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

Question: Which of the following was the main function of jobber, employed by the industrialists?
a) To collect money
b) To set up industries
c) To get a new recruit
d) To supply raw material
Answer: c

Question: Where was the first Indian jute mill set up?
a) Bengal
b) Bombay
c) Madras
d) Bihar
Answer: a

Question: What do you mean by ‘Gomastha’?
a) An officer of the Company who acted as a go-between the Company and Indian traders
b) An officer of the East India Company who looked after the textile trade
c) A paid servant of the Company who supervised weavers, collected supplies and examined the quality of the cloth
d) None of the options
Answer: c

Question: Surat and Hooghly were replaced with:
a) Bombay and Orissa
b) Bombay and Calcutta
c) Masulipatam and Calcutta
d) None of the options
Answer: b

Question: In which one of the following years did the first cotton mill in Bombay (Mumbai) come up?
a) 1854
b) 1855
c) 1862
d) 1874
Answer: a

Question: Which of the following was not a problem of Indian weavers at the early 19th century?
a) Shortage of raw material
b) Clashes with Gomasthas
c) Collapse of local and foreign market
d) Setting up of new factories
Answer: b

Question: Which one of the following European managing agencies did not control Indian industries?
a) Bird Heiglers and Company
b) Andrew Yule
c) Indian Industrial and Commerce Congress
d) Jardine Skinner and Company
Answer: c

Question: Who was the Staplers and Fullers?
a) Gathers cloth by pleating
b) Sorts wool according to its fibre
c) Both Gathers cloth by pleating and Sorts wool according to its fibre
d) None of the options
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following factories was considered as a symbol of new era in England in the late eighteenth century?
a) Iron and steel
b) Metal
c) Jute
d) Cotton
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following helped the spread of handloom cloth production?
a) Import duties
b) Government regulations
c) Technological changes
d) Imposition of export duties
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following helped the production of handloom cloth?
a) Imposition of export duties
b) Technological changes
c) Government regulations
d) Import duties
Answer: b

Question: What was “Spinning Jenny”?
a) A machine
b) A person
c) An industry
d) None of the options
Answer: a

Question: In the 17th century, merchants from towns in Europe moved to the countryside to:
a) supply money to peasants and artisans to persuade them to produce for international markets
b) persuade them to settle in towns
c) provide them with small workshops
d) stop them from working for other companies
Answer: a

Question: Why were workers in England hostile to machines and new technology?
a) They did not know how to use these
b) They feared that they would lose their jobs and livelihood
c) The workers were too poor to buy new machines
d) They were scared of machines
Answer: b

Question: Which one of the following was the job of the Gomastha?
a) Supervise weavers
b) Collect supplies
c) Examine the quality of the cloth
d) All of the options
Answer: d

Question: Where was the first cotton mill established?
a) Bombay
b) Ahmedabad
c) Kanpur
d) Madras
Answer: a

Question: The women in the woollen industry attacked the introduction of spinning jenny because
a) fear of unemployment made the women workers hostile to the introduction of new technology
b) the women did not know how to work the machine
c) the women depended on hand-spinning
d) All of the options
Answer: d

Question: Which of the following was a European managing agency?
a) Tata Iron and Steel Company
b) Andrew Yule
c) Elgin Mill
d) Birla industries
Answer: b

Question: Which among the following cities had trade links with South Asian ports?
a) Masulipatam and Hoogly
b) Masulipatam and Surat
c) Surat and Bombay (Mumbai)
d) None of the options
Answer: a

Question: Whom did the British government appoint to supervise weavers, collect supplies and examine the quality of cloth?
a) Jobber
b) Sepoy
c) Policeman
d) Gomastha
Answer: d

Question: Who among the following was usually employed by the industrialists to get new recruits?
a) Gomastha
b) Policeman
c) Sepoy
d) Jobber
Answer: d

Question: Where was the first cotton mill set up in India?
a) Ahmedabad
b) Kanpur
c) Bombay
d) Madras
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following helped the spread of handloom cloth production?
a) Import duties
b) Government regulations
c) Technological changes
d) Imposition of export duties
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following mechanical devices used for weaving, with ropes and pullies, helped to weave wide pieces of cloth?
a) Handloom
b) Powerloom
c) Fly Shuttle
d) Spinning Jenny
Answer: c

Question: In 1911, 67 percent of the large industries were located in which one of the following places in India?
a) Bengal and Bombay
b) Surat and Ahmedabad
c) Delhi and Bombay
d) Patna and Lucknow
Answer: a

Question: Which of the following were the pre-colonial ports of India?
a) Surat and Masulipatam
b) Madras and Hoogly
c) Madras and Bombay
d) Bombay and Hoogly
Answer: a

Question: Who established six joint stock companies in India during 1830–40?
a) Jamsedji Nusserwanjee Tata
b) Dinshaw Petit
c) Seth Hukumchand
d) Dwarkanath Tagore
Answer: d

Question: In Victorian Britain, the aristocrats and bourgeoisie preferred hand-made goods as:
a) they were cheap
b) they could be obtained easily
c) they were made of better material
d) they symbolised refinement and class
Answer: d

Question: Who among the following set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?
a) Seth Hukumchand
b) G.D. Birla
c) Jamsedjee Nusserwanjee Tata
d) None of the options
Answer: a

Question: Which of the following was not a problem of Indian weavers at the early 19th century?
a) Shortage of raw material
b) Clashes with Gomasthas
c) Collapse of local and foreign market
d) Setting up of new factories
Answer: b

Question: Which were the most dynamic industries in Britain during the 19th century?
a) Cotton and metal
b) Metal and sugar
c) Ship and cotton
d) Cotton and sugar
Answer: a