Answer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) US banks and US public.
\nBritain lost heavily during the war, and thus after the war it borrowed large sums of money from US banks and US public.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 2.
\nWhen Britain was pre-occupied with war, industries had developed in:
\n(a) India and Japan
\n(b) India and China
\n(c) Japan and Korea
\n(d) Japan and China<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) India and Japan.
\nWhen Britain was busy in the war, many industries developed in India and China.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 3.
\nBefore the war, eastern Europe was a major supplier of:
\n(a) Rice in the world market
\n(b) Wheat in the world market
\n(c) Tea in the world market
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Wheat in the world market.
\nWheat was mostly grown in eastern Europe and before the war, eastern Europe was a major supplier of wheat in the world.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 4.
\nThe US economy resumed its strong growth in the early:
\n(a) 1920s
\n(b) 1930s
\n(c) 1940s
\n(d) 1950s<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) 1920s
\nBy the 1920s, the US economy resumed its strong growth.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 5.
\nA well-known pioneer of mass production was the:
\n(a) Car manufacturer General Motors
\n(b) Motorcycle manufacturer Honda
\n(c) Car manufacturer Henry Ford
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Car manufacturer Henry Ford.
\nA well-known pioneer of mass production was the car manufacturer Henry Ford.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 6.
\nFordist industrial practices was widely copied in Europe in the:
\n(a) 1940s
\n(b) 1930s
\n(c) 1920s
\n(d) 1910s<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 1920s
\nIn the 1920s, Fordist industrial practices was widely copied in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 7.
\nCar production in the US rose from in 1919 to more than in 1929:
\n(a) 5 million, 4 million
\n(b) 3 million, 5 million
\n(c) 4 million, 5 million
\n(d) 2 million, 5 million<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) 2 million, 5 million.
\nCar production in the US rose from 2 million in 1919 to more than 5 million in 1929.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 8.
\nThe Great Depression began around 1929 and lasted till the:
\n(a) Mid-1940s
\n(b) Mid-1980s
\n(c) Mid-1950s
\n(d) Mid-1920s<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) Mid-1980s
\nThe Great Depression began around 1929 and lasted till the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 9.
\nBy 1933 over 4,000 banks had closed and between 1929 and 1932 about:
\n(a) 1,00,000 companies had closed
\n(b) 2,00,000 companies had closed
\n(c) 1,10,000 companies had closed
\n(d) 2,10,000 companies had closed<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 1,10,000 companies had closed.
\nBy 1933 over 400 or banks had closed and between 1929 and 1932. 1,10,000 companies had closed due to the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 10.
\nMahatma Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement at the height of the depression in:
\n(a) 1931
\n(b) 1941
\n(c) 1951
\n(d) 1961<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) 1931
\nAt the height of the Depression, Mahatma Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1931.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 11.
\nThe country that had made huge sacrifices to defeat Nazi Germany was:
\n(a) USA
\n(b) Japan
\n(c) Soviet Union
\n(d) England<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Soviet Union
\nSoviet Union had made huge losses and sacrifice to defeat Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 12.
\nThe Financial Conference of July, 1944 was held at:
\n(a) Bretton Woods in New York, USA
\n(b) Bretton Woods in Sydney, Australia
\n(c) Bretton Woods in Tokyo, Japan
\n(d) Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA
\nThe Financial Conference of July, 1944 was held at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, USA.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 13.
\nThe IMF and the World Bank commenced financial operations in:
\n(a) 1927
\n(b) 1937
\n(c) 1947
\n(d) 1957<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 1947
\nIn 1947, the IMF and the World Bank commenced financial operations.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 14.
\nThe dollar was anchored to gold at a fixed price of:
\n(a) $ 25 per ounce of gold
\n(b) $ 30 per ounce of gold
\n(c) $ 35 per ounce of gold
\n(d) $ 40 per ounce of gold<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) $ 35 per ounce of gold
\nThe dollar was anchored to gold at a fixed price of $ 35 per ounce of gold.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 15.
\nChina had been cut off from the post-war world economy since its revolution in:
\n(a) 1946
\n(b) 1947
\n(c) 1948
\n(d) 1949<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) 1949
\nChina had been cut off from the post-war world economy since its revolution in 1949.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 16.
\nBuddhism emerged from eastern India and spread in several directions through intersecting points on:
\n(a) The western side
\n(b) The sea routes
\n(c) The silk routes
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) The silk routes
\nIt spread on the silk side.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 17.
\nThe Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was decisively under way by the:
\n(a) Mid-fourteenth century
\n(b) Mid-fifteenth century
\n(c) Mid-sixteenth century
\n(d) Mid-seventeenth century<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Mid-sixteenth century.
\nBy the mid-sixteenth century.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 18.
\nNearly 50 million people emigrated from Europe to America and Australia:
\n(\u0430) In the nineteenth century
\n(b) In the third century
\n(c) In the eighteenth century
\n(d) In the seventeenth century<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (\u0430) In the nineteenth century.
\nIn the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 19.
\nThe US became a colonial power in the late 1890s by taking over some colonies earlier held by:
\n(a) Berlin
\n(b) British
\n(c) France
\n(d) Spain<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Spain
\nSpain.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 20.
\nA fast-speeding disease of cattle plague or rinderpest had a terrifying impact on people\u2019s livelihood and the local economy, in Africa in the:
\n(a) 1860s
\n(b) 1870s
\n(c) 1880s
\n(d) 1890s<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) 1890s
\nIn Africa, in the 1890s, a fast-spreading disease of cattle plague or rinderpest had a terrifying impact on people livelihoods and the local economy.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 21.
\nBy the 1890s, South Africa contributed over 20 percent of the world:
\n(\u0430) Iron production
\n(b) Copper production
\n(c) Silver production
\n(d) Gold production<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Gold production
\nSouth Africa contributed over 20 percent of the world\u2019s is gold production, by the 1890s.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 22.
\nMost India\u2019s indentured workers came from the present-day region of:
\n(a) Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
\n(b) Central India and Tamil Nadu
\n(c) Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tamil Nadu
\n(d) Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Central India and Tamil Nadu<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Central India and Tamil Nadu.
\nMost of the Indian indentured workers come from the present-day regions of U.P., Bihar, Central India and Tamil Nadu. These states during that time were poor.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 23.
\nRecruitment was done by agents engaged by employer and:
\n(\u0430) Paid a small commission
\n(b) Paid a big commission
\n(c) Given land
\n(d) None of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (\u0430) Paid a small commission
\nEmployers engaged agents for recruitment of labours and paid them a small commission.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 24.
\n\u2018Chutney music\u2019 became popular in:
\n(a) Trinidad and Guyana
\n(b) Trinidad
\n(c) Guyana
\n(d) none of the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) Trinidad and Guyana
\nDuring those days, in Trinidad and Guyana \u2018Chutney music\u2019 was very popular.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 25.
\nIndentured labour was abolished in :
\n(a) 1921
\n(b) 1931
\n(c) 1941
\n(d) 1951<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (a) 1921
\nIn 1921, indentured labour was abolished. Indentured labourers were bounded labourers under contract to workers for an employer.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 26.
\nIndian traders and money-lenders followed European colonizers into:
\n(a) Britain
\n(b) India
\n(c) Africa
\n(d) China<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Africa.
\nWhen European countries tried to colonise Africa, Indian traders and money-lenders also followed them.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 27.
\nBetween 1812 and 1871, the share of raw cotton exports rose from:
\n(a) 10 percent to 35 percent
\n(b) 15 percent to 40 percent
\n(c) 5 percent to 35 percent
\n(d) 5 percent to 40 percent<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) 5 percent to 35 percent.
\nBetween 1812 and 1871, the share of raw cotton exports rose from 5 percent to 35 percent.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 28.
\nBritain grew opium in India and exported it to:
\n(a) Japan
\n(b) Africa
\n(c) Germany
\n(d) China<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (d) China.
\nThe British did not want to pay for its imports in cash. So the Britishers grew opium in India and exported it to China.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 29.
\nThe First World War was fought mainly between two power blocs. One side were Britain, France and Russia and on the opposite side were:
\n(a) Germany, Japan and China
\n(b) Germany, Austria and Ottoman Turkey
\n(c) Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey
\n(d) None of the above.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (c) Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turkey.
\nGermany, Austria, Hungary and Ottoman Turkey were on the opposite in the First World War.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nQuestion 30.
\nDuring the war, industries were restructured to produce:
\n(a) Help-related goods
\n(b) More armaments
\n(c) War-related goods
\n(d) All the above<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: (b) More armaments.
\nAt the time of war, more weapons were needed and thus, industries were restructured to produce more armaments.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nWrite true (T) or false (F)<\/span><\/p>\n1. Dissenter refers to one who accepts established beliefs and practices.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n2. By the eighteenth century, China and India were among the world\u2019s richest countries.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n3. The world did not change profoundly in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n4. Economists identify, three types of movement or \u2018flows\u2019 within inter-national economic exchanges.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n5. A good place to start is the changing pattern of food production and consumption in industrial Soviet.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n6. Population growth for the late eighteenth century had increased the demand for food grains in Britain.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n7. After the Corn Law were scrapped, food could be imported into US more cheaply than it could be produced within the country.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n8. Food offers many examples of long distance cultural exchange.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n9. Many foods were only introduced in Europe and Asia after Christopher Columbus accidently discovered the vast continent.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n10. Europe\u2019s rich began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble potato.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n11. In the mid-1850s hundreds of thousands died of starvation.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n12. The pre-modern world shrank greatly in the sixteenth century after European sailors found a sea route to Asia.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n13. Precious metals such as silver enhanced Europe\u2019s wealth and financed its trade with Asia.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n14. Many expedition set off in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of silver.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n15. The Portuguese and Spanish conquest and colonisation of America was decisively under way by the mid-sixteenth century.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n16. Animals were slaughtered for food at the starting point in America, Australia and New Zealand and then transported to Europe as frozen meat.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n17. Trade flourished and markets expanded in the late eighteenth century.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n18. Britain and France made vast additions to their overseas territories in the late nineteenth century.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n19. Employers used many methods to recruit and retain labour.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n20. Rinderpest arrived in Britain in the late 1880s.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n21. In the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on plantations mines, etc. around the world.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n22. The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the Caribbean Islands, Mauritius and Fiji.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n23. Nineteenth-century indenture has been described as a new system of slavery.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n24. As food prices increased, consumption in Britain rose.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n25. Railways were needed to link the agricultural regions to the ports.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n26. The demand for labour in places where labour was in short supply\u2014as in America and Australia\u2014led to more migration.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n27. Nearly 60 million people emigrated from Europe to America and Australia in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n28. The Canal colonies were settled by peasants from the other parts of Punjab.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n29. Colonisation stimulated new investments and improvements in transport.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: True<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\n30. Meat was an expensive luxury beyond the reach of the European rich.<\/p>\n\nAnswer<\/span><\/summary>\nAnswer: False<\/p>\n<\/details>\n
\nMatch the following<\/span><\/p>\n1.<\/p>\n
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