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This set of History of the Modern World Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on History Of The Modern World Set 5

Q1 | Who was the king of Germany during the I World War?
  • nicholas ii
  • william ii
  • james iii
  • alexander
Q2 | Name the dynasty that had ruled over Austria Hungary till the end of the I World War
  • romanov
  • hohenzollern
  • stuart
  • hapsburg
Q3 | Who was the leader of the Mensheviks in Russia?
  • lenin
  • stalin
  • kerensky
  • sun yat sen
Q4 | Who was the ruler of Russia at the time of the Revolution?
  • nicholas ii
  • nicholas i
  • lenin
  • peter
Q5 | The term ‘Metropolis’ simply means
  • colony
  • town
  • settlement
  • mother country
Q6 | Who authored Don Quixote?
  • dante
  • erasmus
  • cervantes
  • thomas more
Q7 | Where is the Pitti Palace located?
  • italy
  • germany
  • spain
  • england
Q8 | Who was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Bohemia?
  • martin luther
  • john calvin
  • zwingli
  • john huss
Q9 | The Church at Wittenberg located in
  • italy
  • india
  • spain
  • germany
Q10 | Which ruler of Portugal did encourage navigators at the beginning of the 15th century?
  • philip i
  • henry
  • elizabeth
  • henry viii
Q11 | To which country Ferdinand Magellan belonged?
  • portugal
  • spain
  • england
  • holland
Q12 | Which Continental Congress adopted the American Declaration of Independence?
  • third
  • second
  • first
  • none of these
Q13 | Who was Donatello?
  • thinker
  • actor
  • philosopher
  • sculptor
Q14 | The sculpture Pieta is sculptured by
  • donatello
  • leonardo da vinci
  • michelangelo
  • raphael
Q15 | In the 16th century, the German translation of Bible was made by
  • martin luther
  • john gutenberg
  • bismarck
  • john calvin
Q16 | Who was responsible for the invention of ‘Mule’
  • john kay
  • richard arkwright
  • james hargreaves
  • samuel crompton
Q17 | Who invented the Sewing machine?
  • eli whitney
  • thomas savery
  • elias howe
  • thomas newcomen
Q18 | The magnum opus of Erasmus of Rotterdam is
  • in praise of folly
  • decameron
  • don quixote
  • othello
Q19 | To which country James Watt belonged
  • england
  • germany
  • france
  • scotland
Q20 | Who authored ‘The Discourses?’
  • dante
  • machiavelli
  • john locke
  • thomas hobbes
Q21 | Which among the following is not a specialized agency of the UN
  • world health organisation
  • food and agriculture organisation
  • general assembly
  • international labour organisation
Q22 | What is GATT stands for
  • general agreement on tariff and trade
  • general agency for trade and tax
  • global agency for tariff and trade
  • global agreement on tax and trade
Q23 | Where is Manchuria situated?
  • india
  • russia
  • china
  • japan
Q24 | Who was the leader of Revolutionary Marxism in Germany in the Post First World War period?
  • lenin
  • rosa luxemburg
  • stalin
  • antonio gramsci
Q25 | In which country the Weimar republic existed?
  • italy
  • britain
  • usa
  • germany