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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