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

Question: The gross value of trade that had passed through the port of Surat during 1740s was
a) Rs. 10 million
b) Rs. 7 million
c) Rs. 3 million
d) Rs. 5 million
Answer: c

Question: Which one of the following is the reason because of which upper classes in Victorian Britain preferred things produced by hand?
a) Handmade products came to symbolise refinement and class.
b) Machine made goods were costly.
c) Hand made products were very cheap.
d) The use of such articles meant social-status.
Answer: a

Question: Proto-industrialisation refers to
a) pre industrialisation
b) post industrialisation
c) period of industrialisation
d) modern period
Answer: a

Question: The demand for Indian cloths could never reduce. This was said in 1772 by
a) Warren Hastings
b) Lord Cornwallis
c) Henry Patullo
d) Adam Smith
Answer: c

Question: Which one of the following is the reason due to which company found it difficult to ensure goods supply to Europe in eighteenth century?
a) Company faced stiff competition from others in markets.
b) The clothes or goods were costly.
c) Company official were not efficient.
d) They were in short supply.
Answer: a

Question: Dinshaw Petit and Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata who were two important industrialists in India built huge industrial empires in
a) Madras
b) Kanpur
c) Bombay
d) Bengal
Answer: c

Question: The painting titled as ‘Houseless and Hungry’ was painted by
a) William Bell Scott
b) Samuel Luke Fildes
c) C. E Turner
d) M. Jackson
Answer: b

Question: In North India, the Elgin Mill was started in Kanpur in
a) 1870s
b) 1880s
c) 1860s
d) 1890s
Answer: c

Question: The Industrial revolution set in because of
a) The changes in the technique and organisation of production.
b) The developments in maritime activities.
c) The revolution in agriculture.
d) The acquisition of colonies.
Answer: a

Question: By 1873, Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about
a) £ 75 million
b) £74 million
c) £ 76 million
d) £77 million
Answer: d

Question: The East India Company consolidated its position in India after
a) 1740s
b) 1750s
c) 1760s
d) 1770s
Answer: c

Question: The most important function of the Jobber was
a) ensuring jobs to workers
b) dismissing the workers
c) exploiting the workers
d) controlling the life of the workers
Answer: a

Question: The people of Koshti community were skilled
a) ironsmiths
b) carpenters
c) weavers
d) cobblers
Answer: c

Question: J. N. Tata established the first Iron and steel works in India in
a) 1912
b) 1911
c) 1913
d) 1910
Answer: a

Question: In 1760s and 1770s, company servants complained about
a) Indian rulers
b) competition
c) high-handed treatment
d) supply and high prices
Answer: b

Question: The weavers of cotton textile faced problems due to the beginning of
a) Russian Revolution
b) French Revolution
c) American Civil War
d) Glorious Revolution
Answer: c

Question: The first Jute Mill in Calcutta was founded by
a) Dinshaw Petit
b) G.D. Birla
c) Seth Hukum Chand
d) Dwarkanath Tagore
Answer: c

Question: Which one is an appropriate Answer: that shows how factory differed from proto-industrialised scene?
a) Production increased
b) Workers gathered at one place
c) Careful supervision, watch over quality increased in mill
d) Trade unions formed
Answer: c

Question: Which of the following industrial towns is located on the Chhotanagpur Plateau?
a) Chennai
b) Ranchi
c) Srinagar
d) Sundernagar
Answer: b

Question: Which of the following two problems were faced by cotton weavers in India?
a) Export market collapsed and local market shrank
b) Decline in production and rise in cost
c) Short supply and decline in demand
d) Company officials treatment and governments apathy
Answer: a

Question: Who discovered the spinning jenny?
a) John Ke
b) Raphael Samuel
c) James Hargreaves
d) T.E. Nicholson
Answer: c

Question: Six joint stock companies were set during 1830s and 1840s by an Indian entrepreneur called
a) Jamsetjee Tata
b) Dwarkanath Tagore
c) Seth Hukumchand
d) Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy
Answer: b

Question: The beginning of Industrial Revolution in western countries started in
a) France
b) Russia
c) England
d) America
Answer: c

Question: British were able to claim monopoly after establishing
a) factory
b) political power
c) East India Company
d) judiciary
Answer: b

Question: The Movement launched by nationalists to boycott foreign cloth was the
a) Civil Disobedience Movement
b) Swadeshi Movement
c) Ahmedabad Mill Satyagraha
d) Non Co-operation Movement
Answer: b

Question: Koshti community lived in the
a) Central provinces
b) Bengal province
c) United province
d) Bombay province
Answer: a

Question: The industry in which the Spinning Jenny was first introduced was
a) Cotton industry
b) Paper industry
c) Woollen industry
d) Jute industry
Answer: c

Question: By 1850, the share of the total imported cotton piece goods in India was
a) 31%
b) 32%
c) 30%
d) 29%
Answer: a

Question: The first symbol of the new era was
a) cotton
b) iron
c) silk
d) steel
Answer: a

Question: The Elgin Mill was established in
a) Kanpur
b) Bombay
c) Bengal
d) Madras
Answer: a

Question: Monopoly right for trading in specific products was given to Guilds by
a) rulers
b) Church
c) Sarthavaha
d) trade unions
Answer: a

Question: How proto-industrialised economy did not differ from the factory system?
a) The producers were working within their family, not in factories
b) The number of workers were in few numbers
c) It was controlled by merchants
d) Merchants controlled the entire production
Answer: b

Question: James Watt, Newcomen and Mathew Boulton were associated with which one of the following technological innovations?
a) cotton mill
b) iron and steel
c) agriculture
d) steam engine
Answer: d

Question: Consider the following statements and choose the correct Answer: from the codes given below :
I. In Victorian Britain there was no shortage of human labour.
II. Gas works, breweries needed extra workers during the summer.
III. Ship building industry needed workers during the winter.
IV. Industrialists usually preferred hand labour seasonally.
(a) I, III and IV are correct.
(b) II and IV are correct.
(c) III and IV are correct.
(d) All are correct.
Answer: a

Question: Match the following and choose the Answer from the codes given below:

Column I (Dates)                Column II (Events)
(a) 1850                          (i) Factory production began
(b) 1860                          (ii) EIC control over production increased
(c) 1870                          (iii) Export market collapsed
(d) 1880                          (iv) Cotton supplies cut off from US
(a) A-(i), B-(ii), C-(iii), D-(iv)
(b) A-(ii), B-(iv), C-(iii), D-(i)
(c) A-(iv), B-(iii), C-(i), D-(ii)
(d) A-(ii), B-(i), C-(iii), D-(iv)
Answer: b

FILL IN THE BLANKS

Question: The process in which fibres, such as cotton or wool, are prepared prior to spinning is known as ___________.
Answer: Carding

Question: James Watt improved the steam engines produced by ___________.
Answer: Newcomen

Question: ___________ created the cotton mill.
Answer: Richard Arkwright

Question: The new industries could not easily displace ___________ industries.
Answer: traditional

Question: The era, when large scale industrial production was taking place but not with the help of factories is termed as ___________ .
Answer: proto-industrialisation

TRUE / FALSE

Question: Gas works and breweries were especially busy through the warm month.
Answer: False

Question: If you had a relative or a friend is a factory, you were less likely to get a job.
Answer: False

Question: The fear of unemployment made workers hostile to the introduction of new technology.
Answer: True

Question: Armenian and Persion merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, eastern and central Asia.
Answer: True

Question: The company appointed paid servants called the gomastha to supervise weavers.
Answer: True