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UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
III SEMESTER B.A HISTORY: COMPLEMENTARY
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN:
HIS3C03 HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONS AND ERA OF COLONIALISM
(2014 Admission onwards)
Multiple-Choice Questions and Answers
Prepared by
Dr.N.PADMANABHAN
Associate Professor&Head
P.G.Department of History
C.A.S.College, Madayi
P.O.Payangadi-RS-670358
Dt.Kannur-Kerala
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1. The Glorious Revolution is the name given to a series of events that took place in
the late 17th century in...................
a) England b) France c) America d) Holland
2. Through the Restoration, ………………became the king of England.
a) Charles II b) Robert Owen c)James I d)James II
3……………….., an avowed Catholic and believer of the Devine Right, like previous
Stuart kings, came into throne in 1685.
a) James II b) Robert Owen c) John Russell d) ) Charles II
4. In………………., a revolution without bloodshed took place against James II’s
activities.
a) 1688 b)1693 c)1694 d)1697
5.The main cause behind the Glorious revolution was ………………attempt to revive
Catholicism in England.
a) James II’s b) Robert Owens c) John Russell’s d) Charles II’s
6.In 1686, …………….founded the “Court of Ecclesiastical Commission” like
previous ‘High Commission Court’ (cancelled in 1641) in order to punish the people,
opposite to his religious doctrine.
a) James II b)Sir Isaac Newton c) Elias Howe d) Thomas Edison
7.In 1687, …………….issued the first ‘Declaration of Indulgence’ suspending the
penal laws against both Catholics and Dissenters.
a) James II b)G.M. Trevelyan c) Elias Howe d) Thomas Edison
8. William with his soldiers arrived England and when marched upon London, on
5th
November, 1688, “James was deserted by the offices of his own regiment as well
as by his friends and so fled to…………”.
a) France b) Africa c) America d) Holland
9. Glorious Revolution of ………..marked the end of long struggle between the king
and Parliament.
a)1688 b) b)1693 c)1694 d)1697
10. the Glorious Revolution of ............ reduced the power of the king and established
the supremacy of the Parliament.
a)1688 b)1693 c)1694 d)1697
11.“In short, the Glorious Revolution of ............ closed the era of monarchial
despotism and introduced the era of constitutionalism.”
a)1688 b)1693 c)1694 d)1697
12................. is often regarded as the founder of a school of thought known as British
Empiricism.
a) Robert Owen b) Elias Howe c) Thomas Edison d) John Locke
13. ...............most important work is ‘the Essay Concerning Human Understanding’,
a) Elias Howe’s b) John Locke’s c) Thomas Edison’s d) Robert Owen’s
14.Locke’s Two Treatises of Government was published in 1689.
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a) John Locke’s b)William c)Robert Filmer c) Elias Howe d) Thomas Edison
15.The Hanoverian succession came about as a result of the Act of Settlement
................, passed by the Parliament of England.
a)1601 b)1654 c)1678 d) 1701
16.After the death of Queen Anne, ....................became the ruler of England.
a) Sophia b) George I c) James VI d) Elizabeth
17.In ............... the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the
United States from Great Britain.
a) 1776 b)1779 c)1789 d)1785
18.The first shot fired in the American Revolution was on April 19, ...........and is
called the "shot heard round the world".
a)1765 b)1768 c)1772 d) 1775
19.George Washington was the first President....................
a)France b)USA c)Russia d)Portugal
20.Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, ..............on January 29, 1737.
a) England b)USA c)Russia d)Portugal
21.Thomas Paine met an American named ............... in London who told him he
should move to America.
a) Elias Howe b) Richard Price c) Benjamin Franklin d) Thomas Edison
22.Thomas Paine got his first job in .............as the editor of the Pennsylvania
Magazine.
a) Russia b)England c) America d)Portugal
23.The neoclassical period ended in 1798 when ...............published the Romantic
'Lyrical Ballads'.
a) Edmund Cartwright b) Richard Price c) Wordsworth d) Elias Howe
24.The ..................Age (1660-1700) introducing the comedy of manner (a play about
the manners and conventions of a highly sophisticated aristocratic society.)
a) Restoration b) Augustan c)Tudor d)Stuart
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25.The ...............(1700-1750) introducing poetry of personal exploration, and serious
development of the novel, melodrama, and satire.
a) Tudor b) Restoration c) Augustan Age d)Stuart
26.The Age of ................(1750- 1798) or the Age of Sensibility was a transitional
period between Neo-Classicism and Romanticism introducing contrary to Age of
Reason (Neo-Classicism) emotional quality.
a) Johnson b) Richard Price c) Edmund Cartwright d) Elias Howe
27. ...................was born in 1709 in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
a) Samuel Johnson b) Richard Price c) Edmund Cartwright d) Thomas Edison
28................... rose to become one of the greatest literary figures of the 18th
century,
most famously compiling ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’.
a) James Boswell b) Oliver Goldsmith c) Samuel Johnson d) Edmund Burke
29.................. worked as a hack writer for many years, writing and editing articles for
Edward Cave’s Gentleman’s Magazine.
a) Sir Joshua Reynolds b)Richard Savage c) Samuel Johnson d)Hester Thrale
30.An essayist, novelist, poet, and playwright, ...............was born in Kilkenny West,
County Westmeath, Ireland.
a) Oliver Goldsmith b) Samuel Johnson c) James Boswell d) Sir Joshua Reynolds
31............................. is author of the essay collection ‘The Citizen of the
World (1762),
a) Oliver Goldsmith b) Richard Price c) Mary Wollstonecraft d) Thomas Edison
32..................... is author of the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766),
a) Oliver Goldsmith b) Richard Price c) Mary Wollstonecraft d) Edmund Cartwright
33. .......................is author of the plays The Good Natur’d Man (1768) and She Stoops
to Conquer (1773),
a) Oliver Goldsmith b) Richard Price c) Mary Wollstonecraft d) Edmund Cartwright
34.The French Revolution of .................. is the greatest event of the modern period.
a) 1789 b)1792 c)1794 d)1797
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35......................., a dissenting minister, delivered his lecture, ‘A Discourse on the
Love of Our Country’, in November 1789.
a) Richard Price b) Mary Wollstonecraft c) Edmund Cartwright d) Thomas Edison
36.The most famous work of ..................is ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’
(1790).
a) Edmund Burke b) Mary Wollstonecraft c) Thomas Paine d) Edmund Cartwright
37.A Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790) is the work of .......................
a) Lord Byron b) Thomas Painec) P. B. Shelley d) Mary Wollstonecraft
38. ‘The Rights of Man’ is the work of ..............
a) Thomas Paine b)William Wordsworth c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d)Robert
Southey b) Thomas Edison
39................. was a hugely influential Anglo-Irish politician and political thinker,
notable for his strong support for the American Revolution and his fierce opposition
to the French Revolution.
a) Thomas Carlyle b) Edmund Cartwright c) Thomas Edison d)Edmund Burke
40. "History is nothing but the biography of the Great Man" who said.
a) Alexander Graham Bell b) Edmund Cartwright c) Thomas Edison d) Thomas
Carlyle
41. The French Revolution: A History was written by...................
a) Thomas Carlyle b) Edmund Cartwright c) Alexander Graham Bell d) Thomas
Edison
42. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was a novel written by ....................
a) Charles Dickens b) Edmund Cartwright c) Alexander Graham Belld) Thomas
Edison
43. The ..................Romantic Movement began in 1798 with the publication of the
"Lyrical Ballads".
a) English b)French c)Spanish d)Dutch
44..................... earliest poetry was published in 1793 in the collections An Evening
Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
a) Wordsworth’s b) William Blake c) Edmund Cartwright d) Alexander Graham Bell
45.It was with Coleridge that ...................published the famous Lyrical Ballads in
1798.
a) Wordsworth b) William Blake c) Edmund Cartwright d) Jean Lenoir
46................... most famous work, The Prelude (1850), is considered by many to be
the crowning achievement of English romanticism.
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a) Shakespeare b) Edmund Cartwright c) Wordsworth’s d) Robert Owen
47.Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who,
with his friend ................; was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England.
a) William Wordsworth b) Kubla Khan c) Shakespeare d) Emerson
48.Among ..................best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don
Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the short lyric She Walks in Beauty.
a) Edmund Cartwright’s b)Tom Paine c)William Godwin d) Lord Byron's
49.In 1813, ...................published his first serious work, 'Queen Mab'.
a) P.B.Shelley b)William Godwin c)Mary Wollstonecraft d)John Keats.
50................. 'Ode to a Nightingale', are ranked among the greatest short poems in the
English language.
a) John Keats’ b) Thomas Hobbes c)John Locke d) F. Wilford
51................ was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia.
a) Charles Lamb b) Shakespeare c)Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) William Wordsworth
52.Sir Walter Scott was a .............historical novelist, playwright.
a) Scottish b) Australian c) American d)Indian
53.From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility , Pride and
Prejudice , Mansfield Park and Emma , .............achieved success as a published
writer.
a) Aristotle b) Jane Austen c) Niccolò Machiavelli d)Jean Bodin
54.The Spirit of Laws was written by ................
a)Montesquieu b)Hegel c) Karl Marx d) Rousseau
55.In the 20th century, Karl August Wittfogel; a ..............sociologist recovered the
term "Oriental despotism" in his provocative work Oriental Despotism in 1957.
a) Malaysian b) Chinese c) German d)British.
56.The civilizing mission was initially championed by French Republican political
leader .............................
a) Eric Stokes b) Jules Ferry c)Warren Hastings d)William Jones
57."The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the English poet ....................
a) Queen Victoria b) Rudyard Kipling c)François Bernier d)Jean Chardin,
58. The author of the popular book "Orientalism" is .................
a) Edward Said b) Jeremy Bentham c) John Stuart Mill d)John Locke
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59................ is the belief that lives need to be transformed through a “born-again”
experience and a lifelong process of following Jesus.
a) Conversionism b) Activism c) Crucicentrism d) Biblicism
60................. is the expression and demonstration of the gospel in missionary and
social reform efforts
a) Activism b) Biblicism c) Crucicentrism d) Conversionism
61...................... is a high regard for and obedience to the Bible as the ultimate
authority
a) Biblicism b) Crucicentrism c) Activism d) Conversionism
62...................... is a stress on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as making
possible the redemption of humanity.
a) Crucicentrism b) Biblicism c) Activism d) Conversionism
63....................... poem is "The White Man's Burden".
a) J.D. Peterson b) Sir William Jones c) Joseph Rudyard Kipling’s d) H.T. Colebrook
64.In 1784 the “Asiatic Society of Bengal” (Calcutta) was founded by
...................under the patronage of Warren Hastings.
a) Sir William Jones b)Sir Robert Chambers c) Sir John Shore d)H.H. Wilson
65. Societie Asiatique was formed in ..............in 1822.
a) Paris b) Calcutta c)Bombay d)Ceylon
66.The person credited for developing the four-field or four-crop rotation system was
...........................
a)Viscount Townshend b) James Watt c) Edmund Cartwright d) Samuel F. B.
67. one of the earliest developments in agricultural technology was the invention of
the seed drill by ..................... in 1701.
a) Jethro Tull b) James Watt c) Edmund Cartwright d) Robert Owen
68.In 1731 ..................published a book, 'The New Horse Hoeing Husbandry' detailing
his agricultural methods and equipment.
a) Jethro Tull b)Rev. Patrick Bell c) Cyrus H. McCormick d) James Watt
69.The self-polishing cast steel plough was invented by ................... a) John Deere
b)Robert Bake well c)Thomas Coke d) James Watt
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70. The earliest recorded use of the term "Industrial Revolution" seems to have been
written by French envoy .....................
a) Edmund Cartwright b) James Watt c) Louis-Guillaume Otto d) Robert Owen
71.In his 1976 book ‘A Vocabulary of Culture and Society’, ................ states in the
entry for "Industry":
a) James Watt b)Southey and Owen c)Wordsworth d) Raymond Williams
72.Credit for popularising the term ‘Industry’ may be given to ................., whose 1881
lectures gave a detailed account of the term
a) James Hargreaves b) James Watt c) Edmund Cartwright d) Arnold Toynbee
73.......................... developed the spinning jenny in 1764.
a) Samuel F. B.b) James Watt c) Edmund Cartwright d) James Hargreaves
74.................. created the first truly reliable steam engine in 1775.
a) James Watt b) Edmund Cartwright c) Robert Owen d) Samuel F. B.
75....................... invented the power loom in 1785.
a) Edmund Cartwright b) Robert Owen c) Samuel F. B. d) Elias Howe
76........................ patented the cotton gin (short for cotton engine) in 1794.
a) Eli Whitney b) Samuel F. B. C) Elias Howe d) Jean Lenoir
77. ............................Morse created the telegraph in 1836.
a) Alexander Graham Bell b) Elias Howe c) Jean Lenoir d) Samuel F. B.
78........................ created the sewing machine in 1844.
a) Elias Howe b)Isaac Singer c) Jean Lenoir c) Alexander Graham Bell d) Thomas
Edison
79...................... invented the internal combustion engine in 1858.
a) Jean Lenoir b) Alexander Graham Bell c) Thomas Edison d) Robert Owen
80.............................. created the telephone in 1876.
a) Henry Hetherington b) Thomas Edison c) Robert Owen d) Alexander Graham Bell
81.......................... created the phonograph in 1877.
a) Thomas Edison b) Robert Owen c) Henry Hetherington d) William Lovett
82.Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright created the first airplane in..............
a) 1903 b) 1905 c)1908 d)1923
83............................ wrote a book ‘Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867).
a) Karl Marx b)William Pitt c) Robert Owen d) Henry Hetherington
84.......................... is often termed the ‘father of British socialism’.
a) Robert Owen b) Henry Hetherington c)John Cleave d)James Watson
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85.In 1836 Cornish cabinet-maker .................formed the London Working Men’s
Association..
a) William Lovett b) Oliver Cromwell c) William III d) Robert Peel
86.With the help of Francis Place, ...............composed The People’s Charter
a) Robert Peel b) Oliver Cromwellc) William III d) William Lovett
87. After the English Civil War had established a protectorate under......................
a) Robert Peel b) William IIIc) Charles d) Oliver Cromwell
88.The Bill of Rights was enacted in.........................
a) 1689 b)1692 c)1685 d)1698
89.During the Glorious Revolution the two Whig and Tory parties cooperated in
discontinuing the Stuart dynasty and seating ................of Orange on the throne of
England.
a) William III b) Charles c)James Fox d) Robert Peel
90.The death of Queen Anne in ................. led her successor, George I Duke of
Hannover to the throne of England.
a) 1714 b)1718 c)1724 d)1734
91...................... is a policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic
affairs of individuals and society.
a) Globalisation b) Laissez-faire c)Communism d)Socialism
92.Jean-Baptiste Colbert, controller general of finance under King Louis XIV of
.........................
a)Britain b)France c)China d)USA
93.The doctrine of laissez-faire is usually associated with the ...........................known
as Physiocrats, who flourished in France from about 1756 to 1778.
a)Sociologists b) economists c)Historians d)Anthropologists
94.The British economist ................. wrote Principles of Political Economy (1848),
a) Adam Smith b) John Stuart Mill c) Turgot d) Robert Owen
95. .....................is known as the father of modern economics.
a) Adam Smith b)Voltaire c) Rousseau d) Quesnay
96. ..................produced ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations in 1776.
a) Adam Smith b)David Ricardo c) Sir Robert Peel d) Thomas Malthus
97.In 1810,..........................produced his first publication, The High Price of Bullion,
a Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Note, which argued for the use of metallic
currency.
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a) David Ricardo b)Thomas Malthus c) Charles Darwin d) Alfred Russell Wallace.
98.Methodism was an 18th-century movement founded by ........... that sought to
reform the Church of England from within.
a) John Wesley b)William Ewart Gladstone c) David Ricardo d) John Russell
99.Repeal of the Corn Act in ......................
a) 1846 b)1856 c)1866 d)1876
100................... produced ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations in 1776.
a) Queen Victoria b)Benjamin Disraeli c) Adam Smith d)Bismarckian.
Answer Key
1.a
2.a
3.a
4.a
5.a
6.a
7.a
8.a
9.a
10.a
11.a
12.d
13.b
14.a
15.d
16.b
17.a
18.d
19.b
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20.a
21.c
22.c
23.c
24.a
25.c
26.a
27.a
28.c
29.c
30.a
31.a
32.a
33.a
34.a
35.a
36.a
37.d
38.a
39.d
40.d
41.a
42.a
43.a
44.a
45.a
46.c
47.a
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48.d
49.a
50.a
51.a
52.a
53.b
54.a
55.c
56.b
57.b
58.a
59.a
60.a
61.a
62.a
63.c
64.a
65.a
66.a
67.a
68.a
69.a
70.c
71.d
72.d
73.d
74.a
75.a
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76.a
77.d
78.a
79.a
80.d
81.a
82.a
83.a
84.a
85.a
86.c
87.d
88.a
89.a
90.a
91.b
92.b
93.b
94.b
95.a
96.a
97.a
98.a
99.a
100.c
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