CBSE Class 10 Social Science The Making of A Global World Important Questions Set B

Objective Type Questions

Question. These are a good example of vibrant pre modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world :
(a) Spaghetti and potato
(b) Silk routes
(c) Conquest and disease
(d) Dandi March
Answer: b

Question. These were among the world’s richest countries until well into the eighteenth century :
(a) Japan and America
(b) Singapore and Taiwan
(c) Germany and Britain
(d) China and India
Answer: d

Question. Indentured labour migration was abolished in :
(a) 1919
(b) 1920
(c) 1921
(d) 1930
Answer: c

Question. The First World War was fought between :
(a) Allies and Central Powers
(b) Allies and Axis Powers
(c) Japan and America
(d) China and India
Answer: a

Question. The Great Depression began around :
(a) 1919
(b) 1921
(c) 1929
(d) 1950
Answer: c

Question. The Bretton Woods Conference established the :
(a) Quit India Movement
(b) Indian textile industries
(c) Silk routes
(d) International Monetary Fund
Answer: d

Question. The IMF and the World Bank commenced financial operations in :
(a) 1923
(b) 1929
(c) 1930
(d) 1947
Answer: d

Question. This was the world’s first mass-produced car :
(a) T-Model Ford
(b) Hindustan Ambassador
(c) Chevrolet
(d) Mitsubishi
Answer: d

Question. A fast-spreading disease of cattle plague having a terrifying impact on people’s livelihood and the local economy in Africa in the 1890s :
(a) Spaghetti
(b) Rinderpest
(c) Rastafarianism
(d) G-77
Answer: b

Question. The prices of meat increased after the introduction of refrigerated ships. (True/False)
Answer: False

Question. After the ‘Corn Laws’ were scrapped, food could be imported into Britain more cheaply than it could be produced within the country. (True/False)
Answer: True

Question. Nineteenth century indenture has been described as a ‘new system of slavery’. (True/False)
Answer: True

Question. The US became a colonial power in the eighteenth century. (True/False)
Answer: False

Question. The silk routes are known to have existed since before the Christian era and thrived almost till the eighteenth century. (True/False)
Answer: False

Question. Match the following :
1. Global Economy | (A) 1890
2. First World War | (B) 1939
3. Great Depression | (C) 1914
4. Second World War | (D) 1944
5. Bretton Woods Conference | (E) 1929
Answer: 1. (A), 2. (C), 3. (E), 4. (B), 5. (D)

Question. Which of the following option best depicts the above image?
(a) Female working for food
(b) Child labour
(c) The Irish Potato Famine
(d) Poverty in Europe
Answer: c

Question. Complete the following :
Several silk routes helped in linking Asia with___.
Answer: Europe and northern Africa.

Question. Noodles: China, Pasta: Italy, Potato: _______ .
Answer: Americas

Question. Arrange the followings in the correct sequence:
(i) Rinderpest arrived in Africa
(ii) Rise of mass production and consumption in USA
(iii) The Great Depression
(iv) Bretton Woods Agreement
(a) (ii)-(i)-(iii)-(iv)
(b) (i)-(ii)-(iii)-(iv)
(c) (i)-(iii)-(ii)-(iv)
(d) (iii)-(i)-(ii)-(iv)
Answer: b

Question. Complete the following table:
America | Discovered by | First European country to conquer
? | ? | ?
Answer: Christopher Columbus | Spain

Question. Correct following statement and rewrite :
Along the route, the Buddhist preachers, Christian missionaries and later on, Japanese preachers travelled.
Answer: Along the routes the Buddhist preachers, Christian missionaries and later on Muslim preachers travelled.

Question. Identify the person with the help of following features:

• He was a journalist and explorer
• He was sent to Africa by the New York Herald
• His explorations helped to conquer Africa

Answer: Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Very Short Answer Type Questions

Question. What were ‘Silk Routes’ ?
Answer: Silk routes were dynamic pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world.

Question. What kind of cultural exchanges were made through ‘Silk Route’ ?
Answer: ‘Silk Route’ was a popular network as it was frequented by the Christian missionaries, Muslim and Buddhist preachers.

Question. Who forced the government to abolish Corn Laws ?
Answer: Industrialists and urban dwellers compelled the government to abolish Corn Laws.

Question. What was Paper Partition ?
Answer: In 1885, the major European powers assembled in Berlin to divide the countries of Africa between them. This event was called Paper Partition.

Question. Which important inventions transformed nineteenth century world ?
Answer: The railways, steamships and the telegraph were the significant inventions that transformed the nineteenth century world.

Question. How did Rinderpest reach Africa ?
Answer: Rinderpest was borne by infected cattle imported from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers in East Africa.

Question. What was Rastafarianism ?
Answer: Rastafarianism meant a protest religion that reflected social and cultural connections with Indian emigrants in the Caribbean region.

Question. Who was indentured labourer ?
Answer: Indentured labourer signifies a ‘bonded labourer’ who obtained contract to work for an employer for a particular period of time.

Question. Why were indentured labourers hired from India and China ?
Answer: In the nineteenth century, thousands of Indians and Chinese labourers were hired to work on plantations, mines, and roads and railways construction projects as indentured labourers.

Question. Why was Britain burdened with huge external debts after World War-I ?
Answer: Britain was encumbered with huge external debts as it had to finance war expenditures that Britain had borrowed liberally from the U.S.

Question. Who were Shikaripuri Shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiars ?
Answer: Shikaripuri Shroffs and Nattukottai Chettiars represented banking and trading groups who financed export agriculture in Central and Southeast Asia.

Question. How did British manage opium trade with China ?
Answer: British produced opium in India and exported it to China. Based on the money earned through the sale, it financed its tea and other imports from China.

Question. What was economic depression ?
Answer: The Great Depression started in 1929 that led to a massive decline in production, employment, incomes and trade.

Question. How were jute producers of Bengal affected by the economic crisis ?
Answer: Due to economic crisis, the price of raw jute declined by more than 60 per cent as gunny bags exports collapsed.

Question. Name the two hostile groups of Second World War. 
Answer: Axis Powers : Germany, Italy and Japan.
Allied Powers : France, Britain, USSR, USA, China.

Assertion and Reasoning Based Questions

Mark the option which is most suitable :
(a) If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
(b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.
(c) If assertion is true but reason is false.
(d) If both assertion and reason are false.

Question. Assertion : There was a collapse of the system of fixed exchange rates and the introduction of a system of floating exchange rates.
Reason : From the 1960s, the rising costs of its overseas involvements weakened the US’s finances and competitive strength. It could not command confidence as the world’s principal currency.
Answer: a

Question. Assertion : The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of Antarctica was decisively under way by the mid-sixteenth century.
Reason : The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors was the germs such as those of Swine Flu that they carried on their person.
Answer: d

Question. Assertion : The railways, steamships, the telegraph were important inventions which transformed the nineteenth-century world.
Reason : Colonisation stimulated new investments and improvements in transport.
Answer: a

Question. Assertion : ‘Chutney music’, popular in Trinidad and Guyana, is another creative contemporary expression of the post-indenture experience.
Reason : Some of the Naipaul’s early novels capture their sense of loss and alienation.
Answer: b

Question. Assertion : Over the nineteenth century, British manufacturers flooded the Indian market.
Reason : The value of Indian exports to Britain was much higher than the value of British imports to India.
Answer: c

Question. Assertion : The First World War involved the world’s leading industrial nations which harnessed the vast powers of modern industry to inflict the greatest possible destruction of enemies.
Reason : It was the first modern industrial war, which saw the use of robots and satellites on a massive scale.
Answer: c

Question. Assertion : When the supply of wheat was disrupted during the First World War, wheat production in Canada, America and Australia expanded dramatically.
Reason : Before the First World War, Asia was a major supplier of wheat in the world market.
Answer: c

Question. Assertion : During the Great Depression, agricultural regions and communities were worst affected.
Reason : The fall in agricultural prices was greater and more prolonged than that in the prices of industrial goods.
Answer: a