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Work, Life and Leisure (Class X)

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The temperance movement in London was developed for

  1. planning mass housing schemes for the poor

  2. opening night refuges and strangers homes for the homeless

  3. keeping children out of factory work

  4. rehabilitating the criminals that were categorised under the 'deserving poor' category

  5. fighting against the evils of drinking


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The temperance movement was developed to fight against the evils of drinking.

Who conducted the first social survey of low-skilled London workers in the East End of London?

  1. Charles Booth

  2. Rowlandson

  3. Henry Mayhew

  4. Robert Grindlay

  5. Ebenezer Howard


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Charles Booth was a Liverpool ship-owner, who conducted the first social survey of low-skilled London workers in the East End of London.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Ebenezer Howard developed the principle of the Garden City. b. Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker designed the modern city of London. c. Large blocks of apartments were built in London, based on architectural ideas in Berlin and New York.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. a and c

  5. b and c


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Both statements are correct.

Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son (1848) addressed which of the following features of the London city of the time?

  1. Construction of housing for the poor

  2. Destruction in the process of construction

  3. Temperance movement

  4. Child labour in London factories

  5. Illegal immigrants in London


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. In Dombey and Son (1848), Charles Dickens wrote about the massive destruction in the process of construction.

Who wrote the book 'The Bitter Cry of Outcast London' in the 1880s, which showed why crime was more profitable than labouring in small, underpaid factories?

  1. Henry Mayhew

  2. Charles Dickens

  3. Andrew Mearns

  4. Mark Twain

  5. Thomas Hardy


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Andrew Mearns was a clergyman who wrote 'The Bitter Cry of Outcast London' in the 1880s, which showed why crime was more profitable than labouring in small, underpaid factories.

The political movement of Chartism during the nineteenth century was focussed on

  1. demanding the vote for all adults

  2. demanding the vote for all adult males

  3. demanding the vote for all males

  4. demanding the vote for all adult females

  5. demanding the vote for the working class


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Chartism was a movement in the nineteenth century and it was for demanding the vote for all adult males.

Why was Blackpool popular among the British tourists in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century?

  1. Gambling

  2. Natural hot springs

  3. Little season

  4. Opera and theatre

  5. Seaside


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Blackpool was a seaside town and became a great tourist attraction during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century as British industrial workers were encouraged to spend their holidays by the sea, so as to derive the benefits of the sun and bracing winds.

Which of the following statements is/are correct about the London tube railway?

a. The first section of the Underground in the world opened on 10th January, 1863 between Paddington and Farrington Street in London. b. 900 houses had to be destroyed to construct the Underground. c. Many people died of asphyxiation and heat during the early runs of the tube.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. a and c

  5. a, b and c


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. The first section of the Underground in the world opened on 10th January, 1863 between Paddington and Farrington Street in London.

Which of the following cultural events were covered during the London Season for the elite section of the society?

a. Opera b. Theatre c. Performances in Music Halls d. Cinema

  1. a, b, c and d

  2. a, b and c

  3. a, b and d

  4. a and b

  5. c and d


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is correct as opera and theatre were the cultural activities that the elite undertook during the London season.

Which of the following was the cause for the mob rising during the Bloody Sunday of November 1887?

  1. Famine during a severe winter

  2. Terrible conditions of poverty

  3. Lack of medical insurance for the industrial workers

  4. Bad working conditions for the London dockworkers

  5. Damage caused to the tenements in the London Beer Flood


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. The riot of the London poor on a Sunday in November 1887 was caused as the poor were demanding relief from the terrible conditions of poverty. The police brutally suppressed it and it came to be known as the Bloody Sunday of November 1887.

Which of the following statements is/are correct about Bombay?

a. Bombay was a group of seven islands. b. It was under French control in the seventeenth century. c. It was passed into British hands when King Charles I married Henrietta Maria of France.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. b and c

  5. a, b and c


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. Bombay was a group of seven islands.

Which of the following port cities was the principal western port of the British East India Company in India till they shifted base to Bombay in the 1660s?

  1. Cochin

  2. Daman

  3. Calicut

  4. Goa

  5. Surat


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Surat was the main western port of the British East India Company till they shifted base to Bombay after control was passed into British hands upon the marriage of the Portuguese princess to Charles II.

When was the Rent Act passed in Bombay?

  1. 1784

  2. 1898

  3. 1914

  4. 1918

  5. 1919


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Rent Act was passed in 1918, to keep rents reasonable. But it had the opposite effect of producing a severe housing crisis, since landlords withdrew houses from the market.

Who approved the building of the great sea wall, which prevented the flooding of the low-lying areas of Bombay?

  1. Arthur Crawford

  2. Robert Grindlay

  3. Charles II

  4. William Hornby

  5. Baron Haussmann


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as Bombay governor William Hornby approved the building of the great sea wall, which prevented the flooding of the low-lying areas of Bombay.

Which of the following statements is correct about Bombay in the nineteenth century?

  1. The Bombay Fort area was planned by Kessowjee Naik.

  2. Esplanade House was the residence of Bombay’s first Municipal Commissioner, Arthur Crawford.

  3. Multi-storied chawls were built by the Bombay Municipal Commission to provide residences for the migrants who had moved to Bombay as mill workers.

  4. The City of Bombay Improvement Trust was established in 1898 for focussing on clearing poorer homes out of the city centre.

  5. Trust schemes had rehoused 64000 people by 1918.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct.

Land reclamation in Bombay refers to

  1. reclaiming municipal land from squatters of deprived classes

  2. reclaiming land from chawls and building Improvement Trust-schemed housing

  3. reclaiming land of marshy or submerged areas or other wasteland for settlements, etc.

  4. reclaiming of cantonment area land from the natives for use of the Presidency offices

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Bombay was a group of seven islands and marshy or submerged lands between these islands were reclaimed by levelling the hills around Bombay.

Who shot a scene of a wrestling match in Bombay’s Hanging Gardens, in 1896, which became India’s first movie?

  1. Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar

  2. Dadasaheb Phalke

  3. Saadat Hasan Manto

  4. Parvathibai Bhor

  5. G. G. Agarkar


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatwadekar shot a scene of a wrestling match in Bombay’s Hanging Gardens, in 1896, which became India’s first movie.

Which of the following cities was the first Indian city to get smoke nuisance legislation in 1863?

  1. Raniganj

  2. Bombay

  3. Calcutta

  4. Ahmedabad

  5. Madras


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Calcutta was the first Indian city to get smoke nuisance legislation in 1863.

Which of the following British towns had laws to control smoke in the city by 1840s?

  1. Derby, Leeds and Manchester

  2. London, Leeds and Manchester

  3. New Earswick and Leeds

  4. London, New Earswick and Manchester

  5. London, Darby and Manchester


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This is the correct answer. Derby, Leeds and Manchester had laws to control smoke in the city by 1840s.

Which of the following Asian cities became totally altered after a major planning and development project under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew?

  1. Kuala Lumpur

  2. Penang

  3. Hong Kong

  4. Shanghai

  5. Singapore


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

This is the correct answer as Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew and became totally altered after a major planning and development project.

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