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CSS Past Papers 2008
British History - 2
1.
Who was the author of “Treatise on civil Governments”?
a) John Locke
b) None of these
c) Hobbes
d) Filmer
2.
Who was the Prime Minister of England during the War of Jenkin’s Ear?
a) Pitt the elder
b) Pitt the younger
c) Walpole
d) none of these
3.
War of Austrian Succession ended in 1748 by the treaty of?
a) Aix-la-Chapele
b) Paris
c) London
d) None of these
4.
Who was appointed as Prime Minister after Pitt the elder resigned in 1761?
a) Wellington
b) None of these
c) Walpole
d) Bute
5.
Who was known as the “Drill Sergeant” of the Whig Party?
a) Peel
b) Gladstone
c) Disraeli
d) None of these
6.
What was the amount of the annual pension of Walpole when he resigned in 1742?
a) None of these
b) 8000 pounds
c) 4000 pounds
d) 6000 pounds
7.
The national debt of England in 1721 was?
a) 55 million pounds
b) 51 million pounds
c) 53 million pounds
d) none of these
8.
Walpole died in?
a) 1741 A.D
b) None of these
c) 1745 A.D (March 18th)
d) 1743 A.D
9.
The seven years war came to an end by the treaty of?
a) Paris
b) London
c) None of these
d) Brunswick
10.
Edmund Burke became a member of British Parliament in?
a) December 1765
b) 1766
c) 1768
d) 1764
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