Top 350+ Solved Modern World History MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Some of the continental European governments tried to catch up to British industrialization by means of all of the following methods EXCEPT
a. enacting protective tariffs.
b. subsidizing new industries.
c. buying out entire British industries.
d. eliminating internal tariffs, as the German states did in the Zollverein.
Q. Between 1780 and 1850, the European population
a. ballooned from 175 million to 266 million.
b. declined from 266 million to 175 million.
c. experienced rising mortality rates.
d. became more homogenized in terms of economic class.
Q. The major type of workers' organization that helped factory laborers to develop a sense of classconsciousness during the industrial revolution was the
a. mutual aid society.
b. fraternal society.
c. guild.
d. union.
Q. In the novel Hard Times, which of the following authors described the way industrialization wasaffecting the fictional settlement Coketown?
a. Frederich Engels
b. Emily Brontë
c. Charles Dickens
d. Mark Twain
Q. The "Bobbies," established by a law passed in 1828 by Parliament, hit the streets of London asits first modern
a. social workers.
b. police force.
c. private investigators.
d. sanitation crew.
Q. The Revolution of 1830 in France was led by:
a. workers, artisans, students and writers
b. middle-class Jacobins
c. the nobility and the army
d. students
Q. The Troppau Memorandum (1820) was a:
a. territorial treaty signed by Prussia and Russia
b. treaty that partitioned Poland among the great powers
c. pledge by Russia to help Italy get rid of the Carbonari
d. pact between Austria, Russia and Prussia to aid one another to suppress one another
Q. Which political group was not presented in the provisional government following theabdication of Louis Philippe in 1848?
a. liberals
b. socialists
c. anarchists
d. republic
Q. In general, the significance of the Greek war was that it:
a. helped Europe redefine its identity
b. abolished Ottoman rule in the Balkan
c. preserved an Ottoman foothold in Southeastern Europe
d. brought Serbia and Greece into a mutual alliance
Q. Orientalism refers to:
a. early nineteenth-century artistic and cultural developments in the Ottoman Empire
b. the heightened European interest in the east specifically Egypt
c. cultural nationalism in China and Japan
d. None of the above
Q. Napoleon was defeated in the:
a. Crimean War
b. Battle of Waterloo
c. Battle of Plassey
d. Seven Weeks’ War
Q. When was Napoleon defeated?
a. June 18, 1815
b. July 18, 1815
c. January 20, 1820
d. None of the above
Q. After his defeat Napoleon was sent for exile on the rocky island of St. Helena in the:
a. South Pacific
b. Indian Ocean
c. South Atlantic
d. South China Sea
Q. Which country emerged as the most powerful continental state after the fall of Napoleon?
a. Russia
b. Prussia
c. Britain
d. Italy
Q. As a result of the Congress of Vienna, Poland:
a. was left as it was in 1795
b. became an independent nation
c. joined the quadruple alliance with Britain, Austria and Prussia
d. became a nominally independent kingdom ruled by Tsar Alexander