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Questions Related to impact of industrial revolution

What was the nature of the work that a scavenger has to do in a factory in early nineteenth-century Britain?

  1. The scavenger has to start the machine daily

  2. The scavenger has to take the brush and sweep under the wheels

  3. The scavenger has to make the other factory workers work properly

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

What problems developed during the Industrial Revolution as the towns grew?

  1. There was an increased demand for houses

  2. Overcrowding in existing houses

  3. New houses were not always well planned or well built

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

Why did people moved into the towns during the Industrial Revolution?

  1. There were jobs in new factories and industries

  2. There were jobs in the trade supporting the population in towns

  3. In the countryside, there was poverty and unemployment

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

Which of the following was an important feature of Industrial Revolution?

  1. Rapid growth of weapons of mass destruction

  2. Rapid growth of towns

  3. Rapid growth of democracy

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B

Which of the following was not a feature of Common Land?

  1. Commons helped sustain the meagre income of the poor

  2. All villagers had access to the commons

  3. Here the poor fished in ponds, collected fuel, food and fodder

  4. Villagers cultivated land and shared the produce


Correct Option: D

In the old three-field system, wheat and barley were grown in two of the fields: the third was ___________.

  1. left fallow

  2. planted with lagumes

  3. both a and b

  4. neither a nor b


Correct Option: C