They Dropped Like Flies

Q. Indentured labourers migrated to different countries like Sri Lanka and Africa. What was the reason for migration?

1. Rising land rents
2. Declining cottage industries
3. Spread of flu
4. Better life

Q. The Italians brought with them Rinderpest that spread like wildfire across Africa, affecting the cattles. How did the Europeans gain from the wildfire?

1. They got natives to work for them.
2. They got more meat.
3. The natives gave away their land to the Europeans.
4. The natives could focus on growing crops.

Q. Which disease that affected cattle was responsible for pushing the people of Africa into the labour markets?

1. Smallpox
2. Rinderpest
3. Measles
4. Chickenpox

Q. Amidst the hard and ill-treated working conditions, people from different cultures collaborated in the Caribbean Islands. Select the correct options from the following:

1. Imam Husayn celebrated Muharram as a carnival.
2. Cultural fusion led to popular genre, Chutney music.
3. The workers went on vacation together.
4. The workers never got time for all this.

Q. Correct the underlined part of the sentence. If there is no error choose "no change."

1. No change
2. Have been a basis for
3. Was the basis for
4. Become the basis of
5. Being the basis of

Q. Why were people forced to migrate in search of work?

Q. Name a few prominent descendants of indentured labour migrants from India.

Q. The inheritance laws were changed to force people into the labour market.

1. True
2. False

Q. "And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand. Behind them new tractors were going on to the land and the tenants were being forced off. And new waves were on the way, new waves of the dispossessed and the homeless, hardened, intent, and dangerous."
The author of this quotation is describing ________.

1. Pioneers riding westward along the Oregon Trail
2. Prospectors hurrying to California during the Gold Rush of 1849
3. Farmers leaving the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression
4. Mexicans crossing the Rio Grande into the United States
5. African Americans migrating west during Reconstruction

Q. Who was responsible for the arrival of Rinderpest in Africa?

1. Italians
2. Americans
3. Europeans
4. Indians

Q. What was the name of the ship in which the first Indian indentured labourers arrived at Trinidad?

1. Fateh Razack
2. Razack Fateh
3. Fateh Toofan
4. Razack Toofan

Q. Choose the correct pairs.

1. JA Broun
2. Naraine Tewary
3. Official
4. Fateh Razack
5. Labourer
6. Ship
7. Writer
8. VS Naipaul
9. Guyana
10. Chutney Music

Q. When did the first Indian indentured labourers arrive at Trinidad?

1. 30April, 1855
2. 30 May, 1845
3. 30 May, 1835
4. 30 May, 1854

Q. Indian labourers chose to migrate because they were unemployed, despite expecting to be treated badly by the colonisers.

1. True
2. False