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Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

In the 19th century, where did the British insist Indians to take off their shoes?

  1. In market places

  2. In court rooms

  3. In their homes

  4. In sacred place
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The British insisted that since Indians took off their shoes when they entered a sacred place or home, they should do so when they entered the courtroom. 

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

Why did Dalit converts in India adopt western style clothing?

  1. It was comfortable

  2. It was cheaper

  3. It was a sign of equality and self respect

  4. It was fashionable
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Western clothes were a sign of modernity and progress. Western-style clothing was also especially attractive to groups of dalit converts to Christianity who now found it liberating.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

Who was the first Indian to enter civil services ?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore

  2. Biharilal Gupta

  3. Satyendranath Tagore

  4. R.C. Dutt
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. He was an author, song composer, linguist and made significant contribution towards the emancipation of women in Indian society during the British Raj.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

In Victorian England why were women from childhood, tightly laced up and dressed in stays?

  1. Because they were dutiful and docile

  2. Because these clothes helped in creating the expected image of girls

  3. Because women were trained to bear and suffer

  4. Because women looked graceful in these dresses
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 Women in Victorian England were groomed from childhood to be docile and dutiful, submissive and obedient. The ideal woman was one who could bear pain and suffering.  Women were seen as frivolous, delicate, passive and docile. 

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

Which of the following best explains the sumptuary laws?

  1. The laws that prohibited wearing short skirt

  2. The laws that declared that silk clothes could not used by peasants

  3. The laws that controlled the behaviour of those considered socially inferiors

  4. The laws that prohibited the socially superiors wearing cotton dresses
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Sumptuary law, any law designed to restrict excessive personal expenditures in the interest of preventing extravagance and luxury. The term denotes regulations restricting extravagance in food, drink, dress, and household equipment, usually on religious or moral grounds. Such laws have proved difficult or impossible to enforce over the long term.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

Which of the following class could use materials like ermine, fur, and silk in France?

  1. Royalty

  2. Serfs

  3. Clergy

  4. Commons
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Only royalty could wear expensive materials like ermine and fur, or silk, velvet, and brocade in France. Other classes were debarred from clothing themselves with materials that were associated with the aristocracy. 

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

The name 'shanar' refers to which of the following?

  1. A community of toddy tappers in Southern travancore

  2. Peasant community of Northern Travancore

  3. An upper caste community of Andhra Pradesh

  4. A lower caste community of Andhra Pradesh
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Shanar refers to a community of deep south in India as toddy tappers in Travancore region. They make this as their trade and profession.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

How did the Bengali bureaucrats of 19th century resolve the conflict between western and lndian clothes?

  1. They rejected western clothes totally

  2. They wore western clothes for work outside home and Indian clothes at home

  3. They wore western clothes at official functions

  4. They wore Indian clothes at official functions
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Bengali Bureaucrats wore the Indian clothes at home attaching themselves with the feeling of nationalism and connecting with nationalistic feeling and region, on the other hand as they were under the British ton appease them they use to wear western clothes outside on duty.

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history

Which of the following events ended all distinction of dresses worn by different classes in French society ?

  1. French Revolution

  2. Suffrage Movement

  3. Jacobin Rule

  4. Napoleonic Laws
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 Before the French Revolution people in France followed sumptuary laws. These laws restricted the social behaviour of the lower strata of the society and imposed restrictions upon their clothing, food and entertainment. The French Revolution brought an end to these restrictions.  

Multiple choice social history of clothing clothing: a social history history
In America, traditional feminine clothes were criticised on the grounds that ______.

  1. Long skirts swept the ground and collected filth and dirt

  2. The dresses were voluminous and difficult to handle

  3. These dresses were uncomfortable and hampered movement

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Traditional feminine clothing in America was criticized for being voluminous, uncomfortable, and unhygienic, as long skirts dragged on the ground and collected dirt.