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WorksheetsThe Age of Industrialisation
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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
11. Which of the following statements are true about Steam Engines?
(A) At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were not more than 321 steam engines all over England.
(B) Mathew Boulton manufactured the new model of steam engines.
(C) James Watt improved the steam engine produced by Newcomen and patented the new engine in 1781.
(D) All the above statements are true.
12. ________ and ________ were especially busy through the cold months.
(A) Gas works and Industrial works
(B) Market works and breweries
(C) Gas works and breweries
(D) Industrial workers and Industry work
13. In mid – nineteenth – century Britain, for instance, 500 varieties of hammers were produced and 45 kinds of axes. These required
(A) Mechanical technology, not human skill
(B) Human skill, not mechanical technology
(C) Both human skill and the mechanical technology
(D) Nor the human skill or neither the mechanical technology
14. With the expansion of railways, in England from the 1840s and in the colonies from the 1860s, the demand for ______ and ______ increased rapidly.
(A) Iron and Steel
(B) Jute and Cotton
(C) Aluminum and Bauxite
(D) Copper and Steel
15. In Victorian Britain, who were the upper classes –
(A) The aristocrats and the bourgeoisie
(B) The aristocrats and the rich merchants
(C) The bourgeoisie and the rich merchants
(D) Rich merchants and the industrial owner
16. Which British officer said the demand for Indian textile could never decrease as other nations could not produce the textile goods of comparable quality?
(A) James Wattler
(B) Henry Patullo
(C) Mathew Boulton
(D) William IV
17. Growing at a rapid pace, ________ was the leading sector in the first phase of industrialisation up to the 1840s.
(A) Shipping
(B) Mineral industry
(C) Cotton
(D) None of the above
18. What was the 3rd Pace of Industrial Change in Britain?
(A) The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly cotton and metals.
(B) The new industries could not easily displace traditional industries.
(C) The pace of change in the ‘traditional’ industries was not set by steam-powered cotton or metal industries.
(D) Technological changes occurred slowly. They did not spread dramatically across the industrial landscape.
19. According to historians, who was the typical worker in the mid-nineteenth century?
(A) Craftsperson and labourer
(B) Machine operator
(C) Unskilled labour
(D) None of these
20. How were new consumers created?
(A) By producing free for new areas
(B) Through advertisement
(C) By giving samples
(D) By setting up middlemen
21. Which of the following statements is not true about the album cover “Dawn of the century”?
(A) The painting appeared on the cover of a music book published by E.T. Pauli in 1900.
(B) The center of the picture represents the angel of progress, bearing the flag of the new century.
(C) She is gently perched on a wheel with wings, symbolizing scientific inventions.
(D) Her flight is taking her into the future.
22. Dwarkanath Tagore was a/an?
(A) Philanthropist
(B) Educationist
(C) Social reformer
(D) Industrialist
23. Invented the Steam Engine: Newcomen
Improved upon the steam engine and patented it: _________
(A) James Watt
(B) Richard Arkwright
(C) James Fuller
(D) James Hargreaves
24. London came to be known as a _______before the cloth was sold in the international market.
(A) Trade centre
(B) Finishing centre
(C) Work centre
(D) Manufacturing centre
25. What impact did the First World War have on the Industrial Growth in India?
i) Manchester imports into India declined, Indian mills had a vast home market to supply
ii) Indian factories were called upon to supply war needs: jute bags, cloth for army uniforms, tents and leather boots, horse and mule saddles
iii) Industrial growth declined
iv) there was lack of raw material and supplies
(A) i only
(B) i and ii
(C) All of the above
(D) None of the above
