POL 101 CBT Practice For FUOYE Students

1. Verifiability requires that scientific statements be ________.

2. Political power is difficult to measure because it is ________.

3. Political science differs from chemistry because ________.

4. World War II led political scientists to study ________.

5. Montesquieu categorized the functions of government into ________.

6. Political science cannot be an exact science mainly because ________.

7. Generality in science refers to the ability to ________.

8. Jean Bodin is credited with first using the term ________.

9. One major difficulty in political science research is ________.

10. Max Weber defined politics as the operation of the ________.

11. Political science uses historical facts mainly to ________.

12. Politics at the international level includes actions such as ________.

13. The rise of sociology encouraged political scientists to focus more on ________.

14. Which concept refers to the legal membership of a country?

15. Political science focuses on explanation and prediction through ________.

16. Unlike natural sciences, political science deals mainly with ________.

17. Political science is considered scientific to the extent that it ________.

18. Quantitative methods were adopted in political science mainly to enhance ________.

19. The unpredictability of man makes political science ________.

20. The word “politics” is derived from the Greek word ________.

21. The principle of separation of powers aims primarily at ensuring ________

22. One major aim of political science is to analyze ________.

23. Jean Bodin’s approach to politics was largely influenced by his training as a ________.

24. The United Nations (UN) is an example of an:

25. Darwin’s theory influenced political science by emphasizing ________.

26. Political science is classified as a ________.

27. Which of the following is NOT an arena where politics is practiced?

28. Austin Ranney viewed politics primarily as a process of ________.

29. The scientific method begins with the ________.

30. Scientific knowledge is best described as a ________.

31. Ernest Barker defined politics as the process of ________.

32. Aristotle first used the term politics to refer to the affairs of the ________.

33. Politics is regarded as a universal phenomenon because it exists in ________.

34. Knowledge is said to be systematic when it is ________.

35. According to Harold Lasswell, politics is concerned with ________.

36. The totality of political institutions and social organizations is known as the ________.

37. Pure science is primarily concerned with ________.

38. The military intervention in Nigeria between 1966 and 1999 was largely due to ________.

39. The study of politics goes beyond government to include ________.

40. One major characteristic of scientific knowledge is ________.