Class 10 - History

4. The Age of Industrialisation Online MCQs Test

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1. How did handicrafts production, including handloom cloth, fare in the twentieth century?

(A) Declined
(B) Remained the same
(C) Expanded
(D) Shifted to machine production

2. What technological change contributed to the expansion of handloom cloth production in the twentieth century?

(A) Steam engines
(B) Fly shuttle looms
(C) Water mills
(D) Electric looms

3. What impact did cheap machine-made thread have on the handloom sector in the nineteenth century?

(A) Expansion
(B) Survival
(C) Wipeout of spinning industry
(D) Technological advancement

4. What contributed to the survival of weavers in the handloom sector in the twentieth century?

(A) Decreased productivity
(B) Labor strikes
(C) Technological changes
(D) Increased production costs

5. What percentage of handlooms in India were fitted with fly shuttles by 1941?

(A) 10%
(B) 20%
(C) 35%
(D) 50%

6. In which regions did the proportion of handlooms fitted with fly shuttles reach 70 to 80 percent?

(A) Punjab and Haryana
(B) Gujarat and Rajasthan
(C) Travancore, Madras, Mysore, Cochin, Bengal
(D) Assam and Odisha

7. What role did fly shuttle looms play in handloom cloth production?

(A) Decreased productivity
(B) Slowed down production
(C) Increased productivity
(D) No impact on production

8. What happened to handloom cloth production between 1900 and 1940?

(A) Decreased
(B) Remained constant
(C) Almost trebled
(D) Shifted to machine production

9. What helped weavers improve their productivity and compete with the mill sector?

(A) Increased production costs
(B) Labor strikes
(C) Technological innovations
(D) Decreased demand

10. In what decade did weavers start using looms with a fly shuttle?

(A) First decade
(B) Second decade
(C) Third decade
(D) Fourth decade