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Multiple choice medieval world history world history general knowledge

The king follows a policy of LAISSEZ FAIRE.

  1. non-interference

  2. full control

  3. severe punishment

  4. policy law
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

'Laissez-faire' is a French term meaning 'let do' or 'let go', used in economics and politics to describe a policy of non-interference by the government in the affairs of individuals or the economy.

Multiple choice medieval world history world history general knowledge

Which one of the following statements about Renaissance Humanist culture is NOT true?

  1. It slackened the control of religion over human life

  2. It believed that human nature was many-sided

  3. It was concerned with good manners

  4. It criticized material wealth, power and glory
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Renaissance humanism was a response to the utilitarian approach and what came to be depicted as the "narrow pedantry" associated with medieval scholasticism. Humanists sought to create a citizenry able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity and thus capable of engaging in the civic life of their communities and persuading others to virtuous and prudent actions. Much humanist effort went into improving the understanding and translations of Biblical and early Christian texts.

Multiple choice medieval world history world history general knowledge

Which one of the following statements about the Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) is correct?

  1. She declared that although citizens should have equal rights, they are not entitled to the same honours by the state

  2. She was a supporter of the Jacobin government

  3. She was jailed for treason by the National Assembly

  4. She declared that the nation is the union of woman and man
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Olympe de Gouges (7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She was an outspoken advocate against the slave trade in the French colonies in 1788. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality.

Multiple choice medieval world history world history general knowledge

Arrange the following inventions in the field of cotton Industry in chronological order (starting with the earliest).
$1.$ James Hargeaves' Spinning Jenny
$2.$ John Kay's Flying Shuttle
$3.$ Samuel Crompton's Mule
$4.$ Richard Arkwright's Water Frame.

  1. $1, 3, 4, 2$
  2. $2, 1, 4, 3$
  3. $4, 1, 3, 2$
  4. $2, 4, 1, 3$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Chronological order: John Kay's Flying Shuttle (1733), James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny (1764), Richard Arkwright's Water Frame (1769), and Samuel Crompton's Mule (1779). This matches sequence 2, 1, 4, 3.