Answer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Gujarat
\nBombay was the major outlet for cotton textiles from Gujarat.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 2.
\nBombay became the capital of the Bombay Presidency in:
\n(a) 1819
\n(b) 1820
\n(c) 1821
\n(d) 1822<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) 1819
\nIn 1819, Bombay became the capital of the Bombay Presidency.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 3.
\nBy 1921, there were 85 cotton mills with about:
\n(\u0430) 1,45,000 workers
\n(b) 1,46,000 workers
\n(c) 1,47,000 workers
\n(d) 1,48,000 workers<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) 1,46,000 workers
\nBy 1921, there were 85 cotton mills with about 1,46,000 workers.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 4.
\nWhile every Londoner in the 1840s enjoyed an average 155 square yards, Bombay had a mere ………… square yards.
\n(a) 8.5
\n(b) 9.5
\n(c) 10.5
\n(d) 11.5<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) 9.5
\nSince Bombay was not developed, and congested, it had only 9.5 square yards for each person.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 5.
\nMore than 70 percent of the working people lived in the thickly populated ………………. of Bombay.
\n(a) Rural
\n(b) Urban
\n(c) Roadsides
\n(d) Chawls<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Chawls
\nChawls were multi-storeyed structures owned by landlords, merchants, etc. These were given on rent to the poor people. Thus more than 70 percent of the working people lived in chawls.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 6.
\nThe city of Bombay Improvement Trust was established in :
\n(a) 1896
\n(b) 1897
\n(c) 1898
\n(d) 1899<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 1898
\nIn 1898, the city of Bombay Improvement Trust was established.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 7.
\nThe building of the great sea wall which prevented the flooding of the low-lying areas of Bombay was approved by the Bombay Governor:
\n(\u0430) Henry Hornby
\n(b) Thomas Atlee
\n(c) William Hornby
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) William Hornby
\nWilliam Herby was the Governor of Bombay at that time.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 8.
\nIn 1864, the Back Bay Reclamation Company won the right to reclaim the western foreshore from the tip of Malabar Hill to the end of:
\n(a) Marine
\n(b) Santa Cruz
\n(c) Colaba
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Colaba
\nIt extended from Malabar Hill, to the end of Colaba.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 9.
\nMarine Drive was built on land reclaimed for the sea in the:
\n(\u0430) Eighteenth century
\n(b) Nineteenth century
\n(c) Twentieth century
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Twentieth century
\nMarine Drive was built on land reclaimed from the sea in the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 10.
\nRaja Harishchandra was made in:
\n(a) 1913
\n(b) 1914
\n(c) 1915
\n(d) 1916<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) 1913
\nThe film Raja Harishchandra was made in 1913.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 11.
\nThe amount of money invested in about 50 Indian film in 1947 was:
\n(\u0430) Rs. 700 million
\n(b) Rs. 750 million
\n(c) Rs. 756 million
\n(d) Rs. 759 million<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Rs. 756 million
\nThe amount of money invested in about 50 Indian films was Rs. 756 million.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 12.
\nTwo famous writers associated with Hindi cinema during that time were:
\n(a) Ismat Singh and Saadat Hassan Khan
\n(b) Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hassan Pathan
\n(c) Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hassan Manto
\n(d) none of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Ismat Chughtai and
\nSaadat Hassan Manto
\nIsmat Chughtai and Saadat Hassan Manto were the two famous writers associated with Hindi films during that time.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 13.
\nAn IntLan city that had a long history of air pollution is:
\n(a) Mumbai
\n(b) Kolkata
\n(c) Chennai
\n(d) Delhi<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Kolkata
\nKolkata is the city of India to have a long history of air pollution.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 14.
\nIn 1920, the rice mills of Tollygunge, instead of coal, began to burn:
\n(a) Petrol
\n(b) Wheat husk
\n(c) Rice husk
\n(d) All the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Rice husk
\nIn 1920, to prevent air pollution, the rice mills of Tollygunge, burnt rice husks instead of coal.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 15.
\nA large, densely populated city of a country or state, often the capital of the region was called:
\n(a) Capital
\n(b) Urbanisation
\n(c) Metropolis
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Metropolis
\nOften the capital of a region with a large, densely population was called as metropolis.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 16.
\nBy 1750, London was a colossal city with a population of about:
\n(a) 7,75,000
\n(b) 6,75,000
\n(c) 8,75,000
\n(d) 9,75,000<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) 6,75,000
\nBy 1750s, most of the people lived in London. It was a colossal city with a population of about 6,75,000.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 17.
\nIn the 1870s, about ………………………… criminals were living in London:
\n(a) 10,000
\n(b) 15,000
\n(c) 20,000
\n(d) 25,000<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 20,000
\nAs London grew, crime also flourished. It was estimated that about 20,000 criminals were living in London in the 1870s.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 18.
\nChildren were kept out of industrial work after the passage of the Compulsory Elementary Education Act in:
\n(a) 1840
\n(b) 1850
\n(c) 1860
\n(d) 1870<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) 1870
\nAfter the passage of the Compulsory Elementary Education Act in 1870, children were kept out of industrial work.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 19.
\nWorker\u2019s-mass housing schemes were planned to prevent the London poor from turning:
\n(a) Poorer
\n(b) Richer
\n(c) Rebellious
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Rebellious
\nWorker\u2019s mass housing schemes were planned to prevent the London poor from turning rebellious.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 20.
\nCharles Booth, a Liverpool shipowner, conducted the first social survey of low-skilled London workers in:
\n(a) 1867
\n(6) 1877
\n(c) 1887
\n(d) 1897<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 1887
\nIn 1887.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 21.
\nThe principle of the Garden city was planned by:
\n(a) Ebenezer Scrooge
\n(b) Ebenezer Howard
\n(c) Robert Atlee
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Ebenezer Howard
\nEbenezer Howard planned the Garden City.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 22.
\nThe first section of the Under-ground in the world was opened on 10 January, 1863 between:
\n(\u0430) Paddington street and Farrington street
\n(b) Paddington street and London street
\n(c) Farrington street and London street
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (\u0430) Paddington street and Farrington street
\nThe first section of the underground in the world opened on 10 Jan, 1863 between Paddington and Farrington street in London.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 23.
\nBy 1880, the expanded train service was carrying:
\n(a) 10 million passengers a year
\n(b) 20 million passengers a year
\n(c) 30 million passengers a year
\n(d) 40 million passengers a year<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) 40 million passengers a year.
\nBy 1880, the expanded train service was carrying 40 million passengers a year.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 24.
\nThe London tube railway led to a massive:
\n(\u0430) Displacement of the London rich
\n(b) Displacement of the London poor
\n(c) Movement of passengers
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Displacement of the London poor.
\nTo make two miles of railways 900 houses had to be destroyed. Thus the London tube railway led to a massive displacement of the London poor.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 25.
\nWomen of the upper and middle classes in Britain faced increasingly:
\n(a) Higher levels of education
\n(b) Higher levels of isolation
\n(c) High levels of enjoyment
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Higher levels of isolation
\nWomen of the upper and middle classes in Britain faced increasingly higher levels of isolation.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 26.
\nThe Chartist Movement meant:
\n(a) A movement demanding the right to vote for all adult females
\n(b) A movement demanding the right to vote for all adult members
\n(c) A movement demanding the right to vote for all adult males
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) A movement demanding the right to vote for all adult males.
\nThe Chartist Movement demanded the vote for all adult males.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 27.
\nOver 1 million British people went to the seaside at Black pool is:
\n(a) 1853
\n(b) 1863
\n(c) 1873
\n(d) 1883<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) 1883
\nOver 1 million British people went to the seaside at Blackpool in 1883.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 28.
\nIn November 1887, a riot that was brutally suppressed by the police came to be known as:
\n(a) Bloody Monday
\n(b) Bloody Tuesday
\n(c) Bloody Saturday
\n(d) Bloody Sunday<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Bloody Sunday
\nOn a Sunday in November 1887, a riot was brutally suppressed by the police. This riot came to be known as the Bloody Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 29.
\nIn the early twentieth century, no more than …………………… percent of Indians were living in cities.
\n(a) 9
\n(b) 10
\n(c) 11
\n(d) 12<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 11
\nIn the early twentieth century, no more than 11 percent of Indians were living in cities.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 30.
\nIn the seventeenth century, Bombay was a group of seven islands under the control of:
\n(a) French
\n(b) Dutch
\n(c) Portuguese
\n(d) British<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Portuguese
\nIn the seventeenth century, Bombay was a group of seven islands under the control of the Portuguese.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nWrite true (T) or false (F)<\/span><\/p>\n1. The city of Calcutta in the nineteenth century was brimming with opportunities for trade and commerce, education, jobs, etc.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n2. Industrialisation did not change the form of urbanisation in the modern period.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n3. By 1750, one out of every nine people of England and Wales lived in London.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n4. The city of London was a powerful magnet for migrant populations because of having large factories.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n5. Philanthropists were anxious about public morality, and industrialists wanted a hard-working and orderly labour force.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n6. The 1861 census recorded a quarter of a million domestic servants is London.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n7. Large number of children started working during that time, often against the wishes of the parents.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n8. Older cities like London did not change inspite of people pouring in after the Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n9. Although poverty was not unknown in the countryside, it was more concentrated and starkly visible in the city.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n10. A variety of steps were taken to clean up London.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n11. The congestion in the nineteenth- century industrial cities led to a yearning for clean country air.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n12. Between the two World Wars the responsibility for housing the working classes was accepted by the landlords and rich people.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n13. At the start of the underground railway system people were afraid to travel.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n14. Women who worked for wages did not have control over their lives.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n15. The public space became increasingly a male preserve, and the domestic sphere was seen as the proper place for women.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n16. By the twentieth century, the family consisted of much smaller units.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n17. For wealthy Britishers also there was no annual \u2018London Season\u2019.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n18. In the nineteenth century, libraries, art galleries and museums were established to provide people with a sense of history and pride in the achievement of the British.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n19. The Bloody Sunday of November occurred on 1865.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n20. In the nineteenth century, Indian cities, mushroomed.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n21. The East-India Company shifted its base from Surat to Bombay.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n22. Bombay became the capital of the Bombay Presidency in 1819, after the Maratha Victory in the Anglo-Maratha war.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n23. The first cotton textile mill was established in 1854.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n24. The arrival of the textile mills increased the pressure of Bombay\u2019s housing.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n25. Many families could not reside at a time in a tenement.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n26. During that time, streets of Bombay were also used for different types of leisure activities.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n27<\/span>. Caste and family groups in the mill neighbourhoods were headed by someone who was similar to a village headman.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n28. By 1918, Trust schemes had deprived 60,000 people of their homes, but only 40,000 were rehoused.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n29. The need for additional commercial space in the mid-nineteenth century led to the formulation of several plans, both by the government and private companies.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n30. By the 1870s, the city of Bombay had expanded to about 22 square miles.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nMatch the following<\/span><\/p>\n1.<\/p>\n
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