Class 10 - History

4. The Age of Industrialisation Online MCQs Test

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1. What is the common association with industrialisation?

(A) Agricultural production
(B) Factory industry
(C) Craftsmanship
(D) Artisanal production

2. What term is used to describe the phase of industrialisation before the advent of factories?

(A) Modernisation
(B) Proto-industrialisation
(C) Urbanisation
(D) Mechanisation

3. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, where did merchants from European towns move to?

(A) Other towns
(B) Factories
(C) Countryside
(D) Colonial territories

4. What was the role of merchants in the countryside during proto-industrialisation?

(A) They regulated competition and prices in towns
(B) They expanded production within towns
(C) They supplied money to peasants and artisans
(D) They controlled craft guilds

5. Why did merchants turn to the countryside for production during proto-industrialisation?

(A) Powerful urban crafts and trade guilds
(B) Availability of skilled artisans in towns
(C) Rulers' encouragement
(D) Lack of demand for goods

6. What did urban crafts and trade guilds control in towns?

(A) International trade
(B) Production and trade in specific products
(C) Agricultural production
(D) Merchants' movements

7. Why were rulers granting monopoly rights to different guilds in towns?

(A) To encourage competition
(B) To restrict the entry of new people into the trade
(C) To promote urbanisation
(D) To discourage world trade

8. What was the demand for goods driven by during proto-industrialisation?

(A) Expansion of factories
(B) World trade and colonial acquisitions
(C) Decrease in population
(D) Power of craft guilds

9. Which term is used to describe the production for an international market before factories?

(A) Industrialisation
(B) Mechanisation
(C) Proto-industrialisation
(D) Urbanisation

10. What did proto-industrialisation involve before the advent of factories?

(A) Large-scale factory production
(B) Rapid technological development
(C) Production in towns
(D) Production for an international market