This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 10 > History > The Making Of A Global World > Class 10 History Chapter 3 The Making Of A Global World – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 History Chapter 3 The Making Of A Global World Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. WHO WAS THE PIONEER OF MASS PRODUCTION? A) JOHN WINTHORP. B) SRI HENRY MORTON STANLEY. C) HENRY FORD. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HENRY FORD. 2. Why were the Europeans attracted to Africa? A) By its natural beauty. B) By the opportunities for investment. C) For its vast land resources and mineral wealth. D) For recruitment of labour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For its vast land resources and mineral wealth. 3. 000 people died in Ireland between 1845-1849 due to A) Foreign invasion. B) Drought. C) Epidemic. D) Potato famine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Potato famine. 4. In 1890s, the contribution of Africa in the world's gold production was A) 20%. B) 50%. C) 40%. D) 30%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 20%. 5. What was the main reason behind the world shrank? A) European sailors found a sea route. B) Production increase for European market. C) Europe become the centre of the world trade. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) European sailors found a sea route. 6. What do you mean by MNCs? A) Western European. B) Multinational corporations companies. C) Japanese companies. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multinational corporations companies. 7. Identify three types of movement or 'flows' within international economic exchanges in the 19th century? A) Trade in goods, type of transport movement, slave trade. B) Trade in goods, flow of labour-the migration of people in search of employment, movement of capital for investment. C) Trade in goods, type of transport movement, flow of labour. D) Slave trade, trade in goods, capital investment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trade in goods, flow of labour-the migration of people in search of employment, movement of capital for investment. 8. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LEFT ..... FOR ..... BECAUSE OF DEADLY DISEASES. A) EUROPE FOR AMERICA. B) AMERICA FOR ASIA. C) ASIA FOR EUROPE. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) EUROPE FOR AMERICA. 9. What was South America's El Dorado fabled as in the 17th century? A) The trade city. B) City of gold. C) The beautiful city. D) C city of merchants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) City of gold. 10. What methods did the Europeans use to recruit and retain labour in Africa? A) Inheritance laws were changed to their advantage. B) Heavy taxes were imposed, Inheritance laws were changed to their disadvantage, confinement in the compound. C) Low taxes to win their minds over. D) Paid heavy wages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heavy taxes were imposed, Inheritance laws were changed to their disadvantage, confinement in the compound. 11. What technique did Henry Ford use for ha Mass production of cars? A) C.Batch manufacturing. B) Assembly line technique. C) Made to order production. D) Process manufacturing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assembly line technique. 12. Cowries are used as ..... A) Food. B) Currency. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Currency. 13. What was the important feature of the US economy in the 1920s? A) Agriculture products profit. B) Stock Market boost. C) Mass Production. D) Profit in Trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mass Production. 14. Who was a well-known pioneer of mass production in the US at the time? A) John Ford. B) Micheal Ford. C) Henry Ford. D) David Ford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry Ford. 15. Who discovered the vast continent, later known as America? A) Vasco da Gama. B) Christopher Columbus. C) V.S. Naipaul. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christopher Columbus. 16. Which of the following powerful weapon was used by the Spanish conquerors to colonise America during the mid-seventeenth century? A) Modern military weapons. B) Conventional Military Weapons. C) Biological weapons / Germs of Smallpox. D) Nuclear weapons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biological weapons / Germs of Smallpox. 17. WHAT WERE THE CORN LAWS? A) LAW TO RESTRICT THE IMPORT OF CORN. B) LAW TO RESTRICT THE EXPORT OF CORN. C) LAW TO RESTRICT THE IMPORT AND EXPORT OF CORN. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) LAW TO RESTRICT THE IMPORT OF CORN. 18. THE SILVER METAL WAS NOT AVAILABLE IN: A) CANADA. B) PERU. C) USA. D) MEXICO. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PERU. 19. Europe's poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble ..... A) Rice. B) Maize. C) Potato. D) Soya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Potato. 20. What do you mean by The 'Bretton Woods' twins? A) The two international banks. B) The USA and Soviet Russia. C) The two MNCs. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The two international banks. 21. Who among the following discovered the America continent? A) Ferdinand Megellan. B) Copernicus. C) Christopher Columbus. D) Vasco da Gama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christopher Columbus. 22. Who was the decision making authorities in the IMF and the World Bank? A) US's right to veto over key IMF and World Bank decision. B) All the member-nations of these two banks. C) A majority vote by all the nations. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) US's right to veto over key IMF and World Bank decision. 23. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gold and silver-flowed from Europe to Asia. 24. Rinderpest arrived in Africa in A) 1880. B) 1890. C) 1870. D) 1860. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1880. 25. By which crucial influences Post-war reconstruction was shaped? A) A The US emerged as the dominant country in the western world. B) B The collapse of capitalist world. C) C The emergence of Soviet Union as a world power. D) Both a and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both a and c. 26. Developing countries demanded a new international economic order (NIEO), What purpose did it solve? A) Real control over natural resources, more development assistance, fairer prices for raw materials, and better access for their manufactured goods in developed countries' market. B) Fairer prices for raw materials, better exports. C) For better human resource development. D) Manufacture to consumption benefits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Real control over natural resources, more development assistance, fairer prices for raw materials, and better access for their manufactured goods in developed countries' market. 27. ..... MOVEMENT WAS LAUNCHED AT THE HEIGHT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION. A) CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT. B) NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT. C) POONA PACT. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT. 28. Who was the first people to link the world in ancient times? A) Priests. B) Pilgrim. C) Travellers and traders. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 29. What were the effects of the Great Depression on the US Economy? A) Effected only agriculture prices. B) Agricultural overproduction, falling agricultural prices, US could not lend money, businesses collapsed. C) Industrial backlash. D) Famines and disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agricultural overproduction, falling agricultural prices, US could not lend money, businesses collapsed. 30. To escape religious persecution, the people of Europe fled to A) Australia. B) America. C) Asia. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) America. 31. Britain grew ..... in India and exported it to China and, with the money earned through this sale, it financed its tea and other imports from China. A) Opium. B) Rice. C) Cotton. D) Wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opium. 32. WHEN DID THE GLOBAL AGRICULTURE ECONOMY START? A) 1893. B) 1894. C) 1891. D) 1890. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1890. 33. What do you mean by globalisation? A) An economic system that has emerged since the last 50 years. B) Trade, migration of people in search of work. C) Movement of capital. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An economic system that has emerged since the last 50 years. 34. In Africa, in the 1890s which disease had a terrifying impact on people's livelihoods and the local economy? A) Smallpox. B) Plague. C) Hayfever. D) Cattle plague also known as rinderpest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cattle plague also known as rinderpest. 35. Until well into the eighteenth century, which two countries were among the world's richest countries? A) England and America. B) China and India. C) Africa and England. D) America and Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) China and India. 36. When did Irish potato famine took lace? A) 1849. B) 1846. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1849. 37. What brought many countries back into the fold of the world economy in the 20th century? A) World Bank set new policies. B) Revolution of manufacturing for self in Asia. C) New economic policies in China and the collapse of the Soviet Union and Soviet-style communism. D) New Land and Industrial policies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) New economic policies in China and the collapse of the Soviet Union and Soviet-style communism. 38. From where could an Indian peasant borrows capital for growing food? A) From Indian bankers, traders and moneylenders who followed European colonisers into Afric. B) Only from Bankers. C) Only from traders and moneylenders. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From Indian bankers, traders and moneylenders who followed European colonisers into Afric. 39. The famous route connected in pre-modern period; A) Silk route. B) Spice route. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silk route. 40. The foods introduced in Europe after the discovery of the America? A) Potatoes and soya. B) Groundnuts and maize. C) Tomatoes, chillies and sweet potatoes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 41. 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 Afric. C) Only sea routes through Asia, Europe, Africa. D) Only land routes through Asia and Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Afric. 42. What do you mean by Rinderpest? A) A disease. B) Name of a medicine. C) A place. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A disease. 43. The USA became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some earlier colonies of A) France. B) Spain. C) Germany. D) Portugal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spain. 44. Who adopted the concept of assembly line to manufacture automobiles? A) Henry Ford. B) T. Cuppola. C) Samuel Morse. D) Christopher Columbus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry Ford. 45. Who was a Dissenter? A) Believer in all religious practices. B) Preacher. C) Follower of religion and politics. D) One who refuses to accept established beliefs and practices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One who refuses to accept established beliefs and practices. 46. Which of the silk routes 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa. 47. Introduction of which crop made a difference between life and death in Europe? A) Maize. B) Potato. C) Noodles. D) Groundnuts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Potato. 48. During 1845 to 1849, the "Great Potato Famine" spread in A) Ireland. B) Scotland. C) Finland. D) Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ireland. 49. Which were the Central Powers against the allies in world war 1, 1914-18? A) Germany, Prussia, Ottoman Turkey. B) Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy. C) Germany, Italy, Ottoman Turkey. D) Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey. 50. The First World War was fought mainly in A) America. B) African. C) Europe. D) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Europe. 51. Which institutions was established in the Bretton Wood Conference? A) International Security Fund. B) International Monetary Fund. C) Indian Monetary Fund. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) International Monetary Fund. 52. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes. 53. Three types of flows A) Land, Labour, capital. B) Goods, Labour, capital. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Goods, Labour, capital. 54. Common foods like potatoes, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chilies, sweet potatoes were introduced in A) China. B) Africa. C) Australia. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Europe. 55. The country which was famous for spices and textile; A) India. B) China. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) India. 56. By which year had the global agricultural economy had taken shape, accompanied by complex changes in labour movement patterns, capital flows, ecologies and technology? A) 1890. B) 1880. C) 1870. D) 1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1890. 57. What were the effects of the Great Depression on India? A) Affected Indian trade, exports and imports nearly halved, wheat prices in India fell by 50%, colonial government refused to reduce revenue, agricultural prices fell sharply. B) Indian economy was not affected much. C) Partial industrial losses. D) Only agricultural problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affected Indian trade, exports and imports nearly halved, wheat prices in India fell by 50%, colonial government refused to reduce revenue, agricultural prices fell sharply. 58. In 1885 the big European powers met in ..... to complete the carving up of Africa between them. A) Belarus. B) Berlin. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Berlin. 59. What were the number of people who migrated from all parts of the world in the 19th century? A) 10 million from Europe to America. B) Nearly 20 million all over the world. C) Nearly 50 million. D) 150 million from all over the world migrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 150 million from all over the world migrate. 60. Name the place and the year of United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference: A) Vietnam, 1939. B) China, 1911. C) Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA, 1944. 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