Modern History - MCQs with answers - Part 4

Modern History - MCQs with answers - Part 4


1. When did the British establish colonies in Australia?

a) 1788
b) 1840
c) 1872
d) 1814

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ANSWER: a) 1788

The British established the penal colony of New South Wales.



2. When did the British establish colonies in New Zealand?

a) 1814
b) 1840
c) 1872
d) 1830

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ANSWER: b) 1840

William Hobson made declarations of British sovereignty over the islands of New Zealand.



3. Who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War?

a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Jefferson Davis
c) Robert E. Lee
d) Stonewall Jackson

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ANSWER: b) Jefferson Davis

Jefferson served six years as a lieutenant in the United States Army.



4. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

a) Abraham Lincoln
b) George Washington
c) John F. Kennedy
d) William Wallace Lincoln

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ANSWER: a) Abraham Lincoln

The Reconstruction Era began with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.



5. When did Congress pass the Sherman Antitrust Act?

a) 1890
b) 1911
c) 1900
d) 1872

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ANSWER: a) 1890

It is the source of all American anti-monopoly laws.



6. When did Xinhai Revolution occur?

a) 1872
b) 1900
c) 1911
d) 1912

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ANSWER: c) 1911

This revolution established the Republic of China.



7. Who wrote "On the Geneology of Morals"?

a) Friedrich Nietzsche
b) Immanual Kant
c) Karl Marx
d) Sigmund Freud

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ANSWER: a) Friedrich Nietzsche

He argues that human rights exist as a means for the weak to collectively constrain the strong.



8. Who is renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire?

a) Carl Jung
b) Friedrich Nietzsche
c) Jacques Lacan
d) Sigmund Freud

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ANSWER: d) Sigmund Freud

He was known as the father of psychoanalysis.



9. Who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"?

a) Auguste Comte
b) Charles Darwin
c) Emile Durkheim
d) Herbert Spencer

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ANSWER: d) Herbert Spencer

"Survival of the fittest" originated in evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection.



10. Who wrote the article "The Gospel of Wealth"?

a) Andrew Carnegie
b) Cornelius Vanderbilt
c) Dale Carnegie
d) Napoleon Hill

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ANSWER: a) Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.


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