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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. |
The Act of Settlement was also passed in ……………. |
| A. | 1601 |
| B. | 1688 |
| C. | 1689 |
| D. | 1701 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
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» B. Charles Telford | |
| 3. |
The …………..Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14,1789. |
| A. | French |
| B. | Dutch |
| C. | American |
| D. | English |
| Answer» B. Dutch | |
| 4. |
The Renaissance had its origin in…………… |
| A. | Italy |
| B. | Germany |
| C. | France |
| D. | England |
| Answer» B. Germany | |
| 5. |
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» B. Henry IV | |
| 6. |
The Constitution of ……….. was the first written constitution of France. |
| A. | 1781 |
| B. | 1791 |
| C. | 1796 |
| D. | 1799 |
| Answer» C. 1796 | |
| 7. |
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» E. | |
| 8. |
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» B. John MacAdam | |
| 9. |
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» B. Charles Telford | |
| 10. |
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» D. 4th July 1767 | |
| 11. |
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» B. American Civil War | |
| 12. |
The Society of Jesus was founded by …………… |
| A. | St. Ignatius Loyola |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Martin Luther |
| D. | John Calvin |
| Answer» B. Robert Fulton | |
| 13. |
‘The Confessions’ was the Autobiography of ……………….. |
| A. | Jethro Tull |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Montesquieu |
| D. | Rousseau |
| Answer» E. | |
| 14. |
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» B. Robert Fulton | |
| 15. |
"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» E. | |
| 16. |
The most significant agency of the Catholic reform was …………. |
| A. | The Society of Jesus |
| B. | Calvinism |
| C. | Puritanism |
| D. | Socialist Society |
| Answer» B. Calvinism | |
| 17. |
……………………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» B. Ptolemy | |
| 18. |
The Parliament became supreme after the Glorious Revolution and passed a Bill of Rights in ………….. |
| A. | 1656 |
| B. | 1658 |
| C. | 1682 |
| D. | 1689 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
Napoleon escaped from Elba on 26 February ………….. |
| A. | 1715 |
| B. | 1789 |
| C. | 1799 |
| D. | 1815 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
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» B. France | |
| 21. |
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» D. Bour war | |
| 22. |
…………………….wrote a series of love sonnets to "Laura". |
| A. | Machiavelli |
| B. | Patriarch |
| C. | Cervantes |
| D. | Erasmus |
| Answer» C. Cervantes | |
| 23. |
……………..wrote ‘The Divine Comedy in Italian rather than Latin. |
| A. | Machiavelli |
| B. | Bocaccio |
| C. | Dante |
| D. | Cervantes |
| Answer» D. Cervantes | |
| 24. |
The French Revolution of…………, also known as the July Revolution. |
| A. | 1730 |
| B. | 1768 |
| C. | 1807 |
| D. | 1830 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
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» B. Robert Fulton | |
| 26. |
……………the navigator encouraged navigation by establishing a schoolfor geographers. |
| A. | George Sarton |
| B. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| C. | Randolph Starn |
| D. | Henry |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
……………….was the primary author of the U.S. Declaration ofIndependence. |
| A. | John Eliot |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Thomas Jefferson |
| D. | Robert Owen |
| Answer» D. Robert Owen | |
| 28. |
The Polo brothers reach the court of Kublai Khan in China in………… |
| A. | 1250 |
| B. | 1256 |
| C. | 1260 |
| D. | 1268 |
| Answer» D. 1268 | |
| 29. |
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» C. France | |
| 30. |
The ………….were moderates who wanted a republican form of government in France. |
| A. | Girondists |
| B. | The Constitutionalists |
| C. | The Jacobins |
| D. | Liberals |
| Answer» B. The Constitutionalists | |
| 31. |
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» B. John MacAdam | |
| 32. |
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» E. | |
| 33. |
………….., by Orders in Council (1807), prohibited its trade partners fromtrading with France. |
| A. | Britain |
| B. | Germany |
| C. | Poland |
| D. | Malaysia |
| Answer» B. Germany | |
| 34. |
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» E. | |
| 35. |
Who wrote’Novum Organum Scientiarum’? |
| A. | Newton |
| B. | Thomas Paine |
| C. | Francis Bacon |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» D. Montesquieu | |
| 36. |
The ………….had fostered a spirit of inquiry that had revolutionized geographical ideas. |
| A. | Reformation |
| B. | Renaissance |
| C. | English Revolution |
| D. | American Revolution |
| Answer» C. English Revolution | |
| 37. |
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» B. American | |
| 38. |
‘Faerie Queen’ is the work of ……………… |
| A. | Edmund Spencer |
| B. | Ben Johnson |
| C. | Christopher Marlowe |
| D. | Francis Bacon |
| Answer» B. Ben Johnson | |
| 39. |
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» D. fourth | |
| 40. |
In 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain sponsors ……………..to find a route toIndia. |
| A. | Bartholomeu Dias |
| B. | John Cabot |
| C. | Christopher Columbus |
| D. | Vasco da Gama |
| Answer» D. Vasco da Gama | |
| 41. |
William of Orange was the Protestant ruler of Holland and the son-in-lawof …………. |
| A. | Charles I |
| B. | Charles II |
| C. | Charles IV |
| D. | James II |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
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» C. Portuguese | |
| 43. |
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» B. Thomas Paine | |
| 44. |
…………..invented the first steam engine in 1705, in order to pump waterout of the mines. |
| A. | Thomas Newcomen |
| B. | Michael Faraday |
| C. | Jethro Tull |
| D. | Viscount Townsend |
| Answer» B. Michael Faraday | |
| 45. |
Whose masterpiece was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’? |
| A. | Thomas Paine |
| B. | Thomas Aquinas |
| C. | Aristotle |
| D. | Montesquieu |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
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» E. | |
| 47. |
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» B. Shaftesbury | |
| 48. |
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» E. | |
| 49. |
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» D. Maine | |
| 50. |
……………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» D. Chartism | |