26 MCQs of The Age of Industrialisation

Multiple Choice Questions of The Age of Industrialisation

Brief Concepts of the Lesson –
1. Proto industrialization – The early phases of industrialization in which large scale production was carried out for international market not at factories but in decentralized units.

2. Spinning Jenny – that speeded up the spinning process and reduced labour demand.

3. There were the associations of producers that trained crafts people, maintained control overproduction regulated competition and prices and restricted the entry of new people within the trade were known as trade guides.

4. An employee of the industrialists whose job was to get new recruits for mills was known as jobber.

5. Cottagers and poor peasants who had earlier depended on common land for their survival, gathering their firewood, barriers, vegetables, lay and straw had to now take for alternative sources on income.

6. In most industrial regions, workers came from the district around. Peasants and Artisans who found no work in the village went to the industrial centers in search of work.

7. By the late 19th century manufactures were printing calendars to popularize their products. Unlike newspapers and, magazines, calendars were used even by people who could not read. They were hurry in tea shops and in poor people’s homes just as much as in offices and middle class apartments.

26 Multiple Choice Questions of The Age of Industrialisation

Q.1: - Guilds were associations of-
(a) Industrialization
(b) Exporters
(c) Traders
(d) Producers

Q.2: - 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

Q.3: - First country to undergo industrial revolution is
(a) Japan
(b) Britain
(c) Germany
(d) France

Q.4: - 18th Century India witnessed the decline of which port town?
(a) Surat
(b) Bombay
(c) Calcutta
(d) Madras

Q.5: - The paid servants of the East India Company was
(a) Seth
(b) Mamlatdar
(c) Gomastha
(d) Lambardar

Q.6: - Who devised the Spinning Jenny.
(a) Samual Luck
(b) Richard Arkwright
(c) James Hargreaves
(d) James Watt.

Q.7: - When was the first cotton mill set up in India -
(a) 1814
(b) 1824
(c) 1854
(d) 1864

Q.8: - In India the first cotton mill set up in-
(a) Madras
(b) Bombay
(c) Kanpur
(d) Surat

Q.9: - What was the fly shuttle used for-
(a) Washing
(b) Weaving
(c) Drying
(d) Sowing

Q.10:- Who invented the steam engine-
(a) James Watt
(b) New Camen
(c) Richard Arkwright
(d) None of the above

Q.11: - Who was E.T. Paull
(a) He was a popular music publisher
(b) Economist
(c) Writer
(d) Philosopher

Q.12: - Dwarkanath Tagore is a
(a) Painter
(b) Industrialist
(c) Publisher
(d) Social Reformer

Q.13: - What did the term ‘Orient’ refers to-
(a) England
(b) Asia
(c) Russia
(d) America


Q.14: - How did advertisements reach the common people-
(a) T.V.
(b) Radio
(c) Calendars
(d) Products

Q.15: - Which among these was a pre colonial sea port?
(a) Vishakhapatnam
(b) Chennai
(c) Hoogly
(d)Cochin

Q.16:- The first Asian country to be industrialized was -
(a) Japan
(b) India
(c) China
(d) Afghanistan

Q.17:- It is the first industrial city in England-
(b) Manchester
(b) London
(c) Oxford
(d) Wales

Q.18:- This city connected India to the gulf and red sea port in the pre-colonial period.
(a) Mumbai
(b) Surat
(c) Madras
(d) Calicut

Q.19:- Which one is the flourishing industry of England?
(a) Cotton industry
(b) Jute industry
(c) Iron and steel industry
(d) I.T

Q.20:- Which Indian entrepreneur set up six joint stock companies in India in 1830?
(a) Dinshaw petit
(b) Dwarka Nath Tagore
(c) Jamshedjee Tata
(d) Seth Hukum Chand

Q.21:- Who established the first jute mill in India?
(a) Dinshaw Petit
(b) Dwarkanath Tagore
(c) Jamshedjee Tata
(d) Seth Hukumchand

Q.22:- Elgin mill was set up at
(a) Luknow
(b) Calicut
(c) Kanpur
(d) Madras

Q.23:- When was the telephone invented?
(a) 1885
(b) 1976
(c) 1876
(d) 1776

Q.24:- Where was the first jute mill established?
(a) Surat
(b) Delhi
(c) Culcutta
(d) Bombay

Q.25:- The Tata iron and steel company was formed
(a) 1807
(b) 1907
(c) 1957
(d) 1865

Q.26:- The machine age in India started in-
(a) 1850
(b) 1900
(c) 1950
(d) 1890

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1. (d) Producers
2. (a) Employed by industrialists to get new recruits
3. (b) Britain
4. (a) Surat
5. (c) Gomastha
6. (c) James Hargreaves
7. (c) 1854
8. (b) Bombay
9. (b) Weaving
10. (a) James Watt
11. (a) He was a popular music publisher
12. (b) Industrialist
13. (b) Asia
14. (c) Calendars
15. (c) Hoogly
16. (b) India
17. (b) London
18. (b) Surat
19. (c) Iron and steel industry
20. (b) Dwarka Nath Tagore
21. (d) Seth Hukumchand
22. (c) Kanpur
23. (c) 1876
24. (c) Culcutta
25. (b) 1907
26. (a) 1850