On This Page

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 ……………
Q2 | The Renaissance had its origin in……………
Q3 | …………….created the lifelike statue of ’St. Mark’ in Venice.
Q4 | ……………..fashioned the statue of ’Perseus and the slain Medusa’.
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.
Q6 | ……………………..’s well-known work is the “Mona Lisa
Q7 | The Last Supper" is connected with …………………
Q8 | Whose most excellent painting is the grand fresco of ’The Last Judgement’ in the samechapel?
Q9 | ……………..wrote ‘The Divine Comedy in Italian rather than Latin.
Q10 | …………………….wrote a series of love sonnets to "Laura".
Q11 | ………………… wrote "his racy stories in Italian", the Decameron.
Q12 | Who wrote ‘The Prince’ as a guide for rulers?
Q13 | Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest Renaissance scholar in ……………..
Q14 | ‘Praise of Folly’ was written by ………..
Q15 | In England…………..’s Utopia appeared in English in 1551.
Q16 | …………….Canterbury Tales was written by ……………..
Q17 | ‘Paradise Los’t is the work of …………………..
Q18 | Book of Common Prayers was the work of …………………….
Q19 | ‘Faerie Queen’ is the work of ………………
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.
Q21 | Galileo was an …………… astronomer
Q22 | John Kepler was an ……………… astronomer
Q23 | The Renaissance was first defined by ………….historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874), in hiswork, ‘Histoire de France’.
Q24 | Who wrote the book ‘The Waning of the Middle Ages’?
Q25 | ………..was credited with discovering ‘the law of gravitation’.