Ncert Solutions Class 10th History Chapter – 6 Work, Life and Leisure MCQ

(1) Who developed the principles of a Garden City?

A. Thomas Hardy
B. Charles Dickens
C. Charles Booth
D. Ebenezer Howard

Answer – (D) Ebenezer Howard

(2) In which of the following year Bombay became the capital of Bombay presidency? 

A. 1819
B. 1850
C. 1872
D. 1880

Answer – (A) 1819

(3) Name one factor that changed the form of urbanisation in the modern world. 

A. Capitalism
B. Socialism
C. Industrialisation
D. Unemployment

Answer – (C) Industrialisation

(4) Who wrote the book “The Bitter Cry of Out Cast London” in the 1880s?

A. Andrew Mearns
B. Rowlandson
C. T.E Turner
D. None of the above

Answer – (A) Andrew Mearns

(5) What was not a reason for providing mass housing schemes for the workers?

A. Concern for the poor
B. Fear of social disorder
C. Threat to public health
D. Overcrowding of elite localities

Answer – (A) Concern for the poor

(6) Which movie did Dadasaheb Phalke make?

A. CID
B. Guest House
C. Raja Harishchandra
D. Tezab

Answer – (C) Raja Harishchandra

(7) Bombay at first was under control of?

A. Portuguese
B. English
C. French
D. Dutch

Answer – (A) Portuguese

(8) Which of the following cities has developed in a planned manner?

A. Delhi
B. Madras
C. Singapore
D. Lucknow

Answer – (C) Singapore

(9) Which of the following is not a factor responsible for urbanisation?

A. Increase of population
B. Rise of prices
C. Growth in factories
D. Rise of industrial capitalism

Answer – (B) Rise of prices

(10) What was the observation of Social Survey on London, conducted by Charles Booth in 1887?

A. In London most of the people are living on criminal activities.
B. The factory owners were exploiting the workers.
C. London needed rebuilding of at least 4,00,000 rooms to house its poor citizens.
D. London has become a polluted city.

Answer – (C) London needed rebuilding of at least 4,00,000 rooms to house its poor citizens.

(11) What was introduced in 1863 in London to enable the suburban people to commute to their place of work?

A. Underground railway
B. A network of macadamised roads
C. Incentives in the form of higher wages for commuting
D. Fast bus service

Answer – (A) Underground railway

(12) Why was there heavier smog in Calcutta than in other cities in the northern India?

A. The city had a large population who depends on dung or wood as fuel.
B. The city was built on a marshy land.
C. The city had more industrial units.
D. All the above

Answer – (D) All the above

(13) Which of the following most significantly changed the pattern of urbanisation?

A. Housing projects
B. Industrialisation
C. Rural population
D. Brisk trade

Answer – (B) Industrialisation

(14) Why was Baron Haussmann well-known?

A. For beautifying the city of London
B. For making the garden city of New Earswick
C. For rebuilding the city of Paris
D. For making a planned city in Singapore

Answer – (C) For rebuilding the city of Paris

(15) Which of the following statements best explain death due to asphyxiation?

A. Death due to poisoning
B. Death due to fear
C. Death due to lack of oxygen
D. Death due to lack of food

Answer – (C) Death due to lack of oxygen

(16) What was the main demand of the chartist movement started in 19th century?

A. Right to vote to all adult women
B. Voting right for all adult citizen
C. Voting right for all adult male
D. Voting right to rural people

Answer – (C) Voting right for all adult male

(17) Who among the following designed the city of New Earswick?

A. Charles Booth
B. Barry Parker
C. Ebenezer Howard
D. Gareth Stedman

Answer – (B) Barry Parker

(18) Suffrage means?

A. the freedom of speech
B. freedom from suffering
C. the right to vote
D. the right to education

Answer – (C) the right to vote

(19) What was referred by ’10 hour movement’? A movement for?

A. Fixing wage for 10 hours of work
B. Limiting work hours in factories
C. Fixing 10 hours of work in a week
D. Fixing 10 hours work for women in factories

Answer – (B) Limiting work hours in factories

(20) Multi-functional city having major ports, museum, Harbour, library etc. was known as?

A. metropolis
B. presidency city
C. capital city
D. premier city

Answer – (B) presidency city

(21) The pollutant caused by the combination of smoke and fog is called?

A. cloudy fog
B. smog
C. dense fog
D. smoking fog

Answer – (B) smog

(22) Which of the following was not an effect of the development of railways?

A. Introduction of a well functioning transit system
B. Connectivity to various schools
C. Enabling the people to live in garden city outside London and travel to work everyday
D. Weakend social distinction

Answer – (B) Connectivity to various schools

(23) In 1886 riot, what was the main demand of the workers?

A. Raise in the wages
B. Permanent job
C. Relief from terrible condition of poverty
D. Housing scheme for poor people

Answer – (C) Relief from terrible condition of poverty

(24) After which event did Bombay become the capital of Bombay Presidency?

A. Defeat of the Marathas in the first Anglo Maratha war in 1782.
B. Defeat of the Marathas in the 2nd Anglo Maratha war in 1803
C. Defeat of the Marathas in the third Anglo Maratha war in 1819
D. Defeat of the Marathas in Anglo – Mysore war

Answer – (C) Defeat of the Marathas in the third Anglo Maratha war in 1819

(25) What was the function of Bengal smoke Nuisance commission?

A. Inspection of factories
B. Controlling domestic and industrial smoke
C. Penalising the factory owner if the chimneys were not cleaned on time
D. Inspection of houses in urban areas

Answer – (B) Controlling domestic and industrial smoke

(26) The first Indian city to get Smoke Nuisance Legislation was?

A. Bombay
B. Madras
C. Calcutta
D. Delhi

Answer – (C) Calcutta

(27) In 1864 what project was taken up by Back Bay Reclamation Co.

A. A project to build a dockyard
B. A project to build the Ballard estate
C. A project to level the hills to make Malabar Hills
D. A project to develop Marine Drive

Answer – (C) A project to level the hills to make Malabar Hills

(28) Between 1914-1918 by which agency was the dry dock built in Bombay?

A. Improvement Trust
B. Back Bay Reclamation Company
C. Bombay Port Trust
D. By a private company

Answer – (C) Bombay Port Trust

(29) Which of the following is the God of creation?

A. Brahma
B. Vishnu
C. Shiva
D. Varuna

Answer – (A) Brahma

(30) Author of “Debganer Martye Aagaman” is?

A. Premchand
B. Saratchandra
C. Durgacharan Ray
D. Rabindranath Tagore

Answer – (C) Durgacharan Ray

(31) Which of the following city originally was a group of seven islands under Portuguese control?

A. Daman
B. Goa
C. Bombay
D. Cochin

Answer – (C) Bombay

(32) The Ruler who acquired Bombay as gift at the time of his marriage with a Portuguese princess was?

A. Charles I
B. Charles II
C. James Stuart
D. George II

Answer – (B) Charles II

(33) In which of his books did Charles Dickens wrote about the massive destruction in the construction of railways?

A. Hard times
B. Oliver Twist
C. Dombey and Son
D. Geminal

Answer – (C) Dombey and Son