Bihar STET Political Science Questions: 40 MCQs with Answers
Practise 40 Bihar STET Political Science questions with answers for Paper 2 — attempt each MCQ first, then check, and find your weak topics before the exam.
If you're revising Paper 2 around a job, family duties or a repeat attempt, these Bihar STET Political Science questions are the quick practice you need. This set gives you 40 important Political Science MCQs with answers across six topics — Comparative Politics, Government and Political Process, Indian Political Thought, Political Theory, State and Democracy, and Western Political Thought. Attempt each one first, then check the answer below, so you learn from every mistake and remember it on exam day.
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40 Bihar STET Political Science questions with answers (topic-wise)
Comparative Politics
Which five countries were studied in 'The Civic Culture' (1963)?
- (A) UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy
- (B) USA, UK, Germany, Italy and Mexico
- (C) USA, UK, France, India and Japan
- (D) USA, USSR, China, India and Brazil
Answer: (B) USA, UK, Germany, Italy and Mexico
Explanation: Britain and the USA came closest to the civic culture.
Who proposed the 'two-step flow of communication' model?
- (A) Deutsch and Easton
- (B) Lazarsfeld and Katz
- (C) Lasswell and Kaplan
- (D) Almond and Powell
Answer: (B) Lazarsfeld and Katz
Explanation: Media messages reach the public through 'opinion leaders'.
Government and Political Process
The Governor's power to grant pardons is under
- (A) Article 163
- (B) Article 72
- (C) Article 213
- (D) Article 161
Answer: (D) Article 161
Explanation: Governors cannot pardon death sentences or court-martial sentences.
The law declared by the Supreme Court is binding on all courts in India under
- (A) Article 141
- (B) Article 137
- (C) Article 144
- (D) Article 142
Answer: (A) Article 141
Explanation: Article 142 empowers it to do 'complete justice'.
Gram Nyayalayas were established to provide
- (A) access to justice at the grassroots level
- (B) appellate courts in districts
- (C) military courts
- (D) courts for Parliament members
Answer: (A) access to justice at the grassroots level
Explanation: The Gram Nyayalayas Act was passed in 2008.
VVPAT stands for
- (A) Valid Vote Paper Account Trail
- (B) Voter Verified Poll Audit Test
- (C) Voter Validation Paper and Tally
- (D) Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail
Answer: (D) Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail
Explanation: VVPAT prints a slip so the voter can verify the vote.
Who administers the oath of office to the President?
- (A) The Prime Minister
- (B) The Vice-President
- (C) The Chief Justice of India
- (D) The Speaker
Answer: (C) The Chief Justice of India
Explanation: In his absence, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court.
Article 340 of the Constitution deals with
- (A) Finance Commission
- (B) National Commission for SCs
- (C) appointment of a commission to investigate conditions of backward classes
- (D) official language commission
Answer: (C) appointment of a commission to investigate conditions of backward classes
Explanation: The Kalelkar and Mandal Commissions were set up under Article 340.
The National Commission for Women is a
- (A) executive body
- (B) judicial body
- (C) constitutional body
- (D) statutory body
Answer: (D) statutory body
Explanation: It was created by an Act of Parliament.
Who is the ex-officio chairperson of NITI Aayog?
- (A) President
- (B) Prime Minister
- (C) Finance Minister
- (D) Vice-President
Answer: (B) Prime Minister
Explanation: The Governing Council includes all Chief Ministers.
Western Political Thought
Mill described himself in later life as
- (A) a monarchist
- (B) a conservative
- (C) an anarchist
- (D) leaning towards socialism
Answer: (D) leaning towards socialism
Explanation: His 'Autobiography' (1873) describes this shift.
Aristotle's 'teleological' view of the State means
- (A) the State will wither away
- (B) the State serves only the rulers
- (C) the State is an accident
- (D) the State exists to fulfil the natural end of the good life
Answer: (D) the State exists to fulfil the natural end of the good life
Explanation: Everything in nature has a purpose (telos).
The libertarian critique of Rawls came mainly from
- (A) Robert Nozick
- (B) Michael Walzer
- (C) Amartya Sen
- (D) Charles Taylor
Answer: (A) Robert Nozick
Explanation: Nozick argued redistribution violates self-ownership.
Rousseau preferred which form of democracy?
- (A) Direct democracy in small States
- (B) Monarchy
- (C) Representative democracy
- (D) Oligarchy
Answer: (A) Direct democracy in small States
Explanation: He admired the city-state of Geneva, his birthplace.
Aristotle's classification of constitutions divides them into
- (A) federal and unitary
- (B) three pure and three perverted forms
- (C) five forms
- (D) two forms
Answer: (B) three pure and three perverted forms
Explanation: Pure forms aim at the common good; perverted ones at the rulers' interest.
Mill's view on 'individuality' was that
- (A) free development of individuality is essential for human well-being and social progress
- (B) conformity is best
- (C) the State should shape individuals
- (D) individuality is dangerous
Answer: (A) free development of individuality is essential for human well-being and social progress
Explanation: Chapter III of 'On Liberty' discusses individuality.
Rousseau is often regarded as the intellectual inspiration of
- (A) the Glorious Revolution
- (B) the French Revolution
- (C) the English Civil War
- (D) the Russian Revolution
Answer: (B) the French Revolution
Explanation: Revolutionaries like Robespierre admired him.
Mill modified Bentham's utilitarianism by arguing that
- (A) pleasures differ in quality, not just quantity
- (B) only pain matters
- (C) pleasure is irrelevant
- (D) all pleasures are equal
Answer: (A) pleasures differ in quality, not just quantity
Explanation: "Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
Political Theory
Who defined Politics as the study of "Who gets What, When and How"?
- (A) Max Weber
- (B) Harold Lasswell
- (C) David Easton
- (D) Robert Dahl
Answer: (B) Harold Lasswell
Explanation: This is the title and theme of Lasswell's 1936 book on power and influence.
'The City of God' was written by
- (A) Dante
- (B) Marsilio of Padua
- (C) St. Thomas Aquinas
- (D) St. Augustine
Answer: (D) St. Augustine
Explanation: St. Augustine contrasted the earthly city with the heavenly city of God.
Which period saw the rise of social contract theories?
- (A) Late 20th century
- (B) 17th-18th centuries
- (C) Early Middle Ages
- (D) Ancient Greece
Answer: (B) 17th-18th centuries
Explanation: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau wrote between 1651 and 1762.
'Political Science' and 'Politics' are often distinguished because
- (A) Political Science is the systematic study, while politics is the activity itself
- (B) both mean exactly the same
- (C) politics is a natural science
- (D) Political Science is only about elections
Answer: (A) Political Science is the systematic study, while politics is the activity itself
Explanation: Some scholars like Pollock prefer 'Politics' as the name of the discipline.
"History is past politics and politics is present history." This was said by
- (A) Seeley
- (B) Freeman
- (C) Laski
- (D) Toynbee
Answer: (B) Freeman
Explanation: E.A. Freeman emphasised the close link between history and politics.
Which of the following is a merit of the historical approach?
- (A) It gives exact predictions
- (B) It ignores the past
- (C) It explains present institutions by tracing their origins
- (D) It relies on surveys
Answer: (C) It explains present institutions by tracing their origins
Explanation: History provides context for understanding politics.
Who listed the 'eight intellectual foundation stones' of behaviouralism?
- (A) Gabriel Almond
- (B) Heinz Eulau
- (C) Robert Dahl
- (D) David Easton
Answer: (D) David Easton
Explanation: Easton listed regularities, verification, techniques, quantification, values, systematisation, pure science and integration.
Traditional political science is often criticised as being
- (A) too focused on developing countries
- (B) parochial, formal-legal and descriptive
- (C) excessively quantitative
- (D) too behavioural
Answer: (B) parochial, formal-legal and descriptive
Explanation: Critics like Macridis called it Western-centric, formal and descriptive.
Indian Political Thought
JP was a founder member of the Congress Socialist Party, founded in
- (A) 1925
- (B) 1934
- (C) 1948
- (D) 1942
Answer: (B) 1934
Explanation: Acharya Narendra Dev and Lohia were also prominent.
Which of the following ideas is found in both Manu and Shukraniti?
- (A) Separation of Church and State
- (B) The king's duty to protect the people and uphold dharma
- (C) Class struggle
- (D) Popular sovereignty
Answer: (B) The king's duty to protect the people and uphold dharma
Explanation: Both see the king as protector and upholder of social order.
The Kalaram Temple entry movement (1930) led by Ambedkar took place at
- (A) Pune
- (B) Nagpur
- (C) Mumbai
- (D) Nashik
Answer: (D) Nashik
Explanation: It demanded entry of Dalits into the Kalaram temple.
Lohia advocated 'Angrezi Hatao', meaning
- (A) banning English books
- (B) replacing English with Indian languages in public life
- (C) opposing Hindi
- (D) expelling the British
Answer: (B) replacing English with Indian languages in public life
Explanation: He saw English as a tool of elite domination.
JP's 'Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Vahini' (1975) was
- (A) a youth organisation for the Total Revolution movement
- (B) an army unit
- (C) a trade union
- (D) a political party
Answer: (A) a youth organisation for the Total Revolution movement
Explanation: It was meant to be non-partisan and committed to social change.
Lohia's idea of the 'Equi-distance' doctrine in foreign policy meant
- (A) isolation
- (B) alliance with the USA
- (C) alliance with the USSR
- (D) keeping equal distance from both capitalism and communism
Answer: (D) keeping equal distance from both capitalism and communism
Explanation: Lohia sought a third camp independent of both blocs.
M.N. Roy described the individual as
- (A) a part of the class
- (B) insignificant
- (C) a servant of the State
- (D) the archetype of society and the measure of all things
Answer: (D) the archetype of society and the measure of all things
Explanation: For Roy, society and the State exist for the individual.
In Kautilya's saptanga theory, 'Amatya' refers to
- (A) treasury
- (B) ministers and officials
- (C) army
- (D) allies
Answer: (B) ministers and officials
Explanation: The amatyas form the administrative machinery.
State and Democracy
Which of the following is a function of political parties?
- (A) Interpreting the Constitution
- (B) Printing currency
- (C) Hearing appeals
- (D) Political education and formation of public opinion
Answer: (D) Political education and formation of public opinion
Explanation: Parties educate voters, aggregate interests, nominate candidates and form governments.
"A party is a body of men united for promoting the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." Who said this?
- (A) MacIver
- (B) Laski
- (C) Edmund Burke
- (D) Gilchrist
Answer: (C) Edmund Burke
Explanation: This is Burke's classic definition (1770).
Which of the following is an example of a business pressure group in India?
- (A) FICCI
- (B) ABVP
- (C) AITUC
- (D) Narmada Bachao Andolan
Answer: (A) FICCI
Explanation: FICCI, CII and ASSOCHAM represent business interests.
A pressure group differs from a political party in that it
- (A) forms the government
- (B) has no organisation
- (C) seeks to influence policy without trying to capture power
- (D) contests elections
Answer: (C) seeks to influence policy without trying to capture power
Explanation: Pressure groups influence decision-makers rather than seek office.
Which country is a classic example of a two-party system?
- (A) Switzerland
- (B) USA
- (C) India
- (D) France
Answer: (B) USA
Explanation: Democrats and Republicans dominate US politics.
'Catch-all party', a party that seeks votes across classes and ideologies, is a concept of
- (A) Lipset
- (B) Michels
- (C) Otto Kirchheimer
- (D) Duverger
Answer: (C) Otto Kirchheimer
Explanation: Kirchheimer described the shift from mass parties to catch-all parties.
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Frequently asked questions
How many Political Science questions are in this Bihar STET practice set?
This set has 40 important Political Science MCQs with answers. They cover all six Paper 2 topics, from Comparative Politics to Western Political Thought.
Is there a free Bihar STET Political Science mock test?
Yes. You can take the Full Mock Test 20 for free, which is part of the Bihar STET 2026 Political Science (Sr. Secondary) series.
Which topics come in Bihar STET Political Science Paper 2?
The main topics are Comparative Politics, Government and Political Process, Indian Political Thought, Political Theory, State and Democracy, and Western Political Thought.
How should I practise for Bihar STET Political Science?
Attempt each question first, then check the answer, and mark the topics you get wrong. Once topic-wise practice feels steady, move to full-length mock tests under time.
How many mock tests and questions are in the Bihar STET Political Science series?
The Bihar STET 2026 Political Science (Sr. Secondary) series has 20 tests with 2000 questions in total, priced at ₹49.