Top 250+ Solved Transition to the Contemporary World MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The most significant agency of the Catholic reform was ………….
a. The Society of Jesus
b. Calvinism
c. Puritanism
d. Socialist Society
Q. The Society of Jesus was founded by ……………
a. St. Ignatius Loyola
b. Robert Fulton
c. Martin Luther
d. John Calvin
Q. The Edict of Nantes was issued by King Henry IV in 1598 restored peace in …………
a. France
b. Germany
c. Britain
d. Poland
Q. In 1618, a war broke out in …………..between the Catholics and the Protestants, which lasted for thirty years. Hence it is known as the Thirty Years War.
a. Germany
b. France
c. Russia
d. Rome
Q. Who questioned the sale of indulgences in 1517 by the agents of Pope X?
a. Jaques Cartier
b. Martin Luther
c. Thomas Newcomen
d. Queen Anne
Q. The ……………aroused a spirit of adventure as well as a great deal of curiosity among the Europeans.
a. French Revolution
b. Renaissance
c. American Revolution
d. Reformation
Q. ……………was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453
a. Gerusalem
b. Constantinople
c. Western Roman Empire
d. Italy
Q. After the fall of…………….., the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, into the hands of the fanatical Ottoman Turks, the trade routes lying within the Turkish empire, were closed to European traders.
a. Gerusalem
b. Constantinople
c. Delhi
d. Oxford
Q. The ………….had fostered a spirit of inquiry that had revolutionized geographical ideas.
a. Reformation
b. Renaissance
c. English Revolution
d. American Revolution
Q. Prince Henry, commonly called Henry the navigator, was a great patron of navigation in ………………
a. France
b. Portugal
c. Poland
d. Spain
Q. Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator sailed around the cape up the east coast of Africa, across the Indian Ocean and landed at …………..
a. Cochi
b. Calicut
c. Bombay
d. Cape of Good Hope
Q. After Prince Henry’s death ……………….crossed the Equator in 1472.
a. Lopo Gonsalves
b. Diego Cao
c. Columbus
d. John Cabot
Q. In 1488, a brave captain named ………….sailed up to Africa’s southern most tips which he named the "Cape of Storms".
a. Bartholomew Diaz
b. Thomas Newcomen
c. Columbus
d. Robert Fulton
Q. John of Plano Carpini was sent to the court of the Great Khan in Mongolia in ……………..
a. 1145
b. 1245
c. 1257
d. 1269