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This set of Modern World in Transition Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Modern World In Transition Set 5

Q1 | ‘Bills of Rights’ was in the year………………….
  • 1688
  • 1689
  • 1789
  • 1799
Q2 | The Bloodless Revolution of 1688 was a great land mark in the constitutional history of…..
  • italy
  • america
  • germany
  • england
Q3 | Bloodless Revolution of …………… resulted in the supremacy of the parliament and gave ablow to Absolute Monarchy in England.
  • 1688
  • 1689
  • 1788
  • 1789
Q4 | Bloodless Revolution of ……… marked the end of the struggle between king and parliament.
  • 1688
  • 1689
  • 1699
  • 1788
Q5 | The American Revolution or the War of American Independence broke out in the year …….. A.D during the reign of the English King George III and came to a close in 1783 A.D.
  • 1675
  • 1685
  • 1689
  • 1775
Q6 | The British conquest of Canada after the Seven Year War reduced the …………………dangerand hence the colonies turned against England.
  • german
  • american
  • french
  • spanish
Q7 | The immediate cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party in …………. A.D.
  • 1773
  • 1775
  • 1789
  • 1793
Q8 | The colonial army Commanded by ……………..trapped the British army at York Town andforced Lord Cornwallis, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces to surrender in 1781.
  • vasco da-gama
  • ferdinand magellan
  • george washington
  • john cabot
Q9 | The colonial army Commanded by George Washington trapped the British army at YorkTown and forced………………, the Commander-in-Chief of the British forces to surrender in 1781.
  • john cabot
  • lord cornwallis
  • churchill
  • lord lytton
Q10 | Louis XVI was completely under the control of his beautiful but proud, willful and wickedqueen Marie Antoinette who was notorious for her unsympathetic attitude towards the people.
  • louis xiii
  • louis xiv
  • louis xv
  • louis xvi
Q11 | ‘The Social Contract’ was the work of ……………..
  • montesquieu
  • voltaire
  • ferdinand magellan
  • rousseau
Q12 | Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains"is the words of ………………..
  • rousseau
  • voltaire
  • lenin
  • karl marx
Q13 | ……………….'s most famous work was ‘A Treatise for Toleration’.
  • voltaire
  • condorcet
  • john cabot
  • churchill
Q14 | ………………….’s main work was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’ (1753).
  • montesquieu
  • condorcet
  • churchill
  • john cabot
Q15 | In 1765, ………………published his first work on mathematics entitled Essai sur le calculintégral, which was very well received, launching his career as a respected mathematician.
  • condorcet
  • turgot
  • ferdinand magellan
  • montesquieu
Q16 | In 1785, ……………..wrote the Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability ofMajority Decisions, one of his most important works.
  • churchill
  • montesquieu
  • john cabot
  • condorcet
Q17 | Fall of Bastille in the year 14th July ………………
  • 1789
  • 1689
  • 1769
  • 1799
Q18 | On 23rd September, ……………, the king was deposed and France became a Republic.
  • 1782
  • 1790
  • 1792
  • 1799
Q19 | On 21st January …………. Louis XVI of France was guillotined.
  • 1786
  • 1789
  • 1793
  • 1799
Q20 | Guillotine was invented by Ignacio Guillotine, a ………….physician.
  • german
  • american
  • french
  • british
Q21 | …………………… Connected with the reign of terror in France.
  • napoleon
  • robespierre
  • ferdinand magellan
  • voltaire
Q22 | …………….was the child of French Revolution and the hero of France.
  • hitler
  • churchill
  • mussolini
  • napoleon
Q23 | ……………was born in the Island of Corsica in Italy on 15th August 1769.
  • napoleon
  • ferdinand magellan
  • john cabot
  • churchill
Q24 | Corsica was captured by ……………..in 1768 A.D.
  • germany
  • france
  • britain
  • america
Q25 | “I was born when my country was dying”. Who said?
  • napoleon
  • john cabot
  • churchill
  • hitler