Top 250+ Solved Transition to the Contemporary World MCQ Questions Answer
Q. In the 16th century, French literature was enriched by "Gargantua" a series of daring, fanciful and humorous tales written by …………………..
a. Cervantes
b. Francis Rabelais
c. Moliere
d. Erasmus
Q. Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest Renaissance scholar in ……………..
a. Holland
b. France
c. England
d. Poland
Q. In England…………..’s Utopia appeared in English in 1551.
a. Milton
b. Sir Thomas More
c. Edmund Spencer
d. Marlowe
Q. Book of Common Prayers was the work of …………………….
a. Peter Abelard
b. Edmund Spencer
c. Cranmer
d. Abertus Magus
Q. ‘Faerie Queen’ is the work of ………………
a. Edmund Spencer
b. Ben Johnson
c. Christopher Marlowe
d. Francis Bacon
Q. In the 13th century, ……………..laid the foundations of modern science, by insisting on the experimental method, and discovered the uses of gunpowder and the magnifying lens.
a. Abertus Magus
b. Peter Abelard
c. Roger Bacon
d. Thomas Aquinas
Q. Nicholas Copernicus of …………………revolutionized the thought of mankind by proving that the earth moves round the sun.
a. Russia
b. England
c. Poland
d. Italy
Q. ……………………of Poland revolutionized the thought of mankind by proving that the earth moves round the sun.
a. Nicholas Copernicus
b. Ptolemy
c. Giorgio Vasari
d. Galileo
Q. The term Renaissance was first used by the Italian artist and critic …………in his book ‘The Lives of the Artists’
a. Giorgio Vasari
b. Robert Fulton
c. Thomas Newcomend
d. Corneille
Q. The Renaissance was first defined by ………….historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), in his work, ‘Histoire de France’.
a. German
b. Portuguese
c. French
d. Spanish