Top 250+ Solved Transition to the Contemporary World MCQ Questions Answer
Q. 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
Q. Printing press was set up in 1477 in England by ……………
a. Caxton
b. John Gutenberg
c. Henry VIII
d. James I
Q. …………….created the lifelike statue of ’St. Mark’ in Venice.
a. Donatello
b. Michael Angelo
c. Leonardo da Vinci
d. Della Robbia
Q. ……………..fashioned the statue of ’Perseus and the slain Medusa’.
a. Cellini
b. Della Robbia
c. Thomas Newcomen
d. Robert Bakewell
Q. 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
Q. ……………………..’s well-known work is the “Mona Lisa"
a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Michelangelo
c. Raphael
d. Dante
Q. "The Last Supper" is connected with …………………
a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Raphael
c. Patriarch
d. Dante
Q. Whose most excellent painting is the grand fresco of ’The Last Judgement’ inthe same chapel?
a. Michelangelo
b. Leonardo da Vinci
c. Raphael
d. Patriarch
Q. ……………….’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
Q. ……………..wrote ‘The Divine Comedy in Italian rather than Latin.
a. Machiavelli
b. Bocaccio
c. Dante
d. Cervantes
Q. …………………….wrote a series of love sonnets to "Laura".
a. Machiavelli
b. Patriarch
c. Cervantes
d. Erasmus
Q. ………………… wrote "his racy stories in Italian", the Decameron.
a. Patriarch
b. Bocaccio
c. Machiavelli
d. Cervantes
Q. Who wrote ‘The Prince’ as a guide for rulers?
a. Erasmus
b. Cervantes
c. Machiavelli
d. Corneille
Q. 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.