This statement is related with
A. jainism
B. buddhism
C. carvaka
D. vaisesika
Question 19
Meditation in Buddhism is
A. dhyana
B. dharana
C. samadhi
D. prathyahara
Question 20
in Buddhism, the community of monks and nuns is called
A. sangh
B. dhamma
C. guru
D. none of these
Question 21
The practice of ‘middle way’ is found in
A. buddhism
B. jainism
C. carvaka
D. vaisesika
Question 22
categorical imperative is a term related with
A. gandhi
B. kant
C. plato
D. aristotle
Question 23
According to Kant, categorical imperative is
A. rational
B. objective
C. unconditional
D. all of these
Question 24
Categorical imperative is the idea of the will of the every rational being as a will thatlegislates universal law’. It is concerned with
A. dalai llama
B. gandhi
C. john rawls
D. kant
Question 25
’kingdom of ends’ is a term related with
A. kant
B. john rawls
C. leo tolstoy
D. none of these
Question 26
Kants ethical theory is
A. deontological
B. consequentialism
C. utilitarianism
D. none of these
Question 27
political liberalism is a work by
A. kant
B. john rawls
C. locke
D. gandhi
Question 28
starting point for Rawls’ thought experiment is
A. original position
B. maximize principle
C. difference principle
D. primary goods
Question 29
’Difference principle’ is related with
A. john rawls
B. kant
C. hobbes
D. m.k. gandhi
Question 30
who is the author of ‘war and peace’?
A. gandhi
B. martin luther king
C. leo tolstoy
D. dalai llama
Question 31
Who is the first Indian to receive Nobel prize for peace
A. m.k. gandhi
B. mother teresa
C. sarojini naidu
D. amartya sen
Question 32
‘Introductory essay-peace studies’ is written by
A. r.balasubrahmaniam
B. ranabira samaddara
C. t.m.p. mahadevan
D. j.b. kripalani
Question 33
coercive is a
A. threat system
B. co-operative
C. convergent
D. non-violent resistance
Question 34
co-operative is a
A. regulated exchange system
B. convergent
C. non-violent resistance
D. threat system
Question 35
Convergent is
A. non-violent resistance
B. trans-national integration through values
C. co-operative
D. coercive
Question 36
The Dandi march or salt satyagraha began on 12 th march
A. 1932
B. 1930
C. 1920
D. 1936
Question 37
Where was Gandhi's first satyagraha in India ?
A. champaran
B. dandi
C. delhi
D. agra
Question 38
when did Gandhi's All India Harijan Samaj start?
A. 1930
B. 1932
C. 1937
D. 1934
Question 39
Who called Gandhi as half nakedseditious fakir?
A. jinnah
B. subash chandra bose
C. winston churchill
D. wudro wilson
Question 40
Who is political guru of Gandhi?
A. gopal krishna gokhale
B. tolstoy
C. ruskin
D. tagore
Question 41
who is known as frontier Gandhi?
A. khan abdul ghaffer khan
B. tagore
C. gokhale
D. baba amte
Question 42
The life of mahatma vgandhi is written by
A. louis fischer
B. baba amte
C. tagore
D. joseph lelyveld
Question 43
Quit India movement is also known as
A. august movement
B. may movement
C. july revolution
D. none of the above
Question 44
The word tranquil means
A. peace.
B. truth
C. ahimsa
D. quite
Question 45
Lokasamgraha is a concept in
A. arthashasthra.
B. bagavat githa
C. nyaya sutra
D. tripithaka
Question 46
Adibhouthika means
A. material
B. divine
C. spiritual
D. none ofthese
Question 47
Adyatmika means
A. material
B. divine
C. natural
D. spiritual
Question 48
Adidaivika is related with
A. material
B. natural
C. divine
D. none of these
Question 49
Fundamental principal of Gandhi’s philosophy of peace is called
A. non-violence
B. truth
C. god.
D. religion
Question 50
Satyagraha means
A. insistence on non-violence
B. insistence on truth
C. insistence on justice
Question 51
Buddha called the eight fold path as
A. janana marana chakra
B. samsara chakra
C. middle path
D. bhava chakra
Question 52
Who says about the ‘causes of quarrel’?
A. kant
B. david hume
C. gandhi
D. thomas hobbes
Question 53
Which one is not belonged to three definite instincts according to ThomasHobbes?
A. acquisitive
B. possessive.
C. glory
D. just
Question 54
The primary formulation of Kantian ethics is called
A. categorical imperative
B. utilitarianism
C. consequentialsim
D. none of
Question 55
A theory of justice is written by
A. marx
B. john rawls
C. kant
D. gandhi
Question 56
John rawls was an
A. british
B. american
C. german
D. holand
Question 57
Original position is a thought experiment propounded by
A. kant
B. marx
C. hume
D. john rawls
Question 58
Who is the advocator of modern tradition of non-violent action for changeaccording to Dalai Llama
A. buddha
B. gandhiji
C. marx
D. hitler
Question 59
Dalai Llama is
A. chinese monk
B. nepal
C. japan
D. tibetan monk
Question 60
The root cause of all suffering according to Buddhism
A. vidya
B. four noble truths
C. ashtanga marga
D. ignorance
Question 61
The doctrine of dependent origination is also called
A. pratityasamutpada
B. arya satya
C. kshanika vada
D. middle path
Question 62
Which one of the category is not part of eight fold path?
A. wisdom
B. ethical conduct.
C. mental cultivation
D. kshanika vada
Question 63
Ahimsa means
A. not to injure
B. not to jealous
C. not to desire
D. none of these
Question 64
Dharma means
A. love
B. way of righteousness
C. himsa
D. karma
Question 65
Moral autonomy is associated with the work of
A. john rawls
B. immanuel kant
C. locke
D. aristotle
Question 66
According to kant freedom of action is restricted by
A. theory of justice.
B. original position.
C. veil of ignorance
D. moral
Question 67
Leviathan is a great work written by
A. thomas hobbes
B. locke
C. plato
D. spinoza
Question 68
Awareness of a communion identity is called
A. swadeshi
B. swaraj
C. national integration
D. none of these
Question 69
The one who is mentally and bodily attuned to a specific socio-culturalspace is called
A. outsider
B. insider
C. outspoken
D. none of these
Question 70
The one who does not experience the socio-cultural-political belonging iscalled
A. insider
B. outsider
C. outclass
D. none of these
Question 71
Inherent and inalienable value of human being is called
A. human desire
B. fame
C. human dignity
D. none of these
Question 72
Peoples rule is called
A. aristocracy
B. oligarchy
C. plutocracy
D. democracy
Question 73
When two warring sides decides to call it quits, it’s called
A. truce
B. amnesty
C. treaty
D. none of these
Question 74
The First World War held on
A. December 20, 1914
B. December 16, 1914
C. december 24, 1914.
Question 75
Which one is milestone document in the history of human rights?
A. vedas
B. smritis
C. india constitution
D. universal declaration of human
Question 76
which one is not included in three kinds of suffering or pain
A. adhyatmika
B. adhiboutika
C. adhidaivika
D. adhidhamma
Question 77
In democracy supreme power is vested in the
A. governor
B. president
C. people
D. prime minister
Question 78
Direct democracy is also called
A. pure democracy
B. representative
C. presidential
D. none of these
Question 79
Indirect democracy is also called
A. pure democracy
B. representative democracy
C. presidential
D. none of
Question 80
….is a permissive attitude toward those whose opinions differ fromone’s own.
A. amnesty
B. truce
C. tolerance
D. none of these
Question 81
Doctrine of middle path is a contribution to
A. buddhism
B. jainism
C. samkhya
D. carvaka
Question 82
Which one is not related to causal wheel of dependent origination?
A. dharmachakra
B. bhavachakra
C. samsara chakra
D. kshanika vada
Question 83
which year Dalai Llama got Nobel price for peace?
A. 1967
B. 1972
C. 1976
D. 1989
Question 84
satyagraha is a technique of
A. non –violence,
B. swadwshi
C. sarvodaya,
D. bhoodan
Question 85
which of the following is not the requirements of satyagraha
A. faith in god
B. honest
C. fearless.
D. atheism
Question 86
which of the following is not a kind of satyagraha
A. civil disobedience
B. dharna
C. fasting.
D. violence
Question 87
which one is Gandhi’s ashram
A. sabarmati ashram
B. advaita ashram
C. sivagiri ashram
D. none of
Question 88
The word ‘demo’ stands for
A. king
B. people
C. justice.
D. none of these.
Question 89
The word ‘kratos’ meaning
A. rule
B. tyranny
C. injustice,
D. representation
Question 90
Rawls tries to determine the principles of
A. justice
B. injustice
C. sovereign
D. rights
Question 91
Thomas Hobbes was belonged to
A. english
B. french
C. america
D. german
Question 92
Who advocate the state is not the creation of god
A. locke
B. kant.
C. berkeley
D. thomas hobbes
Question 93
Which one is not the work of Thomas Hobbes?
A. de corpore
B. de cive
C. leviathan.
D. das capital
Question 94
Thomas Hobbes says man is exclusively
A. selfish
B. just
C. genuine
D. innocent
Question 95
Individual egoism is the theory of
A. locke
B. hobbes
C. hume
D. spinoza
Question 96
Who said ‘man was perpetually at war with every other men’ ?
A. hobbes
B. descartes
C. leibniz
D. hegel
Question 97
kantian ethics refers to
A. utilitarianism.
B. consequentialism.
C. deontological theory
D. all of
Question 98
In deontology, deon means
A. injustice
B. rule.
C. duty
D. king
Question 99
Suffering caused by self is called
A. adhiboutika.
B. adyatmika.
C. adhidaivika
D. none of these
Question 100
Which one is the Vedic kind of peace?
A. adhiboutika.
B. adyatmika.
C. adhidaivika
D. all of these
Question 101
The suffering caused by extrinsic super natural influence is called
A. adhiboutika.
B. adyatmika.
C. adhidaivika
D. none of these
Question 102
The concept of nishkama karma is described in
A. bible
B. vedas
C. brahmasutra
D. bhagavat gita
Question 103
Action without the expectation of result from action is called
A. nishkama karma
B. svadharma
C. ashrama dharma.
D. varna dharma.
Question 104
The Republic is wriiten by
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates.
D. descartes
Question 105
The republic is mainly concerned with
A. anger
B. justice.
C. values
D. none of these
Question 106
which one refers to underlying order in nature as well as order inhuman life and behavior
A. dharma.
B. karma
C. nirvana
D. kaivalya
Question 107
who adopted the satyagraha marga
A. tagore
B. aurobindo
C. marx
D. gandhi
Question 108
Bhagavat gita contains in
A. ramayana
B. mahabharatha
C. vedas
D. nyayasutra
Question 109
Siddhartha Gautama is also known as
A. buddha
B. mahavira
C. gaudapada
D. sankaracharya
Question 110
Which one is referred by Buddha as middle path?
A. arya satya
B. eight fold path
C. kshanika vada
D. none of these
Question 111
state of peace and quiet is called
A. tranquility
B. truce
C. armistice
D. treatise
Question 112
according to kapila three sources of pain is known as
A. trigunas
B. triratnas
C. trividham dhukham
D. none of these
Question 113
The most fundamental principle of Gandhi’s philosophy of peace is
A. truth
B. non-violence
C. sarvodaya
D. breadlabour
Question 114
Practical ethics is written by
A. peter singer
B. immanuel kant
C. william lilly
D. g.e. moore.
Question 115
One world is a work by
A. dalai llama
B. gandhi
C. peter singer
D. immanuel kant
Question 116
Invitation to Indian philosophy is written by
A. t.m.p. mahadevan
B. dr. s. radhakrishnan
C. aurobindo
D. m.k. gandhi
Question 117
Theory of satyagraha in Gandhi and his life and thought is a work by
A. j.b. kripalani
B. vinoba bhave
C. jayaprakash narayan
D. dalai llama
Question 118
First indo-pak war was started in
A. 1947
B. 1962
C. 1956
D. 1972
Question 119
kargil war was held in
A. 2000
B. 1999
C. 2001
D. 1998
Question 120
Smiling buddha is related with
A. pokhran -1
B. pokhran-2
C. kirana -1
D. none of these
Question 121
Indus river treaty is between
A. india and china
B. india and pakistan
C. india and sre lanka
D. pakistan
Question 122
Which of the following organization led the foundation towards the formation of theInternational society nations?
A. league of nations
B. united nations
C. international un federation
D. international
Question 123
Which organization is termed as "a Child of War"?
A. un
B. league of nations
C. saarc
D. who
Question 124
Which of the following place is the headquarters of IMF (International MonetaryFund)?
A. geneva
B. paris
C. washington
D. hague
Question 125
Who had given the "Fourteen Point" programme for the formation of League ofNations?
A. williamson
B. franklin d. roosevelt
C. sam kutesa
D. woodrow wilson
Question 126
Which Conference adopted the United Nations Charter on 26th January, 1945?
A. london conference
B. tokyo conference
C. san francisco conference
D. none of
Question 127
Under whom recommendations the UN General Assembly suspends the UNmembership?
A. judicial body
B. international judicial community
C. security council
D. all of the
Question 128
In which year did the United Nations come into existence?
A. 1943
B. 1945
C. 1946
D. 1944
Question 129
Where is the Headquarters of United Nations?
A. geneva
B. berne
C. washington
D. new york
Question 130
Where is the headquarters of international court of justice?
A. prague
B. geneva
C. the hague
D. new york
Question 131
Which organ of the UN is charged with maintaining peace and security among countries?
A. general assembly
B. security council
C. trusteeship council
D. international court of justice
Question 132
Universal declaration on human rights was in
A. 1948
B. 1958
C. i956
D. 1959
Question 133
The international covenant on civil and political rights was made in
A. 1966
B. 1967
C. 1965
D. 1969
Question 134
Elimination of structural violence is called
A. positive peace
B. structural peace
C. power peace
D. negative peace
Question 135
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on
A. October 5, 1896
B. October 3, 1840
C. October 2, 1869
D. October 10, 1880
Question 136
When was the Gandhi - Irwin Pact signed?
A. March 1, 1932
B. March 10, 1935
C. March 5, 1931
D. March 7, 1937
Question 137
Which of the following did Gandhiji describes as his two lungs?
A. ahimsa and peace
B. ahimsa and truth
C. truth and peace
D. none of these
Question 138
Who is the author of kingdom of God is within you?
A. gandhi
B. ruskin
C. leo tolstoy
D. none of these
Question 139
’mahatma’ means
A. great soul
B. leader
C. prince
D. justice
Question 140
In what year Gandhi’s India opinion founded?
A. 1890
B. 1904
C. 1896
D. 1894
Question 141
Who is the author of 'Unto This Last'?
A. john ruskin
B. ruskin bond
C. hermann kallenbach
D. louis fischer
Question 142
___is opposition to war , violence or militarianism
A. pacifism
B. amnesty
C. truce
D. none of these
Question 143
Universal declaration of human rights was on
A. 10-Dec-48
B. 11-Dec-48
C. 12-Dec-48
D. 13
Question 144
___is known as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person isinherently entitled simply because he or she is a human being
A. human rights
B. human desire
C. human duty
D. none of these
Question 145
Shimla agreement was signed between India and Pakistan on
A. 02-Jul-72
B. 02-Jul-82
C. 02-Jun-62
D. 02-Jun-52
Question 146
When was the United Nations adopted the Charter of Economic Rights?
A. Dec-80
B. Dec-64
C. Dec-74
D. Dec-76