CBSE MCQ Questions for Class 10 Social Science: Work, Life and Leisure – Cities in the Contemporary World
CBSE Work, Life and Leisure – Cities in the Contemporary World MCQs will help students study well the chapter ‘Work, Life and Leisure – Cities in the Contemporary World’ and fetch good marks in the board exam. It is an important chapter in the syllabus of Class 10 Social Science. Solving the ‘Work, Life and Leisure – Cities in the Contemporary World’ MCQ Questions, in addition to referring to the CBSE Notes for Class 10 Social Science, will help students understand the chapters comprehensively and be better prepared for the board examination.
Students must solve MCQ Questions and CBSEÂ Class 10 Sample Papers for Social Science to understand their level of preparation. Work, Life and Leisure – Cities in the Contemporary World MCQs given below will help students to revise and recollect the important concepts and points related to topics such as characteristics of the city, industrialisation and rise of the modern city in England, marginal groups, housing in London, cleaning London, transportation in the city, social changes in the city, politics in the city, the city in colonial India, work in Bombay, housing and neighbourhoods in Bombay, land reclamation in Bombay, Bombay as a city of dreams, cities and the challenge of environment.
Apart from the MCQs given below, students are recommended to access MCQ Questions and Answers for Class 10 Social Science to get the complete list of MCQs for all the chapters of Class 10 Social Science subjects, History, Geography, Political Science and Economics.
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1) In 1880, ___________ wrote a novel, Debganer Martye Aagaman (The Gods Visit Earth).
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
c) Durgacharan Ray
d) None of the above
Answer: Option (c)
2) The early industrial cities of Britain, such as Leeds and ________, attracted large numbers of migrants to the textile mills set up in the late eighteenth century.
a) London
b) Liverpool
c) Manchester
d) Southampton
Answer: Option (c)
3) By 1750, one out of every _______ people of England and Wales lived in London.
a) Nine
b) Ten
c) Five
d) Two
Answer: Option (a)
4) During the First World War (1914-18), _______ began manufacturing motor cars and electrical goods, and the number of large factories increased until they accounted for nearly one-third of all jobs in the city.
a) London
b) Manchester
c) Leeds
d) Liverpool
Answer: Option (a)
5) _______ flows through the city of London.
a) River Volga
b) River Danube
c) River Thames
d) River Severn
Answer: Option (c)
6) ____________ is someone who works for social upliftment and charity, donating time and money for the purpose.
a) Inheritor
b) Beneficiary
c) Antagonist
d) Philanthropist
Answer: Option (d)
7) It was only after the passage of the Compulsory Elementary Education Act in______, and the factory acts beginning from 1902, that children were kept out of industrial work.
a) 1870
b) 1902
c) 1880
d) 1901
Answer: Option (a)
8) There was a widespread fear of social disorder, especially after the Russian Revolution in 1917. __________ schemes were planned to prevent the London poor from turning rebellious.
a) Workers’ mass housing
b) Employers’ mass housing
c) Workers’ mass employment
d) Employers’ mass employment
Answer: Option (a)
9) The Temperance movement was a largely _______ led social reform movement, which identified alcoholism as the cause of the ruin of families and society and aimed at reducing the consumption of alcoholic drinks.
a) Monarchy
b) Aristocratic class
c) Rich class
d) Middle class
Answer: Option (d)
10) Architect and planner _________ developed the principle of the Garden City, a pleasant space full of plants and trees where people would both live and work.
a) Debganer Martye Aagaman
b) Charles Booth
c) Rowlandson
d) Ebenezer Howard
Answer: Option (d)
11) Following Howard’s ideas, Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker designed the garden city of __________.
a) New Hampshire
b) New Earswick
c) Leeds
d) Manchester
Answer: Option (b)
12) The very first section of the Underground railway in the world opened on 10 January 1863 between Paddington and Farrington Street in _______.
a) Leeds
b) London
c) Manchester
d) None of the above
Answer: Option (b)
13) In ________, the Back Bay Reclamation Company won the right to reclaim the western foreshore from the tip of Malabar Hill to the end of Colaba.
a) 1884
b) 1874
c) 1854
d) 1864
Answer: Option (d)
14) __________ wrote in Dombey and Son (1848) about the massive destruction in the process of construction of the London underground railway.
a) Jane Austen
b) Charles Dickens
c) Mark Twain
d) William Shakespeare
Answer: Option (b)
15) _________ is a theory that promotes the liberty, rights or independent action of the individual rather than of the community.
a) Individualism
b) Secularism
c) Feminism
d) Socialism
Answer: Option (a)
16) In the seventeenth century, Bombay was a group of seven islands under ______ control. In 1661, the control changed hands after a marriage alliance.
a) French
b) Portuguese
c) British
d) Maratha
Answer: Option (b)
17) The first cotton textile mill in Bombay was established in ________.
a) 1867
b) 1857
c) 1854
d) 1864
Answer: Option (c)
18) ________ dominated the maritime trade of India till well into the twentieth century. It was also at the junction of two major railways.
a) Madras
b) Surat
c) Calcutta
d) Bombay
Answer: Option (d)
19) While every Londoner in the 1840s enjoyed an average space of 155 square yards, Bombay had a mere ______ square yards.
a) 9.5
b) 100
c) 25
d) 10.5
Answer: Option (a)
20) The City of Bombay Improvement Trust was established in ______; it focused on clearing poorer homes out of the city centre.
a) 1898
b) 1900
c) 1901
d) 1911
Answer: Option (a)
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