Top 350+ Solved Modern World History MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which of the following does not describe the result of Stalin’s Five-Year-Plans?
a. the command economy functioned in an entirely rational fashion.
b. the emphasis was on quantity and not quality.
c. heavy industry was favored over light industry.
d. the Soviet industry was transformed into a world industrial power.
Q. On November 9, 1918:
a. the imperial government of Germany was overthrown by a bloody revolution in which hundreds were killed.
b. the German Kaiser was assassinated.
c. Hitler created and took over leadership of German Workers’ Party.
d. the German republic was declare
Q. The Soviet collectivization of agriculture in the late 1920s:
a. was entirely consistent with the policies of NEP.
b. resulted in the near “liquidation of the Kulaks as a class”.
c. prevented the onset of a Russian famine.
d. was welcomed by the peasantry.
Q. On October 28, 1922, Mussolini’s “Black Shirts”:
a. assassinated Victor Emmanuel.
b. Joined the revolutionary group, II Popolo d’Italia.
c. marched to Rome.
d. None of the above.
Q. In 1924 election the Nazis polled:
a. about 6.6 percent of the vote.
b. strong support from the German middle classes.
c. a majority of the workers on the left.
d. well over 46 percent of the vote.
Q. What event pushed Weimar’s political system to the breaking point?
a. the Dawes Plan.
b. the Great Depression.
c. the French invasion of the Ruhr.
d. Hitler’s putsch of 1923.
Q. The Civil War in Russia pushed the Bolsheviks to a more radical economic stancecalled:
a. NEP.
b. war communism.
c. the first Five-Year Plan.
d. the second Five-Year Plan.
Q. Thomas Hart Benton and Diego Rivera were similarly in that they:
a. used their art to detail the hopes and struggles of ordinary people.
b. were both anti-communist reactionaries.
c. were members of Bauhaus.
d. had an enormous influence on non-western cultures.
Q. The man widely assumed to be Lenin’s successor was:
a. Trotsky.
b. Bukharin.
c. Stalin.
d. Rasputin.
Q. The man most associated with the Bolshevik New Economic Policy (NEP) was:
a. Lenin.
b. Stalin.
c. Trotsky.
d. Bukharin.
Q. Which pairing is incorrect?
a. T.S Elliot-The Waste Land.
b. James Joyce- Ulysses.
c. Earnest Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises.
d. Christopher Isherwood- The Grapes of Wrath.
Q. Leni Riefenstahl’s film, Triumph of the Will was:
a. an American propaganda film intended to expose the Nazi menace.
b. a visual hymn to the Nazi regime.
c. made with the help of Charlie Chaplin.
d. a fictional tale extolling the virtues of Nazi anit-Semitism.
Q. Which of the following was not a component of Italian fascism?
a. anit-Semitism.
b. militarism.
c. nationalism.
d. statism.
Q. Which of the following does not describe Italy in the years immediately after theGreat War?
a. several generals were plotting a military insurrection.
b. business elites were shaken by strikes.
c. social conflict erupted over land, wages and local power.
d. there was a growing divide between the industrialized north and agricultural
Q. During the Great Terror, Stalin:
a. reprimanded foreign governments for their criticism of the Soviet Union.
b. attempted to eliminate all vestiges of capitalism in the Soviet Union.
c. was trying to protect the Soviet Union from the Nazis.
d. implemented a policy of mass repression against anyone who defied him.