Question 1.
The company appointed a paid servant to supervise weavers. He was called:
(a) Officers
(b) Tehsildar
(c) Gomastha
(d) none of the above

Answer
Answer: (c) Gomastha
He was known as Gomastha.

Question 2.
The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in :
(a) 1852
(b) 1853
(c) 1854
(d) 1855

Answer
Answer: (c) 1854
The first cotton mill came up in 1854 and it went into production two years later.

Question 3.
The history of many business groups goes back to trade with:
(a) Japan
(b) Britain
(c) USA
(d) China

Answer
Answer: (d) China
China had trade links with many countries.

Question 4.
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

Answer
Answer: (a) Seth Hukumchand
Seth Hukumchand set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917.

Question 5.
Advertisements of Indian manufacturers became a vehicle of the nationalist message of:
(a) Purely Indian
(b) Purely English
(c) Swadeshi
(d) None of the

Answer
Answer: (c) Swadeshi
Indian manufactures became a vehicle of the nationalist message and thus their advertisements were called swadeshi messages.

Question 6.
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

Answer
Answer: (b) ‘Dawn of the Century’
In 1900, a popular music publisher E.T. Pauli produced a music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the ‘Dawn of the Century’.

Question 7.
Most historians refer to the phase of industrialisation as:
(a) Dawn-industrialisation
(b) Present-industrialisation
(c) Proto-industrialisation
(d) None of the above

Answer
Answer: (c) Proto-industrialisation
Many historians refer to the phase of industrialisation as proto-industrialisation. ‘Proto’ means the first of early form of something.

Question 8.
In the countryside poor peasants and artisans began working:
(a) For the king
(b) For the richmen
(c) For merchants
(d) All the above

Answer
Answer: (c) For merchants
Merchants were rich people, who had astisans and the poor working for them.

Question 9.
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

Answer
Answer: (c) In the countryside
Though merchants were based in towns the work was done mostly in the countryside.

Question 10.
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

Answer
Answer: (a) Carried it to the spinners
A merchant clothier in England purchased wool for a wool stapler, and carried it to the spinners.

Question 11.
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

Answer
Answer: (c) London
All the finishing was done in London before the export merchant sold the cloth in the international market.

Question 12.
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

Answer
Answer: (a) commercial exchanges
The proto-industrial system was a part of a network of commercial exchanges. It was controlled by merchants and the goods were produced by a vast number of producers.

Question 13.
The earliest factories in England came up by the:
(a) 1720s
(b) 1730s
(c) 1740s
(d) 1750s

Answer
Answer: (b) 1730s
The earliest factories in England came up by the 1730s.

Question 14.
In the early nineteenth century, ……………………… increasingly became an intimate part of the English landscape.
(a) Quantity
(b) Quality
(c) Factories
(d) Agriculture

Answer
Answer: (c) Factories
In the early nineteenth century, factories became an intimate part of the English landscape.

Question 15.
The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly:
(а) Cotton and jute
(b) Jute and metals
(c) Cotton and metals
(d) Only metals

Answer
Answer: (c) Cotton and metals
In Britain, at that time the most dynamic industries were cotton and metals.

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