The Making of Global World Class 10 MCQ Questions With Answers
Question 1.
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) Corn Laws | (A) Detroit |
| (ii) Rinderpest | (B) America |
| (iii) Small-pox | (C) Britain |
| (iv) Car Plant | (D) Africa |
(A) (i)-(D), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(A), (iv)-(B)
(B) (i)-(C), (ii)-(D), (iii)-(B),(iv)-(A)
(C) (i)-(D), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(A)
(D) (i)-(B), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(C)
Answer:
(C) (i)-(D), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(A)
Explanation:
(i) Cowries or seashells were used as a i currency in India.
(ii) Chinese pottery moved through the Silk 1 route to Europe and Asia.
(iii) Ready foodstuff came from China to West which was known as spaghetti.
(iv) In chain of ready foodstuff, pasta came from Italy through Arab Traders.
Question 2.
| Column A | Column B |
| (i) Indian | (A) Pottery |
| (ii) Chinese | (B) Pasta |
| (iii) Italian | (C) Cowries |
| (iv) Arab Traders | (D) Spaghetti |
(A) (i)-(D), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(A), (iv)-(B)
(B) (i)-(C), (ii)-(D), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(A)
(C) (i)-(C), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(B)
(D) (i)-(B), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(C)
Answer:
(C) (i)-(C), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(B)
Explanation:
(i) Cowries or seashells were used as a i currency in India.
(ii) Chinese pottery moved through the Silk 1 route to Europe and Asia.
(iii) Ready foodstuff came from China to West which was known as spaghetti.
(iv) In chain of ready foodstuff, pasta came from Italy through Arab Traders.
Question 3.
Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
(i) The Second World War.
(ii) The Great Depression.
(m) The Chinese Revolution.
(iv) The IMF and the World Bank commenced financial operations.
Options:
(A) (i) – (iii) – (iv) – (ii)
(B) (iii) – (iv) – (ii) – (i)
(C) (iv) – (ii) – (i) – (iii)
(D) (ii) – (i) – (iv) – (iii)
Answer:
(D) (ii) – (i) – (iv) – (iii)
Explanation:
(i) The Great Depression, 1936.
(ii) The Second World War in 1939.
(iii) The IMF and the World Bank commenced 1 financial operations in 1947.
(iv) The Chinese Revolution, 1949.
Question 4.
Arrange the following in the correct sequence:
(i) Indentured Labour was abolished.
(ii) Rinderpest (Cattle Plague) had a terrifying impact on livelihoods of the African people and the local economy.
(iii) The First World War was fought.
(iv) Potato Famine in Ireland.
Options:
(A) (iv) – (ii) – (iii) – (i)
(B) (iii) – (i) – (ii) – (iv)
(C) (i) – (iv) – (iii) – (ii)
(D) (ii) – (iii) – (iv) – (i)
Answer:
(A) (iv) – (ii) – (iii) – (i)
Explanation:
(i) Potato Famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1849.
(ii) Rinderpest (Cattle Plague) had a terrifying impact on livelihoods of the African people and the local economy in late 1880s.
(iii) The First World War was fought from 1914 to 1918.
(iv) Inden ured Labour was abolished in 1921.
Question 5.
In Trinidad what was referred as Hosay?
(A) Annual Muharram procession marking a Carnival.
(B) Christmas celebration
(C) Easter festival
(D) New Year celebration
Answer:
(A) Annual Muharram procession marking a Carnival.
Explanation:
In Trinidad the annual Muharram procession was transformed into a riotous carnival called ‘Hosay’ in which workers of all races and religions joined.
Question 6.
Until 18th century, which two countries were considered the richest in the world?
(A) China and Japan
(B) England and France
(C) India and China
(D) England and Italy
Answer:
(C) India and China
Question 7.
Why were the Europeans attracted the most to Africa?
(A) By its natural beauty.
(B) By the opportunities for investment.
(C) For its vast land resources and mineral wealth.
(D) For recruitment of labour.
Answer:
(C) For its vast land resources and mineral wealth.
Question 8.
Most Indian Indentured workers came from :
(A) Eastern Uttar Pradesh
(B) North-Eastern States
(C) Jammu & Kashmir
(D) None of the above
Answer:
(A) Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Explanation:
In the mid-nineteenth century Eastern UP faced cottage industries declined, land rents rose, lands were cleared for mines and plantations that affected the lives of the poor. Thus, they forced to migrate in search of work.
Question 9.
Study the picture and answer the question that follows:
Which of the following aspects best signifies this image of ship “Alexandra” ?
(A) Irish emigrants waiting to board the ship.
(B) Meat being loaded on the ship.
(C) Emigrants leaving for the US.
(D) Transport to the gold mines.
Answer:
(B) Meat being loaded on the ship.
Explanation:
Till the 1870s, animals were shipped live from America to Europe but live animals took up a lot of ship space and also g became unfit to eat. Hence, Meat became an expensive luxury for European poor.
Question 10.
Which of the following options best signifies the above picture ?
(A) A distant view of Surat and its river
(B) New Orleans
(C) Transvaal Gold Mines
(D) Stalingrad in Soviet Russia
Answer:
(A) A distant view of Surat and its river
Explanation:
In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Surat remained the main centre of overseas trade in the western Indian Ocean.
Question 11.
Analyze the information given below, considering one the following correct options :
Consider the jute producers of Bengal. They grew raw jute that was processed in factories for export in the form of gunny bags. But as gunny exports collapsed, the price of raw jute crashed more than 60 per cent. Peasants who borrowed in the hope of better times or to increase output in the hope of higher incomes faced ever lower prices, and fell deeper and deeper into debt. Thus the Bengal jute growers’ lament: Grow more jute, brothers, with the hope of greater cash. Costs and debts of jute will make your hopes get dashed. When you have spent all your money and got the crop off the ground, … traders, sitting at home, will pay only Rs 5 a maund.
(A) The Great Depression
(B) India and the Great Depression
(C) Post-War Recovery
(D) Rise of mass Production and Consumption
Answer:
(B) India and the Great Depression
Question 12.
Analyze the information given below, considering one the following correct options : The Silk Routes are a good example of vibrant pre¬modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. The name ‘Silk Routes’ points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route. Historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking Asia with Europe and northern Africa. They are known to have existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century. But Chinese pottery also travelled the Same route, as did textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia. In return, precious metals gold and silver flowed from Europe to Asia. Trade and cultural exchange always went hand in hand. Early Christian missionaries almost certainly travelled this route to Asia, as did early Muslim preachers a few centuries later. Much before all this, Buddhism emerged from eastern India and spread in several directions through intersecting points on the silk routes.
(A) Pre-modern Trade and cultural links
(B) Trade and cultural exchange
(C) Silk Routes link the world
(D) Chinese Silk cargoes
Answer:
(C) Silk Routes link the world
Question 13.
Find the incorrect option from the following:
(A) Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1980s.
(B) Rinderpest moved like forest fire in Africa.
(C) The loss of cattle due to this destroyed African livelihoods.
(D) Colonial government forced the Africans into the labour market.
Answer:
(A) Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1980s.
Explanation:
Rinderpest or cattle plague I arrived in Africa in the late 1880s.
Question 14.
Find the incorrect option from the following:
(A) The Great Depression began around 1929 and lasted till the mid-1930s.
(B) During this period most parts of the world experienced catastrophic declines in production, employment, incomes and trade.
(C) The exact timing and impact of the depression varied across countries.
(D) But in general, agricultural regions and communities were the best affected.
Answer:
(D) But in general, agricultural regions and communities were the best affected.
Explanation:
But in general, agricultural regions and communities were the worst affected.
Assertion and reason Based MCQs
Directions: In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false
(D) A is false and R is True
Question 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 A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Question 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) A is false and R is True
Explanation:
The First World War was a war like no other before because this involved the world’s leading industrial nations.
Question 3.
Assertion (A): Most indentured labour in India came from present day Eastern UE Bihar, Central India and drydistricts of Tamil Nadu.
Reason (R): In mid 19th century, the regions of Eastern UR Bihar, Central India and Tamil Nadu due to inflation in prices after First World War.
Answer:
(C) A is true but R is false
Explanation:
In the mid-nineteenth century Eastern UP faced cottage industries declined, land rents rose, lands were cleared for mines and plantations that affected the lives of the poor. Thus, they forced to migrate in search of work.
Question 4.
Assertion (A): Europe emerged as the centre of world trade in the 19th century.
Reason (R): Till the eighteenth century, China and India were among the world’s richest countries.
Answer:
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
Explanation:
Reduced importance of China and India in World trade and the emergence of Americas pushed the centre of world trade westwards.
Question 5.
Assertion (A): US quickly recovered after First world war.
Reason (R): US exports boosted European recovery and world trade over the next six years.
Answer:
(C) A is true but R is false
Explanation:
The First World War was a war like no other before because this involved the world’s leading industrial nations.
Question 6.
Assertion (A): World Bank and IMF were established after the second world war.
Reason (R): Second world war caused an immense amount of economic destruction and many parts of Europe and Asia were destroyed.
Answer:
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Case-Based MCQs
I. Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follows:
All through history, human societies have become steadily more interlinked. From ancient times, travellers, traders, priests and pilgrims travelled vast distances for knowledge, opportunity and spiritual fulfilment, or to escape persecution. They carried goods, money, values, skills, ideas, inventions, and even germs and diseases. As early as 3000 BCE an active coastal trade linked the Indus valley civilisations with present-day West Asia. For more than a millennia, cowries (the Hindi cowrie or seashells, used as a form of currency) from the Maldives found their way to China and East Africa. The long-distance spread of disease¬carrying germs may be traced as far back as the seventh century. By the thirteenth century it had become an unmistakable link.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
Question 1.
In ancient times who travelled vast distances for knowledge, opportunity and spiritual fulfilment?
(A) Travellers
(B) Traders
(C) Priests
(D) All of them
Answer:
(D) All of them
Question 2.
Besides goods, money, values, skills, ideas, inventions they also carried:
(A) Gold
(B) Germs and diseases
(C) Silver
(D) None of the above
Answer:
(B) Germs and diseases
Question 3.
In Hindi, meaning of Cowrie is.
(A) Seashells
(B) Nutshells
(C) Walnut shells
(D) None of these
Answer:
(A) Seashells
Question 4.
The long distance spread of disease-carrying germs may be traced between:
(A) Sixth-twelfth Century
(B) Eight-fourteenth Century
(C) Seventh-thirteenth Century
(D) Ninth-sixteenth Century
Answer:
(C) Seventh-thirteenth Century
II. Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follows:
The silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world. The name ’silk routes’ points to the importance of West-bound Chinese silk cargoes along this route. Historians have identified several silk routes, over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia, and linking Asiawith Europe and northern Africa. They are known to have existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century. But Chinese pottery also travelled the same route, as did textiles and spices from India and Southeast Asia. In return, precious metals – gold and silver – flowed from Europe to Asia.Trade and cultural exchange always went hand in hand. Early Christian missionaries almost certainly travelled this route to Asia, as did early Muslim preachers a few centuries later. Much before all this, Buddhism emerged from eastern India and spread in several directions through intersecting points on the silk routes.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
Question 1.
The silk routes are a good example of:
(A) Modern trade
(B) Pre-modern trade
(C) Ancient trade
(D) Global trade
Answer:
(B) Premodern trade
Question 2.
Silk is a product.
(A) Japanese
(B) Korean
(C) American
(D) Chinese
Answer:
(D) Chinese
Explanation:
The origin of silk in China since ancient time that symbolise the royalty of Chinese people.
Question 3.
What was exported from India through Silk route?
(A) Oil
(B) Petroleum
(C) Textile and Spices
(D) Herbs
Answer:
(C) Textile and Spices
Explanation:
As Oil and Petroleum exported from Arab countries, while China exported herbs.
Question 4.
Early Christian Missionaries and preachers travelled through this route to Asia.
(A) Christian
(B) Sikh
(C) Muslim
(D) Buddhist
Answer:
(C) Muslim
III. Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follows:
Population growth from the late eighteenth century had increased the demand for food grains in Britain. As urban centres expanded and industry grew, the demand for agricultural products went up, pushing up food grain prices. Under pressure from landed groups, the government also restricted the import of corn. The laws allowing the government to do this were commonly known as the ‘Corn Laws’. Unhappy with high food prices, industrialists and urban dwellers forced the abolition of the Corn Laws. After the Corn Laws were scrapped, food could be imported into Britain more cheaply than it could be produced within the country. British agriculture was unable to compete with imports. Vast areas of land were now left uncultivated, and thousands of men and women were thrown out of work. They flocked to the cities or migrated overseas.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
Question 1.
In eighteenth Century the demand for food grains increased in Britain due to:
(A) Less production
(B) Population growth
(C) Crop failure
(D) Ancient techniques
Answer:
(B) Population growth
Explanation:
As the population increases the demand for resources increases naturally.
Question 2.
Expansion of urban centres and growth of industries pushed up the prices of:
(A) Agricultural products
(B) Defence products
(C) Economy
(D) Living
Answer:
(A) Agricultural products
Question 3.
The government restricted the import of:
(A) Medicines
(B) Textiles
(C) Corn
(D) Cooking oil
Answer:
(C) Corn
Explanation:
When the demand of food grains increases, government restricted the import of com, known as corn laws.
Question 4
were unhappy with high food prices.
(A) Urban dwellers
(B) Industrialists
(C) Poor people ‘
(D) Both (A) and (B)
Answer:
(D) Both (A) and (B)
IV .Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follows:
The trade in meat offers a good example of this connected process. Till the 1870s, animals were shipped live from America to Europe and then slaughtered when they arrived there. But live animals took up a lot of ship space. Many also died in voyage, fell ill, lost weight, or became unfit to eat. Meat was hence an expensive luxury beyond the reach of the European poor. High prices in turn kept demand and production down until the development of a new technology, namely, refrigerated ships, which enabled the transport of perishable foods over long distances. Now animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point – in America, Australia or New Zealand – and then transported to Europe as frozen meat. This reduced shipping costs and lowered meat prices in Europe. The poor in Europe could now consume a more varied diet. To the earlier monotony of bread and potatoes many, though not all, could now add meat (and butter and eggs) to their diet. Better living condition promoted social peace within the country and support for imperialism abroad.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
Question 1.
Example of Connected process is trade in meat, Connection here refers to:
(A) Simple policies of the government
(B) Cheap Prices
(C) Role of Technology
(D) All the above
Answer:
(C) Role of Technology
Question 2.
Animals were shipped live from:
(A) Germany to America
(B) America to England
(C) America to Europe
(D) Europe to Asia
Answer:
(C) America to Europe
Question 3
………….enable the transport of perishable foods over long distances.
(A) Ships
(B) Big voyages
(C) Refrigerated Ships
(D) Steamers
Answer:
(C) Refrigerated Ships
Question 4.
America, Australia and New Zealand were the point for the export of meat to Europe.
(A) Starting
(B) Mid
(C) Ending
(D) None of the above
Answer:
(A) Starting
V. Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follows:
The Second World War broke out a mere two decades after the end of the First World War. It was fought between the Axis powers (mainly Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy) and the Allies (Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the US). It was a war waged for six years on many fronts, in many places, over land, on sea, in the air. Once again death and destruction was enormous. At least 60 million people, or about 3% of the world’s 1939 population, are believed to have been killed, directly or indirectly, as a result of the war. Millions more were injured. Unlike in earlier wards, most of these deaths took place outside the battlefields. Many more civilians than soldiers died from war-related causes. Vast parts of Europe and Asia were devastated, and several cities were destroyed by aerial bombardment or relentless artillery attacks. The war caused an immense amount of economic devastation and social disruption. Reconstruction promised to be long and difficult.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
Question 1.
The difference between First World War and Second World War was:
(A) Two decades
(B) One decade
(C) Three decades
(D) Four decades
Answer:
(A) Two decades
Question 2.
The Second world war was fought for years on many fronts, in many places, over land, sea and air.
(A) Five years
(B) Two years
(C) Six years
(D) Ten years
Answer:
(C) Six years
Question 3.
In 1939 about………….. of world was at least million people, who were killed in ………….. Second World War.
(A) 5%, 50
(B) 6%, 60
(C) 3%, 30
(D) 3%, 60
Answer:
(D) 3%, 60
Question 4.
Vast parts of were devastated.
(A) Europe and Asia
(B) Africa and Asia
(C) Europe and Africa
(D) Africa and America
Answer:
(A) Europe and Asia
VI. Read the sources given below and answer the questions that follows:
Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s. It was carried by infected cattle imported from British Asia to feed the Italian soldiers invading Eritrea in East Africa. Entering Africa’s in the east, rinderpest moved west ‘like forest fire’, reaching Africa’s Atlantic coast in 1892. It reached to Cape (Africa’s southernmost tip) five years later. Along the way rinderpest killed 90% of the cattle. The loss of cattle destroyed Africa livelihoods, Planters, mine owners and colonial governments now successfully monopolised what scarce cattle resources remained, to strengthen their power and to force Africans into the labour market. Control over the scarce resource of cattle enabled European colonisers to conquer and subdue Africa. Similar stories can be told about the impact of Western conquest on other parts of the nineteenth century world.
Answer the following MCQs by choosing the most appropriate option:
Question 1.
Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late
(A) 1980
(B) 1780
(C) 1880
(D) 1870
Answer:
(C) 1880
Question 2.
It was carried by infected
(A) Cows
(B) Hens
(C) Goats
(D) Cattle
Answer:
(D) Cattle
Question 3.
Rinderpest reached in the Cape after……. years.
(A) One year
(B) Five years
(C) Three years
(D) Four years
Answer:
(B) Five years
Question 4.
The loss of cattle destroyed livelihoods of
(A) Indians
(B) Americans
(C) Asians
(D) Africans
Answer:
(D) Africans