Objective Questions:

Questions asked in Pre-boards and previous years boards

Q.1 Who was the pioneer of mass production?

a. John Winthorp

b. Sir Henry Morton Stanley

c. Henry Ford

d. None of these

Q.2 The great depression began in

a. 1927

b. 1928

c. 1929

d. 1930

Q.3 Why did Manchester export to India decline after First World War?

a. people were busy fighting the war.

b. Factories Close down due to security problem.

c. Factories and mills were busy in producing goods to fulfill the need of army.

d. Export trade was restricted by the government.

Q.4 Arrange the following in chronological order:

i) E.T. Paull, a popular music publisher, published a picture announcing the ‘Dawn of the Century’.

ii) As the Swadeshi movement gathered momentum, nationalists mobilized people to boycott foreign cloth.

iii) Till the First World War, European Managing Agencies controlled a large sector of Indian industries.

iv) Seth Hukumchand, a Marwari businessman, set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta.

a. i,iii,iv,ii

b. iii,iv,ii,i

c. iv,i,ii,iii

d. i,ii,iv,iii

Q.5 Which among the following setup the first jute mill in Kolkata?

a. J.N. Tata

b. Seth Hukumchand

c. Dwaraknath Tagore

d. Dinshaw Petit

Q.6 Most Indian indentured workers came from:

a. Eastern Uttar Pradesh

b. North-Eastern States

c. Jammu & Kashmir

d. Tamil Nadu.

Q.7 What helped in the colonization of Asian and African countries? Identify the correct statement from the following options.

a. Inter-governmental policies for the expansion of trade.

b. Governmental invite to the mother countries for expansion.

c. Technology, investments and Improvement in transport.

d. Capitalists of these regions wanted trade with the colonial powers.

Q.8 Why were the Europeans attracted the most to Africa?

a. By the opportunities for investment

b. For recruitment of labor.

c. By its natural Beauty

d. For its vast land resources and mineral wealth.

Q.9 Economists identify three types of movement of flows within international economic exchanges which one type does not exist among them?

a. Flow of trade

b. Flow of Labour

c. Flow of capital

d. Flow of raw material