Multiple Choice Questions   (MCQ’s) :

1.  The Industrial Revolution led to the rise of a ______________ .
a) Capitalist Economy                  b) Mixed Economy                     c) Socialist Economy.       d) Free Economy

2.  The factory system came into existence due to the ______________ .
a) Capitalist Economy                  b) French Revolution                 c) Industrial Revolution . d) Colonists

3.  The art of printing was invented by ____________ .
a) Germany                                     b) Spain                                        c) China .                              d) Italy

4.  During the 15th century , the first printing press was invented in ____________ .
a) Germany                                     b) China                                        c) Italy                                 d) India

5.  The first printing press was discovered by ____________ .
a) John Guttenberg                       b) Charles Dickens                     c) Marco Polo .                  d)Louis XVI

6.  In the first half of the 19th century , three Journals were published by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in __________ .
a) China                                           b) Japan                                        c) India .                       d) America

7.  “Samwad Kaumudi” was published by _____________ .
a) R.K.Narayan                              b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy           c)Marco Polo               d)Rabindranath Tagore .

8.  The commercial class of traders used newspapers to _____________
a) Advertise their products          b) Buy their goods                      c) Read the news .     d)Pass the time

9.  The first printing press was invented in Germany during the _____________ .
a) 15th century                                b) 16th century                             c) 18th century   .      d) 17th  century

10.  Charles Dickens wrote the first novel ______________ .
a) Gulliver’s Travels                     b) Oliver Twist                              c) Beloved                 .d)The Invisible Man

11.  Raja Ram Mohan Roy published the journal ______________ 
a) Oliver Twist                             b) Malgudi Days                            c) Gitanjali                   d)Samwad Kaumudi

12.  The writings of Montesquieu , Rousseau and Voltaire had resulted in the ____________ .
a) French Revolution                 b) Industrial Revolution              c) Russian Revolution . d)Mixed Revolution

Answers :
1. a)            2. c)            3. c)               4. a)               5. a)                    6. c)
7. b)           8. a)            9. a)             10. b)             11. c)                  12. a) .