CBSE Class 10 Social Science The Making of A Global World MCQs Set C

Question: The geographical exploration in Africa was directly linked to:
a) Search for scientific information
b) Imperial projects
c) Vast land with rich resources
d) Labour to work for plantations in America
Answer: b

Question: The descendant of indentured workers who is a Nobel Prize-winning writer is:
a) Bob Morley
b) V. S. Naipaul
c) Amartya Sen
d) Ram Naresh Sarwan
Answer: b

Question: The main aim of the post-war international economic system was to:
a) Preserve economic stability
b) Maintain status
c) Increase export
d) Reduce war loans
Answer: a

Question: Railways were developed to link ports with:
a) Industries
b) Forest regions
c) Agricultural regions
d) Plantations
Answer: c

Question: Bretton Woods System was based on which type of rates?
a) Fixed
b) Floating
c) Base
d) Inflation
Answer: a

Question: What is meant by the ‘Silk Routes’?
a) Points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes travelling on the various routes
b) Import – export of silk
c) Asian routes used
d) Routes used in and out of Asia
Answer: a

Question: Rinderpest spread in Africa through:
a) Cattle
b) Birds
c) Humans
d) None of the options
Answer: a

Question: Where was the demand for labour more, that led to more migration?
a) Russia
b) America and Australia
c) Africa
d) Europe
Answer: b

Question: Later, which subcontinent became the centre of the world trade?
a) America
b) India
c) Africa
d) Europe
Answer: d

Question: Thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century due to:
a) Poverty and widespread deadly diseases
b) Natural calamity
c) Outbreak of a war among nations
d) Outbreak of plague
Answer: a

Question: Rinderpest is a:
a) Cattle disease in Africa
b) Cattle disease in China
c) Cattle disease in India
d) Cattle disease in Russia
Answer: a

Question: What brought many countries back into the fold of the world economy in the 20th century?
a) World Bank set new policies
b) Revolution of manufacturing for self in Asia
c) New economic policies in China and the collapse of the Soviet Union and Soviet-style communism
d) New Land and Industrial policies
Answer: c

Question: Foods like chillies, soya, potato etc., were introduced in Asia and Europe from:
a) Australia
b) New Zealand
c) America
d) Africa
Answer: c

Question: Who was a well-known pioneer of mass production in the US at the time?
a) Henry Ford
b) John Ford
c) David Ford
d) Michael Ford
Answer: a

Question: What were ‘Canal Colonies’?
a) Large Colonies
b) Sea Ports
c) Large Canals
d) Irrigated areas
Answer: d

Question: When the export of cotton textile to Britain declined, India did not lose much. Why?
a) Because demand for Indian cotton textile in America increased
b) Because South-East Asian countries welcomed Indian cotton textiles
c) Because India’s home market had adequate number of buyers for Indian textile
d) Because China opened a market for Indian textile
Answer: a

Question: What is NIEO?
a) New International Economic Order
b) New Indian Economic Order
c) New International Excise Order
d) New International Economic Ordinance
Answer: a

Question: Which disease travelled from Europe to America and was responsible for mass deaths of the original inhabitants of America?
a) Plague
b) Hay fever
c) Smallpox
d) Chickenpox
Answer: c

Question: What were the Corn Laws?
a) Laws to restrict the import of corn
b) Laws to restrict the export of corn
c) Laws to restrict the export and import of corn
d) None of the options
Answer: c

Question: What was the outcome of the Bretton Woods Conference? It led to the establishment of:
a) ILO (International Labour Organisation)
b) International Monetary Fund
c) UNESCO, 1945
d) FAO, 1945
Answer: b

Question: Britain had a ‘trade surplus’ with India. Britain used this surplus to balance its trade deficits with other countries – that is, with countries from which Britain was importing more than it was selling to. What is this system called?
a) Trade Surplus System
b) Deficit Balance System
c) Multilateral Settlement System
d) Trade Settlement System
Answer: c

Question: Which foods were introduced in Europe and Asia after Christopher Columbus discovered America?
a) Potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes
b) Meats
c) Wheat and rice
d) Seafood
Answer: a

Question: Which disease spread like wildfire in Africa in the 1890s?
a) Cattle plague
b) Small pox
c) Pneumonia
d) None of these
Answer: a

Question: Which was the fabled city of gold?
a) El Dorado
b) Mexico
c) Peru
d) Spain
Answer: a

Question: The Great Depression began in:
a) 1929
b) 1928
c) 1927
d) 1930
Answer: a

Question: In India, indentured labourers were hired under contracts which promised return travel to India after they had worked for _______ years on their employer’s plantation.
a) Ten
b) Three
c) Five
d) Two
Answer: c

Question: What was the use of cowries during the Indus Valley Civilization?
a) As a form of currency
b) As a means of transportation
c) As an instrument
d) As a toy
Answer: a

Question: In which country did the Great Depression start?
a) Britain, 1929
b) France, 1930
c) USA, 1929
d) Germany, 1929
Answer: c

Question: A large number of people in Europe died in the 1840s due to a disease that destroyed the:
a) Soya crop
b) Maize crop
c) Beet crop
d) Potato crop
Answer: d

Question: An industrial society based on mass production cannot be sustained without:
a) Export market
b) International market
c) Mass consumption
d) Mass disposal
Answer: c

Question: Who were the Axis powers in World War II?
a) Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy
b) Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
c) Germany, Italy, Ottoman Turkey
d) Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
Answer: a

Question: What did indentured labour mean?
a) Bonded Labour
b) Free Labour
c) Cheap Labour
d) None of the options
Answer: a

Question: Why were the Europeans attracted to Africa?
a) Due to its vast resources of land and minerals
b) Due to abundance of food crop
c) Due to abundance of labour
d) Due to abundance of oil
Answer: a

Question: What was the G-77?
a) Group of developed countries
b) Group of developing countries
c) Group of underdeveloped countries
d) Group of overdeveloped countries
Answer: b