Question 1.
_____ were those laws which prevented the import of cheaper food until prices in Britain had risen to a certain level.
(a) Wheat Laws
(b) Rice Laws
(c) Corn Laws
(d) Lentil Laws
Answer
Answer: (c) Corn Laws
Question 2.
Which one of the following is a machine that greatly contributed to the revolution in the textile industry?
(a) Flying shuttle
(b) Watt steam
(c) The typewriter
(d) The locomotive
Answer
Answer: (a) Flying shuttle
Question 3.
To drain mines, the Miner’s Friend was invented, in 1698, by
(a) James Watt
(b) Thomas Savery
(c) Thomas Newcomen
(d) Matthew Boulton
Answer
Answer: (b) Thomas Savery
Question 4.
In 1814, the railway engineer George Stephenson constructed a locomotive called
(a) The Butcher
(b) The Puffing Devil
(c) The Pumping Ghost
(d) The Mighty Force
Answer
Answer: (a) The Butcher
Question 5.
The first Derby invented a _____ in 1709 C.E.
(a) Flying shuttle
(b) Blast Furnace
(c) The typewriter
(d) The locomotive
Answer
Answer: (b) Blast Furnace
Question 6.
Initially, canals were built in England to
(a) transport coal to cities
(b) transport food grains
(c) transport people
(d) transport raw cotton
Answer
Answer: (a) transport coal to cities
Question 7.
Among the several factors which made Britain the first industrialized country, the one described as a major economic change, in the 18th century, was
(a) Common laws
(b) Single currency and market
(c) Use of money as a medium of exchange
(d) Agricultural Revolution
Answer
Answer: (d) Agricultural Revolution
Question 8.
The Miner’s Friend, a model steam engine, was built by
(a) Matthew Boulton
(b) James Watt
(c) Thomas Newcomen
(d) Thomas Savery
Answer
Answer: (d) Thomas Savery
Question 9.
By the 1850s, most of Britain was connected by
(a) rivers
(b) railways
(c) canals
(d) roads
Answer
Answer: (b) railways
Question 10.
The first blast furnace was invented by
(a) Henry Cort
(b) Abraham Darby III
(c) Abraham Darby I
(d) Abraham Darby II
Answer
Answer: (c) Abraham Darby I
Question 11.
Which one of the following is not true regarding the demands of participants of Luddism?
(a) Fix working hours
(b) Control over women and child labour
(c) Employment for those who had lost their jobs due to coming of machinery
(d) Right to form trade unions to legally present their demands
Answer
Answer: (a) Fix working hours
Question 12.
During the little railway mania of 1833-37 in Britain, the total number of railway lines built was
(a) 1400 miles
(b) 1500 miles
(c) 1600 miles
(d) 1700 miles
Answer
Answer: (a) 1400 miles
Question 13.
The transformation of industry and the economy in Britain, between the 1780s and the 1850s, is called the
(a) first industrial revolution
(b) first agricultural revolution
(c) first technological revolution
(d) first communication revolution
Answer
Answer: (a) first industrial revolution
