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| 1. |
In the middle of the 15th century, ……………was successful in operating the first printing press with movable types at Mainz in Germany. |
| A. | John Gutenberg |
| B. | Caxton |
| C. | Nicholas V |
| D. | Peter Burke |
| Answer» A. John Gutenberg | |
| 2. |
Printing press was set up in 1477 in England by …………… |
| A. | Caxton |
| B. | John Gutenberg |
| C. | Henry VIII |
| D. | James I |
| Answer» A. Caxton | |
| 3. |
The Renaissance had its origin in…………… |
| A. | Italy |
| B. | Germany |
| C. | France |
| D. | England |
| Answer» A. Italy | |
| 4. |
…………….created the lifelike statue of ’St. Mark’ in Venice. |
| A. | Donatello |
| B. | Michael Angelo |
| C. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| D. | Della Robbia |
| Answer» A. Donatello | |
| 5. |
……………..fashioned the statue of ’Perseus and the slain Medusa’. |
| A. | Cellini |
| B. | Della Robbia |
| C. | Thomas Newcomen |
| D. | Robert Bakewell |
| Answer» A. Cellini | |
| 6. |
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» A. Florence | |
| 7. |
……………………..’s well-known work is the “Mona Lisa" |
| A. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| B. | Michelangelo |
| C. | Raphael |
| D. | Dante |
| Answer» A. Leonardo da Vinci | |
| 8. |
"The Last Supper" is connected with ………………… |
| A. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| B. | Raphael |
| C. | Patriarch |
| D. | Dante |
| Answer» A. Leonardo da Vinci | |
| 9. |
Whose most excellent painting is the grand fresco of ’The Last Judgement’ in the same chapel? |
| A. | Michelangelo |
| B. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| C. | Raphael |
| D. | Patriarch |
| Answer» A. Michelangelo | |
| 10. |
……………….’s Sistine ’Madonna’ is regarded as a landmark in portrait painting, owing to its lifelike charm and beauty of composition. |
| A. | Sanzio Raphael |
| B. | Michelangelo |
| C. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| D. | Bocaccio |
| Answer» A. Sanzio Raphael | |
| 11. |
……………..wrote ‘The Divine Comedy in Italian rather than Latin. |
| A. | Machiavelli |
| B. | Bocaccio |
| C. | Dante |
| D. | Cervantes |
| Answer» C. Dante | |
| 12. |
…………………….wrote a series of love sonnets to "Laura". |
| A. | Machiavelli |
| B. | Patriarch |
| C. | Cervantes |
| D. | Erasmus |
| Answer» B. Patriarch | |
| 13. |
………………… wrote "his racy stories in Italian", the Decameron. |
| A. | Patriarch |
| B. | Bocaccio |
| C. | Machiavelli |
| D. | Cervantes |
| Answer» B. Bocaccio | |
| 14. |
Who wrote ‘The Prince’ as a guide for rulers? |
| A. | Erasmus |
| B. | Cervantes |
| C. | Machiavelli |
| D. | Corneille |
| Answer» C. Machiavelli | |
| 15. |
Who is known by his immortal Don Quixote which made fun of medieval feudalism and decadent chivalry? |
| A. | Cervantes |
| B. | Moliere |
| C. | Madame de Sevigne |
| D. | La Fontaine. |
| Answer» A. Cervantes | |
| 16. |
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» B. Francis Rabelais | |
| 17. |
Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest Renaissance scholar in …………….. |
| A. | Holland |
| B. | France |
| C. | England |
| D. | Poland |
| Answer» A. Holland | |
| 18. |
‘Praise of Folly’ was written by ……….. |
| A. | Cranmer |
| B. | Sir Thomas More |
| C. | Milton |
| D. | Erasmus |
| Answer» D. Erasmus | |
| 19. |
In England…………..’s Utopia appeared in English in 1551. |
| A. | Milton |
| B. | Sir Thomas More |
| C. | Edmund Spencer |
| D. | Marlowe |
| Answer» B. Sir Thomas More | |
| 20. |
…………….Canterbury Tales was written by …………….. |
| A. | Chaucer |
| B. | Milton |
| C. | Erasmus |
| D. | Sir Thomas More |
| Answer» A. Chaucer | |
| 21. |
‘Paradise Los’t is the work of ………………….. |
| A. | Marlowe |
| B. | Edmund Spencer |
| C. | Milton |
| D. | Cranmer |
| Answer» C. Milton | |
| 22. |
Book of Common Prayers was the work of ……………………. |
| A. | Peter Abelard |
| B. | Edmund Spencer |
| C. | Cranmer |
| D. | Abertus Magus |
| Answer» C. Cranmer | |
| 23. |
‘Faerie Queen’ is the work of ……………… |
| A. | Edmund Spencer |
| B. | Ben Johnson |
| C. | Christopher Marlowe |
| D. | Francis Bacon |
| Answer» A. Edmund Spencer | |
| 24. |
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» C. Roger Bacon | |
| 25. |
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» C. Poland | |
| 26. |
……………………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» A. Nicholas Copernicus | |
| 27. |
Galileo was an …………… astronomer |
| A. | French |
| B. | German |
| C. | Italian |
| D. | Russian |
| Answer» C. Italian | |
| 28. |
John Kepler was an ……………… astronomer |
| A. | German |
| B. | Italian |
| C. | Indian |
| D. | Swedish |
| Answer» A. German | |
| 29. |
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» A. Giorgio Vasari | |
| 30. |
The Renaissance was first defined by ………….historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), in his work, ‘Histoire de France’. |
| A. | German |
| B. | Portuguese |
| C. | French |
| D. | Spanish |
| Answer» C. French | |
| 31. |
Who wrote the book ‘The Waning of the Middle Ages’? |
| A. | Jacob Burckhardt |
| B. | Cimabue |
| C. | Giotto |
| D. | Johan Huizinga |
| Answer» D. Johan Huizinga | |
| 32. |
………..was credited with discovering ‘the law of gravitation’. |
| A. | Rapheal |
| B. | Dante |
| C. | Michelangelo |
| D. | Sir Isaac Newton |
| Answer» D. Sir Isaac Newton | |
| 33. |
Martin Luther was connected with ……………… |
| A. | Crusades |
| B. | Science |
| C. | Renaissance |
| D. | Reformation |
| Answer» D. Reformation | |
| 34. |
………….is regarded as the "Morning star of the Reformation". |
| A. | Racine |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Thomas Newcomen |
| D. | John Wycliff |
| Answer» D. John Wycliff | |
| 35. |
‘The Lollards’ grew in numbers in …………. |
| A. | Belgium |
| B. | Geneva |
| C. | U.S.A. |
| D. | England |
| Answer» D. England | |
| 36. |
After Wyclife’s death, his writings were spread in Bohemia by…………., a priest and professor in the University of Prague. |
| A. | Martin Luther |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Robert Bakewell |
| D. | John Huss |
| Answer» D. John Huss | |
| 37. |
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» D. John Huss | |
| 38. |
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» D. Wittenberg | |
| 39. |
Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) led a revolt against the Catholic Church in …………. |
| A. | England |
| B. | Holland |
| C. | Germany |
| D. | Switzerland |
| Answer» D. Switzerland | |
| 40. |
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» D. Zwingli | |
| 41. |
The French Protestants were called the …………. |
| A. | Puritans |
| B. | Presbyterians |
| C. | Huguenots |
| D. | Cavelliers |
| Answer» C. Huguenots | |
| 42. |
…………….introduced Calvinism in Scotland |
| A. | Racine |
| B. | Thomas Newcomen |
| C. | John Knox |
| D. | Moliere |
| Answer» C. John Knox | |
| 43. |
John Knox introduced Calvinism in Scotland, where it was called ………………………. |
| A. | Presbyterianism |
| B. | Puritans |
| C. | Round Heads |
| D. | Huguenots |
| Answer» A. Presbyterianism | |
| 44. |
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» B. Henry VIII | |
| 45. |
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» A. Henry VIII | |
| 46. |
The most significant agency of the Catholic reform was …………. |
| A. | The Society of Jesus |
| B. | Calvinism |
| C. | Puritanism |
| D. | Socialist Society |
| Answer» A. The Society of Jesus | |
| 47. |
The Society of Jesus was founded by …………… |
| A. | St. Ignatius Loyola |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Martin Luther |
| D. | John Calvin |
| Answer» A. St. Ignatius Loyola | |
| 48. |
The Edict of Nantes was issued by King Henry IV in 1598 restored peace in ………… |
| A. | France |
| B. | Germany |
| C. | Britain |
| D. | Poland |
| Answer» A. France | |
| 49. |
Who defeated the Spanish Armada? |
| A. | Elizabeth I |
| B. | Victoria |
| C. | Charles X |
| D. | Queen Anne |
| Answer» A. Elizabeth I | |
| 50. |
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» A. Germany | |
| 51. |
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» B. Martin Luther | |
| 52. |
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» B. Renaissance | |
| 53. |
……………was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 |
| A. | Gerusalem |
| B. | Constantinople |
| C. | Western Roman Empire |
| D. | Italy |
| Answer» B. Constantinople | |
| 54. |
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» B. Constantinople | |
| 55. |
The ………….had fostered a spirit of inquiry that had revolutionized geographical ideas. |
| A. | Reformation |
| B. | Renaissance |
| C. | English Revolution |
| D. | American Revolution |
| Answer» B. Renaissance | |
| 56. |
Prince Henry, commonly called Henry the navigator, was a great patron of navigation in ……………… |
| A. | France |
| B. | Portugal |
| C. | Poland |
| D. | Spain |
| Answer» B. Portugal | |
| 57. |
Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator sailed around the cape up the east coast of Africa, across the Indian Ocean and landed at ………….. |
| A. | Cochi |
| B. | Calicut |
| C. | Bombay |
| D. | Cape of Good Hope |
| Answer» B. Calicut | |
| 58. |
After Prince Henry’s death ……………….crossed the Equator in 1472. |
| A. | Lopo Gonsalves |
| B. | Diego Cao |
| C. | Columbus |
| D. | John Cabot |
| Answer» A. Lopo Gonsalves | |
| 59. |
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» A. Bartholomew Diaz | |
| 60. |
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» B. 1245 | |
| 61. |
The Polo brothers reach the court of Kublai Khan in China in………… |
| A. | 1250 |
| B. | 1256 |
| C. | 1260 |
| D. | 1268 |
| Answer» C. 1260 | |
| 62. |
……….Bartholomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa. |
| A. | 1468 |
| B. | 1477 |
| C. | 1488 |
| D. | 1498 |
| Answer» C. 1488 | |
| 63. |
In 1492 Queen Isabella of Spain sponsors ……………..to find a route to India. |
| A. | Bartholomeu Dias |
| B. | John Cabot |
| C. | Christopher Columbus |
| D. | Vasco da Gama |
| Answer» C. Christopher Columbus | |
| 64. |
Vasco da Gama went around the cape and across the Indian Ocean to reach India (Calicut) in ……….. |
| A. | 1458 |
| B. | 1468 |
| C. | 1498 |
| D. | 1598 |
| Answer» C. 1498 | |
| 65. |
In 1499 ………………landed in America. |
| A. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| B. | Cabral |
| C. | Robert Fulton |
| D. | Vasco da Gama |
| Answer» A. Amerigo Vespucci | |
| 66. |
In 1510 Goa became the capital of the …………..Eastern Empire. |
| A. | British |
| B. | French |
| C. | Portuguese |
| D. | Dutch |
| Answer» C. Portuguese | |
| 67. |
Balboa crossed the Isthimus of Panama in ………… |
| A. | 1465 |
| B. | 1508 |
| C. | 1513 |
| D. | 1623 |
| Answer» C. 1513 | |
| 68. |
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» C. Canada | |
| 69. |
The Portuguese reached China in ……….. |
| A. | 1510 |
| B. | 1512 |
| C. | 1517 |
| D. | 1534 |
| Answer» C. 1517 | |
| 70. |
In 1519 ………….discovered Mexico. |
| A. | Hernando Cortez |
| B. | Robert Fulton |
| C. | Cabral |
| D. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Answer» A. Hernando Cortez | |
| 71. |
The fall of …………..into the hands of the Ottoman Turks was reason enough for the Europeans to seek alternative routes. |
| A. | Delhi |
| B. | Peking |
| C. | Moscow |
| D. | Constantinople |
| Answer» D. Constantinople | |
| 72. |
The Polo brothers from Venice were the first Europeans to travel to China and visit the court of……………, about 1260. |
| A. | Kublai Khan |
| B. | Alfred the Great |
| C. | Henry VIII |
| D. | Akbar |
| Answer» A. Kublai Khan | |
| 73. |
……………the navigator encouraged navigation by establishing a school for geographers. |
| A. | George Sarton |
| B. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| C. | Randolph Starn |
| D. | Henry |
| Answer» D. Henry | |
| 74. |
Goa was conquered by the……………, who made it the capital of their Eastern Empire. |
| A. | British |
| B. | Dutch |
| C. | French |
| D. | Portuguese |
| Answer» D. Portuguese | |
| 75. |
…………….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» A. Christopher Columbus | |
| 76. |
……………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» D. Machia velli | |
| 77. |
When the French Revolution broke out? |
| A. | 1689 |
| B. | 1768 |
| C. | 1769 |
| D. | 1789 |
| Answer» D. 1789 | |
| 78. |
…………….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» A. Jean Bodin | |
| 79. |
Louis XIV was the ruler of …………….. |
| A. | Germany |
| B. | Poland |
| C. | Italy |
| D. | France |
| Answer» D. France | |
| 80. |
Frederick, the Great was the ruler ………………. |
| A. | Austria |
| B. | Rome |
| C. | Holland |
| D. | Prussia |
| Answer» D. Prussia | |
| 81. |
Peter, the Great was the ruler of………….. |
| A. | Russia |
| B. | Spain |
| C. | Austria |
| D. | Portugal |
| Answer» A. Russia | |
| 82. |
Who aptly predicted"After me, the flood."? |
| A. | Louis XIV |
| B. | Victoria |
| C. | James I |
| D. | Frederick, the Great |
| Answer» A. Louis XIV | |
| 83. |
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» A. Louis XIV | |
| 84. |
…………….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» A. William of Orange | |
| 85. |
The Treaty of Utrecht was concluded in ………….. |
| A. | 1703 |
| B. | 1713 |
| C. | 1768 |
| D. | 1776 |
| Answer» B. 1713 | |
| 86. |
Nicholas Poussin is generally considered the best example of …………….classicist painting. |
| A. | French |
| B. | British |
| C. | Dutch |
| D. | Russian |
| Answer» A. French | |
| 87. |
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» A. Nicholas Poussin | |
| 88. |
The credit for establishing absolute monarchy in Prussia goes to…………. |
| A. | Frederick, the Great |
| B. | Michelangelo |
| C. | Peter ,the Great |
| D. | Henry VII |
| Answer» A. Frederick, the Great | |
| 89. |
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» A. Seven Years War | |
| 90. |
The Peace of Hubertsburg was concluded in …………… |
| A. | 1703 |
| B. | 1763 |
| C. | 1767 |
| D. | 1769 |
| Answer» B. 1763 | |
| 91. |
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» B. Russia | |
| 92. |
………..tried to bring the Russian Orthodox Church under his control by abolishing the office of the Patriarch and placed the church under a committee known as Holy Synod. |
| A. | Frederick ,the Great |
| B. | Peter the Great |
| C. | Nicholas XII |
| D. | Gorbachev |
| Answer» B. Peter the Great | |
| 93. |
………………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» B. Mercantilism | |
| 94. |
James I was the ruler of ……………. |
| A. | Russia |
| B. | England |
| C. | Saxony |
| D. | Prussia |
| Answer» B. England | |
| 95. |
First Bourbon king of France was ………………… |
| A. | HenryII |
| B. | Henry IV |
| C. | Henry VIII |
| D. | Charles I |
| Answer» B. Henry IV | |
| 96. |
Louis XIV belonged to the ……………dynasty. |
| A. | Tudor |
| B. | Bourbon |
| C. | Hapsburg |
| D. | Stuart |
| Answer» B. Bourbon | |
| 97. |
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» B. Spanish | |
| 98. |
The French Protestants known as …………….. |
| A. | Puritans |
| B. | Huguenots |
| C. | Presbyterians |
| D. | Round Heads |
| Answer» B. Huguenots | |
| 99. |
The first English settlement in ……………was Jamestown, in Virginia. |
| A. | North America |
| B. | South America |
| C. | Africa |
| D. | Canada |
| Answer» A. North America | |
| 100. |
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» D. 18th | |
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