CBSE - The Making of a Global World

1 The Making of a Global World In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese labourers went to work on :

(1) Farms all around the world
(2) In factories, in Africa
(3) In mines, plantations, road and railway construction projects around the world
(4) In the diamond and gold mines of South America

2 The Making of a Global World Which of the following allowed the British Government to restrict the import of corn?

(1) Food Act
(2) Corn Act
(3) Corn Laws
(4) Import Act

3 The Making of a Global World Which of the following statements is a true definition of what the economists identify as "flows"?

(1) Trade in goods (cloth or wheat), migration of people in search of employment and movement of capital for short-term or long-term investments over long distances
(2) Economic, social, cultural and technological exchanges
(3) Self-sufficiency in food and no imports of food
(4) All the above

4 The Making of a Global World In which of the following years Rinderpest arrived in Africa?

(1) 1880
(2) 1882
(3) 1876
(4) 1885

5 The Making of a Global World From whom could a humble Indian peasant borrow capital for growing food and
other crops for the world market?

(1) From Indian bankers like Shikaripuri Shroffs and Nattu Kotai
(2) From traders and moneylenders like Hyderabadi Sindhis, who followed European colonisers into Africa
(3) Both (1) and (2)
(4) All the above

6 The Making of a Global World  The main reason why the world "shrank" in the 1500s is :

(1) Emergence of Europe as the centre of world trade
(2) Chinas retreat into isolation and its reduced role in politics
(3) Slaves working in plantations, growing sugar and cotton for European markets
(4) European sailors found a sea route to Asia, and also crossed the Atlantic and discovered America.

7 The Making of a Global World Indentured labour system was abolished in India in :

(1) 1900
(2) 1920
(3) 1921
(4) 1922

8 The Making of a Global World The Europeans brought to Africa a devastating disease which destroyed :

(1) Rinderpest, a disease carried by infected cattle, imported from British Asia to feed Italian soldiers
(2) 90 percent of cattle in Africa by 1897
(3) Both (1) and (2)
(4) None of the above

9 The Making of a Global World Which of the following diseases proved a deadly killer for the people of America?

(1) Cholera
(2) Small pox
(3) Plague
(4) None of the above

10 The Making of a Global World  The Group of 77 or G - 77 was :

(1) A group formed by western nations to exploit the developing nations
(2) A group formed by the developing countries to demand a new international economic order
(3) A protest against the western economic policies
(4) All the above