CBSE Class 10 Social Science The Age of Industrialization MCQs Set C

Question: Who established the first jute mill in India?
a) Seth Hukumchand
b) Dinshaw Petit
c) Dwarkanath Tagore
d) Jamshedjee Tata
Answer: a

Question: The first Asian country to be industrialized was –
a) India
b) Japan
c) China
d) Afghanistan
Answer: a

Question: What is Yarn?
a) Cotton
b) Thread
c) Wool
d) Bread
Answer: b

Question: Which among these was a pre-colonial sea port?
a) Hoogly
b) Vishakhapatnam
c) Chennai
d) Cochin
Answer: a

Question: What was the fly shuttle used for?
a) Weaving
b) Washing
c) Drying
d) Sowing
Answer: a

Question: Dwarkanath Tagore is a
a) Industrialist
b) Painter
c) Publisher
d) Social Reformer
Answer: a

Question: Who devised the Spinning Jenny?
a) James Hargreaves
b) Samual Luck
c) Richard Arkwright
d) James Watt
Answer: a

Question: When was the telephone invented?
a) 1876
b) 1885
c) 1976
d) 1776
Answer: a

Question: When was the first cotton mill established in Bombay?
a) 1854
b) 1856
c) 1880
d) 1891
Answer: a

Question: Which of the following best defines a Jobber?
a) Employed by industrialists to get new recruits
b) Old trusted worker
c) Person of authority and power
d) Controlled lives of workers
Answer: a

Question: When was the first cotton mill set up in India?
a) 1814
b) 1824
c) 1854
d) 1864
Answer: c

Question: First country to undergo industrial revolution is
a) Britain
b) Japan
c) Germany
d) France
Answer: a

Question: Which one is the flourishing industry of England?
a) Iron and steel industry
b) Cotton industry
c) Jute industry
d) I.T
Answer: a

Question: Who invented the spinning Jenny?
a) Seth Hukumchand
b) James Renell
c) James Mill
d) James Hargreaves
Answer: d

Question: What was the fly shuttle used for?
a) Washing
b) Weaving
c) Drying
d) Sowing
Answer: b

Question: The paid servants of the East India Company were
a) Seth
b) Mamlatdar
c) Gomastha
d) Lambardar
Answer: c

Question: Guilds were associations of –
a) Producers
b) Industrialization
c) Exporters
d) Traders
Answer: a

Question: Which one was the pre-colonial port where sea trade was carried on?
a) Calcutta
b) Bombay
c) Orissa
d) Sura
Answer: d

Question: The machine age in India started in –
a) 1850
b) 1950
c) 1900
d) 1890
Answer: a

Question: Two most dynamic industries of Britain in the early nineteenth century
a) Iron & Steel
b) Cotton & Steel
c) Iron & Metal
d) Cotton & Metal
Answer: d