Top 550+ Solved Social and Cultural History of Britain MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ........................., unlike Marxists, advocated a gradual, non-revolutionary transitionto socialism based on humanist foundations.
a. Fabians
b. Liberals
c. Capitalists
d. Communalists
Q. The Fabian Society took its name, suggested by one of its founding members,Frank Podmore, from the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Cunctator, who avoided a frontal attack on ..................army in the third century B.C., but used delaying tactics.
a. David Lloyd George’s
b. William Gladstone’s
c. H. H. Asquith’s
d. Hannibal’s
Q. After the Second world war, which highlighted that so many people were deprivedand poor, the Liberal politician ....................identified five issues that needed to be tackled to make a better Britain.
a. Ramsay MacDonal
b. John Stuart Mill
c. Keynes
d. William Beveridge
Q. .........................was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for hisadvocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
a. Thomas Henry Huxley
b. Samuel Wilberforce
c. Robert Chambers
d. Richard Owen
Q. ................. most notable science fiction work is The Time Machine (1895),
a. H. G. Wells’
b. Clement Attlee
c. Harold Wilson
d. James Callaghan.
Q. ................ 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work,
a. E. M. Forster’s
b. Tony Blair
c. Gordon Brown
d. ,Edward Thomas
Q. .................... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961).
a. Arnold Joseph Toynbee
b. W. Yeats
c. Edward Martyn
d. ,D.H Lawrence
Q. ........................ is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which theepisodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles,
a. James Joyce
b. T. S. Eliot
c. W. H. Auden
d. Edward Thomas
Q. .................... was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues,"
a. Wystan Hugh Auden
b. Isaac Rosenberg,
c. Wilfred Owen
d. Charles Sorely
Q. .................... is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen EightyFour (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945).
a. George Orwell
b. Dylan Thomas
c. Samuel Barclay Beckett
d. Charles Sorely
Q. ........................ is the process of international integration arising from theinterchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture.
a. Arya Samaj
b. Commonwealth
c. NWO
d. Globalization
Q. The term ..................... refers to the emergence of a totalitarian government.
a. NWO
b. Commonwealth
c. Globalization
d. Arya Samaj
Q. The symbol of the Commonwealth is.............. who is the Head of theCommonwealth.
a. Queen Elizabeth II
b. Warren Hastings
c. Jonathan Duncan
d. Macaulay,
Q. William James founded The Asiatic Society of ...................in 1784.
a. Bengal
b. Madras
c. Bombay
d. Delhi
Q. Macaulay’s minutes was accepted and ................issued his proclamation inn march1935 which set at rest all the controversies and led to the formulation of a policy which became the corner stone of all educational programmes during the British period in India.
a. Lord William Bentinck
b. Queen Elizabeth II
c. Jonathan Duncan
d. Warren