0 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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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
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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.)