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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. |
Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) led a revolt against the Catholic Church in …………. |
| A. | England |
| B. | Holland |
| C. | Germany |
| D. | Switzerland |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
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» B. Karl Marx | |
| 3. |
In 1816, …………….invented a machine called Davy’s Safety Lamp.’ |
| A. | Sir Humphry Davy |
| B. | John Smeaton |
| C. | Thomas Newcomen |
| D. | James Watt |
| Answer» B. John Smeaton | |
| 4. |
Whose most excellent painting is the grand fresco of ’The Last Judgement’ inthe same chapel? |
| A. | Michelangelo |
| B. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| C. | Raphael |
| D. | Patriarch |
| Answer» B. Leonardo da Vinci | |
| 5. |
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» D. 1948 | |
| 6. |
……………..fashioned the statue of ’Perseus and the slain Medusa’. |
| A. | Cellini |
| B. | Della Robbia |
| C. | Thomas Newcomen |
| D. | Robert Bakewell |
| Answer» B. Della Robbia | |
| 7. |
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» D. 1795 | |
| 8. |
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» B. The Female Suffrage Movement | |
| 9. |
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» C. Computer | |
| 10. |
In 1519 ………….discovered Mexico. |
| A. | Hernando Cortez |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Cabral |
| D. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Answer» B. Robert Fulton | |
| 11. |
‘Meditations on First Philosophy’ was written by ………………. |
| A. | Montesquieu |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Descartes |
| D. | Charles Telford |
| Answer» D. Charles Telford | |
| 12. |
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» D. Rome | |
| 13. |
The discovery of a new method of ’Crop Rotation’, was madeby………………. |
| A. | Viscount Townsend |
| B. | Robert Bakewell |
| C. | Adam Smith |
| D. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Answer» B. Robert Bakewell | |
| 14. |
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» B. France | |
| 15. |
Louis XIV was the ruler of …………….. |
| A. | Germany |
| B. | Poland |
| C. | Italy |
| D. | France |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
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» E. | |
| 17. |
Thomas Paine was a radical writer who emigrated from …………toAmerica in 1774. |
| A. | England |
| B. | Russia |
| C. | Spain |
| D. | Austria |
| Answer» B. Russia | |
| 18. |
Nicholas Poussin is generally considered the best example of…………….classicist painting. |
| A. | French |
| B. | British |
| C. | Dutch |
| D. | Russian |
| Answer» B. British | |
| 19. |
In 1764, ……………..invented a machine called the ’Spinning Jenny.’ |
| A. | James Hargreaves |
| B. | John MacAdam |
| C. | Charles Telford |
| D. | John Smeaton |
| Answer» B. John MacAdam | |
| 20. |
The Secret Ballot Act introduced by ……………in 1872. |
| A. | Gladstone |
| B. | Abraham Lincoln |
| C. | Disraeli |
| D. | Lord Derby |
| Answer» B. Abraham Lincoln | |
| 21. |
Feudalism and serfdom was abolished in France in August ………….. by the National Assembly. |
| A. | 1689 |
| B. | 1789 |
| C. | 1786 |
| D. | 1797 |
| Answer» C. 1786 | |
| 22. |
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» C. Moliere | |
| 23. |
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» B. Thomas Newcomen | |
| 24. |
In 1785, ……………..invented the Automatic or Power Loom. |
| A. | Dr. Edmund Cartwright |
| B. | John Smeaton |
| C. | Robert Fulton |
| D. | James Watt |
| Answer» B. John Smeaton | |
| 25. |
………….is regarded as the "Morning star of the Reformation". |
| A. | Racine |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Thomas Newcomen |
| D. | John Wycliff |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
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» D. Italy | |
| 27. |
Colbert was served as a minister in the Court of………….. |
| A. | Louis XIV |
| B. | James I |
| C. | Edward VI |
| D. | Charles I |
| Answer» B. James I | |
| 28. |
In 1510 Goa became the capital of the …………..Eastern Empire. |
| A. | British |
| B. | French |
| C. | Portuguese |
| D. | Dutch |
| Answer» D. Dutch | |
| 29. |
…………….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. | Ferdinand Magellan |
| C. | Robert Fulton |
| D. | Robert S. Lopez |
| Answer» B. Ferdinand Magellan | |
| 30. |
Balboa crossed the Isthimus of Panama in ………… |
| A. | 1465 |
| B. | 1508 |
| C. | 1513 |
| D. | 1623 |
| Answer» D. 1623 | |
| 31. |
In 1807, …………..invented the steamboat called the ’Clermont’. |
| A. | Robert Fulton |
| B. | James Watt |
| C. | Alexandro Volta |
| D. | Robert Bakewell |
| Answer» B. James Watt | |
| 32. |
The Industrial Revolution first started in ……………. |
| A. | France |
| B. | Germany |
| C. | Spain |
| D. | England |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
Born in 1166 AD in a small town near Chenni (Madras), ……………….was aworshipper of Vishnu and preached Vaishnavism. |
| A. | kabir |
| B. | ramananda |
| C. | ramanuja |
| D. | namdeva |
| Answer» D. namdeva | |
| 34. |
Pepin the short’s son Charles the Great or Charlemagne was crowned by the Popeas the Holy Roman Emperor in …………… A.D. |
| A. | 700 |
| B. | 800 |
| C. | 850 |
| D. | 900 |
| Answer» C. 850 | |
| 35. |
In ………………‘De-Cameron’ a group of young people feeling the plague take refuge in a house outside the city of Florence, where they entertain each other withcolorful and irrelevant stories. |
| A. | boccaccio’s |
| B. | thomas aquinas |
| C. | ramanuja |
| D. | dante |
| Answer» B. thomas aquinas | |
| 36. |
The first hospital in……………, Les Quinze Vingt was founded by the emperorLouis IX after his return from the Crusade in 1260. |
| A. | paris |
| B. | oxford |
| C. | cambridge |
| D. | bohemia |
| Answer» B. oxford | |
| 37. |
The Byzantine scientist ………………founded the Platonic Academy in Florence onthe Islamic pattern. |
| A. | gemston pletton |
| B. | st. cyril |
| C. | st. methodius |
| D. | thomas aquinas |
| Answer» B. st. cyril | |
| 38. |
The Cluniac monastic order is an order of the Benedictine monks founded in……………..in the 10th century by William, under the authority of the Pope. |
| A. | germany |
| B. | italy |
| C. | england |
| D. | france |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
……………….. is credited with the title of the ‘father of monasticism’ as he had laiddown the necessary ruled for the monasticism and monastic orders. |
| A. | st. benedict |
| B. | bernard of clairvaux |
| C. | charlemagne |
| D. | st.paul |
| Answer» B. bernard of clairvaux | |
| 40. |
The first monastic institution was founded in the Byzantine capital,………………… |
| A. | cairo |
| B. | constantinople |
| C. | cambridge |
| D. | damascus |
| Answer» C. cambridge | |
| 41. |
The most popular Sufi order in India was the Chisti order. Its founder MuinuddinChisti arrived India and settled at……………. |
| A. | ajmir |
| B. | delhi |
| C. | kashmir |
| D. | raipur |
| Answer» B. delhi | |
| 42. |
The Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Bengal was spearheaded by………………,through his famous popular work, ‘Gita Govinda’. |
| A. | mira bai |
| B. | chaitanya |
| C. | ramanuja |
| D. | jayadeva |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
The Suharwardi Order was started in India by ……………….,a desciple of Shaik Suharwardi. |
| A. | shaik zakariya |
| B. | shaik nizamuddin auliya |
| C. | shajahan |
| D. | akbar |
| Answer» B. shaik nizamuddin auliya | |
| 44. |
The Krishna cult of the Vaishnavite tradition was popularised by…………….., the only woman saint in the North Indian Bhakti tradition. |
| A. | sarojini naidu |
| B. | mira bai |
| C. | kamala das |
| D. | vijayalaksnmi pandit |
| Answer» C. kamala das | |
| 45. |
………………… popularized the Rama Bhakti cult in north India through his work, ‘Ramacharit Manas’. |
| A. | namadev |
| B. | janeswar |
| C. | thulsidas |
| D. | tukaram |
| Answer» D. tukaram | |
| 46. |
Achintya Bheda Abheda is the philosophy propagated by ……………..during the 15th-16th centuries. |
| A. | chaitanya mahaprabhu |
| B. | ramanuja |
| C. | nandanar |
| D. | viralminda nayanar |
| Answer» B. ramanuja | |
| 47. |
Sudhadvaita was the philosophy propagated by ………………of 15th-16th centuries. |
| A. | sambandhar |
| B. | ramanuja |
| C. | sundaramurthi nayanar |
| D. | vallabhacharya |
| Answer» E. | |
| 48. |
Dvaita school of philosophy is introduced by ………………….in the 13th century. |
| A. | madhavacharya |
| B. | ramanuja |
| C. | vallabhacharya |
| D. | sankaracharya |
| Answer» B. ramanuja | |
| 49. |
Visishtadvaita, propounded by ……………..emphasizes the concept of SupremeBeing having definite form, name and attributes. |
| A. | ramanuja |
| B. | dante |
| C. | sankaracharya |
| D. | badarayana |
| Answer» B. dante | |
| 50. |
The basic text of the Vedanta school is the ‘Brahmasutra’ of………………….. |
| A. | badarayana |
| B. | sankaracharya |
| C. | ramanuja |
| D. | madhavacharya |
| Answer» B. sankaracharya | |