Assertion & Reason Questions
In the following questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct option:
- Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
- Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
- Assertion (A) is true, but Reason (R) is false.
- Assertion (A) is false, but Reason (R) is true.
Q 1.
Assertion (A): The Silk Routes are a good example of pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world.
Reason (R): The name 'Silk Routes' points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route.
Answer : (a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Q 2.
Assertion (A): The First World War was a war like no other before.
Reason (R): The First World War was mainly fought in Europe.
Answer : (d) Assertion (A) is false, but Reason (R) is true.
Q 3.
Assertion (A): During the war, industries were restructured to produce war-related goods.
Reason (R): Societies were also restructured and women stepped in to undertake jobs that men used to do.
Answer : (b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Q 4.
Assertion (A): The Great Depression affected the Indian economy also.
Reason (R): It was due to the integration of world into one global economy.
Answer : (a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Q 5.
Assertion (A): Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange.
Reason (R): Ready food stuffs in distant parts of the world might share common origins.
Answer : (a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Q 6.
Assertion (A): The 19th century indenture system was referred to as the 'new system of slavery.
Reason (R): The indentured labourers lived in harsh working conditions and had few legal rights.
Answer : (a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Q 7.
Assertion (A): The Multinational Companies (MNCs) choose China as an alternative location for investment.
Reason (R): The relocation of industry to high-wage countries stimulated world trade and capital flow.
Answer : (c) Assertion (A) is true, but Reason (R) is false.
Q 8.
Assertion (A): There was a collapse of the system of fixed exchange rates and the introduction of a system of floating exchange rates.
Reason (R): From the 1960s, the rising costs of its overseas involvements weakened the US's finances and competitive strength. It could not command confidence as the world's principal currency.
Answer : (a) The reason explains why the system of fixed exchange rates collapsed, and is true.
Q 9.
Assertion (A): The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of Antarctica was decisively under way by the mid-sixteenth century.
Reason (R): The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors was the germs such as those of Swine flu that they carried on their person.
Answer : (d) The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was decisively under way by the mid-sixteenth century. The most powerful weapon of the Spanish conquerors was not a conventional military weapon but they carried germs of small pox on themselves. Thus, both the assertion and reason are false.
Q 10.
Assertion (A): The railways, steamships, the telegraph were important inventions which transformed the nineteenth-century world.
Reason (R): Colonisation stimulated new investments and improvements in transport.
Answer : (a) Technological advances were often the result of larger, social, political and economic factors, like colonization. Thus reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.
Q 11.
Assertion (A): 'Chutney music', popular in Trinidad and Guyana, is another creative contemporary expression of the post-indenture experience.
Reason (R): Some of the Naipaul's early novels capture their sense of loss and alienation.
Answer : (b) The reason and assertion do not match each other.
Q 12.
Assertion (A): Over the nineteenth century, British manufacturers flooded the Indian market.
Reason (R): The value of Indian exports to Britain was much higher than the value of British imports to India.
Answer : (c) The value of British exports to India was much higher than the value of British imports from India. Therefore, Assertion is true but reason is false.
Q 13.
Assertion (A): The First World War involved the world's leading industrial nations which harnessed the vast powers of modem industry to inflict the greatest possible destruction of enemies.
Reason (R): It was the first modern industrial war, which saw the use of robots and satellites on a massive scale.
Answer : (c) It was the first modem industrial war, which saw the use of machine guns, tanks, aircraft, chemical weapons, etc, on a massive scale. Therefore, the assertion is true but reason is false.
Q 14.
Assertion (A): When the supply of wheat was disrupted during the First World War, wheat production in Canada, America and Australia expanded dramatically.
Reason (R): Before the First World War, Asia was a major supplier of wheat in the world market.
Answer : (c) Before the First World War, eastern Europe was a major supplier of wheat in the world market. Thus the reason is false.
Q 15.
Assertion (A): During the Great Depression, agricultural regions and communities were worst affected.
Reason (R): The fall in agricultural prices was greater and more prolonged than that in the prices of industrial goods.
Answer : (a) The reason explains the assertion.
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