Transition to the Contemporary World Multiple Choice Questions
1. In the middle of the 15th century, ……………was successful in operating the first printing press with movable types at Mainz in Germany.
A. John Gutenberg
B. Caxton
C. Nicholas V
D. Peter Burke
Answer: A. John Gutenberg
2. Printing press was set up in 1477 in England by ……………
A. Caxton
B. John Gutenberg
C. Henry VIII
D. James I
Answer: A. Caxton
3. The Renaissance had its origin in……………
A. Italy
B. Germany
C. France
D. England
Answer: A. Italy
4. …………….created the lifelike statue of ’St. Mark’ in Venice.
A. Donatello
B. Michael Angelo
C. Leonardo da Vinci
D. Della Robbia
Answer: A. Donatello
5. ……………..fashioned the statue of ’Perseus and the slain Medusa’.
A. Cellini
B. Della Robbia
C. Thomas Newcomen
D. Robert Bakewell
Answer: A. Cellini
6. Michelangelo, great sculptor, painter and architect had many achievements to his credit, among which his statue of ’David’ at…………, is a masterpiece of classical dignity.
A. Florence
B. France
C. Germany
D. Oxford
Answer: A. Florence
7. ……………………..’s well-known work is the “Mona Lisa”
A. Leonardo da Vinci
B. Michelangelo
C. Raphael
D. Dante
Answer: A. Leonardo da Vinci
8. “The Last Supper” is connected with …………………
A. Leonardo da Vinci
B. Raphael
C. Patriarch
D. Dante
Answer: A. Leonardo da Vinci
9. Whose most excellent painting is the grand fresco of ’The Last Judgement’ in the same chapel?
A. Michelangelo
B. Leonardo da Vinci
C. Raphael
D. Patriarch
Answer: A. Michelangelo
10. ……………….’s Sistine ’Madonna’ is regarded as a landmark in portrait painting, owing to its lifelike charm and beauty of composition.
A. Sanzio Raphael
B. Michelangelo
C. Leonardo da Vinci
D. Bocaccio
Answer: A. Sanzio Raphael
11. ……………..wrote ‘The Divine Comedy in Italian rather than Latin.
A. Machiavelli
B. Bocaccio
C. Dante
D. Cervantes
Answer: C. Dante
12. …………………….wrote a series of love sonnets to “Laura”.
A. Machiavelli
B. Patriarch
C. Cervantes
D. Erasmus
Answer: B. Patriarch
13. ………………… wrote “his racy stories in Italian”, the Decameron.
A. Patriarch
B. Bocaccio
C. Machiavelli
D. Cervantes
Answer: B. Bocaccio
14. Who wrote ‘The Prince’ as a guide for rulers?
A. Erasmus
B. Cervantes
C. Machiavelli
D. Corneille
Answer: C. Machiavelli
15. Who is known by his immortal Don Quixote which made fun of medieval feudalism and decadent chivalry?
A. Cervantes
B. Moliere
C. Madame de Sevigne
D. La Fontaine.
Answer: A. Cervantes
16. In the 16th century, French literature was enriched by “Gargantua” a series of daring, fanciful and humorous tales written by …………………..
A. Cervantes
B. Francis Rabelais
C. Moliere
D. Erasmus
Answer: B. Francis Rabelais
17. Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest Renaissance scholar in ……………..
A. Holland
B. France
C. England
D. Poland
Answer: A. Holland
18. ‘Praise of Folly’ was written by ………..
A. Cranmer
B. Sir Thomas More
C. Milton
D. Erasmus
Answer: D. Erasmus
19. In England…………..’s Utopia appeared in English in 1551.
A. Milton
B. Sir Thomas More
C. Edmund Spencer
D. Marlowe
Answer: B. Sir Thomas More
20. …………….Canterbury Tales was written by ……………..
A. Chaucer
B. Milton
C. Erasmus
D. Sir Thomas More
Answer: A. Chaucer
21. ‘Paradise Los’t is the work of …………………..
A. Marlowe
B. Edmund Spencer
C. Milton
D. Cranmer
Answer: C. Milton
22. Book of Common Prayers was the work of …………………….
A. Peter Abelard
B. Edmund Spencer
C. Cranmer
D. Abertus Magus
Answer: C. Cranmer
23. ‘Faerie Queen’ is the work of ………………
A. Edmund Spencer
B. Ben Johnson
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. Francis Bacon
Answer: A. Edmund Spencer
24. In the 13th century, ……………..laid the foundations of modern science, by insisting on the experimental method, and discovered the uses of gunpowder and the magnifying lens.
A. Abertus Magus
B. Peter Abelard
C. Roger Bacon
D. Thomas Aquinas
Answer: C. Roger Bacon
25. Nicholas Copernicus of …………………revolutionized the thought of mankind by proving that the earth moves round the sun.
A. Russia
B. England
C. Poland
D. Italy
Answer: C. Poland
26. ……………………of Poland revolutionized the thought of mankind by proving that the earth moves round the sun.
A. Nicholas Copernicus
B. Ptolemy
C. Giorgio Vasari
D. Galileo
Answer: A. Nicholas Copernicus
27. Galileo was an …………… astronomer
A. French
B. German
C. Italian
D. Russian
Answer: C. Italian
28. John Kepler was an ……………… astronomer
A. German
B. Italian
C. Indian
D. Swedish
Answer: A. German
29. The term Renaissance was first used by the Italian artist and critic …………in his book ‘The Lives of the Artists’
A. Giorgio Vasari
B. Robert Fulton
C. Thomas Newcomend
D. Corneille
Answer: A. Giorgio Vasari
30. The Renaissance was first defined by ………….historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), in his work, ‘Histoire de France’.
A. German
B. Portuguese
C. French
D. Spanish
Answer: C. French
31. Who wrote the book ‘The Waning of the Middle Ages’?
A. Jacob Burckhardt
B. Cimabue
C. Giotto
D. Johan Huizinga
Answer: D. Johan Huizinga
32. ………..was credited with discovering ‘the law of gravitation’.
A. Rapheal
B. Dante
C. Michelangelo
D. Sir Isaac Newton
Answer: D. Sir Isaac Newton
33. Martin Luther was connected with ………………
A. Crusades
B. Science
C. Renaissance
D. Reformation
Answer: D. Reformation
34. ………….is regarded as the “Morning star of the Reformation”.
A. Racine
B. Robert Fulton
C. Thomas Newcomen
D. John Wycliff
Answer: D. John Wycliff
35. ‘The Lollards’ grew in numbers in ………….
A. Belgium
B. Geneva
C. U.S.A.
D. England
Answer: D. England
36. After Wyclife’s death, his writings were spread in Bohemia by…………., a priest and professor in the University of Prague.
A. Martin Luther
B. Robert Fulton
C. Robert Bakewell
D. John Huss
Answer: D. John Huss
37. The Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund invited …………to attend a general church council at Constance where he was burned at the stake in 1415.
A. Wyclife
B. Thomas Newcomen
C. Shakespeare
D. John Huss
Answer: D. John Huss
38. Luther wrote his 95 Thesis and nailing them to the door of the Castle Church of …………on October 31, 1517.
A. Cambridge
B. Edinburg
C. Oxford
D. Wittenberg
Answer: D. Wittenberg
39. Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) led a revolt against the Catholic Church in ………….
A. England
B. Holland
C. Germany
D. Switzerland
Answer: D. Switzerland
40. A civil war broke out between the Catholic and the Reformed Cantons in which ………….was killed in the Battle of Kappel in 1531.
A. Moliere
B. Robert Fulton
C. Thomas Newcomen
D. Zwingli
Answer: D. Zwingli
41. The French Protestants were called the ………….
A. Puritans
B. Presbyterians
C. Huguenots
D. Cavelliers
Answer: C. Huguenots
42. …………….introduced Calvinism in Scotland
A. Racine
B. Thomas Newcomen
C. John Knox
D. Moliere
Answer: C. John Knox
43. John Knox introduced Calvinism in Scotland, where it was called ……………………….
A. Presbyterianism
B. Puritans
C. Round Heads
D. Huguenots
Answer: A. Presbyterianism
44. King ………….was broke with the Pope who did not agree with his decision to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon
A. Henry VII
B. Henry VIII
C. Louis-Philippe
D. Louis XVIII
Answer: B. Henry VIII
45. In 1534 the King ……………..induced Parliament to pass the Act of Supremacy which substituted the king for the Pope as head of the Church in England.
A. Henry VIII
B. Henry IV
C. Henry V
D. Edward VI
Answer: A. Henry VIII
46. The most significant agency of the Catholic reform was ………….
A. The Society of Jesus
B. Calvinism
C. Puritanism
D. Socialist Society
Answer: A. The Society of Jesus
47. The Society of Jesus was founded by ……………
A. St. Ignatius Loyola
B. Robert Fulton
C. Martin Luther
D. John Calvin
Answer: A. St. Ignatius Loyola
48. The Edict of Nantes was issued by King Henry IV in 1598 restored peace in …………
A. France
B. Germany
C. Britain
D. Poland
Answer: A. France
49. Who defeated the Spanish Armada?
A. Elizabeth I
B. Victoria
C. Charles X
D. Queen Anne
Answer: A. Elizabeth I
50. In 1618, a war broke out in …………..between the Catholics and the Protestants, which lasted for thirty years. Hence it is known as the Thirty Years War.
A. Germany
B. France
C. Russia
D. Rome
Answer: A. Germany
51. Who questioned the sale of indulgences in 1517 by the agents of Pope X?
A. Jaques Cartier
B. Martin Luther
C. Thomas Newcomen
D. Queen Anne
Answer: B. Martin Luther
52. The ……………aroused a spirit of adventure as well as a great deal of curiosity among the Europeans.
A. French Revolution
B. Renaissance
C. American Revolution
D. Reformation
Answer: B. Renaissance
53. ……………was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453
A. Gerusalem
B. Constantinople
C. Western Roman Empire
D. Italy
Answer: B. Constantinople
54. After the fall of…………….., the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, into the hands of the fanatical Ottoman Turks, the trade routes lying within the Turkish empire, were closed to European traders.
A. Gerusalem
B. Constantinople
C. Delhi
D. Oxford
Answer: B. Constantinople
55. The ………….had fostered a spirit of inquiry that had revolutionized geographical ideas.
A. Reformation
B. Renaissance
C. English Revolution
D. American Revolution
Answer: B. Renaissance
56. Prince Henry, commonly called Henry the navigator, was a great patron of navigation in ………………
A. France
B. Portugal
C. Poland
D. Spain
Answer: B. Portugal
57. Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator sailed around the cape up the east coast of Africa, across the Indian Ocean and landed at …………..
A. Cochi
B. Calicut
C. Bombay
D. Cape of Good Hope
Answer: B. Calicut
58. After Prince Henry’s death ……………….crossed the Equator in 1472.
A. Lopo Gonsalves
B. Diego Cao
C. Columbus
D. John Cabot
Answer: A. Lopo Gonsalves
59. In 1488, a brave captain named ………….sailed up to Africa’s southern most tips which he named the “Cape of Storms”.
A. Bartholomew Diaz
B. Thomas Newcomen
C. Columbus
D. Robert Fulton
Answer: A. Bartholomew Diaz
60. John of Plano Carpini was sent to the court of the Great Khan in Mongolia in ……………..
A. 1145
B. 1245
C. 1257
D. 1269
Answer: B. 1245
61. The Polo brothers reach the court of Kublai Khan in China in…………
A. 1250
B. 1256
C. 1260
D. 1268
Answer: C. 1260
62. ……….Bartholomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of
Africa.
A. 1468
B. 1477
C. 1488
D. 1498
Answer: C. 1488
63. In 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain sponsors ……………..to find a route to
India.
A. Bartholomeu Dias
B. John Cabot
C. Christopher Columbus
D. Vasco da Gama
Answer: C. Christopher Columbus
64. Vasco da Gama went around the cape and across the Indian Ocean to reach India (Calicut) in ………..
A. 1458
B. 1468
C. 1498
D. 1598
Answer: C. 1498
65. In 1499 ………………landed in America.
A. Amerigo Vespucci
B. Cabral
C. Robert Fulton
D. Vasco da Gama
Answer: A. Amerigo Vespucci
66. In 1500 ………..reached South America (Brazil)
A.
B. Robert Fulton
C. Vasco da Gama
D. Balboa
Answer: A.
67. In 1510 Goa became the capital of the …………..Eastern Empire.
A. British
B. French
C. Portuguese
D. Dutch
Answer: C. Portuguese
68. Balboa crossed the Isthimus of Panama in …………
A. 1465
B. 1508
C. 1513
D. 1623
Answer: C. 1513
69. From 1515 to 1547 – The French king Francis I extended his colonies to …………and the Mississipi Valley.
A. New Hampshire
B. Vermont
C. Canada
D. Maine
Answer: C. Canada
70. The Portuguese reached China in ………..
A. 1510
B. 1512
C. 1517
D. 1534
Answer: C. 1517
71. In 1519 ………….discovered Mexico.
A. Hernando Cortez
B. Robert Fulton
C. Cabral
D. Amerigo Vespucci
Answer: A. Hernando Cortez
72. The fall of …………..into the hands of the Ottoman Turks was reason enough for the Europeans to seek alternative routes.
A. Delhi
B. Peking
C. Moscow
D. Constantinople
Answer: D. Constantinople
73. The Polo brothers from Venice were the first Europeans to travel to China and visit the court of……………, about 1260.
A. Kublai Khan
B. Alfred the Great
C. Henry VIII
D. Akbar
Answer: A. Kublai Khan
74. ……………the navigator encouraged navigation by establishing a school
for geographers.
A. George Sarton
B. Amerigo Vespucci
C. Randolph Starn
D. Henry
Answer: D. Henry
75. Goa was conquered by the……………, who made it the capital of their Eastern Empire.
A. British
B. Dutch
C. French
D. Portuguese
Answer: D. Portuguese
76. …………….patronized by Queen Isaballa of Spain set off on a voyage and reached the West Indies, thinking he had landed on India.
A. Christopher Columbus
B. b) Ferdinand Magellan
C. c) Robert Fulton
D. d) Robert S. Lopez
Answer: A. Christopher Columbus
77. ……………in his ‘The Prince’ projected the need of an absolute king because he alone could provide security to people.
A. Lynn Thorndike
B. Joan Kelly
C. Mac-Antoine Charpentier
D. Machia velli
Answer: D. Machia velli
78. When the French Revolution broke out?
A. 1689
B. 1768
C. 1769
D. 1789
Answer: D. 1789
79. …………….in his book ‘The State propounded the theory of legal sovereignty’ asserted that the king was the source of all law and was accountable to God alone.
A. Jean Bodin
B. John of Plano Carpini
C. William of Rubruquis
D. Cellini
Answer: A. Jean Bodin
80. Louis XIV was the ruler of ……………..
A. Germany
B. Poland
C. Italy
D. France
Answer: D. France
81. Frederick, the Great was the ruler ……………….
A. Austria
B. Rome
C. Holland
D. Prussia
Answer: D. Prussia
82. Peter, the Great was the ruler of…………..
A. Russia
B. Spain
C. Austria
D. Portugal
Answer: A. Russia
83. Who aptly predicted”After me, the flood.”?
A. Louis XIV
B. Victoria
C. James I
D. Frederick, the Great
Answer: A. Louis XIV
84. Who appointed Jean Baptiste Colbert as controller general of finances in France?
A. Louis XIV
B. William of Orange
C. Victoria
D. Elizabeth I
Answer: A. Louis XIV
85. …………….the Dutch prince, became King of England in 1688, and joined the League of Augsburg, which included the Holy Roman Emperor, the Kings of Spain and Sweden and the electors of several German principalities.
A. William of Orange
B. Jean-Baptiste Lully
C. Charles I
D. James II
Answer: A. William of Orange
86. The Treaty of Utrecht was concluded in …………..
A. 1703
B. 1713
C. 1768
D. 1776
Answer: B. 1713
87. Nicholas Poussin is generally considered the best example of
…………….classicist painting.
A. French
B. British
C. Dutch
D. Russian
Answer: A. French
88. Whose masterpiece, The Rape of the Sabine Women, exhibits the qualities of noble action in a logical and orderly but not realistic fashion?
A. Nicholas Poussin
B. Robert Fulton
C. Michael Faraday
D. Raphael
Answer: A. Nicholas Poussin
89. The credit for establishing absolute monarchy in Prussia goes to………….
A. Frederick, the Great
B. Michelangelo
C. Peter ,the Great
D. Henry VII
Answer: A. Frederick, the Great
90. Frederick was involved in a war which lasted from 1756-63 and is popularly known as ………………
A. Seven Years War
B. American Civil War
C. The War of the Spanish Succession
D. Mexican war
Answer: A. Seven Years War
91. The Peace of Hubertsburg was concluded in ……………
A. 1703
B. 1763
C. 1767
D. 1769
Answer: B. 1763
92. Peter I or peter the Great was another notable ruler who tried to establish absolute monarchy in Europe and earned the reputation of being the most celebrated and the most controversial absolute monarch in the history of ……………..
A. Austria
B. Russia
C. France
D. England
Answer: B. Russia
93. ………..tried to bring the Russian Orthodox Church under his control by abolishing the office of the Patriarch and placed the church under a committee known as Holy Synod.
A. Frederick ,the Great
B. Peter the Great
C. Nicholas XII
D. Gorbachev
Answer: B. Peter the Great
94. ………………was an economic “system” that developed in Europe during the period of the new monarchies (1500) and culminated with the rise of the absolutist states (1600–1700).
A. Liberalism
B. Mercantilism
C. Communism
D. Capitalism
Answer: B. Mercantilism
95. James I was the ruler of …………….
A. Russia
B. England
C. Saxony
D. Prussia
Answer: B. England
96. First Bourbon king of France was …………………
A. HenryII
B. Henry IV
C. Henry VIII
D. Charles I
Answer: B. Henry IV
97. Louis XIV belonged to the ……………dynasty.
A. Tudor
B. Bourbon
C. Hapsburg
D. Stuart
Answer: B. Bourbon
98. In 1513, Jhan Ponce do Leon, a …………….explorer led an expedition to the southeastern part of United States.
A. American
B. Spanish
C. Portuguese
D. Dutch
Answer: B. Spanish
99. The French Protestants known as ……………..
A. Puritans
B. Huguenots
C. Presbyterians
D. Round Heads
Answer: B. Huguenots
100. The first English settlement in ……………was Jamestown, in Virginia.
A. North America
B. South America
C. Africa
D. Canada
Answer: A. North America
101. The ………… century is often called the ‘Age of Reason’ because it was a period of enlightenment during which philosophy was in vogue throughout Europe.
A. 15th
B. 16th
C. 17th
D. 18th
Answer: D. 18th
102. ‘Wealth of Nations’was the work of ………..
A. John Locke
B. Rene Descartes
C. Alfred Marshall
D. Adam Smith
Answer: D. Adam Smith
103. ………….., one of the best scientists of his time, wrote an essay entitled, “On Liberty and Necessity: Man in the Newtonian Universe.”
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Robert Owen
C. John Calvin
D. Thomas Paine
Answer: A. Benjamin Franklin
104. ……………..was “the founder of liberalism”.
A. John Locke
B. Montesquieu
C. Thomas Paine
D. Robert Fulton
Answer: A. John Locke
105. Two years after writing the Two Tracts on Government, …………….changed significantly in his views about magisterial authority and toleration in An Essay Concerning Toleration (1667).
A. John Locke
B. Thomas Paine
C. Michael Faraday
D. Jethro Tull
Answer: A. John Locke
106. The Advancement of Learning was written by ………………..
A. Francis Bacon
B. Thomas Paine
C. Robert Fulton
D. Rousseau
Answer: A. Francis Bacon
107. Who wrote’Novum Organum Scientiarum’?
A. Newton
B. Thomas Paine
C. Francis Bacon
D. Montesquieu
Answer: C. Francis Bacon
108. Thomas Hobbes was an……………. Philosopher
A. French
B. Russian
C. English
D. Indian
Answer: C. English
109. Whose masterwork was Leviathan?
A. Aristotle
B. Plato
C. Thomas Hobbes
D. Locke
Answer: C. Thomas Hobbes
110. ‘Meditations on First Philosophy’ was written by ……………….
A. Montesquieu
B. Thomas Paine
C. Descartes
D. Charles Telford
Answer: C. Descartes
111. Whose masterpiece was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’?
A. Thomas Paine
B. Thomas Aquinas
C. Aristotle
D. Montesquieu
Answer: D. Montesquieu
112. Persian Letters was written by ………………
A. Montesquieu
B. Thomas Paine
C. Rousseau
D. Viscount Townsend
Answer: A. Montesquieu
113. Who wrote the philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts?
A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B. Thomas Paine
C. Charles Telford
D. Voltaire
Answer: A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
114. The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality was written by ………………..
A. Rousseau
B. Thomas Paine
C. Montesquieu
D. Robert Fulton
Answer: A. Rousseau
115. Whose major work on political philosophy was the The Social Contract?
A. Michael Faraday
B. Montesquieu
C. Charles Telford
D. Rousseau
Answer: D. Rousseau
116. ‘The Confessions’ was the Autobiography of ………………..
A. Jethro Tull
B. Thomas Paine
C. Montesquieu
D. Rousseau
Answer: D. Rousseau
117. Denis Diderot was the brightest light of the ……………Enlightenment-a man of intelligence, passion and genius.
A. Dutch
B. Spanish
C. Russian
D. French
Answer: D. French
118. Voltaire was a prolific writer, philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the 18th century ………..Enlightenment.
A. French
B. American
C. Russian
D. German
Answer: A. French
119. Who Wrote Philosophical Dictionary?
A. Robert Fulton
B. Thomas Paine
C. Montesquieu
D. Voltaire
Answer: D. Voltaire
120. Who were The Physiocrats?
A. Historians
B. Sociologists
C. Scientists
D. Economists
Answer: D. Economists
121. Colbert was served as a minister in the Court of…………..
A. Louis XIV
B. James I
C. Edward VI
D. Charles I
Answer: A. Louis XIV
122. Thomas Paine was a radical writer who emigrated from …………to
America in 1774.
A. England
B. Russia
C. Spain
D. Austria
Answer: A. England
123. Early in 1776, …………published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule.
A. Thomas Paine
B. Montesquieu
C. Michael Faraday
D. Ranke
Answer: A. Thomas Paine
124. In Common Sense, …………made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent.
A. Thomas Paine
B. Karl Marx
C. Charles Darwin
D. Friedrich Nietzsche
Answer: A. Thomas Paine
125. Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason?
A. Thomas Paine
B. Montesquieu
C. Charles Telford
D. Robert Fulton
Answer: A. Thomas Paine
126. The …………..Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14,
1789.
A. French
B. Dutch
C. American
D. English
Answer: A. French
127. The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14,
………….
A. 1789
B. 1798
C. 1799
D. 1889
Answer: A. 1789
128. The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and continued till ………………..rose to power.
A. Napoleon Bonaparte
B. Charles Telford
C. Robert Fulton
D. Louis XIV
Answer: A. Napoleon Bonaparte
129. Who gave good advice to his successor Louis XV saying “Do not imitate my fondness for building and for war, but work to lessen the misery of my people?”
A. Louis XIV
B. Charles I
C. James I
D. Elizabeth I
Answer: A. Louis XIV
130. When his ministers attempted to discuss affairs of the state with him, who merely remarked, “After me, the deluge.”
A. Louis XV
B. Edward VI
C. James II
D. Henry VIII
Answer: A. Louis XV
131. Queen Marie Antoinette was the Queen of ……………..
A. Louis XV
B. Louis XVI
C. George I
D. Henry VIII
Answer: B. Louis XVI
132. ………………, a lawyer and student of constitutional government summed up his ideas in his book ‘The Spirit of the Laws’.
A. Montesquieu
B. Robert Fulton
C. Voltaire
D. Rousseau
Answer: A. Montesquieu
133. Who put forward the theory of ‘the separation of powers’?
A. Voltaire
B. Montesquieu
C. Charles Telford
D. Robert Fulton
Answer: B. Montesquieu
134. The Bloodless or Glorious Revolution started in England in ……….
A. 1678
B. 1688
C. 1698
D. 1699
Answer: B. 1688
135. The ………..Estate of France found the entrance of their meeting place blocked by the royal army on June 20, 1789 as a royal session was to be held there. Hence they rushed to a nearby place that was originally a tennis court and took the famous ‘Tennis Court Oath’.
A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. fourth
Answer: C. Third
136. July 14, …………saw the fall of the Bastille, a royal fortress and symbol of Bourbon autocracy.
A. 1779
B. 1789
C. 1793
D. 1798
Answer: B. 1789
137. Feudalism and serfdom was abolished in France in August ………….. by the National Assembly.
A. 1689
B. 1789
C. 1786
D. 1797
Answer: B. 1789
138. The Constitution of ……….. was the first written constitution of France.
A. 1781
B. 1791
C. 1796
D. 1799
Answer: B. 1791
139. The ………….were moderates who wanted a republican form of government in France.
A. Girondists
B. The Constitutionalists
C. The Jacobins
D. Liberals
Answer: A. Girondists
140. The Jacobins of ……………..were republicans of the extreme type.
A. Germany
B. France
C. Italy
D. Africa
Answer: B. France
141. King Louis XVI was found guilty of high treason by the National Convention and was guillotined on 21st January ………
A. 1746
B. 1769
C. 1793
D. 1795
Answer: C. 1793
142. The National Convention entrusted all executive authority to the “Committee of Public Safety”, consisting of 12 members led by …………………..
A. Robespierre
B. Shaftesbury
C. Diderot
D. Charles Telford
Answer: A. Robespierre
143. The National Convention entrusted all executive authority to the ‘Committee of Public Safety’, consisting of 12 members led by Robespierre. It let loose a ‘reign of terror’ in……….., from 1793 to 1794.
A. Germany
B. Portugal
C. France
D. Rome
Answer: C. France
144. The ’reign of terror’ came to an end with the revolt of the Parisian mob against Robespierre who was guillotined on March 13, ………….
A. 1736
B. 1766
C. 1794
D. 1798
Answer: C. 1794
145. After the ……………a committee of nine members was appointed by the National Convention to draft a new constitution.
A. Monarchical rule
B. Constitutional rule
C. reign of terror
D. Moderate
Answer: C. reign of terror
146. After ruling France from 1792 to 1795, the National Convention was dissolved and the new constitution came to be called the Constitution of the Year ……………
A. Third
B. fourth
C. fifth
D. sixth
Answer: A. Third
147. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the ……………………..
A. American Revolution
B. English Revolution
C. French Revolution
D. Bour war
Answer: C. French Revolution
148. Year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence ……………..
A. 2nd July 1742
B. 4th July 1749
C. 4th July 1776
D. 4th July 1767
Answer: C. 4th July 1776
149. ……………….was the primary author of the U.S. Declaration of
Independence.
A. John Eliot
B. Robert Fulton
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. Robert Owen
Answer: C. Thomas Jefferson
150. Who referred to his tactics thus: “I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning. Look at Caesar; he fought the first like the last.”
A. Napoleon Bonaparte
B. Charles Telford
C. Alexandro Volta
D. James I
Answer: A. Napoleon Bonaparte
151. Napoleon crowned himself Emperor on 2 December ……….. at Notre
Dame de Paris
A. 1704
B. 1784
C. 1798
D. 1804
Answer: D. 1804
152. Year of the Battle of Trafalgar.
A. 1776
B. 1785
C. 1788
D. 1805
Answer: D. 1805
153. “The battle of Austerlitz is the finest of all I have fought.” Who said?
A. CharlesI
B. Henry VII
C. Alfred
D. Napoleon Bonaparte
Answer: D. Napoleon Bonaparte
154. Who defeated Prussia at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt ?
A. Napoleon Bonaparte
B. Robert Fulton
C. Michael Faraday
D. James II
Answer: A. Napoleon Bonaparte
155. In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the victors exiled ……………..to Elba, an island of 12,000 inhabitants in the Mediterranean, 20 km off the Tuscan coast.
A. Louis XII
B. Charles Telford
C. Henry VIII
D. Napoleon Bonaparte
Answer: D. Napoleon Bonaparte
156. Napoleon escaped from Elba on 26 February …………..
A. 1715
B. 1789
C. 1799
D. 1815
Answer: D. 1815
157. Battle of Waterloo ,18 June ……………..
A. 1754
B. 1764
C. 1787
D. 1815
Answer: D. 1815
158. Who was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, 1,870 km from the west coast of Africa.
A. Napoleon Bonaparte
B. Alexandro Volta
C. Edward VI
D. William III
Answer: A. Napoleon Bonaparte
159. …………..negotiated with Pope Pius VII. Finally, a Concordat was
concluded in 1802.
A. Matternich
B. Elizabeth
C. Charles I
D. Napoleon Bonaparte
Answer: D. Napoleon Bonaparte
160. Who said: “My true glory is not to have won 40 battles…Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories. … But…what will live forever is my Civil Code.”
A. Napoleon Bonaparte
B. Robert Fulton
C. Edward VI
D. James II
Answer: A. Napoleon Bonaparte
161. The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of …………….
A. Napoleon Bonaparte
B. Charles Telford
C. Victoria
D. George II
Answer: A. Napoleon Bonaparte
162. ………….., by Orders in Council (1807), prohibited its trade partners from
trading with France.
A. Britain
B. Germany
C. Poland
D. Malaysia
Answer: A. Britain
163. The members of the ………..take the famous ‘Tennis Court Oath’ and resolve to remain united until a constitution is established.
A. First Estate
B. Second Estate
C. third Estate
D. Fourth Estate
Answer: C. third Estate
164. The French Revolution of…………, also known as the July Revolution.
A. 1730
B. 1768
C. 1807
D. 1830
Answer: D. 1830
165. The Congress of Vienna was headed by ………………..
A. Metternich
B. Charles Telford
C. Alexandro Volta
D. Michael Faraday
Answer: A. Metternich
166. The term ‘Industrial Revolution’ was first used by the historian…………, to describe the economic development in England, from 1760 to 1840.
A. Arnold Toynbee
B. Robert Fulton
C. Alexandro Volta
D. Adam Smith
Answer: A. Arnold Toynbee
167. The Industrial Revolution first started in …………….
A. France
B. Germany
C. Spain
D. England
Answer: D. England
168. Who introduced the continental system?
A. Napoleon Bonaparte
B. Robert Fulton
C. Alexandro Volta
D. Michael Faraday
Answer: A. Napoleon Bonaparte
169. In 1764, ……………..invented a machine called the ’Spinning Jenny.’
A. James Hargreaves
B. John MacAdam
C. Charles Telford
D. John Smeaton
Answer: A. James Hargreaves
170. In 1769, ……………invented a machine run by waterpower instead of manpower. Hence it came to be called the ’Water-Frame’.
A. Richard Arkwright
B. John MacAdam
C. Robert Fulton
D. James Watt
Answer: A. Richard Arkwright
171. Samuel Crompton removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with his machine known as ……………..
A. Spinning Mule
B. John MacAdam
C. John Smeaton
D. Charles Telford
Answer: A. Spinning Mule
172. ……………..removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with his machine known as ’Spinning Mule’( 1778) .
A. Samuel Crompton
B. Charles Telford
C. James Watt
D. Alexandro Volta
Answer: A. Samuel Crompton
173. In 1733, ………….had invented a device called the ’Flying Shuttle’.
A. John Kay
B. John MacAdam
C. Charles Telford
D. John Smeaton
Answer: A. John Kay
174. In 1785, ……………..invented the Automatic or Power Loom.
A. Dr. Edmund Cartwright
B. John Smeaton
C. Robert Fulton
D. James Watt
Answer: A. Dr. Edmund Cartwright
175. Who invented a machine called the ’Cotton Gin.’?
A. Eli Whitney
B. John MacAdam
C. Charles Telford
D. Thomas Newcomen
Answer: A. Eli Whitney
176. In 1816, …………….invented a machine called Davy’s Safety Lamp.’
A. Sir Humphry Davy
B. John Smeaton
C. Thomas Newcomen
D. James Watt
Answer: A. Sir Humphry Davy
177. In 1856, ……………discovered a process by which impurities could be removed from iron. This purified refined iron came to be known as ’steel’, which helped in making more accurate tools, implements, weapons and machines.
A. Henry Bessemer
B. John MacAdam
C. Robert Fulton
D. Charles Telford
Answer: A. Henry Bessemer
178. In 1801, ………………invented the first steam locomotive.
A. Richard Trevithick
B. Charles Telford
C. Thomas Newcomen
D. James Watt
Answer: A. Richard Trevithick
179. Who is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’?
A. John Smeaton
B. George Stephenson
C. Charles Telford
D. Robert Fulton
Answer: B. George Stephenson
180. George Stephenson is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’, because he made great improvements on Trevithick’s locomotive in his ………….. in 1814.
A. Phone
B. ’Rocket’
C. Computer
D. Railway
Answer: B. ’Rocket’
181. In 1807, …………..invented the steamboat called the ’Clermont’.
A. Robert Fulton
B. James Watt
C. Alexandro Volta
D. Robert Bakewell
Answer: A. Robert Fulton
182. …………..invented the first steam engine in 1705, in order to pump water
out of the mines.
A. Thomas Newcomen
B. Michael Faraday
C. Jethro Tull
D. Viscount Townsend
Answer: A. Thomas Newcomen
183. In 1769, ………….invented a better steam engine called the ’Beelzebub.’
A. James Watt
B. Alexandro Volta
C. Michael Faraday
D. Robert Bakewell
Answer: A. James Watt
184. Who invented a Seed Drill that would distribute the seeds evenly in rows, over a large piece of land?
A. Jethro Tull
B. Viscount Townsend
C. Benjamin Disraeli
D. Robert Owen
Answer: A. Jethro Tull
185. The discovery of a new method of ’Crop Rotation’, was made
by……………….
A. Viscount Townsend
B. Robert Bakewell
C. Adam Smith
D. Benjamin Disraeli
Answer: A. Viscount Townsend
186. In……………., Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels issued the ‘Communist Manifesto’ which introduced scientific socialism or Communism.
A. 1648
B. 1748
C. 1848
D. 1948
Answer: C. 1848
187. In 1867 Marx and Engels published the first of three volumes, entitled……….., in which they explained the sum and substance of Marxian Socialism or Communism.
A. Communist Manifesto’
B. Wealth of Nations
C. Das Kapital
D. Utopia
Answer: C. Das Kapital
188. ……………means “leave to do, leave to pass” or more accurately “let things alone, let them pass”.
A. Socialism
B. Communism
C. Laissez-faire
D. Chartism
Answer: C. Laissez-faire
189. The Chartist Movement had at its core the so-called “People’s Charter” of 1838.This document, created for the London Working Men’s Association, was primarily the work of ………………………
A. William Lovett
B. Rousseau
C. Auguste Comte
D. Newton
Answer: A. William Lovett
190. The “People’s Charter” of 1838 was a public petition aimed at redressing omissions from the electoral ……………………..
A. Representation of the People Act, 1918
B. Representation of the People Act, 1928
C. Reform Act of 1832
D. Reform Act of 1884
Answer: C. Reform Act of 1832
191. Who formed a Consultative Council, known as the ’Witan’ (the Council of the wise men), which was composed of several learned men?.
A. James I
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Robert Owen
D. King Alfred
Answer: D. King Alfred
192. On June 15, 1215 ……………affixed his seal on the ’Great Charter’, which is referred to as the ’Magna Carta.’
A. Robert Owen
B. Charles I
C. Oliver Cromwell
D. King John
Answer: D. King John
193. Who is called as the “Father of Parliament”?
A. Louis Blanc
B. Saint Simon
C. Charles Fourier
D. Simon-De-Montford
Answer: D. Simon-De-Montford
194. In 1295, King Edward attempted to curb the nobles and the clergy, by securing the support of the third estate, consisting of the common people. To do so, he summoned the first complete English Parliament including representatives from all sections of society. This meeting came to be referred to as the……………..
A. The Petition of Rights
B. Bill of Rights
C. Act of Settlement ,1701
D. Model Parliament
Answer: D. Model Parliament
195. ……………was a strong champion of the doctrine of the Divine Right of
kings.
A. Karl Marx
B. Robert Owen
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. James I
Answer: D. James I
196. Charles I (1625-49) was forced to call a parliament, which laid certain conditions on him in the famous document known as ……………….
A. Bill of Rights
B. Act of Settlement ,1701
C. Model Parliament
D. The Petition of Rights
Answer: D. The Petition of Rights
197. Who was called the “Great Protector?”
A. George V
B. Maria Theresa
C. James I
D. Oliver Cromwell
Answer: D. Oliver Cromwell
198. Which was year of The Glorious Revolution of England?
A. 1588
B. 1658
C. 1678
D. 1688
Answer: D. 1688
199. Charles II was succeeded by his younger brother, …………in 1685, who ruled as an absolute autocrat.
A. James I
B. Henry I
C. Henry III
D. James II
Answer: D. James II
200. William of Orange was the Protestant ruler of Holland and the son-in-law
of ………….
A. Charles I
B. Charles II
C. Charles IV
D. James II
Answer: D. James II
201. As James II would not be able to fight against the Parliament and William of Orange, he escaped to ……………….
A. Germany
B. Russia
C. Italy
D. France
Answer: D. France
202. The Parliament became supreme after the Glorious Revolution and passed a Bill of Rights in …………..
A. 1656
B. 1658
C. 1682
D. 1689
Answer: D. 1689
203. The Act of Settlement was also passed in …………….
A. 1601
B. 1688
C. 1689
D. 1701
Answer: D. 1701
204. Who was the first Prime Minister of Britain?
A. Sir Robert Walpole
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Henry VII
D. Wolsey
Answer: A. Sir Robert Walpole
205. As a result of the growing strength of the…………., the Representation of the People Act, was passed in 1867
A. Chartist Movement
B. The Female Suffrage Movement
C. The War of the League of Augsburg
D. Paris Commune
Answer: A. Chartist Movement
206. As a result of the growing strength of the ’Chartist Movement’, the Representation of the People Act, was passed in 1867. It was introduced by …………….
A. Benjamin Disraeli
B. Gladston
C. Lord Derby
D. Abraham Lincoln
Answer: A. Benjamin Disraeli
207. ……………..regarded the Reform Act of 1867 as ’a leap in the dark.’
A. Lord Derby
B. Benjamin Disraeli
C. Gladston
D. James I
Answer: A. Lord Derby
208. The Secret Ballot Act introduced by ……………in 1872.
A. Gladstone
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Disraeli
D. Lord Derby
Answer: A. Gladstone
209. The duration of Parliament was reduced from seven to five years by ……………..
A. Parliamentary Act, 1911
B. Reform Act Of 1832
C. Representation of the People Act, 1867
D. Representation of the People Act, 1884.
Answer: A. Parliamentary Act, 1911
210. In 1867, …………..had spoken in favor of voting rights for women. This created a favorable atmosphere for the Female Suffrage Movement.
A. John Stuart Mill
B. Francisco de Miranda
C. San Martín
D. Simon Boliver
Answer: A. John Stuart Mill