The Age of Industrialisation

1. Match the correct options

• (i)-(d), (ii)-(c), (iii)-(b), (iv)-(a)

• (i)-(c), (ii)-(c), (iii)-(b), (iv)-(b)

• (i)-(b), (ii)-(a), (iii)-(d), (iv)-(c)

• (i)-(d), (ii)-(c), (iii)-(a), (iv)-(b)

2. Which of the following countries faced labour shortage in the nineteenth century?

• (A) America

• (B) Britain

• (C) France

• (D) Germany

3. In Victorian Britain the upper classes- aristocratic class and bourgeoisie preferred handmade goods because:

• (A) They were made from imported material.

• (B) The handmade goods came to symbolize refinement and class.

• (C) They were better finished.

• (D) Only upper class could afford the expensive items.

4. A variety of Indian merchants and bankers were involved in this network of export trade –

• (A) Financing production, carrying goods and supplying exporters.

• (B) Financing production, carrying exporters and supplying goods.

• (C) Financing goods, carrying and supplying products.

• (D) Carrying and supplying goods and producing good products.

5. Before the age of machine industries, ______ and ______ goods from India dominated the international market in textiles.

• (A) silk and cotton

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  (B) jute and cotton

• (C) silk and jute

• (D) None of the above

6. Which War caused new problems for Indian weavers?

• (A) First world war

• (B) Second world war

• (C) The American Civil War

• (D) None of these

7. The actual possibility of getting a job depended on existing networks of

• (A) Friendship and kin relations

• (B) Relationship and houseless

• (C) Poor and healthy worker

• (D) None of the above

8. Due to the__________, most of the workers failed to get jobs So they offered their services at lower wages.

• (A) Lot of workers

• (B) Shortage of work

• (C) Shortage of workers

• (D) None of the above

9.  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

10. 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