Practice Test

Q1) Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
(i) James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny
(ii) James Watt patented the Steam Engine.
(iii) Richard Arkwright created the first Cotton Mill.
(iv) Mathew Boulton manufactured the new model of Steam Engine. Show Answer

Q2) Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
(i) J. N. Tata set up the first iron and steel plant in Jamshedpur
(ii) Dwarkanath Tagore set up six joint stock companies in Bengal.
(iii) Seth Hukumchand set up the first jute mill in Calcutta.
(iv) Music Publisher E. T. Paull produced a music book Show Answer

Q3) Which of the following was a European managing agency? Show Answer

Q4) From which of the following trade did the early entrepreneur make a fortune? Show Answer

Q5) Whom did the British Government appoint to supervise weavers, collect supplies and to examine the quality of cloth? Show Answer

Q6) The person who got people from village, ensured them jobs, helped them settle in cities an provided them money in times of need was known as : Show Answer

Q7) Why were workers in England hostile to machines and new technology? Show Answer

Q8) Analyze the information given below, considering one of the following correct options:

The abundance of labour in the market affected the lives of workers. As news of possible jobs travelled to the countryside, hundreds tramped to the cities.
The actual possibility of getting a job depended on existing networks of friendship and kin relations. If you had a relative or a friend in a factory, you were more likely to get a job quickly. But not everyone had social connections. Many jobs seekers had to wait weeks, spending nights under bridges or in night shelters. Some stayed in Night Refuges that were set up by private individuals; others went to the casual wards maintained by the Poor Law authorities. Show Answer

Q9) Analyze the information given below, considering one of the following correct options:

By the late nineteenth century, manufacturers were printing calendars to popularize their products. Unlike newspaper and magazines, calendars were used even by people who could not read. They were hung in tea shops and in poor people's homes just as much as in offices and middle -class apartments. And those who hung the calendars had to see the advertisement, day after day, through the year. In these calendars, once again we see the figures of Gods being used to sell new products.
Like the images of gods, figures of important personages, of emperors and nawabs, adorned advertisement and calendars. The message very often seemed to say; if you respect to the royal figure, then respect this product; when the product was being used by kings, or produced under Royal command, its quality could not be questioned. Show Answer

Q10) Find the incorrect option from the following: Show Answer

Q11) Find the incorrect option from the following:
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Q12) Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.

Assertion (A) : European Managing Agencies, which dominated industrial production in India, were interested in certain kinds of products.

Reason (R) : They established tea and coffee plantations, acquiring land at cheap rates from the Colonial Government; and they invested in mining, indigo and jute. Show Answer

Q13) Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.

Assertion (A) : The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly Cotton and Metals

Reason (R) : By 1873, Britain was exporting iron and steel worth about £ 77 million, double the value of its cotton export. Show Answer

Q14) Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.

Assertion (A) : The new emerging industries in England could not replace the traditional industries.

Reason (R) : Ordinary and small innovations were the basic of growth in many non-mechanized sectors
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Q15) Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.

Assertion (A) : There was a lot of opposition to the introduction of Spinning Jenny in the cotton industry.

Reason (R) : Invention of machines threatened the employment of many women . Show Answer

Q16) Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.

Assertion (A) : The ports of Bombay and Calcutta declined.

Reason (R) : As European companies gradually gained power over Indian trade, local merchants start facing loss and exports from Surat and Hooghly ports fell. Show Answer

Q17) Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.

Assertion (A) : Certain group of weavers prospered even when being in competition with mill industries.

Reason (R) : Handicrafts people adopts new technology that decline production and pushing up costs excessively. Show Answer

Q18) Merchants from the towns in Europe began moving to the: Show Answer

Q19) The Merchants persuaded peasants and artisans to produce for : Show Answer

Q20) With the expansion of World trade, the demand for goods began_______ Show Answer

Q21) Associations of _______ trained Craftspeople, maintained control over production, regulated competition and prices and restricted the entry of new people into the trade. Show Answer

Q22) Who invented or produced the first Steam Engine? Show Answer

Q23) Who manufactured the new model of Steam Engine? Show Answer

Q24) How many Steam Engines were there at the beginning of the nineteenth country all over the England? Show Answer

Q25) Out of 321 Steam Engine, how many were used in Cotton Industries? Show Answer

Q26) _______ were Standardized products, which were produced for a mass market. Show Answer

Q27) _______ varieties of hammers and _______ kinds of axes were produced in Britain in mid - nineteenth century. Show Answer

Q28) In Victorian Britain, the aristocrats and bourgeoisie belonged to the ______. Show Answer

Q29) _________ products symbolised refinement and class. Show Answer

Q30) Who secured concessions from local Courts? Show Answer

Q31) Hooghly and _____ were the old Ports. Show Answer

Q32) ______ slowly went bankrupt. Show Answer

Q33) The gross value of trade that passed through Surat had been __________. Show Answer

Q34) Why did Manchester export to India decline after the First World War? Show Answer

Q35) Why were there frequent clashes between the gomastha and the weavers? Show Answer

Q36) Why did the weavers suffer from a problem of raw cotton? Show Answer

Q37) In Victorian Britain the upper classes-aristocratic class and bourgeoisie preferred handmade goods because: Show Answer

Q38) By late 19th century why did the British manufactures print calendars for advertisements? Show Answer

Q39) Which of the following innovations helped the weavers in increasing productivity and compete with sector? Show Answer

Q40) In Bengal, Dwarakanath Tagore made his fortune in China Trade. Show Answer

Q41) G.D. Birla was a Parsi entrepreneur who built huge industrial empire in India. Show Answer

Q42) Advertisements make the products appear desirable and necessary. Show Answer

Q43) When there is plenty of labour, wages are low. Show Answer

Q44) In European society, members of the royal family are referred as 'bourgeoisie'. Show Answer

Q45) Which of the following industries became the most dynamic industries in Britain ? Show Answer

Q46) Which of the following is not a reason why industrialists in the 19th century Europe preferred hand labour over machines ? Show Answer

Q47) In Victorian Britain, the upper classes - aristocratic class and bourgeoisie preferred hand made goods.
Identify the reason from the given options. Show Answer

Q48) What made workers become hostile to the Spinning Jenny ? Identify the correct reason from the given options : Show Answer

Q49) Why it was difficult to get a job in a factory despite expansion of factories ? Choose the correct option : Show Answer

Q50) Assertion (A) :
In 1760s and 1770s, the East India Company faced problems in getting a regular supply of goods for exports.
Reason (R) :
Emergence of new ports was an indication of the growth of new colonial powers. Show Answer

Q51) Assertion (A) :
With the expansion of factories, the demand for workers increased.
Reason (R) :
Many worker travelled distant places in the hope of work in the mills. Show Answer

Q52) Assertion (A) :
The period of industrialisation before the first factories came up in Europe is termed as proto-industrialisation.
Reason (R) :
This period was marked by merchants from towns getting products made in villages. Show Answer

Q53) Assertion (A) :
When the Spinning Jenny was introduced in the woolen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began to opposing new machines.
Reason (R) :
The fear of unemployment made workers unfriendly to the introduction of new technology. Show Answer

Q54) Assertion (A):
By the 1750s, with the arrival of the European companies the Indians started losing their control over the trade.
Reason (R) :
There was a decline of the old ports like Surat, and Hooghly and the emergence of new ports like Bombay and Calcutta. Show Answer

Q55) What was the status of human labour in Britain ?
Select the best suitable option from the following with the reference to the context. Show Answer

Q56) What kind of production demanded seasonal labour ? Identify the best suitable option from the following: Show Answer

Q57) What was the possibility of getting a job with abudance of labour in cities such as London ? With reference to the above context, infer the appropriate option. Show Answer

Q58) What were the problems workers faced during the Industrialisation ? Identify the best suitable option from the following : Show Answer

Q59) Which of the following aspect is correct regarding the given sources ?
Identify the correct option : Show Answer

Q60) Who set up six joint stock companies in Bengal in the 1830s and 1840s ? Show Answer

Q61) In the year 1931, which of the following locations has highest concentration of large scale industries in India ? Show Answer

Q62) Which image of God was most commonly used to popularise baby products ? Show Answer

Q63) Find the incorrect option : Show Answer

Q64) Choose the correctly matched pair from the given options : Show Answer