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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 Politics (BA Politics) .
| 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 | |
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