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Class 10 History Chapter 4 The Age Of Industrialization Quiz 2 (25 MCQs)

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1. This city connected India to the gulf and red sea port in the pre-colonial period.

Correct Answer: B) Surat.

2. ..... In the 17th century, merchants from towns in Europe moved to the countryside to:

Correct Answer: A) Supply money to peasants and artisans to persuade them to produce for international markets.

3. The paid servants of the East India Company was

Correct Answer: C) Gomastha.

4. Which of the following helped the production of handloom cloth?

Correct Answer: B) Technological changes.

5. Who was E.T. Paull

Correct Answer: A) He was a popular music publisher.

6. How did advertisements reach the common people-

Correct Answer: A) T.V.

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

Correct Answer: B) Unlike newspapers and magazines, calendars were used even by people who did not know how to read or write.

8. 6) With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for ..... and ..... increased rapidly.

Correct Answer: A) Iron and Steel.

9. Coarser cotton was produced in many countries but finer varieties came from

Correct Answer: B) India.

10. Which thinkers raised concerns about the inequalities of modern capitalism during the Industrialization process?

Correct Answer: B) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

11. Guilds were association of

Correct Answer: D) Producers.

12. First country to undergo industrial revolution is

Correct Answer: B) Britain.

13. Who established the first jute mill in India?

Correct Answer: D) Seth Hukumchand.

14. After 1940s, building activity opened up greater opportunities of employment. What kind of work was introduced?

Correct Answer: C) Construction of railway lines, railway stations and digging up of tunnels.

15. How urban crafts and trade guilds controlled the business?

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

16. Why was it difficult to get a job in a factory in 19th century Britain?

Correct Answer: B) The number of jobs were less than the number of job seekers.

17. In the period of proto-industrialisation, production was carried at?

Correct Answer: A) Countryside.

18. What was a significant factor in the UK's ability to become a dominant industrial powerhouse?

Correct Answer: C) Abundance of natural resources in the mainland and its colonies.

19. Merchants from the ..... in europe began moving to .....

Correct Answer: D) Town, countryside.

20. Why were there frequent clashes between the gomastha and the weavers?

Correct Answer: C) Gomasthas were outsiders without long term social link with the village.

21. An economic system controlled by private individuals and corporations

Correct Answer: A) Capitalism.

22. Elgin mill was set up at

Correct Answer: C) Kanpur.

23. Which Indian entrepreneur set up six joint stock companies in India in 1830?

Correct Answer: B) Dwarka Nath Tagore.

24. Which of the following best describes "industrial revolution" ?

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

25. 18th Century India witnessed the decline of which port town?

Correct Answer: A) Surat.

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