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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 4

Q1 | James I was the ruler of …………….
  • russia
  • england
  • saxony
  • prussia
Q2 | First Bourbon king of France was …………………
  • henryii
  • henry iv
  • henry viii
  • charles i
Q3 | Louis XIV belonged to the ……………dynasty.
  • tudor
  • bourbon
  • hapsburg
  • stuart
Q4 | The French Protestants known as ……………..
  • puritans
  • huguenots
  • presbyterians
  • round heads
Q5 | The first English settlement in ……………was Jamestown, in Virginia.
  • north america
  • south america
  • africa
  • canada
Q6 | The ………… century is often called the ‘Age of Reason’ because it was a period ofenlightenment during which philosophy was in vogue throughout Europe.
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
Q7 | ‘Wealth of Nations’was the work of ………..
  • john locke
  • rene descartes
  • alfred marshall
  • adam smith
Q8 | ………….., one of the best scientists of his time, wrote an essay entitled, "On Liberty andNecessity: Man in the Newtonian Universe.
  • benjamin franklin
  • robert owen
  • john calvin
  • thomas paine
Q9 | ……………..was "the founder of liberalism”.
  • john locke
  • montesquieu
  • thomas paine
  • robert fulton
Q10 | The Advancement of Learning was written by ………………..
  • francis bacon
  • thomas paine
  • robert fulton
  • rousseau
Q11 | Who wrote’Novum Organum Scientiarum’?
  • newton
  • thomas paine
  • francis bacon
  • montesquieu
Q12 | Thomas Hobbes was an……………. Philosopher
  • french
  • russian
  • english
  • indian
Q13 | Whose masterwork was Leviathan?
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • thomas hobbes
  • locke
Q14 | ‘Meditations on First Philosophy’ was written by ……………….
  • montesquieu
  • thomas paine
  • descartes
  • charles telford
Q15 | Whose masterpiece was ‘The Spirit of the Laws’?
  • thomas paine
  • thomas aquinas
  • aristotle
  • montesquieu
Q16 | Persian Letters was written by ………………
  • montesquieu
  • thomas paine
  • rousseau
  • viscount townsend
Q17 | Who wrote the philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts?
  • jean-jacques rousseau
  • thomas paine
  • charles telford
  • voltaire
Q18 | The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality was written by ………………..
  • rousseau
  • thomas paine
  • montesquieu
  • robert fulton
Q19 | Whose major work on political philosophy was the The Social Contract?
  • michael faraday
  • montesquieu
  • charles telford
  • rousseau
Q20 | ‘The Confessions’ was the Autobiography of ………………..
  • jethro tull
  • thomas paine
  • montesquieu
  • rousseau
Q21 | Who Wrote Philosophical Dictionary?
  • robert fulton
  • thomas paine
  • montesquieu
  • voltaire
Q22 | Who were The Physiocrats?
  • historians
  • sociologists
  • scientists
  • economists
Q23 | Colbert was served as a minister in the Court of…………..
  • louis xiv
  • james i
  • edward vi
  • charles i
Q24 | Thomas Paine was a radical writer who emigrated from …………to America in 1774.
  • england
  • russia
  • spain
  • austria
Q25 | Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason?
  • thomas paine
  • montesquieu
  • charles telford
  • robert fulton