The Age of Industrialisation
Class 10
Complete MCQ's
Multiple Choice Select the option.
Correct Answer from the given
1) The earliest factories in England came up by the _____. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied.
a) 1760s
b) 1830s
c) 1730s
d) None of the above
Ans: (c)
2) The first symbol of the new era was ________. Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.
a) Cotton
b) Wool
c) Silver
d) Aluminium
Ans: (a)
3) ___________ created the cotton mill.
a) Orville Wright
b) Richard Arkwright
c) James Watt
d) None of the above
Ans: (b)
4) The production process (carding, twisting and spinning, and rolling) is associated with the production of _______.
a) Cotton
b) Ships
c) Railways
d) None of the above
Ans: (a)
5) Growing at a rapid pace, ________ was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s.
a) Shipping
b) Mineral industry
c) Cotton
d) None of the above
Ans: (c)
6) With the expansion of railways in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for ______ and _______ increased rapidly.
a) Iron and Steel
b) Jute and Cotton
c) Aluminium and Bauxite
d) Copper and Steel
Ans: (a)
7) By 1873, Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about £ 77 million, double the value of its ________export.
a) Meat
b) Cotton
c) Steam engines
d) None of the above
Ans: (b)
8) Ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in many _______ sectors such as _________.
a) Non-mechanised
b) Mechanised
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
Ans: (a)
9) Even at the end of the nineteenth century, ________ of the total workforce was employed in technologically advanced industrial sectors.
a) Less than 20 per cent
b) More than 80 per cent
c) Less than 70 per cent
d) More than 50 per cent
Ans: (a)
10) James Watt patented the new engine in _______.
a) 1791
b) 1581
c) 1681
d) 1781
Ans: (d)
11) Which of the following statements are true about Steam Engines?
a) At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were not more than 321 steam engines
all over England.
b) Mathew Boulton manufactured the new model of steam engines.
c) James Watt improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781.
d) All of the above.
Ans: (d)
12) __________ products came to symbolise refinement and class.
a) Machine Made
b) Handmade
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
Ans: (b)
13) ________ goods were for export to the colonies.
a) Handmade
b) Machine made
c) None of the above
d) Both (a) and (b)
Ans: (b)
14) Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from _________ dominated the international market in textiles.
a) India
b) Britain
c) China
d) France
Ans: (a)
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15) _______ and ______ merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, Eastern Persia and Central Asia.
a) Turkish and Persian
b) Armenian and Persian
c) Afghan and Persian
d) Chinese and Persian
Ans: (b)
16) ________ on the Coromandel Coast had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.
a) Calicut
b) Masulipatam
c) Mangalore
d) Paradip
Ans: (b)
17) _______ on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and the Red Sea Ports.
a) Okha
b) Porbandar
c) Surat
d) Kandla
Ans: (c)
18) Hoogly in _______ had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.
a) Maharashtra
b) Gujarat
c) Orissa
d) Bengal
Ans: (d)
19) As Surat and Hoogly ports in India decayed, _____ and _____ ports grew in India.
a) Bombay and Calcutta
b) Madras and Bombay
c) Calcutta and Madras
d) Masulipatnam and Calcutta
Ans: (a)
20)Who among the following produced a popular music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the Dawn of the Century? [CBSE Sept. 2011, 2012]
(a) New Comen
(b) E.T. Paull
(c) James Watt
(d) Mathew Boulton
Ans. (b)
21) Who created the cotton mill ? (CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Richard Arkwright
(b) Williams
(c) Newcomen
(d) James Watt
Ans. (a)
22)Which of the following were the most dynamic industries of the Great Britain ? [CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Cotton and Sugar Industry
(b) Cotton and Metal Industry
(c) Metal and Agro-based Industry
(d) Ship and Cotton Industry
Ans. (b)
23)The introduction of which new technology in England angered women ? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]
(a) The spinning jenny.
(b) The underground railway.
(c) The steam engine.
(d) None of these.
Ans. (a)
24)When was the first cotton mill established in Bombay ?CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011)
(a) 1854
(b) 1855
(c) 1857
(d) 1856
Ans (a)
25) Dwarkanath Tagore is a ....[CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Industrialist
(b) Social Reformer
(c) Painter
(d) Philosophe
Ans(a)
26)Who was a jobber ?[CBSE Sept. 2011]
(a) A person employed played by the industrialist to get new recruits.
(b) A person emploved by the farmers to sell their products.
(c) A person, who was doing the most important job in a factory.
(d) A paid servant of the East India Company.
Ans (a)
27)How does advertisement help us to create new consumer ?[CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) It makes product appear desirable and necessary.
(b) They try to shape the minds of people and create new needs.
(c) It helps in expanding the markets for products.
(d) All of the above.
Ans. (d)
28)Which among the following is associated with Gomasthas?[CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Trader
(b) Businessman
(c) Unpaid Servant
(d) Supervisor appointed by the company.
Ans(d)
29)Who among the following set up the first Indian Jute Mill in Calcutta in 1917?
[CBSE Sept. 2010)
(a) Seth Hukumchand
(b) G.D. Birla
(c) Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
30) Which one of the following was the job of Gomastha ?[CBSE Sept. 201O]
(a) Supervise weavers (b) Collect supplies
(c) Checking quality (d) All the above
Ans. (d)
31) In 1911, 67 per cent of the large industry were located in one of the following place in India : [CBSE Sept. 2011
(a) Bengal and Bombay
(b) Surat and Ahmedabad
(c) Delhi and Bombay
(d) Patna and Lucknow
Ans.(a)
32) When did the exports of British cotton good increase dramatically ? [CBSE Sept. 2011
(a) In the early 17th century
(b) In the early 18th century
(c) In the early 19th century
(d) In the early 20th century
Ans. (c)
33). What was "Spinning Jenny'" ?[CBSE Sept. 2011
(a) A machine
(b) An industry
(c) A person
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
34) Which of the following were the Pre-Colonial ports of India ? [CBSE Sept. 2011)
(a) Surat and Masulipatnam
(b) Madras and Hoogly
(c) Madras and Bombay
(d) Bombay and Hoogly
Ans. (a)
35) The Nationalists message of Swadeshi was spread through :
(a) Tariffs
(b) Force
(c) Advertisements
(d) Low Prices
Ans. (c)
36)When did the earliest factories England ? [CBSE Sept. 2011]
(a) In 1720s
(b) In 1740s
(c) In 1730s
(d) In 1750s
Ans. (c)
37) Khostis were: [CBSE Sept. 2012]
(a) a community of weavers
(b) weavers
(c) cotton weavers
(d) landless laboures
Ans. (a)
38) At which place from the following the first spinning and weaving mill was set up in 1874 ?[CBSE Sept. 2011]
(a) Kanpur
(b) Madras (Chennai)
(c) Ahmedabad
(d) Bombay (Mumbai)
Ans. (b)
39) Why did the women working in the woollen textile industry begin attacking the Spinning Jenny ? [CBSE Sept. 2011)
(a) It caused them unemployment
(b) They could not operate the machine
(c) It did not produce finer yarn
(a) They were scared of the machine
Ans. (a)