Class 10th History Chapter – 5 The Age of Industrialisation MCQ

Class 10th History Chapter – 5 The Age of Industrialisation

TextbookNCERT
Class 10th
Subject Social Science (History)
Chapter 5th
Chapter NameThe Age of Industrialisation
CategoryClass 10th Social Science History 
Medium English
SourceLast Doubt

Class 10th History Chapter – 5 The Age of Industrialisation

Chapter – 5

The Age of Industrialisation

MCQ

(1) Ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in many _______ sectors such as _________.

A. Non-mechanised
B. Mechanised
C. Both (A) and (B)
D. None of the above

Answer – (A) Non-mechanised

(2) James Watt patented the new engine in _______.

A. 1791
B. 1581
C. 1681
D. 1781

Answer – (D) 1781

(3) Which of the following statements are true about Gomasthas.

A. In many weaving villages, there were reports of clashes between weavers and gomasthas.
B. The new gomasthas were outsiders, with no long-term social link with the village.
C. Gomasthas had a close relationship with weavers.
D. Both (A) and (B).

Answer – (D) Both (A) and (B).

(4) ___________ created the cotton mill.

A. Orville Wright
B. Richard Arkwright
C. James Watt
D. None of the above

Answer – (B) Richard Arkwright

(5) Even at the end of the nineteenth century, ________ of the total workforce was employed in technologically advanced industrial sectors.

A. Less than 20 percent
B. More than 80 percent
C. Less than 70 percent
D. More than 50 percent

Answer – (A) Less than 20 percent

(6) Growing at a rapid pace, ________ was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s.

A. Shipping
B. Mineral industry
C. Cotton
D. None of the above

Answer – (C) Cotton

(7) With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for ______ and _______ increased rapidly.

A. Iron and Steel
B. Jute and Cotton
C. Aluminium and Bauxite
D. Copper and Steel

Answer – (A) Iron and Steel

(8) By 1873 Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about £ 77 million, double the value of its ________export.

A. Meat
B. Cotton
C. Steam engines
D. None of the above

Answer – (B) Cotton

(9) __________ products came to symbolise refinement and class.

A. Machine Made
B. Handmade
C. Both (A) and (B)
D. None of the above

Answer – (B) Handmade

(10) The first symbol of the new era was ________. Its production boomed in the late nineteenth century.

A. Cotton
B. Wool
C. Silver
D. Aluminium

Answer – (A) Cotton

(11) Which of the following statements are true about Steam Engines?

A. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were not more than 321 steam engines all over England.
B. Mathew Boulton manufactured the new model of steam engines.
C. James Watt improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781.
D. All the above statements are true.

Answer – Option (D) All the above statements are true.

(12) The production process (carding, twisting and spinning, and rolling) is associated with the production of _______.

A. Cotton
B. Ships
C. Railways
D. None of the above

Answer – (A) Cotton

(13) ________ goods were for export to the colonies.

A. Handmade
B. Machine made
C. None of the above
D. Both (A) and (B)

Answer – (B) Machine made

(14) _______ and ______ merchants took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, Eastern Persia and Central Asia.

A. Turkish and Persian
B. Armenian and Persian
C. Afghan and Persian
D. Chinese and Persian

Answer – (B) Armenian and Persian

(15) Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from _________ dominated the international market in textiles.

A. India
B. Britain
C. China
D. France

Answer – (A) India

(16) _______ on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and the Red Sea Ports.

A. Okha
B. Porbandar
C. Surat
D. Kandla

Answer – (C) Surat

(17) ________ on the Coromandel Coast and had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.

A. Calicut
B. Masulipatam
C. Mangalore
D. Paradip

Answer – (B) Masulipatam

(18) The earliest factories in England came up by _____. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied.

A. 1760s
B. 1830s
C. 1730s
D. None of the above

Answer – (C) 1730s

(19) Hoogly in _______ had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.

A. Maharashtra
B. Gujarat
C. Orissa
D. Bengal

Answer – (D) Bengal

(20) As Surat and Hoogly ports in India decayed, _____ and _____ ports grew in India.

A. Bombay and Calcutta
B. Madras and Bombay
C. Calcutta and Madras
D. Masulipatnam and Calcutta

Answer – (A) Bombay and Calcutta

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