WBBSE Class 9 Fundamentals Of History Chapter 4 Industrial Revolution: Colonialism And Imperialism MCQs

Chapter 4 Industrial Revolution: Colonialism And Imperialism Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. Who first used the term “Industrial Revolution”?

1. Auguste Blanqui
2. C. Beard
3. Karl Marx
4. Arnold Toynbee

Answer: 1. Auguste Blanqui

Question 2. When did the “Industrial Revolution” begin in England according to Arnold Toynbee?

1. 1758
2. 1760
3. 1765
4. 1770

Answer: 2. 1760

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Question 3. Where did “The Industrial Revolution” first begin in Europe?

1. France
2. Germany
3. England
4. Italy

Answer: 3. England

Question 4. Who wrote the book, “The First Industrial Revolution”?

1. J.U.Nef
2. Rostow
3. Karl Marx
4. Phyllis Deane

Answer: 4. Phyllis Deane

Question 5. When did industrialization start in France?

1. 1789
2. 1792
3. 1806
4. 1830

Answer: 4. 1830

Question 6. When did “The Industrial Revolution” start in Germany?

1. 1830
2. 1848
3. 1870
4. 1891

Answer: 3. l870

Question 7. Name the Russian Czar during whose reign “Industrial Revolution” started in Russia

1. Alexander 1
2. Alexander 2
3. Nicholas 1
4. Nicholas 2

Answer: 2. Alexander 2

Question 8. Who invented the Safety Lamp?

1. Humphry Davy
2. James Watt
3. John Kay
4. Crompton

Answer: 1. Humphry Davy

Question 9. Who invented the Flying Shuttle?

1. John Kay
2. Humphry Davy
3. Stephenson
4. Crompton

Answer: 1. John Kay

Question 10. Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

1. Crompton
2. James Hargreaves
3. James Watt
4. John Kay

Answer: 2. James Hargreaves

Question 11. Who invented the Water Frame?

1. James Watt
2. Humphry Davy
3. Richard Arkwright
4. George Stephenson

Answer: 3. Richard Arkwright

Question 12. Who invented the Steam Engine?

1. George Stephenson
2. John Kay
3. Samuel Crompton
4. James Watt

Answer: 4. James Watt

Question 13. Who invented the Power Loom?

1. Edmund Cartwright
2. Richard Arkwright
3. John Kay
4. James Watt

Answer: 1. Edmund Cartwright

Question 14. who invented the Steam Locomotive?

1. Edmund Cartwright
2. George Stephenson
3. James Watt
4. James Hargreaves

Answer: 2. George Stephenson

Question 15. Name the French ruler who took the greatest initiative in introducing railways.

1. Louis XVI
2. Louis Napoleon
3. Louis Philippe
4. Napoleon Bonaparte

Answer: 2. Louis Napoleon

Question 16. In which of the following industries did invention first start?

1. Jute
2. Steel
3. Printing
4. Cotton

Answer: 4. Cotton

Question 17. Abraham Darby III was a famous

1. Ironmaster
2. Doctor
3. Footballer
4. Activist

Answer: 1. Ironmaster

Question 18. In which year railway was constructed in France?

1. 1831
2. 1832
3. 1833
4. 1834

Answer: 2. 1832

Question 19. Which European nation became the ‘workshop of the world’ in the nineteenth century?

1. Germany
2. France
3. England
4. Belgium

Answer: 3. England

Question 20. The construction of railway lines in Russia was completed by the year?

1. 1860
2. 1861
3. 1862
4. 1864

Answer: 3. 1862

Question 21. Birmingham was a city in which of the following countries?

1. Russia
2. Germany
3. Italy
4. Britain

Answer: 4. Britain

Question 22. Which industrial sector became extremely important in the early 19th Century in the European continent?

1. Iron
2. Steel
3. Coal
4. Jute

Answer: 3. Coal

Question 23. How much of the population remained in agriculture after the Industrial Revolution?

1. 20%
2. 30%
3. 40%
4. 50%

Answer: 1. 20%

Question 24. Who inhabited the Ghetto?

1. Soldiers
2. Women
3. Children
4. Minority group

Answer: 4. Minority group

Question 25. The concept of Socialism challenged

1. Revolution
2. Capitalism
3. Communism
4. Nationalism

Answer: 2. Capitalism

Question 26. Name the country that started digging the Suez Canal.

1. Egypt
2. Russia
3. France
4. Britain

Answer: 3. France

Question 27. Who issued the Open Door Policy?

1. Bismarck
2. Fourier
3. Mac Arthur
4. Sir John Hay

Answer: 4. Sir John Hay

Question 28. Which country provided capital support to Germany in building her railways?

1. France
2. Spain
3. England
4. Russia

Answer: 3. England

Question 29. Who established the International Working Men’s Association?

1. Karl Marks
2. Clement Atlee
3. v.l Lenin
4. Proudhon

Answer: 1. Karl Marks

Question 30. In which continent is Ethiopia situated?

1. America
2. Asia
3. Africa
4. Europe

Answer: 3. Africa

Question 31. Who first introduced the term ‘Socialism’?

1. Louis Blanc
2. Robert Owen
3. Karl Marks
4. F. Engels

Answer: 2. Robert Owen

Question 32. What is the primary motive of a capitalist economic system?

1. Colonialism
2. Profit earning
3. Imperialism
4. Labour unrest

Answer: 2. Profit earning

Question 33. when was the International Working Men’s Association formed?

1. 1864
2. 1865
3. 1866
4. 1867

Answer: 1. 1864

Question 34. Who wrote the book, ‘Hard Times?

1. Robert Owen
2. Wilfred Owen
3. Charles Dickens
4. Leo Tolstoy

Answer: 3. Charles Dickens

Question 35. Who used the term, ‘the dark satanic mills’?

1. William Blake
2. Charles Dickens
3. Karl Marx
4. Leo Tolstoy

Answer: 4. Leo Tolstoy

Question 36. Who is known as the ‘Pioneer of European Socialism’?

1. Robert Owen
2. Karl Marx
3. F. Engels
4. Henri de Saint Simon.

Answer: 1. Robert Owen

Question 37. Who founded the theory of Scientific Socialism?

1. Charles Fourier
2. Karl Marx
3. V.l. Lenin
4. Henry de Saint Simon

Answer: 2. Karl Marx

Question 38. Who was the ‘Father of British Socialism’?

1. Louis Blanc
2. Proudhon
3. Robert Owen
4. Charles Fourier

Answer: 3. Robert Owen

Question 39. Who amongst the four first came to India?

1. Portuguese
2. British
3. French
4. Dutch

Answer: 1. Portuguese

Question 40. Who wrote the book, ‘Imperialism -A Study’?

1. David Thomson
2. J.A Hobson
3. Arnold Toynbee
4. E.J. Hobsbawm

Answer: 2. J. A Hobson

Question 41. Who was Homer Lee?

1. Scientist
2. Industrialist
3. Capitalist
4. Author

Answer: 4. Author

Question 42. Between whom were the First and Second Opium Wars fought?

1. Britain and China
2. France and China
3. China and Japan
4. France and Holland

Answer: 1. Britain and China

Question 43. Who occupied the Cape of Good Hope in 1652?

1. Portuguese
2. Dutch
3. French
4. British

Answer: 1. Dutch

Question 44. In which of the following places, the Taiping Rebellion took place?

1. Russia
2. Japan
3. China
4. Turkey

Answer: 3. China

Question 45. When was the Triple Alliance signed?

1. 1882
2. 1886
3. 1890
4. 1894

Answer: 1. l882

Question 46. When was the Triple Entente signed?

1. 1900
2. 1902
3. 1904
4. 1907

Answer: 4. 1907

Question 47. When was the Dual Alliance signed?

1. 1882
2. 1886
3. 1873
4. 1879

Answer: 4. 1879

Question 48. When did the Second Balkan War take place?

1. 1913
2. 1922
3. 1923
4. 1925

Answer: 1. 1913

Question 49. What was the immediate cause of the First World War?

1. Anglo-French rivalry
2. Anglo-German rivalry
3. Franco -Russian rivalry
4. Sarajevo Murder

Answer: 3. Sarajevo Murder

Question 50. In which year did the First World War begin?

1. 1912
2. 1914
3. 1918
4. 1920

Answer: 2. 1914