Top 250+ Solved Transition to the Contemporary World MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Thomas Paine was a radical writer who emigrated from …………toAmerica in 1774.
a. England
b. Russia
c. Spain
d. Austria
Q. Early in 1776, …………published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule.
a. Thomas Paine
b. Montesquieu
c. Michael Faraday
d. Ranke
Q. In Common Sense, …………made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent.
a. Thomas Paine
b. Karl Marx
c. Charles Darwin
d. Friedrich Nietzsche
Q. Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason?
a. Thomas Paine
b. Montesquieu
c. Charles Telford
d. Robert Fulton
Q. The …………..Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14,1789.
a. French
b. Dutch
c. American
d. English
Q. The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14,………….
a. 1789
b. 1798
c. 1799
d. 1889
Q. The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and continued till ………………..rose to power.
a. Napoleon Bonaparte
b. Charles Telford
c. Robert Fulton
d. Louis XIV
Q. Who gave good advice to his successor Louis XV saying "Do not imitate my fondness for building and for war, but work to lessen the misery of my people?"
a. Louis XIV
b. Charles I
c. James I
d. Elizabeth I
Q. When his ministers attempted to discuss affairs of the state with him, who merely remarked, "After me, the deluge."
a. Louis XV
b. Edward VI
c. James II
d. Henry VIII
Q. Queen Marie Antoinette was the Queen of ……………..
a. Louis XV
b. Louis XVI
c. George I
d. Henry VIII
Q. ………………, a lawyer and student of constitutional government summed up his ideas in his book ‘The Spirit of the Laws’.
a. Montesquieu
b. Robert Fulton
c. Voltaire
d. Rousseau
Q. Who put forward the theory of ‘the separation of powers’?
a. Voltaire
b. Montesquieu
c. Charles Telford
d. Robert Fulton
Q. The ………..Estate of France found the entrance of their meeting place blocked by the royal army on June 20, 1789 as a royal session was to be held there. Hence they rushed to a nearby place that was originally a tennis court and took the famous ‘Tennis Court Oath’.
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. fourth
Q. July 14, …………saw the fall of the Bastille, a royal fortress and symbol of Bourbon autocracy.
a. 1779
b. 1789
c. 1793
d. 1798