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Chapter 4 The Age of Industrialisation MCQ with Answers Class 10 Social Science

MCQ Questions Class 10 Social Science The Age of Industrialisation provided below have been prepared by expert teachers of grade 10. These objective questions with solutions are expected to come in the upcoming Standard 10 examinations. Learn the below provided MCQ questions to get better marks in examinations.

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. 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. 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 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 abvoe

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. 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

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. 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 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. 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

Match the Following

Question. Match the following terms of Column ‘A’ with suitable options from Column ‘B’ :

Column ‘A’	Column ‘B’
(a) ‘Proto’	(i) an agent of a middleman between the merchant and weavers.
(b) Gomastha	(ii) A person who is employed by the Industrialist to get new recruits.
(c) Jobber	(iii) Indicating the first or early form of something.
(d) Fuller	(iv) an Indian soldier in the service of the British army.
(e) Sepoy	(v) A person who fulls i.e., gathers cloth by pleating.

(A) (a)-(iv), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(v), (e)-(iii)
(B) (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv), (e)-(v)
(C) (a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(ii), (d)-(v), (e)-(iv)
(D) (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(v), (e)-(iv)

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