PON VIDYASHRAM SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL,KOLAPAKKAM

Rise of Nationalism in Europe

1.For the middle class of Europe, the most important feature of Liberalism was

(a) abolition of conservatism.

(b) Right to be liberal and educated.

(c) Individual freedom and equality before law

(d) Representative government.

Answer: (c) Individual freedom and equality before law

2.Romanticism refers to

(a) cultural movement

(b) religious movement

(c) political movement

(d) literary movement

Answer: (a) cultural movement

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3.In Prussia, who was referred to as ‘Junkers’?

(a) Military officials

(b) Large landowners

(c) Factory owners

(d) Aristocratic nobles

Answer: (b) Large landowners

4.Who among the following was proclaimed the first King of United Italy?

(a) Nicholas II

(b) King George II

(c) Wilhelm IV

(d) Victor Emmanuel II

Answer:(d) Victor Emmanuel II

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5.A large number of people were hostile to the Napoleonic code because

(a) it was not suitable for all.

(b) it destroyed the special privileges of the rulers.

(c) administrative changes did not go hand-in-hand with political freedom.

(d) none of the above.

Answer: (c) administrative changes did not go hand-in-hand with political freedom

6.Who, among the following, hosted the Congress at Vienna in 1815.

(a) King of the Netherlands

(b) Giuseppe Mazzini

(c) Duke Metternich

(d) Otto von Bismarck

Answer: (c) Duke Metternich

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7.Who among the following formed the secret society called ‘Young Italy’.

(a) Otto von Bismarck

(b) Giuseppe Mazzini

(c) Metternich

(d) Johann Gottfried Herder

Answer: (b) Giuseppe Mazzini

8.Which one of the following types of government was functioning in France before the

revolution of 1789?
(a) Dictatorship

(b) Military

(c) Body of French Citizen

(d) Monarchy

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Answer: (d) Monarchy

9.Who among the following was known as ‘Colons’

(a) French citizens living in Vietnam

(b) French citizens living in France

(c) Educated people of Vietnam

(d) Elites of Vietnam

Answer: (a) French citizens living in Vietnam

10.Which one of the following statements is false regarding the Act of Union 1707?

(a) It was an agreement between England and Scotland.

(b) It was an agreement between England and Ireland.

(c) It resulted in the formation of the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’.

(d) It gave England control over Scotland.

Answer: (b) It was an agreement between England and Ireland.

11.Which one of the following states was ruled by an Italian princely house before the

unification of Italy?

(a) Kingdom of Two Sicilies

(b) Lombardy

(c) Venetia

(d) Sardinia-Piedmont

Answer: (d) Sardinia-Piedmont

12.Which one of the following statements is not true about Giuseppe Mazzini?

(a) He wanted the united Italian Republic.

(b) He founded an underground society called ‘Young Italy’.

(c) He wanted Italy to be a monarchy.

(d) He was exiled for attempting a revolution in Liguria.

Answer: (c) He wanted Italy to be a monarchy.

13.Who said, “when France sneezes the rest of Europe catches cold”?

(a) Garibaldi

(b) Mazzini

(c) Metternich

(d) Bismarck

Answer: (c) Metternich

14.Which treaty recognised Greece as an independent nation?

(a) Treaty of Versailles

(b) Treaty of Vienna

(c) Treaty of Constantinople

(d) Treaty of Lausanne

Answer: (c) Treaty of Constantinople

15.Zolleverin started in 1834 in Prussia refers to a

(a) Trade Union

(b) Customs Union

(c) Labour Union

(d) Farmer’s Union

Answer: (b) Customs Union

16.The Ottoman Empire was ruled by the emperor of

(a) Turkey

(b) Russia

(c) Britain

(d) Prussia

Answer: (a) Turkey

17.At which of the following places was the Frankfurt Assembly convened

(a) at the church of St. Paul.

(b) at the church of St. Peters.

(c) at the palace of Prussia.

(d) at the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.

Answer: (d) at the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles.

18.What did the crown of oak leaves symbolise?

(a) Courage

(b) Heroism

(c) Peace

(d) Tolerance

Answer: (b) Heroism

19.The main function of the Prussian Zollverein was to

(a) impose a custom duty on imported goods.

(b) abolish the tariff barrier.

(c) reduce custom duties.

(d) impose new rules for trade.

Answer: (b) abolish the tariff barrier.

20.The Treaty of Vienna signed in 1815

(a) brought the conservative regimes back to power.

(b) destroyed the conservative powers of Europe.

(c) introduced democracy in Austria and Prussia.

(d) set up a new Parliament in Austria.

Answer: (a) brought the conservative regimes back to power. MCQs for Class
10 Nationalism in India.

1.Which of the following was the reason for calling off the Noncooperation Movement
by Gandhiji?

(a) Pressure from the British Government

(b) Second Round Table Conference

(c) Gandhiji’s arrest

(d) Chauri-Chaura incident

Answer: (d) Chauri-Chaura incident

2.Who set up the ‘Oudh Kisan Sabha’?

(a) Alluri Sitaram Raju

(b) Jawahar Lai Nehru and Baba Ramchandra

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru and Shaukat Ali

(d) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: (b) Jawahar Lai Nehru and Baba Ramchandra

3.Which province did not boycott the council election?

(a) Madras

(b) Hyderabad

(c) Ahmadabad

(d) Lucknow

Answer: (a) Madras

4.Who formed the ‘Swaraj Party’ within the Congress?

(a) Jawahar Lai Nehru and Motilal Nehru

(b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose

(d) C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru

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Answer: (d) C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru

5.The resolution of Purna Swaraj was adopted at which congress session?

(a) Bombay

(b) Lahore.

(c) Karachi

(d) Madras

Answer: (b) Lahore

6.Which party did not boycott the Council elections held in the year 1921?

(a) Swaraj Party

(b) Justice Party

(c) Muslim League

(d) Congress Party

Answer: (b) Justice Party

7.Who was the writer of the book ‘Hind Swaraj’?

(a) Rabindranath Tagore

(b) B.R. Ambedkar

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Jawahar Lai Nehru

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: (c) Mahatma Gandhi

8.When did Mahatma Gandhi reach in Dandi to violate the salt law?

(a) On 5thApril 1930

(b) On 6th April 1930

(c) On 6th May 1930

(d) On 7th April 1930

Answer: On 6th April 1930

9.A form of demonstration used in the Non-cooperation Movement in which people

block the entrance to a shop, factory or office is

(a) Boycott

(b) Begar

(c) Picketing

(d) Bandh

Answer: (c) Picketing

10.Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919 in the city of

(a) Bombay

(b) Calcutta

(c) Lucknow

(d) Amritsar

Answer: (a) Bombay

11.In which year the Indigo Satryagrah was organized?

(a) 1916
(b) 1917

(c) 1918

(d) 1919

Answer: (b) 1917

12.Which one of the following Viceroys announced a vague offer of dominion status
for India in October 1929?

(a) Lord Mountbatten

(b) Lord Dalhousie

(c) Lord Irwin

(d) None of these

Answer: (c) Lord Irwin

13.Who among the following two leaders led the Khilafat Movement?

(a) Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali

(b) Gandhiji and Sardar Patel

(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Abul Kalam Azad

(d) Abul Kalam Azad and Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (a) Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali

Answer: (b) Chitranjan Das and Motilal Nehru

14.When did the Jallianwalla Bagh incident take place?

(a) On 13 April 1919

(b) On 15 August 1919

(c) On 27 October 1919

(d) On 10 March 1919

Answer: (a) On 13 April 1919

MCQs for Class 10 The Age of Industrialisation

1.Who was the producer of the music book having a picture on the counter page entitled,

Dawn of the Century?

(a) E.T. Paull

(b) Jefferson

(c) Elizabeth Paul

(d) Graham Bell

Answer: (a) E.T. Paull

2.Why were workers in England hostile to machines and new technology?

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(a) They did not know how to use these.

(b) They feared that they would lose their jobs and livelihood.

(c) The workers were too poor to buy new machines.

(d) They were scared of machines.

Answer: (b) They feared that they would lose their jobs and livelihood.

3.In the period of proto-industrialization, production was carried at?

(a) Countryside

(b) Town

(c) Both a and b

(d) None

Answer: (c) Both a and b

4.From which of the following trade did the early entrepreneurs make a fortune?

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(a) Textile trade

(b) China trade

(c) Trade in tea

(d) Industries

Answer: (b) China trade

5.___________ created the cotton mill.

(a) Orville Wright

(b) Richard Arkwright

(c) James Watt

(d) None of the above

Answer: (b) Richard Arkwright

6.James Watt patented the new engine in _______.

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(a) 1765

(b) 1581

(c) 1681

(d) 1781

Answer: (a) 1765

7.Who created the Cotton Mill?

(a) J C Cotton

(b) R L Cotton

(c) Richard Arkwright

(d) None
Answer: (c) Richard Arkwright

8.__________ products came to symbolise refinement and class.

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(a) Machine Made

(b) Handmade

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of the above

Answer: (b) Handmade

9.Railways’ expansion began in England in

(a) 1850s

(b) 1840s

(c) 1820s

(d) 1860s

Answer: (a) 1850s

10.The expansion of railways helped in expansion of which of the following industries?

(a) Cotton and Metal

(b) Iron and steel

(c)Mining

(d) Wooden

Answer: (b) Iron and steel

11.Hoogly in _______ had trade links with Southeast Asian ports.

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Gujarat
(c) Orissa

(d) Bengal

Answer: (d) Bengal

12.Who was the author of “Comers and Goers”?

(a) Michael Wolf

(b) Raphael Samuel

(c) Henry Cook

(d) None

Answer: (b) Raphael Samuel

13._______ on the Gujarat coast connected India to the Gulf and the Red Sea Ports.

(a) Okha

(b) Porbandar

(c) Surat

(d) Kandla

Answer: (c) Surat

14.Who was the author of “Comers and Goers”?

(a) Michael Wolf

(b) Raphael Samuel

(c) Henry Cook

(d) None

Answer: (b) Raphael Samuel

15.Match the following items given in column A with those in column B.

Column A Column B
A. First cotton mill in Bombay
1. India
B. Masulipatam
2. Connected India to the Gulfand Red Sea Ports
C. Gujarat coast
3. Coromandel coast
D. Finer variety of coarser
4. 1854
cotton

Answer: (a) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1

MCQs for Class 10 Print Culture and The Modern World

1.Which of the following countries had the earliest kind of print technology?

(b) China

(b)Korea

(c) Japan

(d) All of these

Answer: (d)All of these

2.Who wrote My Childhood and My University?

(a) Thomas Wood

(b) Maxim Gorky

(c) George Eliot

(d) Jane Austen

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Answer: (b) Maxim Gorky

3.Which one of the following began to edit the ‘Bengal Gazette’ a weekly magazine?

(a)James Augustus Hickey

(b) George Eliot

(c) Jane Austen

(d) William Bolts

Answer: (a) James Augustus Hickey

4.Who was JamesLockington?

(a) Publisher

(b)Painter

(c) Scholar

(d)Reformer

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Answer: (a) Publisher

5.Who began to publish the weekly Bengal Gazette?

(a) Bal GangadharTilak

(b) Gangadhar Bhattachary

(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Madan Mohan Malviya

Answer: (b) Gangadhar Bhattachary

6.Which scholar expressed a deep anxiety about printing?

(a) Martin Luther

(b) Erasmus

(c) Johann Gutenberg

(d) None of these

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Answer: (b) Erasmus

7.Arrange the following in the correct sequence of old tradition of handwritten manuscripts

(i) Vernacular languages

(ii) Persian

(iii) Arabic

(iv) Sanskrit

Option:

(a) iv-i ii-ii-I

(b) iv-i-ii-iii

(c) iv-ii-i-iii

(d) iv-iii-i-ii

Answer: (a) iv-iii-ii-i

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8.What is calligraphy?

(a) Stylized writing

(b)Poetry

(c) Textbooks

(d) Flower arrangement

Answer: (a) Stylised writing

9.At which of the following places, a children’s press was set up in1857?

(a) England

(b)Spain

(c) France
(d)China

Answer: (c) France

10.Which book of Jyotiba Phule was based on the caste system?

(a) Amar Jiban

(b) Istri DharamVichar

(c) SacchiKavitayen

(d)Gulamgiri

Answer: (d) Gulamgiri

11.Which of the following books is the oldest Japanese book, printed in 868 AD containing six
sheets of text and woodcut illustrations?

(a) Diamond Sutra

(b) Harshcharita

(c) Brihatsutra

(d)Mrichkatika

Answer: (a) Diamond Sutra

12.Consider the following statements:

I.Novels, a new literary form, develop in Europe.

II.Novels were religious texts used by Pope and priests to spread their faith among the common
people.

III.Novels contained life stories, expressing human experiences, relationships, read by all those
who could read.

Choose the correct answer:

(a) I and II

(b) I and III

(c) I, II and III

(d) I and IV

Answer: (b) I and III

13.Who introduced the printing press in India?

(a)French

(b)Italian

(c) Portuguese

(d) None of these

Answer: (c) Portuguese