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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Who wrote the book ‘The Waning of the Middle Ages’? |
| A. | Jacob Burckhardt |
| B. | Cimabue |
| C. | Giotto |
| D. | Johan Huizinga |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
…………….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» B. John of Plano Carpini | |
| 3. |
In 1500 ………..reached South America (Brazil) |
| A. | Robert Fulton |
| Answer» B. | |
| 4. |
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» E. | |
| 5. |
……………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» E. | |
| 6. |
Who wrote ‘The Prince’ as a guide for rulers? |
| A. | Erasmus |
| B. | Cervantes |
| C. | Machiavelli |
| D. | Corneille |
| Answer» D. Corneille | |
| 7. |
Queen Marie Antoinette was the Queen of …………….. |
| A. | Louis XV |
| B. | Louis XVI |
| C. | George I |
| D. | Henry VIII |
| Answer» C. George I | |
| 8. |
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» E. | |
| 9. |
John Knox introduced Calvinism in Scotland, where it was called ………………………. |
| A. | Presbyterianism |
| B. | Puritans |
| C. | Round Heads |
| D. | Huguenots |
| Answer» B. Puritans | |
| 10. |
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» C. Delhi | |
| 11. |
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» B. Rousseau | |
| 12. |
In 1499 ………………landed in America. |
| A. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| B. | Cabral |
| C. | Robert Fulton |
| D. | Vasco da Gama |
| Answer» B. Cabral | |
| 13. |
Who put forward the theory of ‘the separation of powers’? |
| A. | Voltaire |
| B. | Montesquieu |
| C. | Charles Telford |
| D. | Robert Fulton |
| Answer» C. Charles Telford | |
| 14. |
Prince Henry, commonly called Henry the navigator, was a great patron of navigation in ……………… |
| A. | France |
| B. | Portugal |
| C. | Poland |
| D. | Spain |
| Answer» C. Poland | |
| 15. |
Goa was conquered by the……………, who made it the capital of their Eastern Empire. |
| A. | British |
| B. | Dutch |
| C. | French |
| D. | Portuguese |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
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» C. Thomas Newcomen | |
| 17. |
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» B. Charles I | |
| 18. |
Who was called the "Great Protector?" |
| A. | George V |
| B. | Maria Theresa |
| C. | James I |
| D. | Oliver Cromwell |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
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» C. American Revolution | |
| 20. |
…………….introduced Calvinism in Scotland |
| A. | Racine |
| B. | Thomas Newcomen |
| C. | John Knox |
| D. | Moliere |
| Answer» D. Moliere | |
| 21. |
Year of the Battle of Trafalgar. |
| A. | 1776 |
| B. | 1785 |
| C. | 1788 |
| D. | 1805 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
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» B. Reform Act Of 1832 | |
| 23. |
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» B. William of Orange | |
| 24. |
Who defeated Prussia at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt ? |
| A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Michael Faraday |
| D. | James II |
| Answer» B. Robert Fulton | |
| 25. |
The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of ……………. |
| A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| B. | Charles Telford |
| C. | Victoria |
| D. | George II |
| Answer» B. Charles Telford | |
| 26. |
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» B. fourth | |
| 27. |
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» E. | |
| 28. |
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» B. Alexandro Volta | |
| 29. |
………..was credited with discovering ‘the law of gravitation’. |
| A. | Rapheal |
| B. | Dante |
| C. | Michelangelo |
| D. | Sir Isaac Newton |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
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» C. 1793 | |
| 31. |
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» D. Thomas Aquinas | |
| 32. |
Who introduced the continental system? |
| A. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Alexandro Volta |
| D. | Michael Faraday |
| Answer» B. Robert Fulton | |
| 33. |
The Congress of Vienna was headed by ……………….. |
| A. | Metternich |
| B. | Charles Telford |
| C. | Alexandro Volta |
| D. | Michael Faraday |
| Answer» B. Charles Telford | |
| 34. |
………………… wrote "his racy stories in Italian", the Decameron. |
| A. | Patriarch |
| B. | Bocaccio |
| C. | Machiavelli |
| D. | Cervantes |
| Answer» C. Machiavelli | |
| 35. |
When the French Revolution broke out? |
| A. | 1689 |
| B. | 1768 |
| C. | 1769 |
| D. | 1789 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
…………….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» B. Jean-Baptiste Lully | |
| 37. |
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» C. 1257 | |
| 38. |
Persian Letters was written by ……………… |
| A. | Montesquieu |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Rousseau |
| D. | Viscount Townsend |
| Answer» B. Thomas Paine | |
| 39. |
The Treaty of Utrecht was concluded in ………….. |
| A. | 1703 |
| B. | 1713 |
| C. | 1768 |
| D. | 1776 |
| Answer» C. 1768 | |
| 40. |
…………..negotiated with Pope Pius VII. Finally, a Concordat wasconcluded in 1802. |
| A. | Matternich |
| B. | Elizabeth |
| C. | Charles I |
| D. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
………………, 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» B. Robert Fulton | |
| 42. |
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» D. Utopia | |
| 43. |
……….Bartholomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope at the tip ofAfrica. |
| A. | 1468 |
| B. | 1477 |
| C. | 1488 |
| D. | 1498 |
| Answer» D. 1498 | |
| 44. |
………………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» C. Communism | |
| 45. |
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» B. Gladston | |
| 46. |
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» B. John MacAdam | |
| 47. |
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» C. Louis-Philippe | |
| 48. |
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» B. Robert Fulton | |
| 49. |
The Portuguese reached China in ……….. |
| A. | 1510 |
| B. | 1512 |
| C. | 1517 |
| D. | 1534 |
| Answer» D. 1534 | |
| 50. |
The Jacobins of ……………..were republicans of the extreme type. |
| A. | Germany |
| B. | France |
| C. | Italy |
| D. | Africa |
| Answer» C. Italy | |