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British History MCQs, 2011 Paper
British History MCQs, 2011 Paper I.
(i) Robert Walpole playerd a prominent role in solving which major crisis?
a) The Potato Faminine
b) The Free Trade Debate
c) The South Sea Bubble 1720
d) The Seven Years War
e) None of these.
(ii) The first lord of Treasury was responsible for portfolio?
a) Naval / Fleet Affairs
b) Foreighn Affairs
c) Colonial Affairs
d) The Bank of
England
e) None of These.
(iii) The British upper House of Parliament comprised which group of people?
a) The Lord Temporal and Ecclesiastical
b) The Lord Imperial
c) The Businessmen and Industrialists
d) The Landlords
e) None of These.
Note:(Upper House consists of Lords Temporal and Lords Spiritual. These Lords Spirituals are also called Lord Ecclesiastical. )
(iv) Which of the following wars led to the collapse of the French miliotary threat to Britain?
a) The War of Roses
b) The 30 Years War
c) The Napoleonic Wars
d) The War of Austrian Succession
e) None of These.
(v) Adominion of Settelment reffrs to?
a) A territory conquered by the British
b) A territory colonised by the British
c) Aprotectrorate of the British
d) An Ally of the British
e) None of These.
(vi) The Glorious Revolution of 1688 is called "Glorious " because:
a) It led to the violent death of thousands of enemies of the constitutional monarcy
b) It achieved British Independent
c) It destroyed Catholic power in Britain
d) It placed Britain on the path of World Power Status
e) None of These.
(vii) The rise of France under Louis XIV threatened Britain primarily because:
a) France wanted to conquer England
b) Louis XIV was a diehard Catholic
c) Louis XIV wanted to dominate continental Europe
d) The French were pursuing a Great Game
e) None of These.
(viii) Britain is home to Adam Smith , the auther of which one of the following works ?
a) The Decline and Fall of Roman Empire
b) Force and Statecraft
c) The Povert of Nations
d) Das Kapital
e) None of These.
(Wealth of the Nations)
(ix) By joining anti-French Alliance between 1688 and 1815the British wanted to:
a) Ensure Prusian domination of Europe
b) Conquer France and turn it into a colont of the British Empire
c) Punish Austria
d) Maintain a balance of power in Europe
e) None of These.
(x) The British Empire was formally founded on :
a) June 15, 1215
b) Chrismas Day, 1688
c) New Year Day, 1815
d) Empire Day , 1800
e) None of These.
(xi) Colonial Policy Referes to:
a) Policy towards Europian Countries
b) Policy towards the balance of power
c) Policy towards overseas conquests, settelment and trade
d) Policy towards Communism
e) None of These.
(xii) Free Trade is :
a) A system of commercial exchange that is strictly regulated by governments
b) An economic policy that is based on minimal intereference in the working of internal and external markets
c) A system of government in which only wealth are allowed to vote
d) A global system for mobilizing resources to achieve humane goals
e) None of These.
(xiii) Industrialization began in Britain around what time period?
a) 1750 - 1800
b) 1800 - 1815
c) 1800 - 1850
d) 1825 - 1850
e) None of These.
(xiv) Catholic Emancipation occured inwhich year?
a) 1776
b) 1825
c) 1829
d) 1810
e) None of These.
(xv) The Reform Act of 1832 turned Britain into:
a) A constitutional monarchy
b) An egalitarian republic
c) A communis dictatorship
d) A more open parliamemtary oligarchy
e) None of These.
(xvi) William Lovett authered " The People's Charter" in:
a) 1832
b) 1838
c) 1836
d) 1840
e) None of These.
In 1837, six Members of Parliament and six working men, including William Lovett, (from the London Working Men's Association, set up in 1836) formed a committee, which then published the People's Charter in 1838.
(xvii) The Tories and Whigs were :
a) Rival Churches
b) Rival Pressure /groups
c) Rival Political Parties
d) Cmrades
e) None of These.
(xviii) Lord Palmerston was foreign secretary of England from :
a) 1830 - 1841
b) 1835 - 1842
c) 1800 - 1810
d) 1815 - 1820
e) None of These.
(xix) Queen Victoria Ascended the throne in:
a) 1836
b) 1837
c) 1838
d) 1839
e) None of These.
(xx) The French Commander of Expeditionary Forces in the Americal Revolution was :
a) Burgoyne
b) De Tocqueville
c) Marquis de Custine
d) Marquis de Lafayette
e) None of These.
British History MCQs, 2011 Paper I.
(i) The Crimean War involved which combination of countries:
a) Russia , France , UK
b) Russia , France , UK, Piedmont-Sardinia
c) Russia , France , Austria, Prusia, UK
d) Russia , UK, Prusia, Italy
e) None of These.
1853 - 1856 , This war was fought between Russian Empire on one side and France ,Ottoman Empire , British Empire and Kingdom of Sardinia on the other.
(ii) In 1851, the United Kingdom was described , on account of its industrialization
a) The Emporium of the World
b) The Shopkeeper the World
c) The Workshop the World
d) The Tyrant the World
e) None of These.
(iii) Disraeli and Gladstone were both:
a) Leaders of rival parties and Prime Ministers of Britain:
b) Leaders of Rival Parties
c) Failed Generals
d) Prime Ministers of Britain
e) None of These.
(iv) British global imperial supermacy before 1914 was based on:
a) Innate racial superiority and the Grace of God
b) Financial and Industrial strength , overseas colonies and a disciplined dictatorial government at home
c) Naval, Industrial and commercial strength, plus political and social stabilty at home.
d) Superiority of leadership
e) None of These.
(v) The Reform Act of 1867 extended voting right to:
a) Jews and Catholics
b) Women and Jews
c) All adult men
d) All male householders and rent-paying tenants
e) None of These.
(vi) The 1870 Education Act made :
a) Schooling up to grade 12 free and compulsory for all
b) Schooling for children aged 5 - 12 free for all poor law union ratepayers in countries and boroughs
c) Schooling for children aged 5 - 12 free and compulsory for all
d) Schooling for females was made compulsory at all levels
e) None of These.
(vii) The rise of Imperial Germany threatened Britain because :
a) Germany naval armament build up post 1898
b) Germany's cultural dominance over Europe
c) Germany's alliance with Russia and France
d) Germany's alliance with Italy and Japan
e) None of These.
(viii) The British Policy towards Russia in Middle East and Balkans was designed to :
a) Play the Great Game
b) Prevent Russia from reaching the Mediterranean
c) Punish Prussia for its aggression against China
d) Prevent Austria Hungry from implonding
e) None of These.
(ix) The British gained Egypt's share of ownership of the Suez Canal in :
a) 1875
b) 1888
c) 1900
d) 1935
e) None of These.
(x) Britain and France entered into what kind of alliance before World War I ?
a) Non-aggression pact
b) Mutual defence pact
c) Permanent military alliance
d) Strategic understanding and naval agreement
e) None of These.
(xi) During the 1910s and 1920s which third party emerged on British political scene?
a) The ultra conservatives
b) The Labour Party
c) The Liberal Party
d) The Imperial Party
e) None of These.
(xii) In 1928 voting rights were extended to
a) Jews and Blacks
b) Gypsies
c) Adult WomenReform Act 1832
d) Everybody over the age of 16
e) None of These.
(xiii) Lloyd George's was the British Prime Minister who :
a) Began creating a welfare state in the UK
b) Tried to convert UK into a confederation
c) Lost of the First World War
d) Defetaed Winston Churchil
e) None of These.
Note =He is best known as the highly energetic Prime Minister (1916–22) who guided the Empire through the First World War to victory over Germany and her allies. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered the world after the Great War. Lloyd George was a devout evangelical and an icon of 20th century liberalism as the founder of the welfare state
(xiv) The Policy of the 1930 government towards which countries was dubbed as "appeasement"
a) USSR, USA and Spain
b) Germany , Italy and Turkey
c) Japan Italy and Russia
d) Germany, France and Japan
e) None of These.
The policy was chiefly towards Germany and also towards Japan and Italy.
(xv) Winston Churchil served for how many terms as Prime Minister ?
a) 0
b) 2
c) 3
d) 1
e) None of These.
(xvi) Post - 1945 , the Labour Party formed the government having pledged to:
a) Create a one party state on the Soviet model
b) Legislate a comprehensive system of welafare
c) Win the Cold War
d) Develope Nuclear Weapon
e) None of These.
(xvii) In 1952, London suffered an environmental disaster due to:
a) Radiation
b) Toxic Smog build-up
c) Explosion in a major chemicals processing plant
d) Bad Weather
e) None of These.
Note:
Great Smog
The Great Smog of '52 or Big Smoke was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, during December 1952. It lasted from Friday 5 to Tuesday 9 December 1952, and then dispersed quickly after a change of weather. It gave an important impetus to the modern environmental movement.
(xviii) Euro - Skeptics are those who :
a) refuse to cooperate with European integration
b) Want to dismantle the European Union
c) Want to preserve British freedom of action on certain key issues
d) Refise ti accept Dutch domination of key European Union Committees
e) None of These.
Euroscepticism is a general term used to describe criticism of the European Union (EU), and opposition to the process of European integration, existing throughout the political spectrum.
(xix) The "special relationship " refers to the relationship between :
a) The UK and its former " Jewl in the Crown ", India.
b) The UK and Australia
c) The UK and Canada
d) The UK and USA
e) None of These.
Note:
The Special Relationship is a phrase used to describe the exceptionally close political, diplomatic, cultural, economic, military and historical relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. The term finds its use in a 1946 speech by British statesman Winston Churchill.
(xx) Thatcherism is
a) A critique of the welfare state that urges it is unsustainable and needs to be made more responsive to market forces
b) A strategic doctrine that call for the UK to to restore its empire
c) A gendr reform movement that calls for equal rights for women
d) A kind of Market socialism
e) None of These.
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