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

Question: The country of Asia that retreated to isolation in the 18th century was
a) India
b) Japan
c) China
d) Indonesia
Answer: c

Question: The IMF and the World Bank commenced financial operations in
a) 1944
b) 1945
c) 1946
d) 1947
Answer: d

Question: In America, the mines of silver have been found in
a) Columbia and Sao Gabile
b) Hawaii and Alaska
c) Panama and San Francisco
d) Peru and Mexico
Answer: d

Question: The Great Depression happened during the period
a) 1929–1930s
b) 1929–1940s
c) 1929–1950s
d) 1929–1960s
Answer: a

Question: The region that played a crucial role in the trans-oceanic trade between Asia, Europe and America was
a) Maldives
b) Indian subcontinent
c) Africa
d) Indonesia
Answer: c

Question: Globalisation refers to
a) A political system
b) A social system
c) An economic system
d) A cultural system
Answer: c

Question: Pasta was taken by Arab traders to
a) Germany
b) China
c) Spain
d) Sicily
Answer: d

Question: The Bretton Woods system was based on the
a) Fixed exchange rate
b) NSY exchange rate
c) BSE exchange rate
d) National exchange rate
Answer: a

Question: The city that had been named as the Fabled City of Gold was
a) New York
b) Pretroika
c) El Dorado
d) New Jersey
Answer: c

Question: The Americas was discovered by
a) Vasco da Gama
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Fa Hien
d) Amerigo Vespucci
Answer: b

Question: The Second World War was fought during
a) 1919–1925
b) 1939–1945
c) 1945–1951
d) 1929–1935
Answer: b

Question: The number of ‘flows’ identified by economists in international economic exchanges was
a) Four
b) Three
c) Two
d) One
Answer: b

Question: Rinderpest arrived in Africa in
a) 1860s
b) 1870s
c) 1880s
d) 1890s
Answer: c

Question: To escape religious persecution, the people of Europe fled to
a) Africa
b) Australia
c) America
d) Asia
Answer: c

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

Question: Henry Ford developed his new car plant at
a) Cleveland
b) Las Vegas
c) Detroit
d) Pittsburg
Answer: c

Question: Trade with American continents developed in the
a) 14th century
b) 15th century
c) 16th century
d) 17th century
Answer: c

Question: In IMF and World Bank, the decisions are taken by
a) Developing nations
b) A joint council of developed and developing nations
c) Western industrial powers
d) Least developed nations
Answer: c

Question: Sicily at present is a part of
a) Germany
b) Italy
c) Spain
d) Britain
Answer: b

Question: In the plantations developed in America, the two chief crops grown were
a) Peanuts and sugar beet
b) Sugarcane and cotton
c) Rubber and coffee
d) Tea and coffee
Answer: b

Question: The First World War was fought during
a) 1919-1921
b) 1920-1925
c) 1914-1918
d) 1925-1932
Answer: c

Question: The most powerful weapon used by the Spanish conquerors for colonization of America was
a) special artillery
b) nuclear weapons
c) germs of Smallpox
d) chemical bombs
Answer: c

Question: The ‘flows’ within international economic exchanges that are identified by the economists are
a) flow of bullions, sea food and capital
b) flow of silk, slaves and capital
c) flow of trade, labour and capital
d) flow of capital, productive techniques and silk
Answer: c

Question: During 1845 to 1849, the Great Potato Famine spread in
a) Britain
b) Scotland
c) Ireland
d) Finland
Answer: c

Question: The pre-modern world shrank due to the discovery of
a) America
b) iron
c) sea route
d) steam engine
Answer: c

Question: A bonded labourer under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time, to pay off his passage to a new country or home is known as
a) slave
b) indentured labour
c) migrated labour
d) free labour
Answer: b

Question: The main demand of the group- Group of 77 was
a) to fix Australian dollar to be exchanged with gold
b) to have a new international economic order
c) to change the exchange rate system
d) to have a more fair system of decision making at the IMF
Answer: b

Question: The US became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some earlier colonies of
a) France
b) Portugal
c) Spain
d) Germany
Answer: c

Question: ‘Hosay’ refers to a
a) musical concert
b) riotous carnival
c) marriage ceremony
d) riligious function
Answer: b

Question: The first governor of Massachusetts Bay colony in New England was
a) James Windslay
b) Alfred Crosby
c) John Winthorp
d) M.W. Ridley
Answer: c

Question: Large number of people in Europe, died in 1840s due to a disease, which destroyed the
a) beet crop
b) maize crop
c) potato crop
d) soya crop
Answer: c

Question: The author of Ecological Imperialism is
a) John Winthorp
b) James Widslay
c) Alfred Crosby
d) M.W. Ridley
Answer: c

FILL IN THE BLANKS

Question: Many expeditions set off in search of __________ , the fabled city of gold.
Answer: EL Dorado

Question: It is believed that noodles travelled west from China to become __________.
Answer: Spaghatti

Question: In the big European powers met in to __________ complete the carving up of Africa between them.
Answer: 1885, Berlin

Question: __________ music, is a creative contemporary expression of the post indentured experience in Trinidad and Guyana.
Answer: Chutney

Question: In Africa, in 1890, a fast spreading disease of cattle plage or __________ had a terrifying impact on people’s livelihood.
Answer: Rinderpest

TRUE / FALSE

Question: The famous economist John Maynand Keynes thought that Indian gold exports promoted global economic recovery.
Answer: True

Question: The IWW transformed the US from being an international creditor to an international debtor.
Answer: False

Question: The assembly line forced workers to repeat a single task mechanically at a pace dictated by the coveyer belt. 
Answer: True

Question: During the first world war Allies-Britain, France and Russia fought against the central powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey.
Answer: True

Question: The Great Depression began around 1914 and ended till the mid 1930s.
Answer: False