Top 250+ Solved Transition to the Contemporary World MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who wrote the book ‘The Waning of the Middle Ages’?
a. Jacob Burckhardt
b. Cimabue
c. Giotto
d. Johan Huizinga
Q. ………..was credited with discovering ‘the law of gravitation’.
a. Rapheal
b. Dante
c. Michelangelo
d. Sir Isaac Newton
Q. ………….is regarded as the "Morning star of the Reformation".
a. Racine
b. Robert Fulton
c. Thomas Newcomen
d. John Wycliff
Q. After Wyclife’s death, his writings were spread in Bohemia by…………., a priest and professor in the University of Prague.
a. Martin Luther
b. Robert Fulton
c. Robert Bakewell
d. John Huss
Q. The Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund invited …………to attend a general church council at Constance where he was burned at the stake in 1415.
a. Wyclife
b. Thomas Newcomen
c. Shakespeare
d. John Huss
Q. Luther wrote his 95 Thesis and nailing them to the door of the Castle Church of …………on October 31, 1517.
a. Cambridge
b. Edinburg
c. Oxford
d. Wittenberg
Q. Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) led a revolt against the Catholic Church in ………….
a. England
b. Holland
c. Germany
d. Switzerland
Q. A civil war broke out between the Catholic and the Reformed Cantons in which ………….was killed in the Battle of Kappel in 1531.
a. Moliere
b. Robert Fulton
c. Thomas Newcomen
d. Zwingli
Q. The French Protestants were called the ………….
a. Puritans
b. Presbyterians
c. Huguenots
d. Cavelliers
Q. John Knox introduced Calvinism in Scotland, where it was called ……………………….
a. Presbyterianism
b. Puritans
c. Round Heads
d. Huguenots
Q. King ………….was broke with the Pope who did not agree with his decision to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon
a. Henry VII
b. Henry VIII
c. Louis-Philippe
d. Louis XVIII
Q. In 1534 the King ……………..induced Parliament to pass the Act of Supremacy which substituted the king for the Pope as head of the Church in England.
a. Henry VIII
b. Henry IV
c. Henry V
d. Edward VI