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CCL TUTORIALS AWHO GR NOIDA CCL SMART MCQ QUESTION BANK CLASS 10 CH The Age Of Industrilisation

Question- 72 Time- 60 minutes

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Q1. The history of many business groups goes back to trade with:
1. Japan.
2. Britain.
3. USA.
4. China.

Q2. Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

1. James Watt.
2. Mathew Boulton.
3. James Hargreaves.
4. Will Thorne.

Q3. products came to symbolise refinement and class.

1. Handmade.
2. Machine Made.
3. Both (a) and (b).
4. None of the above.

Q4. The Spinning Jenny was devised by:

1. James Watt.
2. James Hargreaves.
3. Mathew Boultom.
4. Andrew Yule.

Q5. What made workers hostile to the introduction of the Spinning Jenny?
1. Fear of war.
2. Fear of unemployment.
3. Both (a) and (b).
4. None of thes.

Q6. In the last years of 17th century, the gross value of trade that passed through ........ had been ₹ 16 million. By the
1740s it had slumped to ........
1. Surat, ₹ 3 million.
2. Masulipatnam, ₹ 7 million.
3. Hoogly, ₹ 5 million.
4. Madras, ₹ 9 million.
Q7. The steam engine produced by Newcomen was patented with a new engine by:
1. James Scott.
2. James Chat.
3. James Watt.
4. None of the above.

Q8. In the early nineteenth century, ............ increasingly became an intimate part of the English landscape.
1. Quantity.
2. Quality.
3. Factories.
4. Agriculture.

Q9. With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for
and increased rapidly.
1. Copper and Steel.
2. Iron and Steel.
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3. Jute and Cotton.

4. Aluminium and Bauxite.

Q10. When was cotton piece good's production in India doubled?

1. 1880-1890
2. 1900-1912
3. 1890-1900
4. None of these.

Q11. James Watt patented the new engine in:

1. 1681
2. 1781
3. 1791
4. 1581

Q12. on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and the Red Sea Ports.
1. Surat.
2. Kandla.
3. Okha.
4. Porbandar.

Q13. The French, Dutch, Portuguese as well as the local traders competed in the market:
1. T secure raw clothes.
2. To secure finished clothes.
3. To secure woven clothes.
4. None of the above.

Q14. Why did the Indian industrialists appoint jobbers?

1. To get new recruits.
2. To get their support.
3. To get their wealth.
4. None of these.

Q15. Which of the following statements are true about Steam Engines?
1. Mathew Boulton manufactured the new model of steam engines.
2. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were not more than 321 steam engines all over England.
3. James Watt improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781.
4. All the above statements are true.

Q16. When were the earliest factories in England set up?

1. 1730s
2. 1750s
3. 1720s
4. 1740s

Q17. In the countryside poor peasants and artisans began working:

1. For the king.
2. For the richmen.
3. For merchants.
4. All the above.

Q18. With the expansion of railways, in England the demand for:

1. Cotton and jute increased rapidly.
2. Cotton increased rapidly.
3. Iron and steel increased rapidly.
4. None of the above.
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Q19. By 1873 Britain was exporting

iron and steel worth about £77 million,
double the value of its export.
1. Steam engines.
2. Meat.
3. Cotton.
4. None of the above.
Q20. Who invented the Steam Engine?
1. James Watt.
2. New Comen.
3. Richard Arkwright.
4. None of these.

Q21. The earliest factories in England came up by . But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the
number of factories multiplied.
1. 1830s
2. 1730s
3. 1760s
4. None of the above

Q22. Which of the following statements are true about Gomasthas?

1. Gomasthas had a close relationship with weavers.
2. In many weaving villages, there were reports of clashes between weavers and gomasthas.
3. The new gomasthas were outsiders, with no long-term social link with the village.
4. Both (a) and (b).

Q23. Which one was the pre-colonial port where sea trade was carried on?
1. Calcutta.
2. Bombay.
3. Orissa.
4. Surat.

Q24. on the Coromandel Coast and had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.
1. Mangalore.
2. Calicut.
3. Paradip.
4. Masulipatam.

Q25. goods were for export to the colonies.

1. Handmade.
2. Both (a) and (b).
3. Machine made.
4. None of the above.

Q26. In 19th century Britain there was:

1. Shortage of human labour.
2. No shortage of human labour.
3. Surplus human labour.
4. None of the above.

Q27. Which businessman set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?
1. Dinshaw Petit.
2. Seth Hukumchand.
3. G.D. Birla.
4. Dwarkanath Tagore.

Q28. Where was the Elgin Mill set up?

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1. Kanpur.
2. Ahmedabad.
3. Benaras.
4. Mirzapur.

Q29. By late 19th century why did the British manufacturers print calendars for advertisements?
1. Indian people were fond of using calendars in their houses.
2. Unlike newspapers and magazines, calendars were used even by people who did not know how to read or
write.
3. It was cheaper to advertise goods through calendars.
4. It used to add beauty to the room.

Q30. When was the first cotton mill established in Bombay?

1. 1854
2. 1856
3. 1880
4. 1891

Q31. Advertisements of Indian manufacturers became a vehicle of the nationalist message of:
1. Purely Indian.
2. Purely English.
3. Swadeshi.
4. None of these.

Q32. In many industries where production fluctuated with the season, industrialists, usually preferred:
1. Indentured labour.
2. Machines.
3. Hand labour.
4. All of the above.

Q33. Masulipatam on the Coromandel coast and Hoogly in Bengal had trade links with:
1. North-East Asian Ports.
2. South-East Asian Ports.
3. North-East Asian Ports.
4. South-East Asian Ports.
Q34. In Victorian Britain, the demand in the market was often for goods with ..... designs and ........ shapes.
1. Beautiful, simple.
2. Complex, rough.
3. Intricate, specific.
4. Nice, good.

Q35. and merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, Eastern Persia, and Central Asia.
1. Afghan and Persian.
2. Turkish and Persian.
3. Armenian and Persian.
4. Chinese and Persian.

Q36. The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in:

1. 1852
2. 1853
3. 1854
4. 1855

Q37. After the busy season was over, the poor:

1. Went to their villages.
2. Went to the countryside.
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3. Went on the streets again.

4. None of the above.

Q38. Growing at a rapid pace, was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s.
1. Cotton.
2. Mineral industry.
3. Shipping.
4. None of the above.

Q39. Ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in many sectors such as .
1. Mechanised.
2. Non-mechanised.
3. Both (a) and (b).
4. None of the above.

Q40. Most historians refer to the phase of industrialisation as:

1. Dawn-industrialisation.
2. Present-industrialisation.
3. Proto-industrialisation.
4. None of the above.
Q41. The earliest factories in England came up by the:
1. 1720s.
2. 1730s.
3. 1740s.
4. 1750s.

Q42. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were no more than .............steam engines.
1. 299
2. 320
3. 321
4. 319

Q43. When the ……… was introduced in the woollen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began attacking
the new machine.
1. Spinning Jenny.
2. Spinning Combine.
3. Spinning Penny.
4. None of the above.

Q44. A merchant clothier in England, purchased wool from a wool stapler and:
1. Carried it to the spinners.
2. Carried it to the weaver.
3. Carried it to the factory.
4. None of the above.

Q45. The finishing of the cloth was done in ............. before the export merchants sold the cloth in the international
market.
1. US.
2. Sydney.
3. London.
4. Moscow.

Q46. Who created the cotton mill?

1. James Hargreaves.
2. Mathew Boulton.
3. Richard Arkwright.
4. James Watt.
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Q47. The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly:

1. Cotton and jute.
2. Jute and metals.
3. Cotton and metals.
4. Only metals.

Q48. In the year 1931, which of the following locations has highest concentration of large scale industries in India?
1. Madras.
2. Punjab.
3. Bombay.
4. Bengal.

Q49. The first symbol of the new era was . Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.
1. Wool
2. Silver
3. Cotton
4. Aluminum

Q50. Even at the end of the nineteenth century, of the total workforce was employed in technologically
advanced industrial sectors.
1. Less than 70 percent.
2. More than 50 percent
3. Less than 20 percent.
4. More than 80 percent.

Q51. Surat and Hoogly were replaced with:

1. Bombay and Orissa.
2. Bombay and Calcutta.
3. Masulipatam and Calcutta.
4. Calcutta and Madras.

Q52. Hoogly in had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.

1. Orissa.
2. Gujarat.
3. Bengal.
4. Maharashtra.

Q53. Which of the following innovations helped the weavers in increasing productivity and compete with mill sector?
1. Spining jenny.
2. Fly shuttle.
3. Cotton Gin.
4. Roller.
Q54. What is yarn?
1. Cotton.
2. Thread.
3. Wool.
4. Bread.

Q55. E.T. Pauli produced a music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the:
1. ‘Dawn of the year’.
2. ‘Dawn of the Century’.
3. ‘Dawn of the country’.
4. None of the above.
.

Q56. Who set up six joint-stock companies in Bengal in the 1830s and 1840s?
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1. Dwarkanath Tagore.
2. J. N. Tata.
3. Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy.
4. R. D. Tata.

Q57. Merchants were based in towns but the work was done mostly:
1. On the roadside.
2. In their houses.
3. In the countryside.
4. All the above.

Q58. created the cotton mill.

1. Richard Arkwright.
2. Orville Wright.
3. James Watt.
4. None of the above.

Q59. The Marwari businessman who set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917 was:
1. Seth Hukumchand.
2. Seth Manikchand.
3. Seth Ramchand.
4. None of the above.
Q60. Coarser cottons were produced in many countries, but the fine varieties often came from:
1. China.
2. Japan.
3. Bangladesh.
4. India.
Q61. The industry where the demand for labour was seasonal:
1. breweries.
2. iron and steel industry.
3. cotton industry.
4. None of these.

Q62. When was the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta set up?
1. 1912
2. 1919
3. 1918
4. 1917

Q63. As Surat and Hoogly ports in India decayed, and ports grew in India.
1. Calcutta and Madras.
2. Masulipatnam and Calcutta.
3. Bombay and Calcutta.
4. Madras and Bombay.

Q64. Machines were oriented to produce:

1. Fancy dresses standardised goods for a few people.
2. Uniforms for a mass market.
3. Uniforms, standardised goods for a mass market.
4. None of the above.

Q65. In mid-nineteenth century in Britain; 500 varieties of ………… were produced and 45 kinds of …………
1. Fancy dresses, uniforms.
2. Cups, plates.
3. Hammers, axes.
4. All the above.

Q66. The company appointed a paid servant to supervise weavers. He was called:
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1. Officers.
2. Tehsildar.
3. Gomastha.
4. None of the above.
Q67. The production process (carding, twisting and spinning, and rolling) is associated with the production of:
1. Ships.
2. Railways.
3. Cotton.
4. None of the above.

Q68. The upper classes the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie preferred things produced by:
1. Machines.
2. Hand.
3. Both (a) and (b).
4. None of the above.

Q69. In the early nineteenth century wages:

1. Increased.
2. Decreased.
3. Remained the same.
4. None of the above.

Q70. Which country faced labour shortage in the nineteenth century?

1. Britain.
2. Japan.
3. America.
4. France.

Q71. Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from dominated the international market in
textiles.
1. Britain.
2. China.
3. India.
4. France.

Q72. The proto-industrial system was a part of a network of:

1. Commercial exchanges.
2. Loose exchanges.
3. A global exchanges.
4. All the above.