The Age of Industrialisation Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

From which decade did railway expansion in England sharply increase demand for iron and steel?

Question 2

Besides securing jobs, what other kinds of help might a jobber provide to new workers?

Question 3

Because so many people competed for jobs, how long did some workers sometimes have to wait before finding one?

Question 4

Quick review: what term describes large-scale industrial production for an international market, before factories existed?

Question 5

Why did European managing agencies often prefer these ventures over other kinds of industry?

Question 6

Quick review: through which informal system did many workers get factory jobs in India?

Question 7

Who moved from towns to the countryside to organize this early industrial production?

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About The Age of Industrialisation

This quiz covers Chapter 4 of CBSE Class 10 History (India and the Contemporary World II), The Age of Industrialisation.

It opens with proto-industrialisation, the countryside-based system of production for an international market that existed well before factories, and the close relationship between merchants, peasants, and artisans.

It then covers the rise of the factory system in England, Richard Arkwright's cotton mill, and why many traditional industries stayed slow to adopt steam-powered technology.

It moves on to the lives of workers under industrialisation, and the decline of India's once-flourishing textile trade under East India Company control, including the gomastha and the system of advances.

It covers how cheap machine-made cloth from Manchester reshaped the Indian market, and the rise of Indian-owned cotton and jute mills, along with the early entrepreneurs who built them.

It then covers where India's industrial workers came from, the jobber system, and the peculiarities of Indian industrial growth, including the boom during the First World War.

It closes with the continued importance of small-scale and handloom production, and how advertisements and calendar art helped create new markets and a sense of national pride in swadeshi goods.

Every question comes with a clear, simple explanation, so incorrect answers become as instructive as correct ones, whether you are revising for a school test or a board exam.