Multiple choice questions :
1. During the second half of the 18th century economic transformations were taking place in _______________ .
a) England b) France c) Germany d) Italy
2. The term Industrial Revolution was popularized by the British economic thinker ____________ .
a) Arnold Toynbee b) Necker c) Abraham Darby d) Louis XVI
3. The industrial Revolution began first in ________________ .
a) France b) England c) Germany d) America
4. The humid climate was favourable for the establishment of the textile factories in _____________ .
a) Germany b) America c) England d) Italy
5. England had accumulated a vast amount of capital out of her profits of her growing growing trade in India and _____________ .
a) Germany b) America c) Japand) d)England
6. The country that became famous as the “Workshop of the World” was ____________ .
a) England b) India c) America d) China
7. The spinning process involves the separation of cotton from the ____________ .
a) Seeds b) Leaves c) Flowers d) Plants
8. The “Cotton Gin” was invented by _________________ .
a) Samuel Crompton b) Eli Whitney c)John Kay d) Isaac Newton
9. The Spinning Jenny was discovered by ________________ .
a) Eli Whitney b) James Hargreaves c) John Kay d) Samuel Crompton
10. Richard Arkwright discovered a machine called ________________ .
a) Water Frame b) Spinning Jenny c) Mule d) Chakra
11. Sir Humphry Davy invented a _______________ .
a) Safety lamp b) Water Frame c) Power loom d) Mariners Compass
12. The first canal was dug from Worsley to Manchester in ______________ .
a) 1761 b) 1764 c) 1768 d)1765
13. The first railway line was laid between Manchester and Liverpool in ___________ .
a) 1820 b) 1840 c) 1883 d) 1875
14. In 1853 , Lord Dalhousie laid the first railway line in ______________ .
a) America b) India c) Japan d) China
15. Jethro Tull started the scientific cultivation of _______________ .
a) Crops b) Plants c) Seeds d) leaves
16. The factory system led to the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few _______________ .
a) Capitalists b) Workers c) Labourers d) Owners
17. The machine invented by Samuel Crompton was _______________ .
a) Cotton gin b) Mule c) Spinning Jenny d) Penny post
18. The first railway line in India was laid by Lord Dalhousie in _______________ .
a) 1761 b) 1830 c) 1853 d) 1876
Answers :
1. a) 2. a) 3. b) 4. c) 5. b) 6. a) 7. a) 8. b) 9. b)
10. a) 11. a) 12. a) 13. c) 14. a) 15. a) 16. a) 17. b) 18. c) .