Top 350+ Solved Modern World History MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The Great Famine of1845-1849 took place in:
a. France and Belgium.
b. Ireland, Germany, Scotland, and the Netherlands.
c. The United States.
d. All of the above.
Q. By 1817, which country was one of the core nations of industrial Europe?
a. France.
b. Russia.
c. Italy.
d. Germany.
Q. British tariffs prohibiting the importation of East Indian Cottons:
a. acted as a brake on the manufacture of domestic cottons.
b. forced the British to abandon cotton manufacture altogether.
c. served as an inducement to the manufacture of domestic cottons.
d. stimulated the manufacture and sale of woolen goods.
Q. In general European serfdom:
a. was an obstacle to the commercialization of agriculture.
b. disappeared across Eastern Europe and Russia by 1800.
c. provided vast incentives for landowners to improve farming techniques.
d. Both A and B.
Q. John Kay?s invention of the “flying shuttle” in 1773 revolutionized the process of cotton:
a. spinning.
b. weaving.
c. carding.
d. combing.
Q. The mythical leader of a British rural rebellion in 1820s was:
a. Ned Lud.
b. John Ball.
c. Captain Swing.
d. Wat Tyler.
Q. The expression, “ angel in the house ,” refers to:
a. a London Prostitute.
b. the Victorian middle-class woman.
c. an essay by John Stuart Mill.
d. a London domestic servant.
Q. Working- class men and women were most vulnerable to:
a. unemployment, sickness, and industrial accidents.
b. seasonal unemployment.
c. cyclical economic depressions.
d. All of the above.
Q. The English contractor Thomas Brassey is best known for:
a. developing the first steam-powered locomotive.
b. opening the Stockton to Darlington line in 1825.
c. criticizing continental railway system.
d. building railways in Canada, Argentina, Australia and India.
Q. In general, the population of Europe in the nineteenth century:
a. declined.
b. stay roughly at the same.
c. showed a dramatic increase.
d. slowly increase
Q. Middle-class respectability required all but which of the following?
a. financial independence.
b. living modestly and soberly.
c. merit and character.
d. conspicuous consumption.
Q. The “ new cathedrals ” of the industrial age were:
a. museums, opera houses and city halls.
b. textile factories.
c. railway stations.
d. suburban middle class homes.
Q. The Industrial Revolution occurred first in Great Britain because:
a. the Continental System guaranteed that Britain would be able to import much needed coal.
b. the government was able to borrow necessary capital from German banking houses.
c. agriculture was more thoroughly commercialized in Britain than elsewhere.
d. of its vast network of internal tolls and tariffs.
Q. Queen Victoria was a successful queen because:
a. she and her husband embodied traits important to the middle classes.
b. her name has come to represent the culture of the nineteenth century.
c. she managed to extol the virtues of the aristocracy at the moment they went into decline.
d. her court was all in respects similar to her uncle, George IV.
Q. Before 1815, industrialization in the continent was held back by the:
a. French Revolution
b. Continental System.
c. Napoleonic Wars.
d. All of the above.