The Making of the Global world
Class 10
complete MCQ's
Multiple Choice Questions: Select the Correct Answer from the given option.
1. Which one of the following did not travel along the silk routes in the pre-modern world?[CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Christian missionaries
(b) Traders
(c) Tourists
(d) Muslim preachers
Ans. (c)
2. Who discovered America? [CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011]
(a) Christopher Columbus
(b) Martin Luther
(c) Marco Polo
(d) William I
Ans. (a)
3.Which was the most powerful weapon used by the Spanish to conquer America?
[CBSE Sept. 2012]
(a) Navy
(b) Military
(c) Germs
(d) None of the above
And.(c)
4.What is Rinderpest ?[CBSE Sept. 2012]
(a) a person
(c) a place
(b) disease
(d) monument
Ans. (b)
5. Which of the following diseases deadly killer for the people of America ?
(a) Cholera
(c) Plague
(b) Smallpox
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
6.Name the law which allowed the British Government to restrict the import of corn.
(a) Corn Act
(b) Food Act
(c) Corn Laws
(d) Import Laws
Ans. (c)
7.Which of the following diseases had a terrifying impact on people's livelihoods and the local economy of the Africa in the 1890s ? [CBSE Sept. 2011]
(a) Rinderpest
(b) Smallpox
(c) Cholera
d) Plague
Ans. (a)
8. Most Indian indentured workers came from the present day regions of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, .....[CBSE Sept. 2011]
(a) Punjab, Assam
(b) Rajasthan, Punjab
(c) Central India, Tamil Nadu
(d) Punjab, Tamil Nadu
Ans. (c)
9. Who was VS Naipaul ? [CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) A writer whose forefathers migrated as indentured workers.
(b) He is a film producer.
(c) He is a philosopher.
(d) He is a cricketer.
Ans.(a)
10. When was the First World War fought ?
(a) 1910-1914
(c) 1918-1922
(b) 1914-1918
(d) 1922-1926
Ans. (b)
11. Which of the following West-Indies Cricketers trace their roots to indentured labour migrants from India ? [CBSE Sept. 2010]
(a) Vivian Richards and Gary Sobers
(b) Chris Gayle and Dwayne Bravo
(c) Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivn Chanderpaul
(d) Brian Lara and Courtney Walsh
Ans. (c)
12. Which among the following considered as AIlies Power ?[CBSE Sept. 2010, 2011)
(a) Britain, France and Russia
(b) Germany, Austria - Hungary and Ottomon Turkey
(c) Japan, France and Germany
(d) Britain, Japan and Russia
Ans. (a)
13.......was a well known pioneer of mass production [CBSE Sept. 2011]|
(a) Henry Ford
(b) Abraham Lincoln
(c) Hitler
(d)None of the above
And. a)
14. Which of the following methods was used by Henry Ford to increase car production?
(a) Vertical line
(b) Assembly line
(c) Horizontal
(d) None of the above
Ans.(b)
5. What was the time period of the Great Depression ? [CBSE Sept. 2011)
(a) 1929-1930s
(b) 1930-1940s
(c) 1940-1950s
(d) 1950-1960s
Ans .(a)
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6. Precious metals, particularly _______, from mines located in present-day Peru and Mexico enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia.
a) Copper
b) Bauxite
c) Iron Ore
d) Silver
Ans: (d)
7. Many expeditions set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of ______.
a) Silver
b) Emerald
c) Diamonds
d) Gold
Ans: (d)
8. America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against diseases that came from Europe. _______, in particular, proved a deadly killer.
a) Chickenpox
b) Measles
c) Smallpox
d) Filaria
Ans: (c)
9. Reduced role of ________ and the rising importance of the Americas gradually moved the centre of world trade westwards.
a) China
b) Japan
c) Korea
d) None of the above
Ans: (a)
10. Which country passed the ‘Corn Laws’ to restrict the import of corn?
a) France
b) Great Britain
c) Spain
d) USA
Ans : (b)
11.Demand for ______ led to the migration of people to America and Australia.
a) Capital
b) Raw materials
c) Labour
d) Both (a) and (b)
Ans: (c)
12. Between 1820 and 1914, world trade is estimated to have multiplied 25 to 40 times. Nearly _______ per cent of this trade comprised ‘primary products’.
a) 10
b) 20
c) 40
d) 60
Ans: (d)
13. One of the oldest livestock markets in ________ was at Smithfield.
a) London
b) Liverpool
c) Manchester
d) Edinburg
Ans: (a)
14. Animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point – in America, Australia or New Zealand, and then transported to ________ as frozen meat, thereby reducing the shipping costs and reducing meat prices.
a) Asia
b) Europe
c) Africa
d) Middle East
Ans: (b)
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15. In 1885, the big European powers met in ______ to complete the carving up of Africa between them.
a) Paris
b) London
c) Berne
d) Berlin
Ans: (d)
16. The US also became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies earlier held by ________.
a) Belgium
b) Portugal
c) Spain
d) France
Ans: (c)
17. In Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of _______ had a terrifying impact on people’s livelihoods and the local economy.
a) Rinderpest
b) Smallpox
c) Measles
d) Scurvy
Ans: (a)
18. Europeans came to _______ hoping to establish plantations and mines, but they faced the problem of labour shortage.
a) Africa
b) Asia
c) Middle East
d) South America
Ans: (a)
19. Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s. It was carried by infected cattle imported from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers invading ______ in East Africa.
a) Kenya
b) Eritrea
c) Ethiopia
d) Sudan
Ans: (b)
20. The loss of _______ destroyed African livelihoods.
a) Cattle
b) Human lives
c) Land
d) Forests
Ans: (a)
21. The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the _____.
a) Caribbean Islands
b) Fiji
c) Mauritius
d) All of the above
Ans: (d)
22. Most Indian indentured workers came from the present-day regions of ______.
a) Bihar
b) Eastern Uttar Pradesh
c) Central India
d) All of the above
Ans: (d)
23. Migrants from ______ went to Ceylon and Malaya.
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Orissa
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Karnataka
Ans: (c)
24. India’s nationalist leaders began opposing the system of indentured labour migration as abusive and cruel. It was abolished in ______.
a) 1921
b) 1931
c) 1919
d) 1911
Ans: (a)
25. 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
Ans: (a)
26. Which were these routes that were identified by the historians?
A. Between only Asia and Europe
B. over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa.
C. only sea routes through Asia, Europe, Africa
D. only land routes through Asia and Europe
Ans: (b)
27. What exchange did Europe return to Asia in the form of trade?
A. gold and silver – flowed from Europe to Asia
B. currency came from Europe
C. cowries
D. barter system of different goods
Ans: (a)
28. 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
Ans: (a)
29. Europe’s poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble …………….
A. maize
B. potato
C. soya
D. rice
Ans: (b)