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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 5

Q1 | The …………..Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.
  • french
  • dutch
  • american
  • english
Q2 | The French Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, ………….
  • 1789
  • 1798
  • 1799
  • 1889
Q3 | Who gave good advice to his successor Louis XV saying "Do not imitate my fondness forbuilding and for war, but work to lessen the misery of my people?
  • louis xiv
  • charles i
  • james i
  • elizabethi
Q4 | When his ministers attempted to discuss affairs of the state with him, who merely remarked,"After me, the deluge.
  • louis xv
  • edward vi
  • james ii
  • henry viii
Q5 | Queen Marie Antoinette was the Queen of ……………..
  • louis xv
  • louis xvi
  • george i
  • henry viii
Q6 | Who put forward the theory of ‘the separation of powers’?
  • voltaire
  • montesquieu
  • charles telford
  • robert fulton
Q7 | The Bloodless or Glorious Revolution started in England in ……….
  • 1678
  • 1688
  • 1698
  • 1699
Q8 | July 14, …………saw the fall of the Bastille, a royal fortress and symbol of Bourbonautocracy.
  • 1779
  • 1789
  • 1793
  • 1798
Q9 | Feudalism and serfdom was abolished in France in August ………….. by the NationalAssembly.
  • 1689
  • 1789
  • 1786
  • 1797
Q10 | The Constitution of ……….. was the first written constitution of France.
  • 1781
  • 1791
  • 1796
  • 1799
Q11 | The ………….were moderates who wanted a republican form of government in France.
  • girondists
  • the constitutionalists
  • the jacobins
  • liberals
Q12 | The Jacobins of ……………..were republicans of the extreme type.
  • germany
  • france
  • italy
  • africa
Q13 | King Louis XVI was found guilty of high treason by the National Convention and wasguillotined on 21st January ………
  • 1746
  • 1769
  • 1793
  • 1795
Q14 | Who is regarded as ’the father of the railway locomotive’?
  • john smeaton
  • george stephenson
  • charles telford
  • robert fulton
Q15 | The ’reign of terror’ came to an end with the revolt of the Parisian mob against Robespierrewho was guillotined on March 13, ………….
  • 1736
  • 1766
  • 1794
  • 1798
Q16 | After ruling France from 1792 to 1795, the National Convention was dissolved and the newconstitution came to be called the Constitution of the Year ……………
  • third
  • fourth
  • fifth
  • sixth
Q17 | The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the……………………..
  • american revolution
  • english revolution
  • french revolution
  • bour war
Q18 | Year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence ……………..
  • 2nd july 1742
  • 4th july 1749
  • 4th july 1776
  • 4th july 1767
Q19 | ……………….was the primary author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
  • john eliot
  • robert fulton
  • thomas jefferson
  • robert owen
Q20 | Napoleon crowned himself Emperor on 2 December ……….. at Notre Dame de Paris
  • 1704
  • 1784
  • 1798
  • 1804
Q21 | Year of the Battle of Trafalgar.
  • 1776
  • 1785
  • 1788
  • 1805
Q22 | The battle of Austerlitz is the finest of all I have fought." Who said?
  • charles i
  • henry vii
  • alfred
  • napoleon bonaparte
Q23 | Who defeated Prussia at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt ?
  • napoleon bonaparte
  • robert fulton
  • michael faraday
  • james ii
Q24 | In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the victors exiled ……………..to Elba, an island of 12,000inhabitants in the Mediterranean, 20 km off the Tuscan coast.
  • louis xii
  • charles telford
  • henry viii
  • napoleon bonaparte
Q25 | Napoleon escaped from Elba on 26 February …………..
  • 1715
  • 1789
  • 1799
  • 1815