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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History) .
| 101. |
‘Bills of Rights’ was in the year…………………. |
| A. | 1688 |
| B. | 1689 |
| C. | 1789 |
| D. | 1799 |
| Answer» B. 1689 | |
| 102. |
The Bloodless Revolution of 1688 was a great land mark in the constitutional history of….. |
| A. | italy |
| B. | america |
| C. | germany |
| D. | england |
| Answer» D. england | |
| 103. |
Bloodless Revolution of …………… resulted in the supremacy of the parliament and gave a blow to Absolute Monarchy in England. |
| A. | 1688 |
| B. | 1689 |
| C. | 1788 |
| D. | 1789 |
| Answer» A. 1688 | |
| 104. |
Bloodless Revolution of ……… marked the end of the struggle between king and parliament. |
| A. | 1688 |
| B. | 1689 |
| C. | 1699 |
| D. | 1788 |
| Answer» A. 1688 | |
| 105. |
The American Revolution or the War of American Independence broke out in the year …….. A.D during the reign of the English King George III and came to a close in 1783 A.D. |
| A. | 1675 |
| B. | 1685 |
| C. | 1689 |
| D. | 1775 |
| Answer» D. 1775 | |
| 106. |
The British conquest of Canada after the Seven Year War reduced the …………………danger and hence the colonies turned against England. |
| A. | german |
| B. | american |
| C. | french |
| D. | spanish |
| Answer» C. french | |
| 107. |
The immediate cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party in …………. A.D. |
| A. | 1773 |
| B. | 1775 |
| C. | 1789 |
| D. | 1793 |
| Answer» A. 1773 | |
| 108. |
The colonial army Commanded by ……………..trapped the British army at York Town and forced Lord Cornwallis, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces to surrender in 1781. |
| A. | vasco da-gama |
| B. | ferdinand magellan |
| C. | george washington |
| D. | john cabot |
| Answer» C. george washington | |
| 109. |
The colonial army Commanded by George Washington trapped the British army at York Town and forced………………, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces to surrender in 1781. |
| A. | john cabot |
| B. | lord cornwallis |
| C. | churchill |
| D. | lord lytton |
| Answer» B. lord cornwallis | |
| 110. |
Louis XVI was completely under the control of his beautiful but proud, willful and wicked queen Marie Antoinette who was notorious for her unsympathetic attitude towards the people. |
| A. | louis xiii |
| B. | louis xiv |
| C. | louis xv |
| D. | louis xvi |
| Answer» D. louis xvi | |
| 111. |
‘The Social Contract’ was the work of …………….. |
| A. | montesquieu |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | ferdinand magellan |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» D. rousseau | |
| 112. |
"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains"is the words of ……………….. |
| A. | rousseau |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | lenin |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» A. rousseau | |
| 113. |
……………….'s most famous work was ‘A Treatise for Toleration’. |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | condorcet |
| C. | john cabot |
| D. | churchill |
| Answer» A. voltaire | |
| 114. |
………………….’s main work was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’ (1753). |
| A. | montesquieu |
| B. | condorcet |
| C. | churchill |
| D. | john cabot |
| Answer» A. montesquieu | |
| 115. |
In 1765, ………………published his first work on mathematics entitled Essai sur le calcul intégral, which was very well received, launching his career as a respected mathematician. |
| A. | condorcet |
| B. | turgot |
| C. | ferdinand magellan |
| D. | montesquieu |
| Answer» A. condorcet | |
| 116. |
In 1785, ……………..wrote the Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions, one of his most important works. |
| A. | churchill |
| B. | montesquieu |
| C. | john cabot |
| D. | condorcet |
| Answer» D. condorcet | |
| 117. |
Fall of Bastille in the year 14th July ……………… |
| A. | 1789 |
| B. | 1689 |
| C. | 1769 |
| D. | 1799 |
| Answer» A. 1789 | |
| 118. |
On 23rd September, ……………, the king was deposed and France became a Republic. |
| A. | 1782 |
| B. | 1790 |
| C. | 1792 |
| D. | 1799 |
| Answer» C. 1792 | |
| 119. |
On 21st January …………. Louis XVI of France was guillotined. |
| A. | 1786 |
| B. | 1789 |
| C. | 1793 |
| D. | 1799 |
| Answer» C. 1793 | |
| 120. |
Guillotine was invented by Ignacio Guillotine, a ………….physician. |
| A. | german |
| B. | american |
| C. | french |
| D. | british |
| Answer» C. french | |
| 121. |
…………………… Connected with the reign of terror in France. |
| A. | napoleon |
| B. | robespierre |
| C. | ferdinand magellan |
| D. | voltaire |
| Answer» B. robespierre | |
| 122. |
…………….was the child of French Revolution and the hero of France. |
| A. | hitler |
| B. | churchill |
| C. | mussolini |
| D. | napoleon |
| Answer» D. napoleon | |
| 123. |
……………was born in the Island of Corsica in Italy on 15th August 1769. |
| A. | napoleon |
| B. | ferdinand magellan |
| C. | john cabot |
| D. | churchill |
| Answer» A. napoleon | |
| 124. |
Corsica was captured by ……………..in 1768 A.D. |
| A. | germany |
| B. | france |
| C. | britain |
| D. | america |
| Answer» B. france | |
| 125. |
“I was born when my country was dying”. Who said? |
| A. | napoleon |
| B. | john cabot |
| C. | churchill |
| D. | hitler |
| Answer» A. napoleon | |
| 126. |
In 1796, when he was 27 years of age, ……………married Josephine, a rich widow of a nobleman. |
| A. | magellan |
| B. | churchill |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | napoleon |
| Answer» D. napoleon | |
| 127. |
In 1804 A.D …………….established the Bank of France which became “the Soundest financial institution of the World”. |
| A. | napoleon |
| B. | ferdinand magellan |
| C. | john cabot |
| D. | churchill |
| Answer» A. napoleon | |
| 128. |
……………said, ‘my real glory is not having won 40 battles…..what will endure for ever is my civil code’. |
| A. | napoleon |
| B. | churchill |
| C. | hitler |
| D. | stalin |
| Answer» A. napoleon | |
| 129. |
In 1801 A.D ……………..signed an agreement with pope Pius VII known as Concordat. |
| A. | john cabot |
| B. | alexander |
| C. | julius caesar |
| D. | napoleon |
| Answer» D. napoleon | |
| 130. |
In the Battle of Waterloo on 12th June 1815 A.D …………was decisively defeated by the Duke of Wellington. |
| A. | napoleon |
| B. | ferdinand magellan |
| C. | john cabot |
| D. | churchill |
| Answer» A. napoleon | |
| 131. |
……………was exiled to the Island of St. Helena where he died in 1821 A.D. |
| A. | alexander the great |
| B. | churchill |
| C. | napoleon |
| D. | mussolini |
| Answer» C. napoleon | |
| 132. |
Sir Isaac Newton was an …………….physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, inventor, and natural philosopher. |
| A. | german |
| B. | american |
| C. | english |
| D. | african |
| Answer» C. english | |
| 133. |
In his work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, …………..enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion. |
| A. | ferdinand magellan |
| B. | newton |
| C. | churchill |
| D. | voltire |
| Answer» B. newton | |
| 134. |
It was with …………….that Wordsworth published the famous Lyrical Ballads in 1798. |
| A. | milton |
| B. | john cabot |
| C. | coleridge |
| D. | dryden |
| Answer» C. coleridge | |
| 135. |
………………..'s most famous work, The Prelude (1850), is considered by many to be the crowning achievement of English romanticism. |
| A. | ferdinand magellan |
| B. | wordsworth |
| C. | john cabot |
| D. | p.b.shelly |
| Answer» B. wordsworth | |
| 136. |
English Romantic poet ………………was born on October 31, 1795, in London. |
| A. | p |
| B. | shelley b) richard abbey |
| C. | john rowland sandell |
| D. | john keats |
| Answer» D. john keats | |
| 137. |
Who the editor of the ‘Examiner’? |
| A. | shelley |
| B. | william wordsworth |
| C. | leigh hunt |
| D. | charles lamb |
| Answer» C. leigh hunt | |
| 138. |
…………….was author of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’. |
| A. | p |
| B. | shelley b) karl marx |
| C. | lord byron |
| D. | john cabot |
| Answer» A. p | |
| 139. |
………………..was born in Leiden on July 15, 1606. |
| A. | woodrow wilson |
| B. | john cabot |
| C. | rembrandt |
| D. | churchill |
| Answer» C. rembrandt | |
| 140. |
The patriots of ……………….set up several secret societies such as ‘Carbonari’ to regain their independence. |
| A. | holland |
| B. | america |
| C. | france |
| D. | italy |
| Answer» D. italy | |
| 141. |
Metternich was the chancellor of ……………….. |
| A. | holland |
| B. | america |
| C. | austria |
| D. | germany |
| Answer» C. austria | |
| 142. |
The unification of Italy was accomplished mostly by the heroic efforts of the Italian patriots supported by the ruler of Sardinia, ………………… |
| A. | victor immanuel ii |
| B. | george i |
| C. | charles i |
| D. | metternich |
| Answer» A. victor immanuel ii | |
| 143. |
In 1831 A.D. ………………established an organization known as YOUNG ITALY the motto of which was ‘God and people’. |
| A. | joseph mazzini |
| B. | john cabot |
| C. | lenin |
| D. | cavour |
| Answer» A. joseph mazzini | |
| 144. |
………………..was “the Master brain” of the Italian Unification. |
| A. | metternich |
| B. | john cabot |
| C. | count cavour |
| D. | woodrow wilson |
| Answer» C. count cavour | |
| 145. |
Victor Immanuel II became the king of ………………after the abdication of Charles Albert. |
| A. | rome |
| B. | naples |
| C. | sicily |
| D. | sardinia |
| Answer» D. sardinia | |
| 146. |
Napoleon III, the French king helped ……………in her war against Austria which led to the annexation of Lombardy. |
| A. | sardinia |
| B. | parma |
| C. | modena |
| D. | tuscany |
| Answer» A. sardinia | |
| 147. |
‘The sword of the Unification’ of Italy was…………….. |
| A. | otto von bismarck |
| B. | garibaldi |
| C. | john cabot |
| D. | metternich |
| Answer» B. garibaldi | |
| 148. |
…………….was the leader of ‘the Red Shirts’ in Italy. |
| A. | woodrow wilson |
| B. | otto von bismarck |
| C. | metternich |
| D. | garibaldi |
| Answer» D. garibaldi | |
| 149. |
By …………… A.D. the whole of Italy except the Papal States and Venetia was united and the ruler of Sardinia. |
| A. | 1860 |
| B. | 1867 |
| C. | 1789 |
| D. | 1798 |
| Answer» A. 1860 | |
| 150. |
In 1866 A.D. Italy received Venetia as a reward for supporting ……………against Austria in the Seven Weeks War. |
| A. | rome |
| B. | prussia |
| C. | austria |
| D. | america |
| Answer» B. prussia | |
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