JKSSB 10+2 History Lecturer - 100+ MCQs
81. The French Revolution began in the year:
A) 1776 B) 1789 C) 1799 D) 1815
Answer: B) 1789
82. Which class in France bore the burden of taxation before the French Revolution?
A) First Estate B) Second Estate C) Third Estate D) Clergy
Answer: C) Third Estate
83. The slogan of the French Revolution was:
A) One People, One Nation B) Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood C) Peace, Land, Bread D) Liberty,
Democracy, Secularism
Answer: B) Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood
84. Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor in:
A) 1800 B) 1804 C) 1815 D) 1799
Answer: B) 1804
85. The Battle of Waterloo was fought in:
A) 1799 B) 1804 C) 1812 D) 1815
Answer: D) 1815
86. The American Declaration of Independence was adopted in:
A) 1774 B) 1775 C) 1776 D) 1781
Answer: C) 1776
87. Who authored the American Declaration of Independence?
A) George Washington B) Benjamin Franklin C) Thomas Jefferson D) Abraham Lincoln
Answer: C) Thomas Jefferson
88. The Industrial Revolution first began in:
A) Germany B) France C) Britain D) USA
Answer: C) Britain
89. Which invention is associated with James Watt?
A) Telephone B) Light bulb C) Steam engine D) Printing press
Answer: C) Steam engine
90. The unification of Germany was completed in:
A) 1848 B) 1866 C) 1871 D) 1888
Answer: C) 1871
91. Who was the architect of German unification?
A) Frederick the Great B) Otto von Bismarck C) Napoleon III D) Garibaldi
Answer: B) Otto von Bismarck
92. The leader of Italian unification was:
A) Mazzini B) Cavour C) Garibaldi D) Victor Emmanuel II
Answer: C) Garibaldi
93. The Treaty of Versailles was signed after which war?
A) Crimean War B) World War I C) World War II D) Napoleonic Wars
Answer: B) World War I
94. The immediate cause of World War I was:
A) Invasion of Poland B) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand C) Treaty of Versailles D) Russian
Revolution
Answer: B) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
95. The League of Nations was established after:
A) World War I B) World War II C) Crimean War D) Cold War
Answer: A) World War I
96. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia took place in:
A) 1905 B) 1914 C) 1917 D) 1921
Answer: C) 1917
97. Who led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia?
A) Stalin B) Trotsky C) Lenin D) Nicholas II
Answer: C) Lenin
98. World War II began in the year:
A) 1937 B) 1939 C) 1941 D) 1945
Answer: B) 1939
99. Which country dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945?
A) Britain B) Soviet Union C) USA D) Germany
Answer: C) USA
100. The Cold War was primarily between:
A) USA and Germany B) USSR and China C) USA and USSR D) Britain and France
Answer: C) USA and USSR
101. Who is considered the father of modern historiography?
Answer: B) Leopold von Ranke
102. Which historian is known for historical materialism?
Answer: A) Karl Marx
103. Annales School focused on:
Answer: C) Social history
104. Author of 'History of the English Revolution':
Answer: C) Christopher Hill
105. Author of 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire':
Answer: A) Edward Gibbon
106. Historian who emphasized geography in history:
Answer: A) Fernand Braudel
107. 'Total history' concept by:
Answer: B) Marc Bloch
108. Known for 'History from below':
Answer: B) Howard Zinn
109. 'Rise and Fall of Great Powers' by:
Answer: D) Paul Kennedy
110. 'Historiography' means:
Answer: C) The study of how history has been written
111. Historian of Mauryan Empire:
Answer: A) A.L. Basham
112. Social history focuses on:
Answer: C) Lives of ordinary people
113. Marxist historian:
Answer: C) Eric Hobsbawm
114. 'History as lived experience' studied by:
Answer: B) Carlo Ginzburg
115. 'History is interaction between historian and past':
Answer: B) R.G. Collingwood
116. 'Longue Durée' concept by:
Answer: C) Fernand Braudel
117. 'History of the Russian Revolution' by:
Answer: B) Trotsky
118. 'Cultural Turn' in history means:
Answer: C) Study of symbols, ideologies
119. Popularized 'History from below':
Answer: B) E.P. Thompson
120. 'History of Madness' is a work on mentalities:
Answer: B) The History of Madness
