MCQ Questions for Class 10 History Chapter 4 The Age of Industrialisation with Answers
Q1. The countries to the east of the Mediterranean, are usually referred to as Asia. The term arises out of a western viewpoint that sees this region as pre-modern, traditional, and mysterious is
a) Paull
b) Orient
c) Corn
d) All of the above
Ans. Orient
Q2. The history of ___________ thus becomes simply a story of development, and the modern age appears like a wonderful time of technological progress.
a) Modern World
b) Factory
c) Industrialisation
d) Pre-modern era
Ans. Industrialisation
Q3. What statement is true regarding this?
Before the Industrial Revolution, what happened in the world.
1) People in the world worked either as farmers or artisans making hand-crafted goods.
2) People live in small and rural communities, they do not have better jobs and wages.
3) Mass production started with the use of machines in the world.
a) (1) is true and (2) is false
b) (2) is true and (3) is false
c) (1) and (2) is true and (3) is false
d) (1) and (3) is true and (2) is false
Ans. (1) and (2) is true and (3) is false
Q4. All too often we associate industrialisation with the growth of
a) Factory industry
b) Farm industry
c) Textile industry
d) World economic industry
Ans. Factory industry
Q5. In the _________ and __________ centuries, merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the countryside, supplying money to peasants and artisans, persuading them to produce for an international market.
a) Fifteenth and Sixteenth
b) Sixteenth and Seventeenth
c) Seventeenth and Eighteenth
d) Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Ans. Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Q6. What is the meaning of the word Proto?
a) Indicating the first or early form of something
b) All too often we associate industrialisation with the growth of the factory industry.
c) The countries to the east of the Mediterranean, usually referring to Asia.
d) In the countryside poor peasants and artisans began working for merchants
Ans. Indicating the first or early form of something
Q7. Rulers granted different guilds the ____________ to produce and trade in specific products
a) Monopoly Right
b) Merchant Right
c) Law Right
d) None of the above
Ans. Monopoly Right
Q8. In the countryside _________ and _________ began working for merchants.
a) Poor Peasants and Rich Peasants
b) Rich Peasants and The Artisans
c) Poor Peasants and The Artisans
d) Industry worker and The Artisans
Ans. Poor Peasants and The Artisans
Q9. _________ and poor peasants who had earlier depended on common lands for their survival, gathering their firewood, berries, vegetables, hay and straw, had to now look for alternative sources of income.
a) Artisans People
b) The Cottagers
c) Rich Peasants
d) Industrial people
Ans. The Cottagers
Q10. What is the meaning of Carding in this chapter?
a) A person who ‘staples’ or sorts wool according to its fiber
b) A person who ‘fulls’ – that is, gathers – cloth by pleating
c) The process in which fibers, such as cotton or wool, are prepared prior to spinning
d) The worker or people who is working in card industry
Ans. The process in which fibers, such as cotton or wool, are prepared prior to spinning
Q11. _________ was controlled by merchants and the goods were produced by a vast number of producers working within their family farms, not in factories.
a) The stapler – industrial system
b) The Fuller – industrial system
c) The Carding – industrial system
d) The Proto – industrial system
Ans. The Proto – industrial system
Q12. The earliest factories in England came up by the
a) 1730s
b) 1734s
c) 1830s
d) 1834s
Ans. 1730s
Q13. The first symbol of the new era was _______ . Its production boomed in the late_________________ .
a) Jute , Seventeenth century
b) Fiber , Eighteenth century
c) Cotton , Nineteenth century
d) None of the above
Ans. Cotton , Nineteenth century
Q14. In 1760 Britain was importing 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton to feed its cotton industry. By 1787 this import soared to ________________ .
a) 20 million pounds
b) 22 million pounds
c) 25 million pounds
d) 28 million pounds
Ans. 22 million pounds
Q15. A series of inventions in the eighteenth century increased the efficacy of each step of the production process such as
a) Carding
b) Twisting
c) Spinning and rolling
d) All of the above
Ans. All of the above
Q16. Who created the cotton mill?
a) Richard Arkwright
b) Lancashire Turner
c) M. Jackson
d) Leslie Norris
Ans. Richard Arkwright
Q17. America’s civil war is responsible for:
a) Cut off of raw material from US
b) Cut off of raw cotton from US
c) Cut off of good product that produce in US
d) Cut off of crops that came from US
Ans. Cut off of raw cotton from US
Q18. Which statement is true regarding the Pace of Industrial Change in Britain?
1) The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly cotton and metals.
2) cotton was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s in Britain
3) After that the iron and steel industry led the way.
a) (1) and (2) is true and (3) is false
b) (1) and (3) is true and (2) is false
c) All of these statements is true
d) All of these statements is false
Ans. All of these statements is true
Q19. What was the 3rd Pace of Industrial Change in Britain?
a) The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly cotton and metals.
b) the new industries could not easily displace traditional industries.
c) The pace of change in the ‘traditional’ industries was not set by steam-powered cotton or metal industries.
d) technological changes occurred slowly. They did not spread dramatically across the industrial landscape.
Ans. The pace of change in the ‘traditional’ industries was not set by steam-powered cotton or metal industries.
Q20. __________ improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781.
a) Victorian Jenny
b) James Watt
c) M. Jackson
d) None of the above
Ans. James Watt
Q21. Which British officer said the demand for Indian textile could never decrease as other nations could not produce the textile goods of comparable quality?
a) James wattler
b) Henry Patullo
c) Mathew Boulton
d) William IV
Ans. Henry Patullo
Q22. In Victorian Britain, there was no shortage of
a) Human labor
b) Industrial workers
c) Rich Merchants
d) Products buyer
Ans. Human labor
Q23. ________ and _________ were especially busy through the cold months.
a) Gas works and Industrial works
b) Market works and breweries
c) Gas works and breweries
d) Industrial workers and Industry works
Ans. Gas works and breweries
Q24. In mid – nineteenth – century Britain, for instance, 500 varieties of hammers were produced and 45 kinds of axes. These required
a) mechanical technology, not human skill
b) human skill, not mechanical technology
c) Both human skill and the mechanical technology
d) Nor the human skill or neither the mechanical technology
Ans. human skill, not mechanical technology
Q25. In Victorian Britain, who were the upper classes –
a) the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie
b) the aristocrats and the rich merchants
c) the bourgeoisie and the rich merchants
d) rich merchants and the industrial owner
Ans. the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie
Q26. Due to the__________ , most of the workers failed to get jobs So they offered their services at lower wages.
a) Lot of workers
b) shortage of work
c) shortage of workers
d) None of the above
Ans. shortage of work
Q27. The actual possibility of getting a job depended
on existing networks of
a) friendship and kin relations
b) Relationship and houseless
c) Poor and Healthy worker
d) None of the above
Ans. friendship and kin relations
Q28. What is the meaning of the word “Spinning Jenny” in the age of Industrialisation chapter?
a) The abundance of labor in the market affected the lives of workers.
b) In countries with labor shortages, industrialists were keen on using mechanical power so that the need for human labor can be minimized.
c) This machine speeded up the spinning process and reduced labor demand.
d) The fear of unemployment made workers hostile to the introduction of new technology.
Ans. This machine speeded up the spinning process and reduced labor demand.
Q29. Before the age of machine industries, ______ and _______ goods from India dominated the international market in textiles.
a) silk and cotton
b) Jute and cotton
c) silk and jute
d) None of the above
Ans. silk and cotton
Q30. A variety of Indian merchants and bankers were involved in this network of export trade –
a) financing production, carrying goods and supplying exporters.
b) financing production, carrying exporters and supplying goods.
c) financing goods, carrying and supplying products.
d) carrying and supplying goods and producing good products.
Ans. financing production, carrying goods and supplying exporters.
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