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SUBJECT- HISTORY CLASS – X CHAPTER- 1 THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
Q1. Who followed the policy of Golden mean?
a) Matternich b) Mazzini c) Louis Philippe d) Duke of Orleans
Q2. Napoleonic code was introduced in the year of :
a) 1807 b) 1809 c) 1805 d) 1804
Q3. What was Helairia Philike?
a) A Secret society b) A political party c) a custom union d) An alliegori
Q4. Who founded the revolutionary militia ‘Red Shirt’?
a) Wilson b) Tsar Alexander II c) Garibaldi d) Matternich
Q5. Who was Frederick Sorrieu?
a) A Revolutionary b) Chancellor of Austria c) King of Frame d) French Artist
Q6. Vienna congress was convened in 1815 for what purpose?
a) to declare completion of German Unification
b) to restore conservative regime in Europe
c) to declare war against France
d) To start the process of Italian unification
Q7. Which year was known as the year of dear bread?
a) 1830 b) 1848 c) 1789 d) 1815
Q8. Name the state which led the process of Italian unification?
a) Rome b) Prussia c) Sardinia Piedmont d) Vienna
Q9. Who said Cavour, Mazzini, and Garibaldi: three her brain, her soul, her sword?
a) Victor Emannual b) George Meredith c) Louis XVIII d) Guizot
Q10. Zollverein was a :
a) Diplomatic institution b) Custom union c) Administrative union d) Trade union
Q11. Who followed the policy of Blood and Iron for national unification?
a) Garibaldi b) otto Von Bismark c) Mazzini d) Matternich
Q12. United Kingdom of Great Britain came into existence in the year :
a) 1789 b) 1798 c) 1707 d) 1801
Q13. Who said that, Italy was merely a geographical expression?
a) Cavour b) Napoleon c) Matternich d) Guizot
Q14. Which one was not included in the Balkan Region?
a) Croatia b) Bosnia Harzegovina c) Serbia d) Spain
Q15. In which century nationalism emerged in Europe :
a) 16th century b) 20th century c) 19th century d) 17th century
Q16. Who was the king of France at the time of French Revolution?
a) Marie Antoniate b) Lous XVI c) Czar Nicolas d) Edward II
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SUBJECT- HISTORY CLASS – X CHAPTER- 3 NATIONALISM IN INDIA
Q1. By whom was the Swaraj Party formed?
a) Motial Nehru and C.R. Das
b) Subhash Chandra Bose and Sardar Patel
c) Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad
d) Motilal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad
Q2. By whom was the first image of Bharatmata Painted?
a) Rabhindranath tagolre b) Abanindranath Tagore c) Ravi Verma d) nandlal Bose
Q3. Why did the Indians oppose the Rowlatt Act?
a) It introduced the Salt Law
b) It increased taxes on land
c) It gave the British the power to arrest and detain a person without a trail
d) It put a ban on the Congress party
Q4. By what name were the dalits referred by Gandhiji?
a) Untouchables b) Shudras c) Harijans d) Achchuts
Q5. Why did Gandhiji organize a Satyagraha in Ahmedabad Mill in 1918?
a) To protest against the poor working condition in the factory
b) To demand for a higher wages of workers
c) To protest against high revenue demand
d) None of the above
Q6. Why was the Round Table Conference held in England?
a) To discuss the provisions of future Indian Constitution
b) To discuss the steps to be taken to check Indian National Movement
c) To give concessions to Indians
d) To make plans for improvement of agriculture in India
Q7. What does the term Khalifa refer?
a) Sultan of a Muslim country
b) Spiritual leader of the Muslim
c) Nawab of a Muslim state
d) Badshah of Mughal period
Q8. What kind of movement was launched by the tribal peasants of Gudem Hills in Andhra Pradesh?
a) Satyagraha Movement b) Millitant Guerrila Movement c) Non-Violent Movement d) None of the above
Q9. Hind Swaraj was written by?
a) Abul Kalam Azad b) Mahatma Gandhi c) Sardar Patel d) Subhash Chandra Bose
Q10.Under the Inland Emigration Act of 1859 the peasants were not permitted to :
a) Leave their village
b) Settle in the city
c) Leave their plantation without permission
d) Allow the women to leave farmlands without permission
Q11. Which among the following was the prime factor in the emergence of modern nationalism in India
a) New symbols b) new ideas c) Icons d) Anti-colonial
movement Q12. In which year did Gandhiji return to India from South Africa?
a) Jan 1915 b) Feb 1916 c) Jan 1916 d) Feb 1915
Q13. Satyagraha was :
a) Pure soul force b) Weapon of the week c) Physical forced) force of arms
Q14. Champaran Satyagrapha (1916) was launched by Gandhiji against :
a) high revenue demand b) indigo planters c) mill owners d) salt tax
Q15. Which among the following was the reason for Indian opposition to the Rowlatt Act 1919?
a) It was passed hurriedly
b) It gave the govt. enormous powers
c) Local leaders were picked up
d) It authorized the government to imprison people without
trial Q16. In which city Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy took place?
a) Amritsar b) Lahore c) Agra d) Meerut
Q17. Which of the following formed the Khilafat Committee in Bombay?
a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah b) Ali Brothers c) Abdul Ghaffar Khan d) Surendra Nath Banerjee
Q18. The famous book of Gandhiji is :
a) My Experiment with truth b) Hind Swaraj c) Discovery of India d) Main Kampf
Q19. When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India from South Africa?
a) 1913 b) 1919 c) 1915 d) 1921
Q20. What did the Rowlatt Act. 1919 presume?
a) Detention of political prisoners without trial
b) Forced recruitment in the army
c) Foreced manual labour
d) Equal pay for equal work
Q21. What did Mahatma Gandhi in his book, Hindi Swaraj, declare?
a) British ruled India because the latter was militarily weak
b) British ruled India because Indians cooperated with them
c) British ruled India because they got international support
d) None of these
Q22. What did the term ‘picked’ refer to?
a) Stealing from shops b) Import of goods c) protest by blocking shop entrances d) Boycott of clothes &goods
Q23. Who led the peasants in Awadh?
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Baba Ramchandra d) None of these
Q24. What did the term ‘begar’ mean?
a) Payment of wages b) High rents demanded by landlords c) Labour without payment d) None of these
Q25. What was the effect of the Non-cooperation movement on the plantation workers in Assam?
a) They left the plantations and headed home
b) They went on strike
c) They destroyed the plantations
d) None of these
Q26. What was the main problem with the Simon Commission?
a) It was an all British commission
b) It was formed in Britain
c) It was set up in response to the nationalist movement
d) All of the above
Q27. Where was Gandhi’s ashram located?
a) Dandi b) Sabarmati c) Allahabad d) Nagpur
Q28. What led to the Civil Disobedience Movement?
a) Arrival of the Simon Commission
b) Working at the firm without payments
c) Violation of salt tax by Gandhi
d) Fall in demand for agricultural goods
Q29. Who were the ‘Sanatanis’?
a) Saints b) Dalits c) High- caste Hindus d) None of these
Q30 Who organized the dalits into the Depressed Classes Assocation?
a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Subhash Chandra Bose c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) B.R,. Ambedkar
Q31. What moved Abanindranath Tagore to paint the famous imatge of Bharat Mata?
a) Civil Disobedience Movement b) Swadeshi Movement c) Quit India Movement d) All of these
Q32. Who wrote the ‘Vande Matram’?
a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
b) Rabindranath tagore
c) Abanindranath Tagore
d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Q33. Who was Sir Mohammad lqbal?
a) Congress President
b) President of the Muslim League, 1930
c) Gandhiji devout disciple
d) None of these
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SUBJECT- HISTORY CLASS – X CHAPTER- 5 THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
Q1. Guilds were associations of :
a) Industrialization b) Exporters c) Traders d) Producers
Q2. Which of the following best defines a Jobber
a) Employed by industrialization to get new recruits b) Old trusted worker
c) Person of authority and power d) Controlled lives of workers
Q3. First country to undergo industrial revolution is :
a) Japan b) Britain c) Germany d) France
Q4. 18th Century India witnessed the decline of which port town?
a) Surat b) Bombay c) Calcutta d) Madras
Q5. The paid servants of the East India Company was :
a) Seth b) Mamlatdar c) Gomastha d) Lambardar
Q6. Who devised the Spinning Jenny?
a) Samual Luck b) Richard Arkwright c) James Hargreaves d) James Watt
Q7. When was the first cotton mill set up in India?
a) 1814 b) 1824 c) 1854 d) 1864
Q8. In India the first cotton mill set up in :
a) Madras b) Bombay c) Kanpur d) Surat
Q9. What was the fly shuttle used for :
a) Washing b) Weaving c) Drying d) Sowing
Q10. Who invented the steam engine?
a) James Watt b) New Camen c) Richard Arkwright d) None of the above
Q11. Who was E.T. Paull:
a) He was a popular music publisher b) Economist c) Writer d) Philosopher
Q12. Dwarkanath Tagore is a :
a) Painter b) Industrialist c) Publisher d) Social Reformer
Q13. What did the term ‘Orient’ refers to :
a) England b) Asia c) Russia d) America
Q14. How did advertisements reach the common people :
a) T.V b) Radio c) Calendars d) Products
Q15. Which among these was a pre colonial sea port?
a) Vishakhapatnam b) Chennai c) Hoogly d) Cochin
Q16. The first Asian country to be industrialized was :
a) Japan b) India c) china d)
Afganistan Q17. It is the first industrial city in England:
a) Manchester b) London c) Oxford d) Wales
Q18. The city connected India to the gulf and red sea port in the pre-colonial period.
a) Mumbai b) Surat c) Madras d) Calicut
Q19.Which one is the flourishing industry of England?
a) Cotton industry b) Jute industry c) Iron and Steel industry d) I.T
Q20. Which India entrepreneur set up six joint stock companies in India in 1830?
a) Dinshaw petit b) Dwarka Nath Tagore c) Jamshedjee Tata d) Seth Hukum Chand
Q21. Who estalbihsed the first jute mill in India?
a) Dinshaw Petit b) Dwarkanath Tagore c) Jamshedjee Tata d) Seth Hukumchand
Q22. Elgin mill was set up at :
a) Lucknow b) Calicut c) Kanpur d) Madras
Q23. When was the telephone invented?
a) 1885 b) 1976 c) 1876 d) 1776
Q24. Where was the first jute mill established?
a) Surat b) Delhi c) Calcutta d) Bombay
Q25. The Tata iron and steel company was formed :
a) 1807 b) 1907 c) 1957 d) 1865
Q26. The machine age in India started in: a) 1850 b) 1900 c) 1950 d) 1890
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SUBJECT- HISTORY CLASS – X CHAPTER- 7 PRINT CULTURE & MODERN WORLD
Q1. What is calligraphy?
a) Poetry b) Textbooks c) Flowers arrangement d) Stylized
Q2. What was Gutenberg’s first printed book?
a) Ballads b) Dictionary c) Bible d) None of these
Q3. What were ‘Penny Chapbooks’?
a) Pocket- sized books b) Journals c) Ritual Calendars d) Newspaper
Q4. Who introduced the printing press in India?
a) French b) Italian c) Portuguese d) None of these
Q5. Who wrote ‘My childhood My university’.
a) Thomas wood b) Maxim Gorky c) George Eliot d) Jane Austen
Q6. When was the Vernacular press act passed?
a) 1878 b) 1887 c) 1867 d) 1898
Q7. Who said, “Printing is the ultimate gift of god and the greatest one.”
a) Charles Dickens b) J.V. Schely c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Martin Luther
Q8. Which is the oldest printed book of Japan?
a) Bible b) Diamond Sutra c) Mahabharat d) Ukiyo
Q9. Who wrote 95 theses?
a) Martin Luther b) Johann Gutenbery c) J.V. Schley d) Charles Dickens
Q10. Who authored ‘Gitagovinda’?
a) Jayadeva b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy c) J.A. Hickey d) Chandu Menon
Q11. Who wrote ‘Amar Jibon’?
a) Rockay Hossein b) Rashsundari Devi c) Tara Bai Shinde d) Kailashashini Debi
Q12. Which of the following travelers brought back the art of wood block painting to Italy?
a) Paes b) Marco Polo c) Magellon d) Dominigos
Q13. Printing Press first came to India with:
a) The Dutch b) Portuguese missionaries c) The French d) The English
Q14. Name the paper started by Bal Gangashar Tilak :
a) The Kesari b) The Young India c) The Stateman d) Amrita Bazar Patrika
Q15. The Book Gulamgiri dealt with :
a) Marco Polo b) Columbus c) Vasco Da Gama d) Magellan
Q16. An annual publication giving astronomical data was known as :
a) Chapbook b) Penny book c) Almanac d) Journal
Q17. The Portuguese introduced the printing press in:
a) Bombay b) Calcutta c) Madras d) Goa
Q18. The oldest Japanese book Diamond Sutra was printed in :
a) AD 686 b) AD 868 c) AD668 d) AD866
Q19. The earliest kind of print technology was first developed in :
a) India b) China c) Britain d) None of above
Q20. Metal frames in which types are laid and the text composed is known
as:
a) Platen b) Galley c) Printing Press d) Cylindrical press
Q21. Protestant Reformation movement is related to the religion :
a) Buddhism b) Hinduism c) Christianity d) Jainism
Q22. The Grimm brothers of Germany published :
a) Newspapers b) Folk takes c) Ballads d) Novels
Q23. The first Indian to publish a newspaper was :
a) Ram Mohan Roy b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak c) Gangadhar Bhattacharya d) Ranade
Q24. The newspaper Shamsul Akhbar was published in :
a) Hindi b) Persian c) Arabic d) Urdu
Q25. Rashundari Debi wrote the autobiography :
a) Amar Jibone b) Istri Dharm Vichar c) Saachi Kavitayan d) Ghulamgiri
Q26. In 1878 the Vernacular Press Act was modeled on the :
a) French Press Laws b) British Press Laws c) Irish Press Laws d) Scottish Press Laws
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Q27. A liberal colonial officer who formulated new rules to restore the freedom of the press in India was
:
 a) Warren Hastings b) William Bentinck c) Thomas Macaulay d) None of the above
Q28. The book Chotte Aur Bade ka Sawal is about the topic of :
a) Religion b) Philosophy c) Science d) Caste System
Q29. Penny magazines were specially published for :
a) Children b) Workers c) women d) Men