Class 10 - History

4. The Age of Industrialisation Online MCQs Test

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1. How did the Company restrict the autonomy of weavers in dealing with other buyers?

(A) Providing advances in raw material purchase
(B) Leasing out land to weavers
(C) Maintaining a close relationship with weavers
(D) Outsourcing labor to sepoys and peons

2. What was the purpose of the loans given to weavers by the Company?

(A) Expand their land holdings
(B) Purchase raw material for production
(C) Enhance their bargaining power
(D) Invest in agricultural labor

3. Why did many weavers eagerly take the advances offered by the Company?

(A) To lease out their land
(B) To secure their family needs
(C) To migrate to other villages
(D) To oppose the Company

4. How did the new gomasthas behave in the weaving villages?

(A) Acted humbly with close relationships
(B) Lived within the weaving villages
(C) Marched arrogantly with sepoys and peons
(D) Helped weavers in times of crisis

5. What did the weavers lose due to the actions of the new gomasthas?

(A) Bargaining space and the ability to sell to different buyers
(B) Outsourcing opportunities to sepoys and peons
(C) Advances in raw material purchase
(D) Close relationships with supply merchants

6. In response to the actions of the Company, what did weavers do in some villages?

(A) Eagerly accepted more loans
(B) Deserted villages and migrated to set up looms elsewhere
(C) Increased agricultural labor
(D) Leased out their land

7. What happened in weaving villages where clashes occurred between weavers and gomasthas?

(A) Increased cooperation and collaboration
(B) Outsourcing opportunities to sepoys and peons
(C) Reports of clashes between weavers and gomasthas
(D) Close relationships with supply merchants

8. What did weavers in many places begin to do by the turn of the nineteenth century?

(A) Eagerly accept more loans
(B) Refuse loans, close down workshops, and take up agricultural labor
(C) Increase dependence on the Company
(D) Expand their land holdings

9. What did the weavers lose due to the low prices and loans they accepted from the Company?

(A) Autonomy and freedom
(B) Bargaining space and ability to sell to different buyers
(C) Increased cooperation and collaboration
(D) Close relationships with supply merchants

10. What did many weavers do when faced with a new set of problems by the turn of the nineteenth century?

(A) Increase dependence on the Company
(B) Migrate to set up looms in other villages
(C) Eagerly accept more loans
(D) Refuse loans and focus on agricultural labor