Class 10 - History

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Set 8

1. Which of the following was NOT mentioned as an important invention transforming the nineteenth-century world?

(A) Railways
(B) Steamships
(C) Telegraph
(D) Windmills

2. What larger factors often contributed to technological advances in the nineteenth century?

(A) Individual genius
(B) Social, political, and economic factors
(C) Technological determinism
(D) Cultural factors only

3. What stimulated new investments and improvements in transport?

(A) Industrial revolutions
(B) Colonization
(C) Agricultural reforms
(D) Technological determinism

4. What did the development of faster railways, lighter wagons, and larger ships help achieve in the nineteenth century?

(A) Slower transport
(B) Cheaper and quicker movement of food
(C) Reduced transport
(D) Increased production costs

5. Before the development of refrigerated ships, how were animals transported for meat consumption?

(A) As frozen meat
(B) As live animals
(C) As cooked meat
(D) As canned meat

6. Why were live animals shipped from America to Europe before the 1870s?

(A) Lower shipping costs
(B) Higher demand for live animals
(C) They took up less ship space
(D) It was a tradition

7. What new technology transformed the trade in meat, allowing the transport of perishable foods over long distances?

(A) Steamships
(B) Railway
(C) Refrigerated ships
(D) Telegraph

8. What did the use of refrigerated ships for transporting meat achieve?

(A) Increased shipping costs
(B) Increased meat prices in Europe
(C) Reduced shipping costs and lowered meat prices in Europe
(D) No impact on shipping and prices

9. How did refrigerated ships affect the diet of the poor in Europe?

(A) No impact
(B) Reduced variety in diet
(C) Increased monotony in diet
(D) Added variety to the diet

10. What did better living conditions, promoted by varied diets, contribute to within the country?

(A) Industrial unrest
(B) Social peace
(C) Political turmoil
(D) Economic recession