Which of the following is not characteristic of religion?
A.It has stronghold over every society.
B.It has isolated good from the evil.
C.It brings ego in man and rationalises human sufferings.
Category: Social Institutions Mcqs
The system under which a heredity monarch is the head of the state with practically no powers is known as
A.bureaucracy
B.dictatorship
C.limited monarchy
Which of following is true of monogamy?
A.In it a husband cannot live in his house with more than one woman.
B.In it a man can have many women and all can be his wives.
C.A man can have many women and have also sexual relationship with them, but only one enjoys status of wife.
Which of the following is true of magic?
A.It creates feelings of religion.
B.In it attitude is more a matter of fact.
C.None of above.
Which one of the following is not the major cause of divorce?
A.Desire to have children.
B.Economic self-sufficiency of the women.
C.Too much stress on romance before marriage.
Theory of primitive promiscuism was given by
A.Karl Marx
B.P. V. Young
C.J. L. Lubbock’s
Which of the following is not social function of religion?
A.It promotes feelings of equality.
B.It encourages democratic tendencies.
C.It promotes tolerance.
Who one of the following believes that the capitalism is sowing the seeds of its own degeneration?
A.Anarchists
B.Socialists
C.Marxism
Which one of the following is not true of origin of polyandry?
A.The women were less in number.
B.The men could not afford maintaining one wife.
C.Men could successfully control their sexual urge.
The system under which the boys and the girls are allowed to test each other’s compatibility before marriage is known as
A.compassionate
B.experimental
C.endogamy
