MCQ Questions for Class 10 Social Science The Age of Industrialisation with Answers

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MCQ Questions for Class 10 Social Science The Age of Industrialisation with Answers


1. Who set up the first Indian Jute Mill in Calcutta?





ANSWER= B. Seth Hukumchand

 

2. A fuller’s job is to





ANSWER= C. gather cloth by pleating

 

3. Which of the following countries faced labour shortage in the nineteenth century?





ANSWER= A. America

 

4. The ports of Surat and Hoogly decayed in the





ANSWER= B. seventeenth century

 

5. The first cotton mill in India was established in





ANSWER= B. Calcutta

 

6. Dwarkanath Tagore was alan





ANSWER= D. industrialist

 

7. Why did the weavers suffer from a problem of raw cotton?





ANSWER= B. Raw cotton exports increased

 

8. In Victorian Britain the upper classes- aristocratic class and bourgeoisie preferred handmade goods because:





ANSWER= B. the handmade goods came to symbolize refinement and class.

 

9. By late 19th century why did the British manufacturers print calendars for advertisements?





ANSWER= B. Unlike newspapers and magazines, calendars were used even by people who did not know how to read or write.

 

10. Which of the following innovations helped the weavers in increasing productivity and compete with mill sector?





ANSWER= B. Fly shuttle

 

11.What do you mean by ‘Gomastha’?





ANSWER= C. A paid servant of the Company who supervised weavers, collected supplies and examined the quality of the cloth

 

12. According to historians, who was the typical worker in the mid-nineteenth century?





ANSWER= A. Craftsperson and labourer

 

13. What do you mean by Carding?





ANSWER= C. In which cotton or wool fibres are prepared for spinning

 

14. Who was the Staplers and Fullers?





ANSWER= C. Both a and b

 

15. What was the reason behind new merchants could not set up business in the towns in Europe?





ANSWER= C. The powerful trade guilds and urban crafts made it difficult

 

16. Which pre-colonial port connected India to the Gulf countries and the Red Sea ports?





ANSWER= C. Surat

 

17. The earliest factories in England came up by ___. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied.





ANSWER= C. 1730s

 

18. The first symbol of the new era was ____. Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.





ANSWER= A. Cotton

 

19. _____ created the cotton mill.





ANSWER= B. Richard Arkwright

 

20. The production process (carding, twisting and spinning, and rolling) is associated with the production of ___.





ANSWER= A. Cotton

 

21. Growing at a rapid pace, ____ was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s.





ANSWER= C. Cotton

 

22. With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for __ and ___ increased rapidly.





ANSWER= A. Iron and Steel

 

23 By 1873 Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about £ 77 million, double the value of its ____export.





ANSWER= B. Cotton

 

24. Ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in many ___ sectors such as ___.





ANSWER= A. Non-mechanised

 

25. Even at the end of the nineteenth century, ____ of the total workforce was employed in technologically advanced industrial sectors.





ANSWER= A. Less than 20 percent

 

26. James Watt patented the new engine in ___.





ANSWER= D. 1781

 

27. Which of the following statements are true about Steam Engines?





ANSWER= D. All the above statements are true.

 

28. ____ products came to symbolise refinement and class.





ANSWER= B. Handmade

 

29. ____ goods were for export to the colonies.





ANSWER= B. Machine made

 

30. ___ and __ merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, Eastern Persia and Central Asia.





ANSWER= B. Armenian and Persian

 

31. ____ on the Coromandel Coast and had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.





ANSWER= B. Masulipatam

 

32. ___ on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and the Red Sea Ports.





ANSWER= C. Surat

 

33. Hoogly in ___ had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.





ANSWER= D. Bengal

 

34. As Surat and Hoogly ports in India decayed, __ and __ ports grew in India.





ANSWER= A. Bombay and Calcutta

 

35. Which of the following statements are true about Gomasthas.





ANSWER= D. Both A. and B.

 

36. Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from ___ dominated the international market in textiles.





ANSWER= A. India

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