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This set of Roots of the Modern World Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Roots Of The Modern World Set 1

Q1 | Printing press was set up in 1477 in England by ……………
  • caxton
  • john gutenberg
  • henry viii
  • james i
Q2 | The Renaissance had its origin in……………
  • italy
  • germany
  • france
  • england
Q3 | …………….created the lifelike statue of ’St. Mark’ in Venice.
  • donatello
  • michael angelo
  • leonardo da vinci
  • della robbia
Q4 | ……………..fashioned the statue of ’Perseus and the slain Medusa’.
  • cellini
  • della robbia
  • thomas newcomen
  • robert bakewell
Q5 | Michelangelo, great sculptor, painter and architect had many achievements to his credit, amongwhich his statue of ’David’ at…………, is a masterpiece of classical dignity.
  • florence
  • france
  • germany
  • oxford
Q6 | ……………………..’s well-known work is the “Mona Lisa
  • leonardo da vinci
  • michelangelo
  • raphael
  • dante
Q7 | The Last Supper" is connected with …………………
  • leonardo da vinci
  • raphael
  • patriarch
  • dante
Q8 | Whose most excellent painting is the grand fresco of ’The Last Judgement’ in the samechapel?
  • michelangelo
  • leonardo da vinci
  • raphael
  • patriarch
Q9 | ……………..wrote ‘The Divine Comedy in Italian rather than Latin.
  • machiavelli
  • bocaccio
  • dante
  • cervantes
Q10 | …………………….wrote a series of love sonnets to "Laura".
  • machiavelli
  • patriarch
  • cervantes
  • erasmus
Q11 | ………………… wrote "his racy stories in Italian", the Decameron.
  • patriarch
  • bocaccio
  • machiavelli
  • cervantes
Q12 | Who wrote ‘The Prince’ as a guide for rulers?
  • erasmus
  • cervantes
  • machiavelli
  • corneille
Q13 | Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest Renaissance scholar in ……………..
  • holland
  • france
  • england
  • poland
Q14 | ‘Praise of Folly’ was written by ………..
  • cranmer
  • sir thomas more
  • milton
  • erasmus
Q15 | In England…………..’s Utopia appeared in English in 1551.
  • milton
  • sir thomas more
  • edmund spencer
  • marlowe
Q16 | …………….Canterbury Tales was written by ……………..
  • chaucer
  • milton
  • erasmus
  • sir thomas more
Q17 | ‘Paradise Los’t is the work of …………………..
  • marlowe
  • edmund spencer
  • milton
  • cranmer
Q18 | Book of Common Prayers was the work of …………………….
  • peter abelard
  • edmund spencer
  • cranmer
  • abertus magus
Q19 | ‘Faerie Queen’ is the work of ………………
  • edmund spencer
  • ben johnson
  • christopher marlowe
  • francis bacon
Q20 | In the 13th century, ……………..laid the foundations of modern science, by insisting on theexperimental method, and discovered the uses of gunpowder and the magnifying lens.
  • abertus magus
  • peter abelard
  • roger bacon
  • thomas aquinas
Q21 | Galileo was an …………… astronomer
  • french
  • german
  • italian
  • russian
Q22 | John Kepler was an ……………… astronomer
  • german
  • italian
  • indian
  • sweedish
Q23 | The Renaissance was first defined by ………….historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), in hiswork, ‘Histoire de France’.
  • german
  • portuguese
  • french
  • spanish
Q24 | Who wrote the book ‘The Waning of the Middle Ages’?
  • jacob burckhardt
  • cimabue
  • giotto
  • johan huizinga
Q25 | ………..was credited with discovering ‘the law of gravitation’.
  • rapheal
  • dante
  • michelangelo
  • sir isaac newton