Class 10 The Age of Industrialisation Mock Test (CBSE)

Topics in The Age of Industrialisation

• Before the industrial revolution: proto-industrialisation
• The coming up of the factory
• The pace of industrial change
• Hand labour and steam power
• Life of the workers
• Indian textiles and weavers
• Manchester goods in India
• Factories in India and early entrepreneurs
• Peculiarities of industrial growth
• Market for goods

The Age of Industrialisation practice questions with answers

1. Q1Multiple choice·1 mark
   Which of the following problems was prominently faced by workers in England during the early decades of industrialisation?

   1. (a)Strict laws limiting the working day to eight hours sharply cut the earnings of factory hands
   2. (b)High taxes on wages imposed by the government to fund the building of new railway lines
   3. (c)Recruitment through written tests that kept out the many workers who could not read
   4. (d)Severe shortage of jobs and long spells of unemployment due to an abundance of workers
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   1. Correct option: (d) Severe shortage of jobs and long spells of unemployment due to an abundance of workers+1

   Answer: (d)
2. Q2Multiple choice·1 mark
   Who were the 'gomasthas' appointed by the British East India Company in India?

   1. (a)Traditional village headmen responsible for collecting agricultural land revenue
   2. (b)Indian nationalist leaders who organized boycotts against Manchester factory goods
   3. (c)British merchants who directly competed with local Indian weavers in open markets
   4. (d)Paid servants whose job was to supervise weavers, collect supplies and examine the quality of cloth
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   1. Correct option: (d) Paid servants whose job was to supervise weavers, collect supplies and examine the quality of cloth+1

   Answer: (d)
3. Q3Short answer·2 marks
   Explain any two problems faced by Indian weavers due to the influx of Manchester goods in the nineteenth century.
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   1. First problem, any one of: their export market collapsed as Indian textiles could not compete with cheap machine-made goods and faced high import duties in Britain; the local market shrank as it was glutted with cheap Manchester imports; machine-made imports were so cheap that weavers could not match their prices; from the 1860s they could not get enough good-quality raw cotton, and its price shot up because raw cotton was being exported to Britain; or any other valid problem.+1
   2. Second problem, a different one from the same list.+1

   Answer: Any two of: their export market collapsed; the local market shrank as it was glutted with cheap Manchester imports; they could not match the low prices of machine-made goods; raw cotton became scarce and costly because it was exported to Britain.

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