MCQ Class 10 Social Science Chapter 4 The Age of Industrialisation

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Question. Which of the following best defines a Jobber?
(a) Employed by industrialists to get new recruits
(b) Old trusted worker
(c) Person of authority and power
(d) Controlled lives of workers

Question. The paid servants of the East India Company were
(a) Seth
(b) Mamlatdar
(c) Gomastha
(d) Lambardar

Question. When was the first cotton mill set up in India in?
(a) 1814
(b) 1824
(c) 1854
(d) 1864

Question. What was the fly shuttle used for-
(a) Washing
(b) Weaving
(c) Drying
(d) Sowing

Question. Which among these was a pre colonial sea port?
(a) Hoogly
(b) Vishakhapatnam
(c) Chennai
(d) Cochin

Question. The machine age in India started in-
(a) 1850
(b) 1950
(c) 1900
(d) 1890

Question. When was the telephone invented?
(a) 1876
(b) 1885
(c) 1976
(d) 1776

Question. Who established the first jute mill in India?
(a) Seth Hukumchand
(b) Dinshaw Petit
(c) Dwarkanath Tagore
(d) Jamshedjee Tata

Question. Which one is the flourishing industry of England?
(a) Iron and steel industry
(b) Cotton industry
(c) Jute industry
(d) I.T

Question. The first Asian country to be industrialized was –
(a) India
(b) Japan
(c) China
(d) Afghanistan

Question. Dwarkanath Tagore is a
(a) Industrialist
(b) Painter
(c) Publisher
(d) Social Reformer

Question. What was the fly shuttle used for-
(a) Weaving
(b) Washing
(c) Drying
(d) Sowing

Question. Who devised the Spinning Jenny.
(a) James Hargreaves
(b) Samual Luck
(c) Richard Arkwright
(d) James Watt.

Question. First country to undergo industrial revolution is
(a) Britain
(b) Japan
(c) Germany
(d) France

Question. Guilds were associations of-
(a) Producers
(b) Industrialization
(c) Exporters
(d) Traders

Question. Which one was the pre-colonial port where sea trade was carried on?
(A) Calcutta 
(B) Bombay
(C) Orissa 
(D) Sura

Question. Two most dynamic industries of Britain in the early nineteenth century
(A) Iron & Steel 
(B) Cotton & Steel
(C) Iron & Metal 
(D) Cotton & Metal

Question. Who invented the spinning Jenny ? 
(A) Seth Hukumchand 
(B) James Renell
(C) James Mill 
(D) James Hargreaves

Question. What is Yarn?
(A) Cotton 
(B) Thread
(C) Wool 
(D) Bread

Question. When was the first cotton mill established in Bombay?
(A) 1854 
(B) 1856
(C) 1880 
(D) 1891

Question. What do you mean by ‘Gomastha’?
(a) An officer of the Company who acted as a go-between the Company and Indian traders
(b) An officer of the East India Company who looked after the textile trade
(c) A paid servant of the Company who supervised weavers, collected supplies and examined the quality of the cloth
(d) None of these

Question. Who was the Staplers and Fullers?
(a) Gathers cloth by pleating
(b) Sorts wool according to its fibre
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of these

Question. Why were workers in England hostile to machines and new technology?
(a) They did not know how to use these.
(b) They feared that they would lose their jobs and livelihood.
(c) The workers were too poor to buy new machines.
(d) They were scared of machines.

Question. Which of the following was a European managing agency?
(a) Tata Iron and Steel Company
(b) Andrew Yule
(c) Elgin Mill
(d) Birla industries

Question. In the 17^th century, merchants from towns in Europe moved to the countryside to:
(a) supply money to peasants and artisans to persuade them to produce for international markets.
(b) persuade them to settle in towns.
(c) provide them with small workshops.
(d) stop them from working for other companies.

Question. Where was the first cotton mill established? 
(a) Bombay
(b) Ahmedabad
(c) Kanpur
(d) Madras

Question. Which of the following helped the production of handloom cloth?
(a) Imposition of export duties
(b) Technological changes
(c) Government regulations
(d) Import duties

Question. The women in the woollen industry attacked the introduction of spinning jenny because
(a) fear of unemployment made the women workers hostile to the introduction of new technology
(b) the women did not know how to work the machine
(c) the women depended on hand-spinning
(d) all the above

Question. Which one of the following factories was considered as a symbol of new era in England in the late eighteenth century?
(a) Iron and steel
(b) Metal
(c) Jute
(d) Cotton

Question. Which one of the following was the job of the Gomastha?
(a) Supervise weavers
(b) Collect supplies
(c) Examine the quality of the cloth
(d) All the above

Question. Which of the following was not a problem of Indian weavers at the early 19th century?
(a) Shortage of raw material
(b) Clashes with Gomasthas
(c) Collapse of local and foreign market
(d) Setting up of new factories

Question. Where was the first Indian jute mill set up?
(a) Bengal
(b) Bombay
(c) Madras
(d) Bihar

Question. What was “Spinning Jenny”?
(a) A machine
(b) A person
(c) An industry
(d) None of the above

Question. Which one of the following European managing agencies did not control Indian industries?
(a) Bird Heiglers and Company
(b) Andrew Yule
(c) Indian Industrial and Commerce Congress
(d) Jardine Skinner and Company

Question. Which of the following was the main function of jobber, employed by the industrialists ?
(a) To collect money
(b) To set up industries
(c) To get a new recruit
(d) To supply raw material

Question. Whom did the British government appoint to supervise weavers, collect supplies and examine the quality of cloth?
(a) Jobber
(b) Sepoy
(c) Policeman
(d) Gomastha

Question. Which of the following helped the spread of handloom cloth production?
(a) Import duties
(b) Government regulations
(c) Technological changes
(d) Imposition of export duties

Question. Which among the following cities had trade links with South Asian ports?
(a) Masulipatam and Hoogly
(b) Masulipatam and Surat
(c) Surat and Bomaby (Mumbai)
(d) None of the above

Question. Surat and Hooghly were replaced with:
(a) Bombay and Orissa
(b) Bombay and Calcutta
(c) Masulipatam and Calcutta
(d) None of the above

Question. In which one of the following years did the first cotton mill in Bombay (Mumbai) come up?
(a) 1854
(b) 1855
(c) 1862
(d) 1874

Question. Who among the following set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?
(a) Seth Hukumchand
(b) G.D. Birla
(c) Jamsedjee Nusserwanjee Tata
(d) None of the above

Question. Which of the following was not a problem of Indian weavers at the early 19th century?
(a) Shortage of raw material
(b) Clashes with Gomasthas
(c) Collapse of local and foreign market
(d) Setting up of new factories

Question. In Victorian Britain, the aristrocrats and bourgeoisie preferred hand-made goods as:
(a) they were cheap
(b) they could be obtained easily
(c) they were made of better material
(d) they symbolised refinement and class

Question. Where was the first cotton mill set up in India?
(a) Ahemedabad
(b) Kanpur
(c) Bombay
(d) Madras

Question. Who established six joint stock companies in India during 1830-40?
(a) Jamsedji Nusserwanjee Tata
(b) Dinshaw Petit
(c) Seth Hukumchand
(d) Dwarkanath Tagore

Question. Which were the most dynamic industries in Britain during the 19th century?
(a) Cotton and metal
(b) Metal and sugar
(c) Ship and cotton
(d) Cotton and sugar

Question. In 1911, 67 percent of the large industries were located in which one of the following places in India?
(a) Bengal and Bombay
(b) Surat and Ahmedabad
(c) Delhi and Bombay
(d) Patna and Lucknow

Question. Which of the following helped the spread of handloom cloth production?
(a) Import duties
(b) Government regulations
(c) Technological changes
(d) Imposition of export duties

Question. Which of the following were the pre-colonial ports of India?
(a) Surat and Masulipatam
(b) Madras and Hoogly
(c) Madras and Bombay
(d) Bombay and Hoogly

Question. Who among the following was usually employed by the industrialists to get new recruits?
(a) Gomastha
(b) Policeman
(c) Sepoy
(d) Jobber

Question. Which of the following mechanical devices used for weaving, with ropes and pullies, which helped to weave wide pieces of cloth?
(a) Handloom
(b) Powerloom
(c) Fly Shuttle
(d) Spinning Jenny

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