Political Theory I Passage ID Practice Exam
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
The modern view that there are three functions of government, legislative, executive, and judicial,
evolved slowly over many centuries. These 'functions' of government reflect the response to particular
problems in Western societies, and the demand for particular sets of values to be embodied in
institutional structures. The roots of these ideas are to be found in the ancient world. - CORRECT
ANSWER M. J. C. Vile
"The 'executive power' meant... the function of administering justice under the law... It was almost
synonymous with the judicial... derived from and subordinate to the fundamental judicial power." -
CORRECT ANSWER M. J. C. Vile
"Government according to law presupposes at least two distinct operations, the making of law, and
putting it into effect. Otherwise we are left with a formless and unstable set of events which gives no
basis for a constitution." - CORRECT ANSWER M. J. C. Vile
From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any
two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and
in the way to their End... endeavour to destroy or subdue one another. - CORRECT
ANSWER Hobbes
In such condition there is no place for Industry... no Culture of the Earth... no Arts... no Society; and
which is worst of all, continual feare, and danger of violent death: And the life of man, solitary, poore,
nasty, brutish, and short. - CORRECT ANSWER Hobbes
So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, Competition; Secondly,
Diffidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first, maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third,
for reputation. - CORRECT ANSWER Hobbes
The only way to erect such a Common Power... is, to conferre all their power and strength upon one
Man, or upon one Assembly of men... This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a
Commonwealth. - CORRECT ANSWER Hobbes
, The Passions that incline men to Peace, are Feare of Death; Desire of such things as are necessary to
commodious living; and a Hope by their Industry to obtain them. And Reason suggesteth convenient
Articles of Peace, upon which men may be drawn to agreement. - CORRECT
ANSWER Hobbes
"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master unless he transforms strength into right,
and obedience into duty..." - CORRECT ANSWER Rousseau
"The social order is a sacred right... but this right does not come from nature and must therefore be
founded on conventions." - CORRECT ANSWER Rousseau
"The right of slavery is null and void... The words slave and right contradict each other." - CORRECT
ANSWER Rousseau
"The most ancient of all societies and the only one that is natural is the family..." - CORRECT
ANSWER Rousseau
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - CORRECT ANSWER Rousseau
"Every normative theory of social arrangement... seems
to demand the equality of something." - CORRECT ANSWER Sen
"Demanding equality in one space can lead one to be anti-egalitarian in some other space." -
CORRECT ANSWER Sen
"The weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their
government as the more powerful members... Anyone who claims that citizens have rights must
accept ideas very close to these." - CORRECT ANSWER Dworkin
"In practice the Government will have the last word on what an individual's rights are... But that does
not mean that the Government's view is necessarily the correct view." - CORRECT
ANSWER Dworkin
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
The modern view that there are three functions of government, legislative, executive, and judicial,
evolved slowly over many centuries. These 'functions' of government reflect the response to particular
problems in Western societies, and the demand for particular sets of values to be embodied in
institutional structures. The roots of these ideas are to be found in the ancient world. - CORRECT
ANSWER M. J. C. Vile
"The 'executive power' meant... the function of administering justice under the law... It was almost
synonymous with the judicial... derived from and subordinate to the fundamental judicial power." -
CORRECT ANSWER M. J. C. Vile
"Government according to law presupposes at least two distinct operations, the making of law, and
putting it into effect. Otherwise we are left with a formless and unstable set of events which gives no
basis for a constitution." - CORRECT ANSWER M. J. C. Vile
From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any
two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and
in the way to their End... endeavour to destroy or subdue one another. - CORRECT
ANSWER Hobbes
In such condition there is no place for Industry... no Culture of the Earth... no Arts... no Society; and
which is worst of all, continual feare, and danger of violent death: And the life of man, solitary, poore,
nasty, brutish, and short. - CORRECT ANSWER Hobbes
So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, Competition; Secondly,
Diffidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first, maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third,
for reputation. - CORRECT ANSWER Hobbes
The only way to erect such a Common Power... is, to conferre all their power and strength upon one
Man, or upon one Assembly of men... This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a
Commonwealth. - CORRECT ANSWER Hobbes
, The Passions that incline men to Peace, are Feare of Death; Desire of such things as are necessary to
commodious living; and a Hope by their Industry to obtain them. And Reason suggesteth convenient
Articles of Peace, upon which men may be drawn to agreement. - CORRECT
ANSWER Hobbes
"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master unless he transforms strength into right,
and obedience into duty..." - CORRECT ANSWER Rousseau
"The social order is a sacred right... but this right does not come from nature and must therefore be
founded on conventions." - CORRECT ANSWER Rousseau
"The right of slavery is null and void... The words slave and right contradict each other." - CORRECT
ANSWER Rousseau
"The most ancient of all societies and the only one that is natural is the family..." - CORRECT
ANSWER Rousseau
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - CORRECT ANSWER Rousseau
"Every normative theory of social arrangement... seems
to demand the equality of something." - CORRECT ANSWER Sen
"Demanding equality in one space can lead one to be anti-egalitarian in some other space." -
CORRECT ANSWER Sen
"The weaker members of a political community are entitled to the same concern and respect of their
government as the more powerful members... Anyone who claims that citizens have rights must
accept ideas very close to these." - CORRECT ANSWER Dworkin
"In practice the Government will have the last word on what an individual's rights are... But that does
not mean that the Government's view is necessarily the correct view." - CORRECT
ANSWER Dworkin
