The
Rise of Nationalism in Europe
1) Who made the famous
remark, ‘When France sneezes, the rest of Europe catches a cold’?
a) Metternich
b) Mazzini
c) Garibaldi
d) Louis
Philippe
Answer: Option (a) – Metternich
2) The Treaty of Constantinople was signed in _______.
a) 1835
b) 1735
c) 1834
d) 1832
Answer: Option (d) – 1832
3) The famous Italian Revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini was born in
_____ in 1807.
a) Turin
b) Rome
c) Genoa
d) Atlanta
Answer: Option (C) – Genoa
4) Giuseppe Mazzini founded the secret underground society named
‘Young Europe’ in __________.
a) Marseilles
b) Berne
c) Vienna
d) Brussels
Answer: Option (b) – Berne
5) _________ believed that established, traditional institutions
of state and society should be preserved.
a)
Conservatives
b) Liberals
c) Democrats
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a) – Conservatives
6) The Bourbon dynasty, which had been deposed during the French
Revolution, was restored to power after signing the Treaty of _______.
a) Vienna
b)
Constantinople
c) Marseilles
d) Prussia
Answer: Option (a) – Vienna
7) _________ regimes imposed censorship laws to control what was
said in newspapers, books, plays and songs and reflected the ideas of
liberty and freedom.
a) Liberal
b)
Conservative
c) Democratic
d) Secular
Answer: Option (b) – Conservative
8) A large part of the Balkans was under the control of the
_______ empire, which witnessed the most serious source of nationalist tensions
in Europe after 1871.
a) Greek
b) Russian
c) Prussian
d) Ottoman
Answer: Option (d) – Ottoman
9) Artists of the time of the French Revolution personified
_______ as a female figure.
a) Socialism
b) Liberty
c) Autocracy
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (b) – Liberty
10) During the nineteenth century, __________ emerged as a force
that brought about sweeping changes in the political and mental world of
Europe.
a)
Nationalism
b) Secularism
c) Monarchy
d) Religion
Answer: Option (a) – Nationalism
11) The idea of La Patrie means _____.
a) Motherland
b) Fatherland
c) Citizens
d) Monarchy
Answer: Option (b) – Fatherland
12) The Estates General was elected by the body of active
citizens and renamed the _____.
a) Provincial
Assembly
b) State
Assembly
c) National
Assembly
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (c) – National Assembly
13) Which of the following statements about the Civil Code of
1804, usually known as the Napoleonic Code, are true?
a) Secured
the Right to Property
b)
Established Equality before the Law
c) Removed
all privileges based on birth
d) All of the
above
Answer: Option (d) – All of the above
14) Which of the following resulted in hostility towards the
French armies in Europe?
a) Forced
conscription into the French armies
b) Censorship
c) Uniform
Laws
d) Options
(a) & (b)
Answer: Option (d) – Options (a) & (b)
15) The Habsburg Empire consisted of regions.
a)
Italian-speaking provinces of Lombardy and Venetia
b) The Alpine
regions – the Tyrol, Austria and the Sudetenland
c) Options
(a) & (b)
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (c) – Options (a) & (b)
16) In Galicia, the aristocracy spoke _______ language.
a) German
b) Italian
c) French
d) Polish
Answer: Option (d) – Polish
17) The first political experiment in liberal democracy took
place in ________.
a) Germany
b) France
c) Italy
d) Great
Britain
Answer: Option (b) – France
18) Which of the following is true about Liberalism?
a) Abolition
of state-imposed restrictions
b) Freedom of
markets on the movement of goods and capital
c) Options
(a) and (b)
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (c) – Options (a) and (b)
19) Which of the following is true about elle?
a) It was
known as the measurement of cloth
b) An elle of
textile material in different regions will give different measurements of cloth
c) Such difference
in measurement was viewed as an obstacle to economic exchange
d) All of the
above
Answer: Option (d) – All of the above
20) A secret society named Young Italy was established in
_________.
a) Marseilles
b) Berne
c) Zurich
d) Genoa
Answer: Option (a) – Marseilles
The
Nationalism in India
1) Which of the
following situations in India were the result of the First World War?
a) There was
widespread anger in villages due to forced recruitment.
b) Custom duties
were increased.
c) Income
taxes were introduced.
d) All of the
above-mentioned situations took place as a result of the First World War.
Answer: Option (d)
2) As per the census of 1921, millions of people died due to
________.
a) Epidemic
and Famines
b) War
c) Riots
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
3) Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in ________.
a) January
1916
b) January 1915
c) March 1921
d) April 1917
Answer: Option (b)
4) Which of the following statements is true about Satyagraha?
a) Satyagraha
is not a physical force.
b) It is the
weapon of the weak.
c) A
Satyagrahi does not inflict pain on the adversary.
d) Option (a)
and (c)
Answer: Option (d)
5) Which of the following statements is true about the Rowlatt
Act?
a) It did not
give the government powers to repress political activities.
b) It did not
allow the detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.
c) It allowed
the detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.
d) Gandhiji
decided to launch nationwide Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act in 1920.
Answer: Option (c)
6) The infamous Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre took place when there
was an annual _______ fair.
a) Teeyan
b) Gurupurab
c) Lohri
d) Baisakhi
Answer: Option (d)
7) What was one of the main reasons behind Mahatma Gandhi’s
decision to take up the Khilafat Issue?
a) To bring
more unity among Hindus and Muslims.
b) To bring
more unity among Hindus and Christians.
c) To bring
more unity among Christians and Muslims.
d) None of
the above.
Answer: Option (a)
8) Who is the author of the book Hind Swaraj (1909)?
a) Bhagat
Singh
b) Jawaharlal
Nehru
c) Subash
Chandra Bose
d) Mahatma
Gandhi
Answer: Option (d)
9) At the Congress session at ________ in December 1920, a
compromise was worked out, and the Non-Cooperation programme was adopted.
a) Allahabad
b) Bombay
c) Nagpur
d) Calcutta
Answer: Option (c)
10) Which of the following statements about the effect of the
Non-cooperation Movement are true?
a) The import
of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922.
b) In many
places, merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance
foreign trade.
c) Production
of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.
d) All of the
above.
Answer: Option
(d)
11) Which of the following statements about the Non-cooperation
Movement in Awadh is false?
a) The
Non-Cooperation Movement here was against talukdars and landlords.
b) In Awadh,
the peasants were led by Baba Ramchandra.
c) The
tenants had no security of tenure.
d) The
peasants did not demand the abolition of begar.
Answer: Option (d)
12) The tribal people revolted against the British due to which
of the following reasons?
a) The tribal
people were prevented from entering the forests to graze their cattle.
b) The tribal
people were prevented from collecting fuelwood and fruits.
c) The
traditional rights of tribal people were denied.
d) All of the
above.
Answer: Option (d)
13) The plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea
gardens without permission as per _________.
a) Inland
Emigration Act of 1859
b) Inland
Emigration Act of 1866
c) Inland
Emigration Act of 1879
d) Inland
Emigration Act of 1869
Answer: Option (a)
14) Gandhi decided to withdraw from the Non-Cooperation Movement
in _________.
a) January
1922
b) February
1922
c) February
1919
d) January
1919
Answer: Option (b)
15) ______ and _____ formed the Swaraj Party.
a) C.R. Das
and Motilal Nehru
b) Motilal
Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru.
c) Jawaharlal
Nehru and C.R. Das
d) Jawaharlal
Nehru and Gandhi
Answer: Option (a)
16) Simon Commission arrived in India in ______.
a) 1928
b) 1930
c) 1932
d) 1942
Answer: Option (a)
17) Under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Lahore
Congress formalised the demand of ‘Purna Swaraj’ or full independence for India
in ___________.
a) December
1929
b) January
1929
c) December
1930
d) December
1928
Answer: Option (a)
18) Mahatma Gandhi started his famous Salt March from his ashram
in Sabarmati to Dandi, covering a distance of _______.
a) 260 miles
b) 240 miles
c) 600 miles
d) 500 miles
Answer: Option (b)
19) Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi on _______, 1930.
a) April 6
b) April 16
c) March 6
d) May 6
Answer: Option (a)
20) Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on _______.
a) 5 April
1932
b) 5 March
1931
c) 5 May 1931
d) 5 June
1932
Answer: Option (b)
The Making
of a Global World
1) Many of our common foods, such as potatoes, soya, groundnuts,
maize, etc., were only introduced in Europe and Asia after ________
accidentally discovered the vast continent that would later become known as the
Americas.
a)
Christopher Columbus
b) Vasco da
Gama
c) Marco Polo
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
2) Precious metals, particularly _______, from mines located in
present-day Peru and Mexico enhanced Europe’s wealth and financed its trade
with Asia.
a) Copper
b) Bauxite
c) Iron Ore
d) Silver
Answer: Option (d)
3) Many expeditions set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled
city of ______.
a) Silver
b) Emerald
c) Diamonds
d) Gold
Answer: Option (d)
4) America’s original inhabitants had no immunity against
diseases that came from Europe. _______, in particular, proved a deadly killer.
a) Chickenpox
b) Measles
c) Smallpox
d) Filaria
Answer: Option (c)
5) Reduced role of ________ and the rising importance of the
Americas gradually moved the centre of world trade westwards.
a) China
b) Japan
c) Korea
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
6) Which country passed the ‘Corn Laws’ to restrict the import
of corn?
a) France
b) Great
Britain
c) Spain
d) USA
Answer: Option (b)
7) Demand for ______ led to the migration of people to America
and Australia.
a) Capital
b) Raw
materials
c) Labour
d) Both (a)
and (b)
Answer: Option (c)
8) Between 1820 and 1914, world trade is estimated to have
multiplied 25 to 40 times. Nearly _______ per cent of this trade comprised
‘primary products’.
a) 10
b) 20
c) 40
d) 60
Answer: Option (d)
9) One of the oldest livestock markets in ________ was at
Smithfield.
a) London
b) Liverpool
c) Manchester
d) Edinburg
Answer: Option (a)
10) Animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point – in
America, Australia or New Zealand, and then transported to ________ as frozen
meat, thereby reducing the shipping costs and reducing meat prices.
a) Asia
b) Europe
c) Africa
d) Middle
East
Answer: Option (b)
11) In 1885, the big European powers met in ______ to complete
the carving up of Africa between them.
a) Paris
b) London
c) Berne
d) Berlin
Answer: Option (d)
12) The US also became a colonial power in the late 1890s by
taking over some colonies earlier held by ________.
a) Belgium
b) Portugal
c) Spain
d) France
Answer: Option (c)
13) In Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of _______
had a terrifying impact on people’s livelihoods and the local economy.
a) Rinderpest
b) Smallpox
c) Measles
d) Scurvy
Answer: Option (a)
14) Europeans came to _______ hoping to establish plantations
and mines, but they faced the problem of labour shortage.
a) Africa
b) Asia
c) Middle
East
d) South
America
Answer: Option (a)
15) Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s. It was
carried by infected cattle imported from British Asia to feed the Italian
soldiers invading ______ in East Africa.
a) Kenya
b) Eritrea
c) Ethiopia
d) Sudan
Answer: Option (b)
16) The loss of _______ destroyed African livelihoods.
a) Cattle
b) Human
lives
c) Land
d) Forests
Answer: Option (a)
17) The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the
_____.
a) Caribbean
Islands
b) Fiji
c) Mauritius
d) All of the
above
Answer: Option (d)
18) Most Indian indentured workers came from the present-day
regions of ______.
a) Bihar
b) Eastern
Uttar Pradesh
c) Central
India
d) All of the
above
Answer: Option (d)
19) Migrants from ______ went to Ceylon and Malaya.
a) Andhra
Pradesh
b) Orissa
c) Tamil Nadu
d) Karnataka
Answer: Option (c)
20) India’s nationalist leaders began opposing the system of
indentured labour migration as abusive and cruel. It was abolished in ______.
a) 1921
b) 1931
c) 1919
d) 1911
Answer: Option (a)
Age of
Industrialisation
1) The earliest factories in England came up by the _____. 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
Answer: Option (c)
2) The first symbol of the new era was ________. Its production
boomed in the late nineteenth century.
a) Cotton
b) Wool
c) Silver
d) Aluminium
Answer: Option (a)
3) ___________ created the cotton mill.
a) Orville
Wright
b) Richard
Arkwright
c) James Watt
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (b)
4) The production process (carding, twisting and spinning, and
rolling) is associated with the production of _______.
a) Cotton
b) Ships
c) Railways
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
5) 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
Answer: Option (c)
6) 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) Aluminium
and Bauxite
d) Copper and
Steel
Answer: Option (a)
7) 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
Answer: Option (b)
8) Ordinary and small innovations were the basis of growth in
many _______ sectors such as _________.
a)
Non-mechanised
b) Mechanised
c) Both (a)
and (b)
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
9) Even at the end of the nineteenth century, ________ of the
total workforce was employed in technologically advanced industrial sectors.
a) Less than
20 per cent
b) More than
80 per cent
c) Less than
70 per cent
d) More than
50 per cent
Answer: Option (a)
10) James Watt patented the new engine in _______.
a) 1791
b) 1581
c) 1681
d) 1781
Answer: Option (d)
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 of the
above.
Answer: Option (d)
12) __________ products came to symbolise refinement and class.
a) Machine
Made
b) Handmade
c) Both (a)
and (b)
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (b)
13) ________ goods were for export to the colonies.
a) Handmade
b) Machine
made
c) None of
the above
d) Both (a)
and (b)
Answer: Option (b)
14) Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods
from _________ dominated the international market in textiles.
a) India
b) Britain
c) China
d) France
Answer: Option (a)
15) _______ and ______ merchants took the goods from Punjab to
Afghanistan, Eastern Persia and Central Asia.
a) Turkish
and Persian
b) Armenian
and Persian
c) Afghan and
Persian
d) Chinese
and Persian
Answer: Option (b)
16) ________ on the Coromandel Coast had trade links with
Southeast Asian ports.
a) Calicut
b)
Masulipatam
c) Mangalore
d) Paradip
Answer: Option (b)
17) _______ on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and
the Red Sea Ports.
a) Okha
b) Porbandar
c) Surat
d) Kandla
Answer: Option (c)
18) Hoogly in _______ had trade links with Southeast Asian
ports.
a)
Maharashtra
b) Gujarat
c) Orissa
d) Bengal
Answer: Option (d)
19) As Surat and Hoogly ports in India decayed, _____ and _____
ports grew in India.
a) Bombay and
Calcutta
b) Madras and
Bombay
c) Calcutta
and Madras
d)
Masulipatnam and Calcutta
Answer: Option (a)
20) Which of the following statements are true about Gomasthas.
a) In many
weaving villages, there were reports of clashes between weavers and gomasthas.
b) The new
gomasthas were outsiders with no long-term social link with the village.
c) Gomasthas
had a close relationship with weavers.
d) Both (a)
and (b).
Answer: Option (d)
Print
Culture and the Modern World
1) The earliest kind of print technology was developed in
_______, Japan and Korea, which was a system of hand printing.
a) India
b) Britain
c) China
d) Germany
Answer: Option (c)
2) Which of the following statements are true about printing?
a) Merchants
used print in their everyday life as they collected trade information.
b) The
imperial state in China was, for a very long time, the major producer of
printed material.
c) Both (a)
and (b).
d) None of
the above.
Answer: Option (c)
3) As Western powers established their outposts in China,
_______ became the hub of the new print culture.
a) Shanghai
b) Beijing
c) Guangzhou
d) Hong Kong
Answer: Option (a)
4) ________ from China introduced hand-printing technology into
Japan around AD 768-770.
a) Buddhist
Missionaries
b) Christian
Missionaries
c) Scholars
d) Traders
Answer: Option (a)
5) The oldest _________ book, printed in AD 868, is the Buddhist
Diamond Sutra, containing six sheets of text and woodcut illustrations.
a) Chinese
b) Indian
c) Japanese
d) Korean
Answer: Option (c)
6) In the flourishing urban circles at Edo, illustrated
collections of paintings depicted an elegant urban culture involving artists,
courtesans, and teahouse gatherings. Edo was later known as ________.
a) Kyoto
b) Seoul
c) Beijing
d) Tokyo
Answer: Option (d)
7) China already had the technology of woodblock printing. Marco
Polo brought this knowledge back with him to ________.
a) Italy
b) Germany
c) Great
Britain
d) France
Answer: Option (a)
8) Vellum was a parchment made from the _____ of animals.
a) Bones
b) Skin
c) Legs
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (b)
9) Which of the following statements about Manuscripts are true?
a) It was
easy to read from Manuscripts.
b) It was
easy to carry around the Manuscripts.
c)
Manuscripts were not fragile.
d) All of the
above statements are false.
Answer: Option (d)
10) By the early fifteenth century, woodblocks were being widely
used in Europe to _____.
a) To print
textiles
b) Playing
cards
c) Make
religious pictures with simple, brief texts
d) All of the
above
Answer: Option (d)
11) Johann Gutenberg developed the first-known printing press in
the 1430s in Strasbourg, located in ______.
a) Great
Britain.
b) Germany
c) USA
d) France
Answer: Option (b)
12) ________ is a Metal frame in which types are laid and the
text composed.
a) Compositor
b) Galley
c) Platen
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (b)
13) Which of the following were the result of the invention of
the printing press?
a) The time
and labour required to produce each book came down
b) Printing
reduced the cost of books
c) None of
the above
d) Both (a)
and (b)
Answer: Option (d)
14) _____ are the places where people gathered to drink alcohol,
be served food, meet friends and exchange news.
a) Ballad
b) Taverns
c) Galley
d) Compositor
Answer: Option (b)
15) In 1517, the religious reformer Martin Luther wrote ‘Ninety
Five Theses’, criticising many of the practices and rituals of the _______.
a) Roman
Catholic Church
b)
Protestants
c) Orthodox
Church
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
16) Protestant Reformation was a sixteenth-century movement to
reform the Catholic Church dominated by ______.
a) Paris
b) Rome
c) London
d) Marseilles
Answer: Option (b)
17) _______ was a former Roman Catholic court for identifying
and punishing heretics.
a) Heretical
b) Seditious
c)
Inquisition
d) Satiety
Answer: Option (c)
18) _______ were the beliefs which do not follow the accepted
teachings of the Church.
a)
Inquisition
b) Satiety
c) Seditious
d) Heretical
Answer: Option (d)
19) _______ began to maintain an Index of Prohibited Books from
1558.
a) Roman
Church
b) Orthodox
Church
c)
Protestants
d) Monarchs
Answer: Option (a)
20) _______ a term used to describe pocket-sized books that are
sold by travelling peddlers called chapmen, which became popular from the time
of the sixteenth-century print revolution.
a) Chapbook
b) Almanac
c)
Denominations
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
The
Nationalist Movement in Indo-China
1) Vietnam gained formal independence in ________, but it took
another three decades of fighting before the Republic of Vietnam was formed.
a) 1945
b) 1944
c) 1949
d) 1950
Answer: (a)
2) Indo-China comprises the modern countries of ________.
a) Myanmar,
Laos and Cambodia
b) Laos,
Thailand and Cambodia
c) Vietnam,
Laos, and Thailand
d) Vietnam,
Laos and Cambodia
Answer: (d)
3) The colonisation of Vietnam by the ________ brought the
people of the country into conflict with the colonisers in all areas of life.
The most visible form of colonial control was military and economic domination
and trying to reshape the culture of the Vietnamese.
a) British
b) French
c) Portuguese
d) Dutch
Answer: Option (b)
4) After the _________ war, the French assumed control of Tonkin
and Anaam, and in 1887, French Indo-China was formed.
a)
Franco-Indonesian
b)
Franco-Dutch
c)
Franco-Chinese
d)
Franco-British
Answer: Option (c)
5) The vast system of irrigation works, canals and earthworks,
built mainly with forced labour, Vietnam exported two-thirds of its rice
production, and by ______, it had become the third-largest exporter of rice in
the world.
a) 1911
b) 1941
c) 1921
d) 1931
Answer: Option (d)
6) The second line of the rail network was built, linking
Vietnam to Siam via the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Siam is currently
known as ________.
a) Thailand
b) Cambodia
c) Laos
d) China
Answer: Option (a)
7) Bernard suggested that there were several barriers to
economic growth in Vietnam: The barriers mentioned were _______.
a) Low
agricultural productivity
b) Extensive
indebtedness among the peasants
c) Low
population levels
d) Only (a)
and (b)
Answer: Option (d)
8) The colonial economy in Vietnam was, however, primarily based
on rice cultivation and ___________ owned by the French and a small Vietnamese
elite.
a) Coffee
plantations
b) Wheat
cultivation
c) Rubber
plantations
d) Tea
plantations
Answer: Option (c)
9) US entry into the war marked a new phase that proved costly
to the Vietnamese as well as to the Americans. From 1965 to __________, over
3,403,100 US service personnel served in Vietnam.
a) 1972
b) 1970
c) 1968
d) 1974
Answer: Option (a)
10) The widespread attacks and use of chemical weapons, Napalm,
Agent Orange, and _______ destroyed many villages and decimated jungles, and
civilians died in large numbers.
a) Sulphur
bombs
b)
Phosphorous bombs
c) Hydrogen
bombs
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (b)
11) Between 1961 and 1971, some 11 million gallons of _________
was sprayed from cargo planes by US forces. Their plan was to destroy forests
and fields so that it would be easier to kill if there was no jungle cover for
people to hide in.
a) Agent
Mango
b) Agent
Peach
c) Agent
Grapes
d) Agent
Orange
Answer: Option (d)
12) The French were faced with yet another problem in the sphere
of education: the elites in Vietnam were powerfully influenced by _______
culture.
a) Japanese
b) Thai
c) Chinese
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (c)
13) The Tonkin Free School was started in ______ to provide a
Western-style education. This education included classes in science, hygiene
and French.
a) 1907
b) 1910
c) 1905
d) 1906
Answer: Option (a)
14) By the ________, students were forming various political
parties, such as the Party of Young Annan, and publishing nationalist journals
such as the Annanese Student.
a) 1940s
b) 1910s
c) 1920s
d) 1930s
Answer: Option (c)
15) Ho Chi Minh forms the Vietnamese Communist Party in
__________.
a) 1965
b) 1955
c) 1940
d) 1930
Answer: Option (d)
16) In ________, Cochinchina (the South) becomes a French
colony.
a) 1857
b) 1867
c) 1847
d) 1917
Answer: option (b)
17) The Paris Peace Treaty was signed in __________.
a) 1975
b) 1964
c) 1972
d) 1974
Answer: Option (d)
18) In 1903, the modern part of Hanoi was struck by _______. In
many colonial countries, measures to control the spread of disease created
serious social conflicts.
a) Bubonic
plague
b) Smallpox
c) Measles
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
19) Vietnam’s religious beliefs were a mixture of Buddhism,
________ and local practices.
a)
Christianity
b) Jainism
c) Hinduism
d)
Confucianism
Answer: Option (d)
20) In ______, Japan occupied Vietnam as part of its imperial
drive to control Southeast Asia. So nationalists now had to fight against the
Japanese as well as the French.
a) 1940
b) 1942
c) 1944
d) 1943
Answer: Option (a)
Work, Life
and Leisure – Cities in the Contemporary World
1) In 1880, ___________ wrote a novel, Debganer Martye Aagaman
(The Gods Visit Earth).
a)
Rabindranath Tagore
b) Bankim
Chandra Chatterjee
c)
Durgacharan Ray
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (c)
2) The early industrial cities of Britain, such as Leeds and
________, attracted large numbers of migrants to the textile mills set up in
the late eighteenth century.
a) London
b) Liverpool
c) Manchester
d)
Southampton
Answer: Option (c)
3) By 1750, one out of every _______ people of England and Wales
lived in London.
a) Nine
b) Ten
c) Five
d) Two
Answer: Option (a)
4) During the First World War (1914-18), _______ began
manufacturing motor cars and electrical goods, and the number of large
factories increased until they accounted for nearly one-third of all jobs in
the city.
a) London
b) Manchester
c) Leeds
d) Liverpool
Answer: Option (a)
5) _______ flows through the city of London.
a) River
Volga
b) River
Danube
c) River
Thames
d) River
Severn
Answer: Option (c)
6) ____________ is someone who works for social upliftment and
charity, donating time and money for the purpose.
a) Inheritor
b)
Beneficiary
c) Antagonist
d)
Philanthropist
Answer: Option (d)
7) It was only after the passage of the Compulsory Elementary Education
Act in______, and the factory acts beginning from 1902, that children were kept
out of industrial work.
a) 1870
b) 1902
c) 1880
d) 1901
Answer: Option (a)
8) There was a widespread fear of social disorder, especially
after the Russian Revolution in 1917. __________ schemes were planned to
prevent the London poor from turning rebellious.
a) Workers’
mass housing
b) Employers’
mass housing
c) Workers’
mass employment
d) Employers’
mass employment
Answer: Option (a)
9) The Temperance movement was a largely _______ led social
reform movement, which identified alcoholism as the cause of the ruin of
families and society and aimed at reducing the consumption of alcoholic drinks.
a) Monarchy
b)
Aristocratic class
c) Rich class
d) Middle
class
Answer: Option (d)
10) Architect and planner _________ developed the principle of
the Garden City, a pleasant space full of plants and trees where people would
both live and work.
a) Debganer
Martye Aagaman
b) Charles
Booth
c) Rowlandson
d) Ebenezer
Howard
Answer: Option (d)
11) Following Howard’s ideas, Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker
designed the garden city of __________.
a) New
Hampshire
b) New
Earswick
c) Leeds
d) Manchester
Answer: Option (b)
12) The very first section of the Underground railway in the
world opened on 10 January 1863 between Paddington and Farrington Street in
_______.
a) Leeds
b) London
c) Manchester
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (b)
13) In ________, the Back Bay Reclamation Company won the right
to reclaim the western foreshore from the tip of Malabar Hill to the end of
Colaba.
a) 1884
b) 1874
c) 1854
d) 1864
Answer: Option (d)
14) __________ wrote in Dombey and Son (1848) about the massive
destruction in the process of construction of the London underground railway.
a) Jane
Austen
b) Charles
Dickens
c) Mark Twain
d) William
Shakespeare
Answer: Option (b)
15) _________ is a theory that promotes the liberty, rights or
independent action of the individual rather than of the community.
a)
Individualism
b) Secularism
c) Feminism
d) Socialism
Answer: Option (a)
16) In the seventeenth century, Bombay was a group of seven
islands under ______ control. In 1661, the control changed hands after a
marriage alliance.
a) French
b) Portuguese
c) British
d) Maratha
Answer: Option (b)
17) The first cotton textile mill in Bombay was established in
________.
a) 1867
b) 1857
c) 1854
d) 1864
Answer: Option (c)
18) ________ dominated the maritime trade of India till well
into the twentieth century. It was also at the junction of two major railways.
a) Madras
b) Surat
c) Calcutta
d) Bombay
Answer: Option (d)
19) While every Londoner in the 1840s enjoyed an average space
of 155 square yards, Bombay had a mere ______ square yards.
a) 9.5
b) 100
c) 25
d) 10.5
Answer: Option (a)
20) The City of Bombay Improvement Trust was established in
______; it focused on clearing poorer homes out of the city centre.
a) 1898
b) 1900
c) 1901
d) 1911
Answer: Option (a)
Novels,
Society and History
1) The novel first took firm root in England and ______. Novels
began to be written in the seventeenth century, but they really flowered from
the eighteenth century.
a) Greece
b) USA
c) France
d) Germany
Answer: Option (c)
2) Walter Scott remembered and collected popular ________
ballads, which he used in his historical novels about the wars between clans.
a) English
b) Irish
c) Welsh
d) Scottish
Answer: Option (d)
3) People had easier access to books with the introduction of
circulating libraries in _____.
a) 1840
b) 1740
c) 1760
d) 1750
Answer: Option (b)
4) In 1836, a notable event took place when ________ ‘Pickwick
Papers’ was serialised in a magazine. Magazines were attractive since they were
illustrated and cheap.
a) Charles
Dickens’s
b)
Richardson’s
c) Mark
Twain’s
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (a)
5) Serialised is a format in which the story is published in
instalments, each part in a new issue of a _________.
a) Novel
b) Newspaper
c) Journal
d) None of
the above
Answer: Option (c)
6) Tolstoy was a famous _______ novelist who wrote extensively
on rural life and community.
a) Russian
b) British
c) Italian
d) French
Answer: Option (a)
7) ________ wrote about the terrible effects of
industrialisation on people’s lives and characters. His novel ‘Hard Times’
(1854) describes Coketown, a fictitious industrial town, as a grim place.
a) Mark Twain
b) Charles
Dickens
c) Leo
Tolstoy
d) Henry
Fielding
Answer: Option (b)
8) Charles Dickens criticised not just the greed for profits but
also the ideas that reduced _________ into simple instruments of production.
a) Technology
b) Cities
c) Machines
d) Human
beings
Answer: Option (d)
9) Dickens focused on the terrible conditions of urban life
under industrial capitalism. His ___________ (1838) is the tale of a poor
orphan who lived in a world of petty criminals and beggars.
a) Oliver
Twist
b) Hard Times
c) Germinal
d) Pickwick
Papers
Answer: Option (a)
10) Emile Zola’s _________ (1885) on the life of a young miner
in France explores in harsh detail the grim conditions of miners’ lives. It
ends on a note of despair.
a) Pickwick
Papers
b) Germinal
c) Hard Times
d) Tom Jones
Answer: Option (b)
11) The nineteenth-century British novelist Thomas Hardy, for
instance, wrote about traditional ________of England that was fast vanishing.
a)
Aristocratic communities
b) Urban
communities
c) Rural
communities
d) Industrial
communities
Answer: Option (c)
12) Mayor of Casterbridge was written by _________ in 1886. It
is about Michael Henchard, a successful grain merchant who becomes the mayor of
the farming town of Casterbridge.
a) Leo
Tolstoy
b) Charles
Dickens
c) Donald
Farfrae
d) Thomas
Hardy
Answer: Option (d)
13) By the nineteenth century, images of _______ reading
silently in the privacy of the room became common in European paintings.
a) Women
b) Men
c)
Aristocrats
d) Monarchs
Answer: Option (a)
14) Rudyard Kipling wrote the famous book titled _______ in
1894.
a) Jane Eyre
b) Pride and
Prejudice
c) Jungle
Book
d) Treasure
Island
Answer: Option (c)
15) __________ historical adventure novels for boys were also
wildly popular during the height of the British empire. They aroused the
excitement and adventure of conquering strange lands.
a) R.L.
Stevenson’s
b) Rudyard
Kipling’s
c) Helen Hunt
Jackson’s
d) G.A.
Henty’s
Answer: Option (d)
16) It was only later, in the twentieth century, that writers
like _______ (1857-1924) wrote novels that showed the darker side of colonial
occupation.
a) Daniel
Defoe
b) Joseph
Conrad
c) Robert
Louis Stevenson
d) Tolstoy
Answer: Option (b)
17) The earliest novel in Marathi was Baba Padmanji’s ‘Yamuna
Paryatan’ (1857), which used a simple style of storytelling to speak about the
plight of _______.
a) Unemployed
men
b) Orphans
c) Labourers
d) Widows
Answer: Option (d)
18) Chandu Menon wrote a delightful novel called ‘Indulekha’,
published in 1889, which was the first modern novel in _______.
a) Malayalam
b) Tamil
c) Telugu
d) Bengali
Answer: Option (a)
19) Kandukuri Viresalingam (1848-1919) wrote an original ______
novel called ‘Rajasekhara Caritamu’ in 1878.
a) Tamil
b) Marathi
c) Telugu
d) Kannada
Answer: Option (c)
20) Durgeshnandini (1865) was the first novel written by
________.
a) Sarat
Chandra Chattopadhyay
b) Premchand
c)
Rabindranath Tagore
d) Bankim
Chandra Chattopadhyay
Answer: Option (d)
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