1. Whose disciple was Plato?
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Pythagoras
D) Heraclitus
Answer: B) Socrates
2. What was the historical period of Plato?
A) 469–399 BC
B) 384–322 BC
C) 427–347 BC
D) 356–323 BC
Answer: C) 427–347 BC
3. Who is known as the father of the classical view of political science?
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Machiavelli
Answer: C) Plato
4. Who is regarded as the father of the philosophical perspective in political science?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Locke
D) Rousseau
Answer: B) Plato
5. “Kings will become philosophers and philosophers will become kings” was said by:
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Hegel
Answer: C) Plato
6. Which Greek philosopher first gave a coherent discussion of justice?
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Cicero
Answer: C) Plato
7. What is the central question of Plato’s Republic?
A) What is the state?
B) What is democracy?
C) What is justice?
D) What is law?
Answer: C) What is justice?
8. “Justice is the soul of the state body and a social order.” Who said this?
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Hobbes
Answer: C) Plato
9. Justice is considered the fourth quality of the individual and the ideal state by:
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Kant
D) Locke
Answer: B) Plato
10. According to Plato, justice means:
A) Equality of income
B) Rule of the majority
C) Fulfillment of class duties by each class
D) Rule of law
Answer: C) Fulfillment of class duties by each class
11. A state with justice is considered the ideal state by:
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Hobbes
D) Rousseau
Answer: B) Plato
12. Who was the ancient or classical proponent of justice?
A) Socrates
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Cicero
Answer: C) Plato
13. According to Plato, education is a:
A) Private process
B) Religious process
C) Social process
D) Economic process
Answer: C) Social process
14. Who was the first thinker to advocate state-controlled education?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Locke
D) Rousseau
Answer: B) Plato
15. According to Plato, the main purpose of education is to:
A) Earn wealth
B) Gain power
C) Improve the soul
D) Serve the state
Answer: C) Improve the soul
16. Who first spoke about the education of women?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Rousseau
D) Wollstonecraft
Answer: B) Plato
17. Who first spoke about compulsory education?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Locke
D) Spencer
Answer: B) Plato
18. How many types of education systems did Plato discuss?
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
Answer: B) Two
19. According to Plato, the two types of education systems are:
A) Moral and physical
B) Public and private
C) Primary and higher education
D) Technical and vocational
Answer: C) Primary and higher education
20. Who introduced the concept of the philosopher king?
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Machiavelli
Answer: C) Plato
21. Who believed that the state is the guardian of the good life?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Hobbes
D) Locke
Answer: B) Plato
22. Republic, The Laws, The Statesman, and Crito were written by:
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Xenophon
D) Cicero
Answer: B) Plato
23. How many classes of the state did Plato describe?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five
Answer: B) Three
24. The three classes of the state according to Plato are:
A) Kings, priests, workers
B) Rulers, warriors, producers
C) Rich, middle, poor
D) Citizens, slaves, foreigners
Answer: B) Rulers, warriors, producers
25. Who spoke about the ideal state?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Hobbes
D) Rousseau
Answer: B) Plato
26. According to whom should justice be the basis of the ideal state?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Locke
D) Machiavelli
Answer: B) Plato
27. Justice is the principle of balance according to:
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Kant
D) Hegel
Answer: B) Plato
28. According to Plato, how many qualities does a person possess?
A) Two
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five
Answer: B) Three
29. Plato associated which quality with the ruling class?
A) Courage
B) Moderation
C) Wisdom
D) Justice
Answer: C) Wisdom
30. Plato associated which quality with the warrior class?
A) Wisdom
B) Courage
C) Moderation
D) Justice
Answer: B) Courage
31. Plato associated which quality with the productive class?
A) Wisdom
B) Courage
C) Moderation
D) Justice
Answer: C) Moderation
32. Which Greek thinker opposed private property?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Epicurus
Answer: B) Plato