Please refer to Chapter 4 The Age of Industrialisation MCQ Class 10 Social Science with answers below. These multiple-choice questions have been prepared based on the latest NCERT book for Class 10 Social Science. Students should refer to MCQ Questions for Class 10 Social Science with Answers to score more marks in Grade 10 Social Science exams. Students should read the chapter The Age of Industrialisation and then attempt the following objective questions.

MCQ Questions Class 10 Social Science Chapter 4 The Age of Industrialisation

The The Age of Industrialisation MCQ Class 10 Social Science provided below covers all important topics given in this chapter. These MCQs will help you to properly prepare for exams.

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. The history of many business groups goes back to trade with:
(a) Japan
(b) Britain
(c) USA
(d) China

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 were the pre-colonial ports of India?
(a) Surat and Masulipatam
(b) Madras and Hoogly
(c) Madras and Bombay
(d) Bombay and Hoogly

Question. Name the first industrial country in the world:
(a) France
(b) Japan
(c) Britain
(d) Germany

Question. From which of the following trade did the early entrepreneurs make a fortune?
(a) Textile trade
(b) China trade
(c) Trade in tea
(d) Industries

Question. Who devised the Spinning Jenny?
(a) James Hargreaves
(b) James Watt
(c) Richard Arkwright
(d) Samuel Luke

Question. Machines were oriented to produce :
(а) Fancy dresses standardised goods for a few people
(b) Uniforms for a mass market
(c) Uniforms, standardised goods for a mass market
(d) None of the above

Question. In mid-nineteenth century in Britain; 500 varieties of ……………………… were produced and 45 kinds of ……
(a) Fancy dresses, uniforms
(b) Cups, plates
(c) Hammers, axes
(d) All the above

Question. The upper classes the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie preferred things produced by:
(a) Machines
(b) Hand
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of the above

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. Masulipatam on the Coromandel coast and Hoogly in Bengal had trade links with:
(а) North-East Asian Ports
(b) South-East Asian Ports
(c) North-East Asian Ports
(d) South-East Asian Ports

Question. The French, Dutch, Portuguese as well as the local traders competed in the market:
(а) T secure raw clothes
(b) To secure finished clothes
(c) To secure woven clothes
(d) None of the above

Question. The Marwari businessman who set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917 was:
(a) Seth Hukumchand
(b) Seth Manikchand
(c) Seth Ramchand
(d) None of the above

Question. Advertisements of Indian manufacturers became a vehicle of the nationalist message of:
(a) Purely Indian
(b) Purely English
(c) Swadeshi
(d) None of the

Question. E.T. Pauli produced a music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the:
(a) Dawn of the year
(b) Dawn of the Century
(c) Dawn of the country
(d) none of the above

Question. Most historians refer to the phase of industrialisation as:
(a) Dawn-industrialisation
(b) Present-industrialisation
(c) Proto-industrialisation
(d) None of the above

Question. In 19th century Britain there was:
(a) Shortage of human labour
(b) No shortage of human labour
(c) Surplus human labour
(d) None of the above

Question. In the countryside poor peasants and artisans began working:
(a) For the king
(b) For the richmen
(c) For merchants
(d) All the above

Question. In the early nineteenth century wages :
(a) Increased
(b) Decreased
(c) Remained the same
(d) None of the above

Question. When the ……………………… was introduced in the woollen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machine.
(a) Spinning Jenny
(b) Spinning Combine
(c) Spinning Penny
(d) none of the above

Question. Merchants were based in towns but the work was done mostly:
(a) On the roadside
(b) In their houses
(c) In the countryside
(d) All the above

Question. A merchant clothier in England, purchased wool from a wool stapler and:
(a) Carried it to the spinners
(b) Carried it to the weaver
(c) Carried it to the factory
(d) None of the above

Question. The earliest factories in England came up by the:
(a) 1720s
(b) 1730s
(c) 1740s
(d) 1750s

Question. In the early nineteenth century, ……………………… increasingly became an intimate part of the English landscape.
(a) Quantity
(b) Quality
(c) Factories
(d) Agriculture

Question. The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly:
(а) Cotton and jute
(b) Jute and metals
(c) Cotton and metals
(d) Only metals

Question. With the expansion of railways, in England the demand for:
(a) Cotton and jute increased rapidly
(b) Cotton increased rapidly
(c) Iron and steel increased rapidly
(d) None of the above

Question. The Spinning Jenny was devised by:
(a) James Watt
(b) James Hargreaves
(c) Mathew Boultom
(d) Andrew Yule

Question. The steam engine produced by Newcomen was patented with a new engine by:
(a) James Scott
(b) James Chat
(c) James Watt
(d) none of the above

Question. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were no more than ……………………… steam engines.
(a) 299
(6) 320
(c) 321
(d) 319

Question. The finishing of the cloth was done in ……………………… before the export merchants sold the cloth in the international market.
(a) US
(b) Sydney
(c) London
(d) Moscow

Question. The proto-industrial system was a part of a network of:
(a) Commercial exchanges
(b) Loose exchanges
(c) A global exchanges
(d) All the above

True Or False 

Question. The French, Dutch, Portuguese as well as the local traders competed in the market to secure woven cloth.

Question. The first symbol of the new era was cotton.

Question. Machine-made goods were made for export to the colonies.

Question. By 1787, the import soared to 32 million pounds.

Question. At the late nineteenth century, there were no more than 321 steam engines all over England.

Question. Seasonality of work in many industries meant prolonged periods without work.

Question. Merchants were based on towns and the work was mostly done in the towns.

Question. The fear of employment made workers hostile to the introduction of new technology.

Question. After the 1850s, building activity intensified in the cities, opening up greater opportunities of employment.

Question. Gas works and breweries were especially busy through out the hot months.

Question. In the late nineteenth century, factories became an intimate part of the English landscape.

Question. Supply merchants linked the port towi is to the inland regions.

Question. A range of products could be produced only with hand labour.

Question. A abundance of labour in the market did not affect the lives of workers.

Question. By the 1760s, the network controlled by the Indian merchants was breaking down. FalseQuestion. London, at that time, came to be known as a finishing centre.

Fill in the Blanks

Question. The spinning wheel was devised by James Hargreaves in ……………………… .

Question. The number of workers employed in the transport industry doubled in the 1840s and doubled again in the subsequent ……………………… years.

Question. ……………………… of work in many industries meant prolonged periods without work.

Question. By ……………………… four mills were at work with 94,000 spindles and 2150 looms.

Question. In Bengal, ……………………… made his fortune in the China trade before he turned to industrial investment.

Question. Over 50 percent workers in the Bombay cotton industries in 1911 came from the neighbouring district of ……………………… .

Question. Like the images of gods, figures of important ………………………, of emperors and Nawabs, adorned advertisement and calenders.

Question. Till the mid-nineteenth century, about ……………………… per cent of the urban population were extremely poor.

Question. The ……………………… of labour in the market affected the lives of workers.

Question. Some merchants from Madras traded with ……………………… .

Question. Match the following : 

Column A	Column B
1. Spinning Jenny	(A) 1912
2. First jute mill	(B) James Hargreaves
3. Tata iron and steel company	(C) Kanpur
4. First cotton mill in Bombay	(D) 1854
5. Elgin mill	(E) Calcutta

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