Class 9 Social Science History MCQ Peasants and Farmers

Question : Which type of crop was Trump?
(a) Cash crop
(b) Beverage crop
(c) Plantation crop
(d) Fodder crop

Question : What was the normal height of terrifying dust storms during the 1930s in USA?
(a) 5000 to 6000 feet
(b) 100 to 200 feet
(c) 7000 to 8000 feet
(d) 700 to 800 feet

Question : Which country was not involved in the triangular trade?
(a) England
(b) China
(c) India
(d) America

Question : Bushel was a measure of:
(a) volume
(b) capacity
(c) distance
(d) height

Question : What were Shillings?
(a) An English currency
(b) A French currency
(c) A unit used for measuring temperature
(d) A part of thresher

Question : In the early 19th century which were the two major commercial crops grown in India?
(a) Sugarcane and cotton
(b) Jute and cotton
(c) Indigo and opium
(d) Wheat and indigo

Question : why did the white settlers want to push away the Indian Americans from their lands?
(a) The land possessed by the Indians could be turned into cultivated fields
(b) Forest timber could be exported, animals hunted for skins, mountains mined for gold and Minerals
(c) Both (i) and (b)
(d) It was a committed policy of the US Government

Question : When did a farmer in north-west of England found his barn and haystack reduced to ashes by fire that started at a night?
(a) On 1st, June, 1830
(b) On 28th Aug., 1830
(c) On 28th Oct., 1830
(d) On 28th Nov., 1830

Question : Which of the following became the Bread Basket of the world during 20th century?
(a) Japan
(b) France
(c) Russia
(d) America

Question : Who was Captain Swing?
(a) A great social reformer
(b) A great industrialist of Manchester
(c) A farmer
(d) A mythic name

Question : Who introduced opium in China?
(a) The Dutch
(b) The French
(c) The American
(d) The Portuguese

Question : Name the US President who said “Plant more wheat, wheat will win the war.”
(a) President Roosevelt
(b) President Clinton
(c) President Bush
(d) President Wilson

Question : The Manchus were:
(a) Chinese rulers
(b) Roman rulers
(c) Indian rulers
(d) Portuguese rulers

Question : What did the settlers of the Great Plains realise after the 1930s?
(a) Using older methods of cultivation were better than modern machines
(b) Competition with other countries was not healthy
(c) They had to respect the ecological conditions of each region
(d) None of the above

Question : Opium was exported from India to:
(a) China
(b) Rome
(c) U.K.
(d) Portugal

Question : What did the enclosure imply?
(a) It meant green fields
(b) Piece of land enclosed from all sides
(c) It meant open fields
(d) Vast area of marshy land

Question : By the early 1820s, how much opium was being smuggled every year into China?
(a) 10,000 crates
(b) 20,000 crates
(c) 30,000 crates
(d) 40,000 crates

Question :Enclosures were seen as necessary to:
(i) Plan crop rotation (b) Make long term investment (c) Allow the richer to expand the land under their control (d) Produce more for market
(a) (i)
(b) (b)
(c) (i), (c), (d)
(d) (i), (b), (c) and (d)

Question :Which type of crop was Trump?
(a) Cash crop
(b) Beverage crop
(c) Plantation crop
(d) Fodder crop

Question :Bushel was a measure of:
(a) volume
(b) capacity
(c) distance
(d) height

Question :What were Shillings?
(a) An English currency
(b) A French currency
(c) A unit used for measuring temperature
(d) A part of thresher

Question :Enclosure were necessary to:
(i) Make long term investment on land (b) Plan crop rotation to improve the soil (c) Allow rich landlord to expand the land under their control.
(a) (i) and (c)
(b) (i) is correct
(c) (i), (b) and (c)
(d) Except (b), (i) and (c) are correct

Question :1. When did a farmer in north-west of England found his barn and haystack reduced to ashes by fire that started at a night?
(a) On 1^st, June, 1830
(b) On 28^th Aug., 1830
(c) On 28^th Oct., 1830
(d) On 28^th Nov., 1830

Question :On 28^th August, 1830 a threshing machine of a farmer was destroyed by labourer in:
(a) Liverpool
(b) Manchester
(c) East Kent
(d) London

Question :Who was Captain Swing?
(a) A great social reformer
(b) A great industrialist of Manchester
(c) A farmer
(d) A mythic name