This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > History > Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 History Chapter 10 The Industrial Revolution Quiz 28 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. -Historian-" History is cyclical" -Thesis, antithesis, synthesis, and so on-Life is bad, revolt, resolve, bad, revolt, resolve ..... A) Karl Marx. B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau. C) Immanuel Kant. D) Georg Wilhelm Frederick Hegel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Georg Wilhelm Frederick Hegel. 2. A portion of ownership of a corporation A) STOCK. B) CORPORATION. C) MIDDLE CLASS. D) LAISSEZ FAIRE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) STOCK. 3. Fabric that is woven A) Industrialization. B) Technology. C) Textile. D) Economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Textile. 4. What was the name of the first factory in the United States? A) U.S. Steel. B) Cottonwood. C) Slater Mill. D) Lowell Mill. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slater Mill. 5. Britain had colonies to serve as ready ..... for the goods. A) Markets. B) Textiles. C) Profits. D) Exports. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Markets. 6. When did the SECOND industrial revolution start? A) 1870s. B) 1750s. C) 1860s. D) 1900s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1870s. 7. How many hours a day did children usually work in the mills during the Industrial Revolution? A) 11-12 hours. B) 15-16 hours. C) 13-14 hours. D) 8-10 hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 11-12 hours. 8. Powerful companies like Standard Oil that had control over the majority of the industry they were involved in and controlled many businesses related to their own can be called A) Labor Unions. B) Monopolies. C) Urbanization. D) Start-ups. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monopolies. 9. In what year did Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully test their airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina? A) 1913. B) 1903. C) 1883. D) 1893. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1903. 10. What were the main diseases in Britain in the 1700s? A) Smallpox, pneumonia, diphtheria and tuberculosis. B) Bronchitis, smallpox, bubonic plague, influenza. C) Covid, cold, cholera, tuberculosis. D) Chicken pox, pneumonia, bubonic plague, covid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smallpox, pneumonia, diphtheria and tuberculosis. 11. Which of the following was a major drawback of the I.R.? A) Development of railroads. B) Use of child labor. C) Birth of the middle class. D) Development of new consumer goods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use of child labor. 12. Which statement describes mercantilism? A) To each according to his need. B) Wages. C) The government should not try to control the market. D) A country can grow rich by controlling trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A country can grow rich by controlling trade. 13. The belief that the Great powers in Europe had the right to send armies into countries where there were revolutions, in order to restore legitimate monarchs (kings) to their thrones. A) Universal male suffrage. B) Magna Carta. C) Edict of Worms. D) Principle of intervention. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Principle of intervention. 14. What did the Transcontinental Railroad connect? A) Australia to New Zealand. B) Europe to Asia. C) North America to South America. D) The East Coast to the West Coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The East Coast to the West Coast. 15. A type of economics where the government does not get involved in regulating trade A) Trickle-down economics. B) Austrian Economics. C) Laissez faire. D) Microeconomics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laissez faire. 16. How did the Lowell mills differ from earlier textile mills? A) They used water power instead of steam. B) They were located in rural areas. C) They employed young women and provided housing. D) They only produced woolen textiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They employed young women and provided housing. 17. The common land was replaced with what? A) A British nature reserve. B) Factories. C) Enclosures. D) Towns and cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enclosures. 18. What was one of the primary natural resources that fueled the Industrial Revolution in Britain? A) Gold. B) Coal. C) Silver. D) OilTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coal. 19. What was the first type of factory in Great Britain? A) Farming. B) Textiles. C) Crop rotation. D) Shoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Textiles. 20. What did Issac Singer create? A) The first industrial sewing machine. B) The first electric sewing machine. C) The first practical sewing machine. D) The first manual sewing machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The first practical sewing machine. 21. Which came first? A) Canals. B) Roads. C) Railways. D) Coal-powered factories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canals. 22. Which of these was the most important effect of railroads? A) Increased production steel. B) Decreased socialism. C) Increased wars. D) Slowed communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increased production steel. 23. Before the Industrial Revolution, most people lived in the urban areas and had manufacturing jobs. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. Cities became less important, and more people than ever worked on farms during the Industrial Revolution. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 25. Before the Industrial Revolution all products were created by hand and known as ..... A) A cottage industry. B) Consumerism. C) Material goods. D) Factors of Production. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A cottage industry. 26. Immigration changed during the Industrial Revolution because ..... A) America was gaining power and money. B) Factories offered jobs to incoming immigrants. C) People wanted to own a factory. D) No one bought homemade items. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Factories offered jobs to incoming immigrants. 27. How did the railroads guarantee the success of the Industrial Revolution? A) By transporting workers from rural areas to urban factories. B) By effectively moving natural resources and finished goods. C) By increasing the health of the population. D) Decreasing the demand for fertilizers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By effectively moving natural resources and finished goods. 28. Textile Industry A) Faster and cheaper production of cloth. B) Increased labor costs. C) Reduced fabric quality. D) Limited production capacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Faster and cheaper production of cloth. 29. Which of the following was a benefit of the railroad? A) It offered cheap, fast transportation for heavy materials and goods. B) It was easier to build and maintain than a road. C) It created minimal air pollution. D) It required less skill to operate than a horse or an automobile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It offered cheap, fast transportation for heavy materials and goods. 30. Capitalism or Communism: "The proletariat ..... will ..... wrest all capital from the bourgeoisie!" A) Capitalism. B) Communism. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Communism. 31. Which group settled in California and helped build the western half of the Transcontinental Railroad? A) Irish. B) Chinese. C) German. D) Scandinavian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chinese. 32. In one-point perspective, neither the horizontal and vertical lines are affected by the vanishing point. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. Which invention contributed most to the I.R.? A) Magnetic Compass. B) Electric light bulb. C) Steam Engine. D) Mechanical Reaper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Steam Engine. 34. Buildings like the Seagram Building and Bauhaus Shop Block focused on finding aesthetic through ..... A) Minimalism. B) Maximallism. C) Classical architecture. D) Gothic architecture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Minimalism. 35. Factory Acts, beginning in 1833, were laws designed to: A) Eliminate tariffs on imported textiles. B) Ban child labor and regulate working conditions. C) Privatize railroads and mines. D) Subsidize tenement construction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ban child labor and regulate working conditions. 36. What was the primary source of energy for heating and cooking before the Industrial Revolution? A) Electricity. B) Natural gas. C) Wood and coal. D) Oil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wood and coal. 37. An economic system based on private ownership of capital. The economic system that is based on investing money for profit. A) Communism. B) Mercantilism. C) Capitalism. D) Socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capitalism. 38. The Industrial Revolution began in England because A) It had lots of resources. B) It had banks that encouraged trade and investing. C) It had colonies that produced lots of raw materials. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 39. Who is the "Father of Economics" ? A) John Marshall. B) Karl Marx. C) Adam Smith. D) Daniel Dix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adam Smith. 40. Why did the Industrial Revolution lead to an increase in the slave trade? A) Slaves were treated unfairly in the Americas, but during the Industrial Revolution they were paid to work in factories. B) More raw materials were needed and grown in Africa. C) More slaves were needed to work in the Americas to produce raw materials. D) Europeans needed more slaves to work in factories. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) More slaves were needed to work in the Americas to produce raw materials. 41. What method did Henry Ford use to increase his company's production of automobiles? A) Carnegie line. B) Ford process. C) Bessemer process. D) Assembly line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assembly line. 42. Inventions helped industry because they A) Ended competition. B) Helped workers earn more. C) Encouraged railroads to offer rebates,. D) Made it more efficient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Made it more efficient. 43. Which economist is MOST associated with capitalism? A) Robert Owen. B) Charles Fourier. C) Adam Smith. D) Karl Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adam Smith. 44. Which economic system has the factors of production are privately owned, and money is invested in business ventures to make a profit? A) Utilitarianism. B) Communism. C) Capitalism. D) Socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capitalism. 45. Which Factor of Production is about all the natural resources needed to Industrialize? A) Land. B) Labor. C) Capital. D) Money. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land. 46. Water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere creates: A) Steam. B) Motor. C) Application. D) Engine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Steam. 47. One positive impact of the Enclosure Movement was that farmers could let their livestock roam free throughout the village. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 48. In Great Britain, Samuel Slater studied machines for making cloth. Where did he move before he started building his spinning machines? A) Canada. B) France. C) The United States of America. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The United States of America. 49. What was the negative impact of Eli Whitney's cotton gin? A) It decreased the need for slaves. B) They could produce cotton faster. C) There was an explosion in the clothing industry. D) It increased the use of slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It increased the use of slavery. 50. When cheap factory-made goods took over the market, smaller non factory businesses A) Struggled and failed. B) Also did well. C) Stayed about the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Struggled and failed. 51. Why was the Industrial Revolution good for women? A) Women started having more children. B) Women became more independent. C) Women received the same amount of money as men. D) Women started fighting in wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Women became more independent. 52. Which of the following words describe the action of buying out competing businesses so you are the only company selling a product? A) Democracy. B) Autocracy. C) Business. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monopoly. 53. Industrial Revolution Geographic Context A) The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain because they had a surplus of natural resources (coal & iron). B) The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain due to its advanced technology and machinery. C) The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain because of its strong military presence. D) The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain as a result of its colonial expansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain because they had a surplus of natural resources (coal & iron). 54. Laissez-faire capitalism as attributed to Adam Smith called for A) Heavy taxation of manufacturers. B) Government investments in major industries. C) Minimal government involvement in the economy. D) Strict government control of the economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Minimal government involvement in the economy. 55. What was traditionally considered 'women's work'? A) Carpentry. B) Hunting. C) Sewing. D) Blacksmithing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sewing. 56. The Industrial Revolution: A) Gave us much of the technology and lifestyle we have today. B) Resulted in people moving to cities. C) Began the process that made global warming MUCH worse than before. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 57. What art style emphasized that sense and emotions-not simply reason and order-were equally important means of understanding and experiencing the world. A) Realism. B) Romanticism. C) Aestheticism. D) Impressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 58. Assembly line innovator A) Alexander Graham Bell. B) Eli Whitney. C) Robert Owen. D) Henry Ford. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry Ford. 59. Which nation was NOT part of the British Empire? A) Pakistan. B) Mexico. C) Australia. D) South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mexico. 60. What substance fueled the Industrial Revolution and was abundant and close to the surface in England? A) Diamonds. B) Cotton. C) Coal. D) Oil. 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