This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > History > Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 21 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is NOT an idea that interested Adam Smith? A) Supply and demand. B) Division of labor. C) Communism. D) Free markets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Communism. 2. One effect of industrialization on Meiji Japan was that it A) Strengthened the power of the Shogunate. B) Decreased the level of pollution. C) Modernized transportation. D) Increased the number of small farms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modernized transportation. 3. How does the telegraph code support the creator's name? A) The code was after his father's name. B) The code was after his last part of the name. C) The code was after his front part of his name. D) The code was after his mother's name. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The code was after his last part of the name. 4. What were the benefits of improved transportation for ordinary people? A) Travel became more affordable and accessible. B) Everyone immediately became wealthy due to increased trade. C) Cities became perfectly clean and free of pollution. D) It became much easier to find work in distant cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Travel became more affordable and accessible. 5. What was the Agriculture Revolution about? A) A decline in population and economic growth. B) The use of new farming methods to improve productivity. C) A time of industrialization and technological advancements. D) A period of increased global trade and exploration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The use of new farming methods to improve productivity. 6. During the Industrial Revolution, goods were mass produced. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. A primary reason European languages are spoken in Africa today is that- A) African and European alliances were formed during WWI. B) European territories in Africa were redistributed at the Congress of Vienna. C) British forces won the Boer War against the Dutch and Afrikaners. D) Europeans established colonies throughout the continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Europeans established colonies throughout the continent. 8. -Anti-factories-Wants to destroy society and rebuild it with workers in charge A) Monarchism. B) Conservatism. C) Anarchism. D) Utilitarianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anarchism. 9. Effects of industrialization included which of the following? A) Increased unemployment. B) Shorter work days. C) Rapid urbanization. D) Safer working conditions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rapid urbanization. 10. Immigrants clustered together as cities grew in order to preserve all but one of the following. Which is it? A) Values. B) Religion. C) Wealth. D) Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wealth. 11. What was Rockefeller's strategy for economic control of the oil business? A) Association. B) Monopoly. C) Corporation. D) Cooperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monopoly. 12. Where did Great Britain get raw materials from? A) Liverpool and Scottland. B) Belgium and Germany. C) Colonies in South America. D) Colonies in Africa, North America, India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Colonies in Africa, North America, India. 13. Which country passed one of the first child labor laws in 1833? A) Germany. B) Britain. C) France. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Britain. 14. This is a method where workers stay in one place as products move along a moving belt. A) Mechanization. B) Production. C) Assembly line. D) Automated systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assembly line. 15. The Industrial Revolution began in which country due to factors like its many rivers, an abundance of resources, and its capitalist system? A) France. B) Ottoman Empire. C) England. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) England. 16. How did urbanization affect family structures during the Industrial Revolution? A) Families became larger as people had more children. B) Many families moved back to rural areas to farm. C) Families often lived apart due to work in different cities. D) Extended families often lived together in small urban apartments. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended families often lived together in small urban apartments. 17. Which business leader invented a new method for making steel before selling his million dollar corporation to the United States Steel Corporation in 1901? A) Thomas Edison. B) J.P. Morgan. C) Andrew Carnegie. D) John D. Rockefeller. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Andrew Carnegie. 18. The total or complete control of a service, product or industry that prevents competition A) Union. B) Robber Barron. C) Monopoly. D) Captain of Industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monopoly. 19. A ..... is a simple machine that twists cotton or wool into thread. A) Industry. B) Cotton. C) Thread. D) Spinning wheel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spinning wheel. 20. What is NOT associated with working conditions in the factory A) The Dangerous working conditions. B) Is Low wages. C) The Safe working conditions. D) The Pollution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Safe working conditions. 21. What was the main result of the Agricultural Revolution? A) Farmers used technology to grow more food than ever before. B) More people moved onto farms. C) Farmers rose up against the rulers of their countries. D) Farmers were growing less food than ever before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farmers used technology to grow more food than ever before. 22. ..... is a country where the Industrial Revolution began. A) Steam engine. B) Factory. C) Industry. D) Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Great Britain. 23. What occupation did many of the first factory workers come from? A) Merchants. B) Brick Layers. C) Farmers. D) Soldiers. E) Artisans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Farmers. 24. What is formed when one person or company controls an entire industry? A) Cartel. B) Monopoly. C) Corporation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monopoly. 25. What did railroads change, leading to the standardization of time? A) Travel speed. B) Distance perception. C) Work hours. D) Time zones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time zones. 26. During the 1800s there were several epidemics of which disease? A) Smallpox. B) Cholera. C) Typhoid. D) Tuberculosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cholera. 27. The majority of early skyscrapers were used to provide a larger number of ..... A) Factories. B) Corporate offices. C) Trade schools. D) Living quarters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corporate offices. 28. Which of the following is a primary reason for Chinese immigrants moving to the U.S.? A) To seek gold. B) To purchase inexpensive farm land. C) To avoid the plague. D) To escape religious persecution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To seek gold. 29. Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions? A) Pollution. B) Safe working conditions. C) Dangerous working conditions. D) Low wages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Safe working conditions. 30. The Industrial vs Agriculture conflict in government is best described as ..... A) Political struggle between the States at the Federal level of government. B) Political struggle between the States at the State level. C) Social struggle between the owner class and the working class. D) Economic struggle between the rich and the poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political struggle between the States at the Federal level of government. 31. Which of the following groups would most likely benefit from the socialist ideas of Karl Marx? A) Factory Workers. B) Entrepreneurs. C) Factory Managers. D) Large Business Corporations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Factory Workers. 32. Manufactured goods were made in what buildings? A) Barns. B) Factories. C) Houses. D) Churches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Factories. 33. How did the move from farm to factories change peoples lives? A) Land owners had to share their land. B) Urbanization was a myth. C) Cities grew as people moved to work in factories. D) The cottage industry thrived. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cities grew as people moved to work in factories. 34. What was the main reason for the growth of cities in the United States during the first half of the 19th century? A) The growth of industrialized factories. B) The discovery of gold. C) The construction of the Erie Canal. D) The invention of the cotton gin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The growth of industrialized factories. 35. What did Robert Owen try to establish? A) A perfect community. B) World communism. C) Public libraries in Scotland. D) The Church of England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A perfect community. 36. One similarity between the Sepoy Rebellion in India and the Boxer Rebellion in China was that both were- A) Movements to establish greater democracy. B) Struggles to westernize their cultures. C) Reactions to forms of European imperialism. D) Efforts to restore trade monopolies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reactions to forms of European imperialism. 37. What is it called when people use machines to do work that had been performed by humans and animals? A) Mass Production. B) Humanism. C) Communism. D) Industrialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrialism. 38. What were the main products produced in the early factories of the United States? A) Textiles and clothing. B) Electronics and appliances. C) Automobiles and airplanes. D) Food and beverages. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Textiles and clothing. 39. What were the physical changes observed in cities during the Industrial Revolution? A) Cities grew horizontally and vertically, becoming more dense. B) Cities shrank in size and population. C) Cities became more rural and agricultural. D) Cities became isolated from each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cities grew horizontally and vertically, becoming more dense. 40. The Industrial Revolution began here. A) The United States. B) Canada. C) England. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) England. 41. What role did the steam engine play in the Industrial Revolution? A) It was primarily used in agriculture. B) It powered factories, revolutionizing production processes. C) It had little to no impact on industrial production. D) It was used exclusively for transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It powered factories, revolutionizing production processes. 42. TRUE or FALSE? Britain controlled a vast amount of territory in North America, the Caribbean and India. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 43. Theory that rich were obligated to help communities by giving back in the form of libraries, school, universities but not giving directly to individuals A) National Market. B) Philanthropy. C) Gospel of Wealth. D) Laissez-faire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gospel of Wealth. 44. Why did Andrew Carnegie begin giving his money away after he sold his company? A) The man who dies with his fortune still intact, dies disgraced. B) The man who dies with his fortune depleted (gone), dies disgraced. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The man who dies with his fortune still intact, dies disgraced. 45. Before the steam engine, which of the following was a common source of power for machines? A) Humans. B) Animals. C) Water wheels. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 46. Who invented Crop Rotation? A) Jethro Tull. B) Charles Townsend. C) Joseph Foljambe. D) Thomas Townsend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Townsend. 47. The act of moving something from one location to another is called: A) Advertisement. B) Development. C) Advancement. D) Transportation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transportation. 48. True or False:The Industrial Revolution Led to a Shift in Jobs away from Factories (Factory System) and into Homes (Cottage Industries) A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. What is a Luddite? A) Someone that doesn't like television. B) Someone that doesn't like new technology. C) Someone that hates farming. D) Someone that loves new technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Someone that doesn't like new technology. 50. Women did not work in factories during the Industrial Revolution. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. Which industry did John D. Rockefeller control during the Industrial Revolution? A) Telecommunications. B) Steel. C) Automobile. D) Oil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oil. 52. Which of the following was NOT a natural resource in England that enabled it to take the lead on industrial growth from the 17th-19th centuries? A) Rivers. B) Harbors. C) Forests. D) Coal and iron mines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forests. 53. What role did the factory system play in the Industrial Revolution? A) It decentralized production. B) It increased the reliance on manual labor. C) It centralized production and increased efficiency. D) It reduced the need for skilled workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It centralized production and increased efficiency. 54. Which action taken by the Meiji government encouraged industrialization in 19th-century Japan? A) Building a modern transportation system. B) Establishing a system of trade guilds. C) Limiting the number of ports open to foreign trade. D) Forcing families to settle on collective farms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building a modern transportation system. 55. This period of machines replacing hand tools began in the 1780's in Britain. This changed shifted the rural handcrafted farming communities to the machine industry driven urban life. A) The Enlightenment. B) The Scientific Revolution. C) The Industrial Revolution. D) The Nationalism Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Industrial Revolution. 56. Sectionalism refers to pride in one's A) Local region. B) Whole country. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Local region. 57. Critically assess the role of technological innovation in driving the Industrial Revolution. A) Technological innovation played a minor role compared to political changes. B) Technological innovation was the primary driver, enabling mass production and efficiency. C) Technological innovation hindered the progress of the Industrial Revolution. D) Technological innovation was irrelevant to the Industrial Revolution.TagsDOK Level 3:Strategic Thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Technological innovation was the primary driver, enabling mass production and efficiency. 58. Which industry was NOT commonly involving child labour? A) Banking. B) The navy. C) Textiles. D) Coal Mining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banking. 59. Japan's increased foreign trade during the Meiji Restoration was closely related to its A) Encouragement of foreign investment. B) Desire for a modern industrialized society. C) Need to maintain a traditional society. D) Colonization by Western nations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desire for a modern industrialized society. 60. Houses during the Industrial Revolution had great sanitation. True or false? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 1Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 2Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 3Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 4Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 5Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 6Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 7Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books