Welcome to your Age of Industrialisation MCQs Mock Test 10th Class S.St.
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Q1. Name the most dynamic industry in Britain.
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Q2. How did the East India Company prevent the Indian weavers from dealing with other companies?
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Q3. Which war materials were produced in India to supply to Britain during World War I?
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Q 4. The earliest factories in England came up by _____. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied.
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Q5. Why did the weavers suffer from a problem of raw cotton?
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Q 6.The first symbol of the new era was ________. Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.
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Q7. ___________ created the cotton mill.
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Q8. The production process (carding, twisting and spinning, and rolling) is associated with the production of _______.
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Q9. Growing at a rapid pace, ________ was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s.
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Q10. With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for ______ and _______ increased rapidly.
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Q12. Ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in many _______ sectors such as _________.
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Q 13.Even at the end of the nineteenth century, ________ of the total workforce was employed in technologically advanced industrial sectors.
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Q14. James Watt patented the new engine in _______.
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Q 15. Which of the following statements are true about Steam Engines?
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Q16. __________ products came to symbolise refinement and class.
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Q 17. ________ goods were for export to the colonies.
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Q18. Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from _________ dominated the international market in textiles.
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Q 19. _______ and ______ merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, Eastern Persia and Central Asia.
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Q20. ________ on the Coromandel Coast and had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.
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Q21. _______ on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and the Red Sea Ports.
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Q22. Hoogly in _______ had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.
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Q23. As Surat and Hoogly ports in India decayed, _____ and _____ ports grew in India.
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Q24. Which of the following statements are true about Gomasthas.
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Q25. The person who got people from village, ensured them jobs, helped them settle in cities and provided them money in times of need was known as:
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Q26. Why did Manchester export to India decline after the First World War?
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Q27. Why were workers in England hostile to machines and new technology?
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Q28. Why were there frequent clashes between the gomastha and the weavers?
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Q29. From which of the following trade did the early entrepreneurs make a fortune?
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Q 30. Which of the following was a European managing agency?
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Q31. Why did the weavers suffer from a problem of raw cotton?
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Q32. In Victorian Britain the upper classes- aristocratic class and bourgeoisie preferred handmade goods because: (
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Q33. By late 19th century why did the British manufacturers print calendars for advertisements?
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Q34. Which of the following innovations helped the weavers in increasing productivity and compete with mill sector?
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Q35. In the 17th century, merchants from towns in Europe moved to the countryside to:
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Q36. Name the first industrial country in the world:
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Q37. Why couldn’t the merchants expand production within towns?
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Q38. Where was the first cotton mill established? ;
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Q39. Who devised the Spinning Jenny?
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Q40. How did urban merchants acquire trade monopoly?
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Q41. Indian industrial growth increased after First World War because:
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Q42. Which of the following helped the production of handloom cloth?
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Q43. Why was it difficult to get a job in a factory in 19th century Britain?
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Q44. What made workers become hostile to the ‘Spinning Jenny’?
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Q45. Which of the following is not a reason why industrialists in 19th century Europe preferred hand labour over machines?
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Q46. After 1940s, building activity opened up greater opportunities of employment. What kind of work was introduced?
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Q47. Coarser cotton was produced in many countries but finer varieties came from:
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Q48. With the growth of colonial power, trade through the new ports of Bombay and Calcutta came to be controlled by:
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Q49. Identify the incorrect option. Early entrepreneur of India:
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Q50. How did the mill owners organize the recruitment of workers? Choose the correct answer from the list given below:
