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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 6

Q1 | Battle of Waterloo ,18 June ……………..
  • 1754
  • 1764
  • 1787
  • 1815
Q2 | Who was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean,1,870 km from the west coast of Africa.
  • napoleon bonaparte
  • alexandro volta
  • edward vi
  • william iii
Q3 | …………..negotiated with Pope Pius VII. Finally, a Concordat was concluded in 1802.
  • matternich
  • elizabeth
  • charles i
  • napoleon bonaparte
Q4 | The Continental System or Continental Blockade was the foreign policy of …………….
  • napoleon bonaparte
  • charles telford
  • victoria
  • george ii
Q5 | ………….., by Orders in Council (1807), prohibited its trade partners from trading withFrance.
  • britain
  • germany
  • poland
  • malesia
Q6 | The French Revolution of…………, also known as the July Revolution.
  • 1730
  • 1768
  • 1807
  • 1830
Q7 | The Congress of Vienna was headed by ………………..
  • metternich
  • charles telford
  • alexandro volta
  • michael faraday
Q8 | The term 'Industrial Revolution' was first used by the historian…………, to describe theeconomic development in England, from 1760 to 1840.
  • arnold toynbee
  • robert fulton
  • alexandro volta
  • adam smith
Q9 | The Industrial Revolution first started in …………….
  • france
  • germany
  • spain
  • england
Q10 | Who introduced the continental system?
  • napoleon bonaparte
  • robert fulton
  • alexandro volta
  • michael faraday
Q11 | In 1764, ……………..invented a machine called the ’Spinning Jenny.’
  • james hargreaves
  • john macadam
  • charles telford
  • john smeaton
Q12 | In 1769, ……………invented a machine run by waterpower instead of manpower. Hence itcame to be called the ’Water-Frame’.
  • richard arkwright
  • john macadam
  • robert fulton
  • james watt
Q13 | Samuel Crompton removed the defects of the Spinning Jenny and Water Frame, with hismachine known as ……………..
  • spinning mule
  • john macadam
  • john smeaton
  • charles telford
Q14 | In 1733, ………….had invented a device called the ’Flying Shuttle’.
  • john kay
  • john macadam
  • charles telford
  • john smeaton
Q15 | In 1785, ……………..invented the Automatic or Power Loom.
  • dr. edmund cartwright
  • john smeaton
  • robert fulton
  • james watt
Q16 | Who invented a machine called the ’Cotton Gin.’?
  • eli whitney
  • john macadam
  • charles telford
  • thomas newcomen
Q17 | In 1816, …………….invented a machine called Davy’s Safety Lamp.’
  • sir humphry davy
  • john smeaton
  • thomas newcomen
  • james watt
Q18 | In 1801, ………………invented the first steam locomotive.
  • richard trevithick
  • charles telford
  • thomas newcomen
  • james watt
Q19 | In 1807, …………..invented the steamboat called the ’Clermont’.
  • robert fulton
  • james watt
  • alexandro volta
  • robert bakewell
Q20 | …………..invented the first steam engine in 1705, in order to pump water out of the mines.
  • thomas newcomen
  • michael faraday
  • jethro tull
  • viscount townsend
Q21 | In 1769, ………….invented a better steam engine called the ’Beelzebub.’
  • james watt
  • alexandro volta
  • michael faraday
  • robert bakewell
Q22 | The discovery of a new method of ’Crop Rotation’, was made by……………….
  • viscount townsend
  • robert bakewell
  • adam smith
  • benjamin disraeli
Q23 | In……………., Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels issued the ‘Communist Manifesto’ whichintroduced scientific socialism or Communism.
  • 1648
  • 1748
  • 1848
  • 1948
Q24 | ……………means "leave to do, leave to pass" or more accurately "let things alone, let thempass".
  • socialism
  • communism
  • laissez-faire
  • chartism
Q25 | The "People's Charter" of 1838 was a public petition aimed at redressing omissions from theelectoral ……………………..
  • representation of the people act, 1918
  • representation of the people act, 1928
  • reform act of 1832
  • reform act of 1884