Pages 179 9 Unit 1 5 MCQ
Pages 179 9 Unit 1 5 MCQ
Pages 179 9 Unit 1 5 MCQ
1. 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.
Answer is (d).
5. 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.
Answer (d).
7. By 1817, which country was one of the core nations of industrial Europe?
a. France.
b. Russia.
c. Italy.
d. Germany.
Answer is (b).
10. John Kay?s invention of the “flying shuttle” in 1773 revolutionized the process of cotton:
a. spinning.
b. weaving.
c. carding.
d. combing.
Answer is (b).
13. 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.
Answer is (d).
20. Before 1815, industrialization in the continent was held back by the:
a. French Revolution
b. Continental System.
c. Napoleonic Wars.
d. All of the above.
Answer is (d).
21. Which of the following did not occur did not occur with the Industrial Revolution in
America?
a) Man replaced handheld tools.
b) Unskilled workers replaced skilled workers
c) Other sources of energy like steam replaed human energy
d) All of the above occured.
Answer is d)
22. What were Alexander Graham Bell’s first words on the telephone?
a) Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.
b) What hath God wrought?
c) Mary had a little lamb.
d) This is just the beginning.
Ans : a)
23. What was the first name of Robert Fultons first steam boat?
a) New Orleans ( )
b) Clermont ( )
c) Hudson ( )
d) Livingstone ( )
Ans: b)
24. How many years passed between the invention of the first reliable steam engine and the induction
electric motor?
a) 50 ( )
b) 81 ( )
c) 113 ( )
d) 152 ( )
Ans: c)
25. One of Eli Whitney’s major Contributions to American manufacturing was his idea for
a) Steam engine ( )
b) textile machinery ( )
c) the factory sysytem ( )
d) interchangable parts ( )
Ans d)
26. Who sneaked the plans for a spinning machine out of England and built a factory in Rhode Island?
a) Eli Whitney ( )
b) Robert Fulton ( )
c) Samuel Slater ( )
d) Samuel Morse ( )
Ans : c)
27. The invention and the use of machines was actually stimulated by a shortage of
a) Labour ( )
b) capital ( )
c) raw materials ( )
d) trading ships ( )
Ans: a)
30. The development of steamboats, which made it economically feasible to bring products from the
interior to market,
a) led to a sharp decline in canal building ( )
b) hindered the development of railroads in the South and West ( )
c) Brought the West into the national economy ( )
d) led to a decline in the port cities of the Northeast ( )
Ans : c)
32. What was the immediate impact of the Cotton Gin in America?
a) It made cotton more profitable ( )
b) It drove planters out of business ( )
c) It made the land more fertile ( )
d) It made slavery unprofitable ( )
Ans : a)
33. Jane Austin was among those novelists who reflected the middle-class belief in
a) the importance of the home as the setting for a rewarding family life.
b) entrepreneurship.
c) the problem of bureaucracy within the established church.
d) a women's obligation to work outside the home.
Ans a)
34. Visiting a doctor in the 1850s was a risky affair; often, their remedies for diseases caused more
harm than good for the patients. Out of all the following commonly-prescribed early nineteenth-century
treatments, which is the only one that was NOT generally harmful to the patient?
a) taking the waters
b) the drug Laudanum
c) bloodletting
d) laxative purges
Ans a)
35. During the industrial revolution, a new type of family arose among the middle class in Europe.
Which of the following is a characteristic of the new middle-class family?
a) a great number of children
b) a stress on social status rather than love in marriage
c) a belief that the home should be a haven
d) a distaste for material possessions
Ans c)
36. Some of the continental European governments tried to catch up to British industrial-
ization by means of all of the following methods EXCEPT
a) enacting protective tariffs.
b) subsidizing new industries.
c) buying out entire British industries.
d) eliminating internal tariffs, as the German states did in the Zollverein.
Ans c)
38. The major type of workers' organization that helped factory laborers to develop a sense of class
consciousness during the industrial revolution was the
a) mutual aid society.
b) fraternal society.
c) guild.
d) union.
Ans d)
39. In the novel Hard Times, which of the following authors described the way industrialization was
affecting the fictional settlement Coketown?
a) Frederich Engels
b) Emily Brontë
c) Charles Dickens
d) Mark Twain
Ans c)
40. The "Bobbies," established by a law passed in 1828 by Parliament, hit the streets of London as
its first modern
a) social workers.
b) police force.
c) private investigators.
d) sanitation crew.
Ans b)
2. The Industrial Revolution brought the beginning of the fossil fuel age.
3. The Industrial Revolution created new social classes and produced new social tensions.
5. The Industrial Revolution itself began in northern England and western Scotland during the late
eighteenth century.
6. New machines co-existed with intensive old fashioned hand labour during the Industrial Revolu-
tion.
7. A key precondition for industrialization was Britain’s growing supply of available capital.
8. Many of the entreprenuers of the early Industrial Revolution came from independent farmer class.
9. Britain’s production for export rose by 80 percent between 1750 and 1770.
10. The Spinning Mule combined the features of both the jenny and the frame.
11. The first modern railway ran from the Durham coal field of Stockton to Darlington in 1825.
12. France built not only new roads but also 2,000 miles of canals during 1830 and 1847.
14. After 1850, the spread of railways encouraged the movement of goods.
15. Guild control over artisanal production was abolished in Austria in 1859.
16. The population of Russia rose from 39-60 million between 1800 and 1850.
17. In 1796 in England, Edward Jenner developed a safe form of the vaccine that would eventually
protect millions of people from smallpox.
18. The industrial revolution's most important technological advance could be considered the steam
engine.
19. The British economist who said that population growth would surpass the food supply was
Thomas Malthus.
2. Following the naval evacuation of British and French troops at Dunkirk, the Germans invaded:
a. Poland.
b. Britain.
c. Scandinavia.
d. France.
Answer is (d).
3. Which nation developed sonar and also cracked German codes for communicating with the “wolf
packs”?
a. the Soviet Union.
b. Britain.
c. the United States.
d. Canada.
Answer is (b).
4. The Soviet Union entered the Pacific Theatre of World War II by:
a. marching into Manchuria and the colonial territory of Korea.
b. helping the British stop the Japanese invasion of India.
c. invading the island of Okinawa.
d. pushing the Japanese forces back on Hong Kong.
Answer is (a).
5. World War II began on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of:
a. Poland
b. The Soviet Union.
c. The Sudetenland.
d. Belgium.
Answer is (a).
8. The French government that collaborated with the Nazis was located at:
a. Paris.
b. Dunkirk.
c. Vichy.
d. Verdun.
Answer is (c).
9. Which of the following countries did not experience authoritarian regimes in the 1930s?
a. Yugoslavia.
b. Czechoslovakia.
c. Hungary.
d. Romania.
Answer is (b).
13. As the war progressed, which country used its workers and materials less efficiently?
a. Germany.
b. the Soviet Union.
c. the United States.
d. Britain.
Answer is (a).
14. The largest Jewish resistance to Nazis came in the spring of 1943 at:
a. Lodz.
b. the Warsaw ghetto.
c. Auschwitz.
d. Prague.
Answer is (b).
15. Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier, and Mussolini met at Munich on September 28, 1938, in
order to:
a. decide the fate of Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia.
b. discuss Germany?s withdrawal from the League of Nations.
c. appease Stalin and Mussolini.
d. discuss the Polish question.
Answer is (a)
19. The first detonation of an atom bomb took place in the summer of 1945 at:
a. Hiroshima.
b. Nagasaki.
c. Los Alamos.
d. the Bikini Atoll.
Answer is (c).
20. The Policy of appeasement was based on all of the following assumption except:
a. The outbreak of another war was unthinkable.
b. Germany had been treated too harshly by the provisions of Versailles.
c. Germany would not break the provisions of Versailles.
d. The Nazis and fascists served as a bulwark against the Soviet.
Answer is (c).
21. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from
_________.
a) 1939 to 1945
b) 1940 to 1946
c) 1935 to 1940
d) None of these
Answer a)
22. Which countries were involved in World War II?
a) Australia
b) Britain
c) Germany
d) All of these
Answer d)
25. Which of the following countries was not a member of the Allies?
a) China
b) Britain
c) Japan
d) None of these
Answer c)
30. Why did United States declare war on the Japan in 1941?
a) Invasion of Poland
b) The Munich Conference
c) Attack on Pearl Harbor
d) None of these
Answer c)
31. Why did the British Royal Navy attack French warships at Mers-el-Kebir?
a) The French crews had sworn allegiance to Germany
b) France was at war with Britain
c) The French crews refused to surrender their ships when the British requested
d) They were manned by Germans
Ans c)
36. What was the treaty that ended World War II?
a) Geneva Conference
b) The Treaty of Versailles
c) Peace treaties
d) None of these
Answer c)
37. Which event is generally considered to be the first belligerent act of World War II?
a) Germany’s attack on Russia
b) Germany’s attack on Britain
c) Germany’s attack on Poland
d) Germany’s occupation of Austria
Ans c)
38.. Which two countries were the first to declare war on Germany?
a) Italy and Greece
b) Britain and France
c) Norway and Denmark
d) The United States and the USSR
Ans b)
39. Which best describes Germany’s standard invasion strategy at the beginning of World
War II?
a) Attack with a combination of speed and overwhelming force
b) Intimidate the enemy by first amassing a large force along the enemy’s border
c) Begin with acts of sabotage behind enemy lines
d) Draw out battles for as long as possible to wear the enemy out
Ans a)
40. What major mistake did the Allies make in preparing to defend against Germany’s attack
on France?
a) They failed to anticipate that the attack would take place
b) They expected an attack by ground forces rather than a naval assault
c) They misinterpreted where the main invasion would take place
d) They failed to set up minefields along the border with Germany
Ans c)
2. Who was the leader of the German Military of WWII was Adolf Hitler
3. The leader of the Soviet Union during World War II was Joseph Stalin.
10. During the Battle of France the Germans bypassed the Maginot Line by attacking through Belgium.
11. Germany signs a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1939.
12. The country that lost the most lives in World War II was Soviet Union.
16. The largest tank battle in history was the Battle of Kursk.
19. The Soviet Union instigate an armed conflict in late 1939 against Finland.
20. The first two western European countries that Germany invaded were Norway and Denmark