R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | CBES Board Class 11 MCQ for Class 11 History Set-2

Genghis Khan mother name was:

1. Oelun-leke
2. Oelun-eke
3. Oelun-Kiyat
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Through the 1180s and 1190s, Temujin (Genghis Khan) remained an ally of

1. Boghurchu
2. Jamuqa
3. Kereyits
4. Ong Khan

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What was known as the yam?

1. Courier system
2. Army system
3. Cavalry system
4. Administration system

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In the 3rd century BCE in China, the fortifications started to be integrated into a common defensive outwork, known as the

1. Great Wall of China
2. Humen Weiyuan Fort of China
3. Taku Forts of China
4. Wanping Castle of China

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why were the Mongols defeated by the Egyptian army?

1. Because Mongol rulers began to take more interest in China
2. Because the Mongol army was less equipped
3. Because Mongols were less developed
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The childhood name of Genghis Khan was:

1. Morin Khuur
2. Nominjin
3. Temujin
4. Tamujin

✅ Correct Answer: 3

During Genghis Khan’s attempt to conquer China, North China was ruled by

1. Hsi Hsia
2. Jurchen
3. Sung dynasty
4. Ogodei

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why Genghis Khan commanded to plunder and destroy Nishapur.

1. Because a Mongol prince was killed
2. Because Nishapur refused to export agricultural produce
3. Because they were developing industries
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Mongols travelled with their herds to pasture lands and lived in tents called:

1. Anda
2. Gers
3. Noyan
4. Yasa

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Why was the Great Wall of China built?

1. To store grains
2. For the protection of China
3. To export materials
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Mongols imported _______ from China.

1. Cotton
2. Crude Oil
3. Coffee
4. Iron Utensils

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Timur, a Barlas Turk who rose to power between 1370-1405 CE, claimed descent from Genghis Khan, through the lineage of:

1. Chaghtay
2. Toluy
3. Jochi
4. Ogedei

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Monks who moved from one place to another, preaching to the people and living on charity. These monks were known as ______

1. Manor
2. Friars
3. Tithe
4. Serfs

✅ Correct Answer: 2

We see the rise of absolute monarchy in Europe in the

1. 15th & 16th centuries
2. 13th & 14th centuries
3. 12th & 13th centuries
4. 16th & 17th centuries

✅ Correct Answer: 1

There was a growing uncertainty about the value and purpose of monasticism by the

1. thirteenth century
2. fourteenth century
3. fifteenth century
4. sixteenth-century

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What were Cathedral towns?

1. Towns developed around plains
2. Towns developed around Churches
3. Towns developed around industries
4. Towns developed around Capital

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The land granted by the lord to the knights was called:

1. Fief
2. Feud
3. Seigneur
4. Manor

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A guild was an association of

1. monks
2. farmers
3. craft and industry
4. lords

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The king who was declared the Holy Roman Emperor was

1. Charlemagne
2. Louis I
3. Louis II
4. Louis III

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The first king who was declared the ‘Holy Roman Emperor’ was

1. Charlemagne
2. Louis I
3. Louis II
4. Louis III

✅ Correct Answer: 1

One of the gradual changes that affected the social and economic ties between the lords and the vassals was

1. agricultural technology
2. environment
3. land use
4. new towns

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who was William I?

1. Duke of Normandy
2. Duke of Exeter
3. Duke of Somerset
4. Duke of Darlington

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to French priests, the basis of classification among the three orders was

1. education
2. race
3. wealth
4. nature of work

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Fertile land was known as _____

1. Franks
2. Gaul
3. Manor
4. Fief

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The knight was given a piece of land by the lord. This piece of land was called _______

1. Franks
2. Toll
3. Manor
4. Fief

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Church was given the right to take one-tenth of the total produce of the peasant over the course of a year which was called a _____

1. Taille
2. Toll
3. Tithe
4. Franks

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Ibn Rushd was an Arab philosopher of _____

1. France
2. Germany
3. Britain
4. Spain

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The painting ‘Mona Lisa’ was made by

1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. Michelangelo
3. Raphael
4. Donatello

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The author of the book ‘The Prince’ is

1. Lorenzo Valla
2. Gutenberg
3. Machiavelli
4. Alberti

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Ptolemy’s Almagest was work on ______

1. Mathematics
2. Astronomy
3. Philosophy
4. Sociology

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The earliest universities in the European continent were set up in the country of

1. France
2. Germany
3. Italy
4. England

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The families that gave more importance to women during the 15th century were those of

1. aristocrats
2. artists
3. merchants
4. scholars

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In Arabic, the person who was known as ‘Aflatun’ was

1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Dante
4. Ceasar

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Renaissance is best known for its

1. cultural developments
2. social developments
3. political developments
4. economic developments

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Andreas Vesalius was a professor of _____ at the University of Padua.

1. Medicine
2. Astronomy
3. Philosophy
4. Mathematics

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The opening of trade between Europe and China started in the

1. 9th century
2. 10th century
3. 11th century
4. 12th century

✅ Correct Answer: 4

By the early fifteenth century, ______ was used for those masters who taught grammar, poetry, rhetoric, history, and moral philosophy.

1. literates
2. humanists
3. authors
4. writers

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When Renaissance occurred in Europe?

1. 11th century
2. 13th century
3. 15th century
4. 16th century

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Petrarch was given the title of Poet Laureate in Rome in

1. 1341
2. 1342
3. 1343
4. 1344

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who built roads through mountains from Ecuador to Chile.

1. German
2. Incas
3. Maya
4. Aztecs

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When Christopher Columbus reached the islands of Cubanascan, he mistook it for

1. Andaman
2. Australia
3. Japan
4. Malaysia

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who destroyed the Inca civilization?

1. German
2. British
3. Spanish
4. French

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In 1519, the group that was trying to secede from the Aztec rule of king Montezuma was

1. Castillo
2. Malinchista
3. Tlaxcalans
4. Totonacs

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The first formal Portuguese capital in South America was

1. Salvador
2. Cuba
3. Bahamas
4. Bahia/Salvador

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The magnetic compass, used in explorations, had been known since

1. 1377
2. 1378
3. 1379
4. 1380

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The civilization which was politically less powerful than the Aztecs in Mexico was

1. Arawaks
2. Caribs
3. Incas
4. Mayas

✅ Correct Answer: 4

_______ was the science of mapping the universe.

1. Cosmography
2. Cartography
3. Calligraphy
4. Pictography

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The ruler who ascended the throne after a civil war was

1. Atahualpa
2. Cuatemoc
3. Montezuma
4. Manco Capac

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who made Chinampas, artificial islands in Lake Mexico.

1. Cuatemoc
2. Tupinambas
3. Aztecs
4. Agnocists

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Aztecs got power when they destroyed the power of ______

1. Montezuma
2. Incas
3. Maya
4. Toltecs

✅ Correct Answer: 4