Top 50+ Solved The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth Century Society MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The first steam engine, used for pumping water from mine shafts was invented in 1711 by?
a. William Blake.
b. Matthew Boulton.
c. James Watt.
d. Thomas Newcomen.
Q. Which of the following statement does not represent nineteenth-century middle-classthinking about gender role?
a. men and women inhabited “separate spheres”.
b. women were suited for longer because their brains were larger.
c. men and women had different social roles.
d. women were morally superior to men because of their “passionlessness”.
Q. Which pairing is incorrect?
a. William Thackeray- Vanity Fair.
b. Charles Dicken- Hard Times.
c. Honore de Balzac- The Human Comedy.
d. Victor Hugo- Oliver Twist.
Q. After the 1850s, who led the invention and commercialization of electricity?
a. Britain.
b. France.
c. Belgium and France.
d. Germany and the United States.
Q. The Great Famine of1845-1849 took place in:
a. France and Belgium.
b. Ireland, Germany, Scotland, and the Netherlands.
c. The United States.
d. All of the above.
Q. By 1817, which country was one of the core nations of industrial Europe?
a. France.
b. Russia.
c. Italy.
d. Germany.
Q. British tariffs prohibiting the importation of East Indian Cottons:
a. acted as a brake on the manufacture of domestic cottons.
b. forced the British to abandon cotton manufacture altogether.
c. served as an inducement to the manufacture of domestic cottons.
d. stimulated the manufacture and sale of woolen goods.
Q. In general European serfdom:
a. was an obstacle to the commercialization of agriculture.
b. disappeared across Eastern Europe and Russia by 1800.
c. provided vast incentives for landowners to improve farming techniques.
d. Both A and B.
Q. John Kay?s invention of the “flying shuttle” in 1773 revolutionized the process of cotton:
a. spinning.
b. weaving.
c. carding.
d. combing.
Q. The mythical leader of a British rural rebellion in 1820s was:
a. Ned Lud.
b. John Ball.
c. Captain Swing.
d. Wat Tyler.
Q. The expression, “ angel in the house ,” refers to:
a. a London Prostitute.
b. the Victorian middle-class woman.
c. an essay by John Stuart Mill.
d. a London domestic servant.
Q. Working- class men and women were most vulnerable to:
a. unemployment, sickness, and industrial accidents.
b. seasonal unemployment.
c. cyclical economic depressions.
d. All of the above.
Q. The English contractor Thomas Brassey is best known for:
a. developing the first steam-powered locomotive.
b. opening the Stockton to Darlington line in 1825.
c. criticizing continental railway system.
d. building railways in Canada, Argentina, Australia and India.
Q. In general, the population of Europe in the nineteenth century:
a. declined.
b. stay roughly at the same.
c. showed a dramatic increase.
d. slowly increase