Q33: GOA Prelims 2021 Screening Test: Previous Year Question with Answer

In the time of Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany, Stoeffler, a noted mathematician, and astronomer, a man of great learning, made an astronomical calculation according to the great science of Astrology, and ascertained that the world was to be visited by another deluge. This prediction was absolutely believed by the leading men of the Empire not only, but all of Europe…Thousands of people left their homes in low lands, by the rivers, and near the sea, and sought the more elevated ground. People in some instances abandoned the aged, the sick, and the infirm to the tender mercies of the expected flood, so anxious were they to reach some place of security. The “Emperor of Germany “ mentioned in the passage was_______