Class 12 History Chapter 4 The Age Of Industrialisation Quiz 11 (13 MCQs)

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1. What did the Indian merchants export to Britain after the colonial control over Indian trade tightened?

Correct Answer: D) Raw cotton, opium, wheat and indigo.

2. During the 19th century, Which were the most dynamic industries in Britain?

Correct Answer: A) Cotton and metal.

3. Who invented the Scientific Breeding of Animals?

Correct Answer: B) Bakewell.

4. What was a common injury faced by children working in factories during the Industrial Revolution?

Correct Answer: B) Scalping due to hair getting caught in machines.

5. Which was a popular mode of advertisement?

Correct Answer: D) Calendars.

6. What do you mean by 'Gomastha'?

Correct Answer: C) A paid servant of the Company who supervised weavers, collected supplies and examined the quality of the cloth.

7. What did London came to be known as

Correct Answer: B) Finishing Centre.

8. What is proto-industrialisation?

Correct Answer: B) First and early form of Industrialization.

9. What was the status of human labour in Victorian Britain? Was there a shortage?

Correct Answer: B) B. there was no shortage of human labour. Poor peasants and vagrants moved to the cities in large numbers in search of jobs.

10. Which pre-colonial port connected India to the Gulf countries and the Red Sea ports?

Correct Answer: C) Surat.

11. Who discovered Wireless Telegraphy?

Correct Answer: C) Guglielino Marconi.

12. What is NOT a negative effect of the Industrial Revolution?

Correct Answer: C) New Social mobility.

13. How did the East India Company set up a monopoly over the weaving industry in India?

Correct Answer: D) By appointing the gomastha to get direct control over the weavers, providing loans, and giving time limits.