UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
COMPLEMENTARY COURSE MODERN WORLD HISTORY FROM AD 1500: HIS2C02 CONSOLIDATION OF THE MODERN WORLD (2014 Admission onwards)
Multiple Choice Questions
Prepared by
Dr.N.PADMANABHAN
Associate Professor&Head
P.G.Department of History
C.A.S.College, Madayi
P.O.Payangadi-RS-670358
Dt.Kannur-Kerala.
1. ………………‘Spirit of the Laws’ was first published in 1753. a) Voltaire’s b) Edmund Burke’s c) Lord Acton’s d) Montesquieu’s 2. The French Revolution began in ………………. a)1769 b)1786 c)1789 d)1799 3. Who was the ruler of France at the time of the French Revolution? a) James II b) Louis XVI c)William III d) Louis XVIII 1 4.Absolute monarchy was replaced in England with a constitutional monarchy by the Glorious Revolution of ………….. a)1688b)1692 c)1696 d)1698 5.The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, …………………………… a)1789 b)1793 c)1796 d)1798 6. France attained the height of glory under ……………who ruled for twelve years. a) Louis XIV b) Louis XV c) Louis XVI d) Napoleon Bonaparte 7…………….. 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) Louis XV c) Louis XVI d) Napoleon Bonaparte 8. When his ministers attempted to discuss affairs of the state with him ……………….merely remarked, "After me, the deluge." a) Louis XII b) Louis XIV c) Louis XV d) Napoleon Bonaparte 9……………….., a lawyer and student of constitutional government summed up his ideas in his book ‘The Spirit of the Laws’. a) Montesquieu b) Voltaire c) Rousseau d) Aristotle 10. ………………….put forward the theory of the separation of powers. a) Montesquieu b) Voltaire c) Rousseau d) Locke 11. Montesquieu puts forward the theory of…………………. a) The separation of powers b) laissez-faire c) Socialism d) Communism 12. Frederick the Great was the ruler of ……………. a) Prussia b) Russia c) USA d) France
13. ………………famous work Social Contract influenced the people of France greatly. a) Montesquieu’s b) Rousseau’s c) Voltaire’s d) Locke’s 14……………. was the editor of the ’Encyclopedia’ which prepared the people for the Revolution intellectually. a) Diderot b) Queen Marie Antoinette c) Thomas Paine d) Count Mirabeau 15………………. an English writer penned The Rights of Man and escaped from England to France to avoid imprisonment. a) Thomas Paine b) Count Mirabeau c) Diderot d) Rousseau 16.The Estates General, an assembly of the three estates was summoned by the king on May 5, 1789 at Versailles, to save ……….from bankruptcy. a) Germany b) France c) Austria d) Britain 17.The Third Estate found the entrance of their meeting place blocked by the royal army on June 20,…………... Hence they rushed to a nearby place that was originally a tennis court and took the famous ‘Tennis Court Oath’. a) 1789 b) 1794 c01797 d) 1798 18. King Leopold II of Austria and the King of Prussia decided to invade……………., in order to restore the Bourbon monarchy. a) France b) Germany c) Austria d) Britain 19. King …………….was found guilty of high treason by the National Convention and was guillotined on January 21; 1793. a) Louis XV b) Louis XVI c) Louis XVII d) Napoleon Bonaparte 20.Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, ………….. a)1789 b)1792 c)1794 d)1796 21. …………………..was born on the island of Corsica in 1769. a) King Alfred b) Metternich c) Napoleon Bonaparte d) Robespierre 22………………… ended the current rift between France and the Church by instituting the Concordat of 1801. a) Adolf Hitler b) Metternich c) Napoleon Bonaparte d) Robespierre 23.In June 1815, the armies of Wellington and Blucher defeated ………………..at Waterloo. a) Napoleon Bonaparte b) Metternich c) King Alfred d) Robespierre 24……………….. was again exiled to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died in 1821. a) Napoleon Bonaparte b) Metternich c) King Alfred d) Robespierre 25……………………… used to name himself ‘the child of Revolution’ a) King Alfred b) Metternich c) Napoleon Bonaparte d) Robespierre 26. The Continental System was the foreign policy of ………………… of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain. a) Napoleon Bonaparte b) Metternich c) King Alfred d) Robespierre
3 27. The Congress of Vienna (1814 to June 1815) was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman …………………………. a) Robespierre b) King Alfred c) Metternich d) King John
28.On June 15, …………….King John affixed his seal on the ’Great Charter’, which is referred to as the ’Magna Karta.’ a) 1215 b)1219 c)1225 d)1235
29. ……………….is regarded as the "Father of Parliament” of England a) Simon-De-Montfort b)Henry III c) King Edward d) James I 30……………… was forced to sign in the famous document known as "The Petition of Rights." a) Charles I b)Henry III c) King Edward d) James I 31. ………………..was called the "Great Protector’. a) James I b) Charles II c) King Edward d) Oliver Cromwell 32. The Glorious Revolution of England was in the year of ……… a) 1688 b) 1698 c) 1702 d) 1788 33.In England …………..was succeeded by his younger brother, James II in 1685, who ruled as an absolute autocrat. a) Charles II b)Henry III c) King Edward d) James I 34.William of Orange was the Protestant ruler of …………and the son- in-law of James II of England. a) Germany b) Sweden c) Spain d) Holland 35. Bill of Rights was passed in ……………….. a)1689 b)1690 c)1691 d)1696
36.According to the Act of Settlement ,…………….. the House of Hanover came to power, after the Stuarts. a) 1701 b)1705 c)1708 d)1801
37…………………… was the first Prime Minister of England. a) Gladstone b) Benjamin Disraeli c) Lord Derby d) Sir Robert Walpole 38. The Representation of the People Act of 1867 was introduced by …………………………. a) Gladstone b)Sir Robert Walpole c) Lord Derby d) Benjamin Disraeli 39……………… regarded the Reform Act of 1867 as ’a leap in the dark.’ a)Lord Derby b)Sir Robert Walpole c) Benjamin Disraeli d) Gladstone 40.The Secret Ballot Act was introduced by …………in 1872. a) Gladstone b) John Stuart Mill c)Sir Robert Walpole d) Benjamin
41. In……………, the ’Representation of the People Act’ was passed by Parliament granting franchise to all men over twenty-one and to all women of thirty years and above. a) 1918 b)1919 c)1920 d)1928
42. The Representation of the People Act of …………… granted the right to vote, to all women over twenty-one years. a)1928 b)1918 c)1938 d)1948 43. Subsequent to the ……………War, the most important development in the American society was the growth of secessionist tendency in the Southern States. a) Mexican b) Georgia c) Korean d) Gulf
44.In 1831 …………………an uncompromising anti-slavery leader published his new paper ‘The Liberator’. a) Garrison b) Herriot Broacher Stowe c) Sir Robert Walpole d) Benjamin 45. In …………… the sectarian conflicts became severe when a new bill Kansas Nebraska Bill was introduced in the Congress. a) 1854 b)1754 c)1865 d)1868
46……………… was a slave who was taken from the slave state of Missouri into the free state of Illinois, then into a free territory and after a few years back again to Missouri. a)Dred Scott b) Abraham Lincoln c)Stephen A .Douglas d) Jefferson Davis 5 47. Abraham Lincoln was born in ……………..in 1809. a) Kentucky b) Missouri c) Louisiana d) Georgia
48…………………. became famous in 1858 when he competed for the post of Senator from Illinois against Stephen A Douglas. a) Abraham Lincoln b)Sir Robert Walpole c) Benjamin Disraeli d) Gladstone
49……………. issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st 1863. a) Sir Robert Walpole b) Abraham Lincoln c) Benjamin Disraeli d) Gladstone
50.The groundwork for …………….unification was laid by a literary and political movement known as Risorgimento. a) Italian b) French c) American d) Dutch
51………….. was a member of a secret revolutionary society, the Carbonari. a) Sir Robert Walpole b) Giuseppe Mazzini c) Benjamin Disraeli d) Lord Derby
52. ……………….founded a new movement, Young Italy. a) Giuseppe Garibaldi b) Mazzini c) Cavour d) Emmanuel II 53.In 1847, ……………founded a liberal newspaper, Il Risorgimento. a) Mazzini b) Cavour c) Garibaldi d) Woodrow Wilson
54.In 1852, ……………became prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont. a) Cavour b) Giuseppe Garibaldi c) Metternich d) Victor Emmanuel II 55.On March 17, 1861, the Kingdom of ………….was proclaimed, with Victor Emmanuel II as King. a) Italy b) Germany c) France d) Britain 56………………… was responsible for transforming a collection of small German states into the German empire, and was its first chancellor. a) Metternich b) Otto von Bismarck c) Napoleon d) Hitler 57…………….. was born into an aristocratic family at Schönhausen, northwest of Berlin, on 1 April 1815. a) Sir Robert Walpole b) Otto von Bismarck c) Benjamin Disraeli d) Gladstone
58.In 1847, …………..married Johanna von Puttkamer, who provided him with stability. a) Otto von Bismarck b) Benjamin Disraeli c) Lord Derby d) Gladstone
59.In 1851, King Frederick Wilhelm IV appointed …………….as Prussian representative to the German Confederation. a) Benjamin Disraeli b) Otto von Bismarck c) Lord Derby d) Gladstone
60.In 1862, Bismarck returned to Prussia and was appointed prime minister by the new king, …………………….. a)Wilhelm I b)James I c)Charles I d)Henry VII
61.With Austrian support, …………used the expanded Prussian army to capture the provinces of Schleswig and Holstein from Denmark. a) Otto von Bismarck b) Charles Beard c) Arnold Toynbee d) Napoleon
62. The term 'Industrial Revolution' was first used by the historian ………………………. a)Arnold Toynbee b) Charles Beard c) Napoleon d) George Stephenson 63. The Industrial Revolution first started in ……………from where it rapidly spread to the U.S.A. and later to Europe. a)England b)France c)Germany d)Sweden 64……………. Continental System of preventing the import of English goods into Europe enabled England to blockade the continental ports. a) Napoleon’s b) Otto von Bismarck c) Hitler’s d) Henry VII 65.In 1764, ……………invented a machine called the ’Spinning Jenny.’ 7 a) Sir Humphrey Davy b) James Hargreaves c) George Stephenson d) Edmund Cartwright 66.In 1769, ……………invented a machine run by waterpower instead of manpower. Hence it came to be called the ’Water-Frame’. a) Richard Arkwright b) James Watt c) George Stephenson d) Edmund Cartwright 67. …………….removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with his machine known as ’Spinning Mule’ in 1778. a) John Kay b) Samuel Crompton c) George Stephenson d) Edmund Cartwright 68.In 1733, …………..invented a device called the ’Flying Shuttle’, which speeded up the weaving of cloth. a) John Kay b) Samuel Crompton c) George Stephenson d) Sir Humphrey Davy
69.In 1785, ……………invented the Automatic or Power Loom. a) Edmund Cartwright b) James Watt c) George Stephenson d) Richard Arkwright 70.In 1816, ……………invented a machine called Davy’s Safety Lamp.’ a) Sir Humphrey Davy b) James Watt c) George Stephenson d) Richard Arkwright 71.In 1856, …………..discovered a process by which impurities could be removed from iron. This purified refined iron came to be known as ’steel’. a) Richard Arkwright b) John Macadam c) George Stephenson d) Henry Bessemer 72.In 1801, ……………invented the first steam locomotive. a) Richard Arkwright b)John Macadam c) George Stephenson d) Richard Trevithick 73. …………….is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’. a) George Stephenson b) John Macadam c) George Stephenson d) Richard Arkwright 74………………. built the Forth and Clyde canals, while Charles Telford constructed the Ellesmere canal and the Caledonian Canal. a) George Stephenson b) Robert Fulton c) Thomas Newcomer d) John Seaton
75.In 1807, ……………..invented the steamboat called the ’Clermont’. a) Robert Fulton b) Thomas Newcomer c) Thomas Newcomer d) George Stephenson
76………………….. invented the first steam engine in 1705, in order to pump water out of the mines. a) Alexandra Volta b) Robert Fulton c) James Watt d) Thomas Newcomer 77.In 1769 …………invented a better steam engine called the ’Beelzebub.’ a) James Watt b) Alexandra Volta c) Michael Faraday d) Thomas Newcomer
78…………… invented a Seed Drill that would distribute the seeds evenly in rows, over a large piece of land. a) Jethro Tull b) Thomas Newcomer c)James Watt d) Alexandra Volta 79.The discovery of a new method of ’Crop Rotation’, was made by …………………. a) Viscount Townsend b) Thomas Newcomer c) James Watt d) Alexandra Volta 80…………………. introduced scientific breeding of farm animals. a) Louis Blanc b)Saint Simon c) Charles Fourier d) Robert Bake well 81.In……………, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels issued the ’Communist Manifesto’ which introduced scientific socialism or Communism. a) 1848 b) 1858 c) 1868 d) 1878 82. Later, in …………. Marx and Engels published ‘Das Capital’, a) 1867 b) 1869 c) 1872 d) 1876 83……………… invented an improved seed drill in 1701. a) Jethro Tull b) Joseph Flambé c)Robert Bakewell d) Thomas Coke 84.Jean-Baptiste Colbert, controller general of finance under King …………….of France. a) Louis XIII b) Louis XIV c) Henry VIII d) Louis XV 85.The doctrine of …………….is usually associated with the economists known as Physiocrats, who flourished in France from about 1756 to 1778. a) Laissez-faire b) Socialism c) Communism d) Chartism 86.The British economist …………… Wrote ‘Political Economy (1848). A)John Stuart Mill b)Karl Marx 9 87.In State and Revolution (1917), …………….asserted that socialism corresponds to Marx’s first phase of communist society and communism proper to the second. a) Karl Marx b)Friedrich Engels c) Thomas Newcomer d) Lenin 88. The collapse of the Soviet Union was in the year ………… a)1951 b)1961 c)1971 d)1991 89.The English humanist………………… wrote ‘Utopia’ a) Sir Thomas More b) Gerard Winstanley c) Oliver Cromwell d) Thomas Newcomer 90………………. was born in the German Rhineland to a middle-class parents of Jewish descent. a) Lenin b) William Lovett c) Benjamin Disraeli d) Karl Marx Answer Key 1.d
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