Welcome to your The Making of Global World MCQs Mock Test 10th Class S.St.
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Q1 The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the _____.
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Q2. Most Indian indentured workers came from the present-day regions of ______.
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Q 3. Migrants from ______ went to Ceylon and Malaya.
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Q4. India’s nationalist leaders began opposing the system of indentured labour migration as abusive and cruel. It was abolished in ______.
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Q5. Who worked in American plantations during the 18th century:
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Q6. Reason for decline of cotton textile export from India to Britain in the early 19th century: (a) imposition of tariff on cotton import into Britain. (b) quality of cotton textile was poor. (c) shortage of raw cotton in India. (d) cotton producers had found other buyers.
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Q7. When the export of cotton textile to Britain declined, India did not lose much. Why?
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Q8. Give the correct reason for decline of household income in Europe after the First World War:
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Q9. During the First World War women in Europe stepped into jobs which earlier men were expected to do. What was the reason?
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Q10. Which of the following did not take part in the First World War?
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Q11. In which country did the Great Depression start?
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Q12. Identify one aim of the post-war international economic system:
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Q13. Many of our common foods such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts, maize, etc. were only introduced in Europe and Asia after ________ accidentally discovered the vast continent that would later become known as the Americas.
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14. Precious metals, particularly _______, from mines located in present-day Peru and Mexico enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade with Asia.
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Q15. Many expeditions set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of ______.
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Q16. America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against diseases that came from Europe. _______ in particular proved a deadly killer.
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Q17. Who adopted the concept of assembly line to manufacture automobiles?
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Q18. Name the place and the year of United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference:
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Q19. What was the outcome of Bretton Woods Conference? It led to the establishment of:
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Q20. Why did China become an attractive destination for Multi-National Companies?
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Q21. From the mid-19th century, faster industrial growth in Britain led to:
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Q22. Which of the following countries has an effective right of veto over key IMF and World Bank decisions?
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Q23. The First World War was fought mainly in
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Q24. The geographical exploration in Africa was directly linked to (
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Q25. From ancient times travellers travel long distances in search of
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Q26. Common foods like potatoes, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes were introduced in
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Q27. 10,000,000 people died in Ireland between 1845-1849 due to
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Q28. Thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century due to
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Q29 Reduced role of ________ and the rising importance of the Americas gradually moved the centre of world trade westwards.
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Q30. Which country passed the ‘Corn Laws’ to restrict the import of corn?
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Q31. Demand for ______ led to the migration of people to America and Australia.
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Q32. Between 1820 and 1914, world trade is estimated to have multiplied 25 to 40 times. Nearly _______ percent of this trade comprised ‘primary products’.
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Q33. One of the oldest livestock markets in ________ was at Smithfield.
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Q34. Animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point – in America, Australia or New Zealand, and then transported to ________ as frozen meat, thereby reducing the shipping costs and reducing meat prices.
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Q35. In 1885 the big European powers met in ______ to complete the carving up of Africa between them.
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Q36. The US also became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies earlier held by ________.
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Q37. In Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of _______ had a terrifying impact on people’s livelihoods and the local economy.
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Q38. Europeans came to _______ hoping to establish plantations and mines, but they faced the problem of Labour shortage.
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Q39. Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s. It was carried by infected cattle imported from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers invading ______ in East Africa.
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Q40. The loss of _______ destroyed African livelihoods.
