WBBSE Class 10 History And Environment Chapter 1 Ideas Of History MCQs

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WBBSE Chapter 1 Ideas Of History MCQs

Question 1. Which country started the tradition of ‘Annals’?

  1. England
  2. France
  3. U.S.A.
  4. Spain

Answer: 3. U.S.A.

Question 2. What is the duration of the golden age of New Social History?

  1. 1960 -1970
  2. 1950 -1960
  3. 1940- 1950
  4. 1970-1980

Answer: 1. 1960 – 1970

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Question 3. From where does Indian music originate from?

  1. Vedas
  2. Puranas
  3. Upanishads
  4. Mahabharata

Answer: 1. Vedas

Question 4. India’s first sound film is

  1. Indradhanush
  2. Raja Harishchandra
  3. Alam Ara
  4. Jahanara

Answer: 3. Alam Ara

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Question 5. Who translated ‘Letters from a Father to His Daughter’ into Hindi?

  1. Bankim Chandra
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. Munshi Premchand
  4. Indira Gandhi

Answer: 3. Munshi Premchand

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Question 6. Who wrote Bansmriti?

  1. Sarala Devi Chandhurani
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Bipin Chandra Pal
  4. Sarojini Naidu

Answer: 2. Rabindranath Tagore

Question 7.Who wrote Jibaner Jharapata ?

  1. Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Bipin Chandra Pal

Answer: 1. Sarala Devi Chaudhurani

Question 8. Who was associated with Somprakash?

  1. Raja Rammohan Roy
  2. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Vivekananda

Answer: 2. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Question 9. Who introduced Bangadarshan Patrika?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Swami Vivekananda
  3. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  4. Dayananda Saraswati

Answer: 3. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Question 10. How many letters did Jawaharlal Nehru write to his daughter?

  1. Ten
  2. Twenty
  3. Thirty
  4. Forty

Answer: 3. Thirty

Question 11. Where was Bipin Chandra Pal born?

  1. Bengal
  2. Bihar
  3. Orissa
  4. Madras

Answer: 1. Bengal

Question 12. When did urbanization start taking place?

  1. 7000 – 6000 B.C.
  2. 7000 – 5000 B.C.
  3. 7000 – 3000 B.C.
  4. 7000 – 4000 B.C.

Answer: 1. 7000 – 6000 B.C.

Question 13. Subash Chandra Bose’s autobiography was

  1. An Autobiography
  2. The Indian Struggle
  3. The Freedom Struggle
  4. India Wins Freedom

Answer: 2. The Indian Struggle

Question 14. In which language were Bangadarshan & Somprakash published?

  1. Marathi
  2. Gujarati
  3. Bengali
  4. English

Answer: 3. Bengali

Question 15. Who wrote the ‘Origin of the World War’?

  1. Thucydides
  2. S.B. Fay
  3. Herodotus
  4. Jeremy Black

Answer: 2. S.B. Fay

Question 16. When was Brook Society School established?

  1. 6th May 1817 A.D.
  2. 5th May 1818 A.D.
  3. 9th May 1819 A.D.
  4. 6th December 1818 A.D.

Answer: 1. 6th May 1817 A.D.

Question 17. Who wrote the book ‘Social History of England’?

  1. Riecl and Fretygag
  2. Traill and Man
  3. Me Master
  4. Lamprecht

Answer: 2. Traill and Man

Question 18. What was the period of Old Social History?

  1. 1950 A.D.
  2. 1960 A.D.
  3. 1970 A.D.
  4. 1980 A.D.

Answer: 2. 1960 A.D.

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Question 19. Where did the Olympic Games first start?

  1. Rome
  2. Greece
  3. Harappa
  4. Egypt

Answer: 2. Greece

Question 20. In which country the playing of cricket started?

  1. Germany
  2. Italy
  3. England
  4. America

Answer: 3. England

Question 21. Which country first started the Commonwealth Games?

  1. Rome
  2. Britain
  3. Germany
  4. India

Answer: 2. Britain

Question 22. Formula One Race is related to which game?

  1. Boxing
  2. Football
  3. Car Racing
  4. Cricket

Answer: 3. Car Racing

Question 23. When did the art of manufacturing cloth start?

  1. Paleolithic age
  2. Neolithic age
  3. Chalcolithic age
  4. Bronze age

Answer: 2. Neolithic age

Question 24. When was the Flying Shuttle invented?

  1. 1733 A.D.
  2. 1764A.D.
  3. 1769 A.D.
  4. 1779 A.D.

Answer: 1. 1733 A.D.

Question 25. Who invented the Flying Shuttle?

  1. John Key
  2. James Hargreaves
  3. Arkwright
  4. Samuel Crompton

Answer: 1. John’s Key

Question 26. When was the Spinning Jenny invented?

  1. 1764 A.D.
  2. 1733 A.D.
  3. 1769 A.D.
  4. 1785 A.D.

Answer: 1. 1764 A.D.

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Question 27. Who invented the Spinning Jenny?

  1. Samuel Crompton
  2. Arkwright
  3. James Hargreaves
  4. Whitney

Answer: 3. James Hargreaves

Question 28. Who invented the Water Frame?

  1. Arkwright
  2. John Key
  3. Whitney
  4. Edmund Cartwright

Answer: 1. Arkwright

Question 29. When was the Crompton Mule invented?

  1. 1769 A.D.
  2. 1779 A.D.
  3. 1785 A.D.
  4. 1793 A.D.

Answer: 2. 1779 A.D.

Question 30. Who invented the Crompton Mule?

  1. Edmund Cartwright
  2. Whitney
  3. Samuel Crompton
  4. Arkwright

Answer: 3. Samuel Crompton

Question 31. Who invented Powerloom?

  1. Edmund Cartwright
  2. Whitney
  3. John Key
  4. Arkwright

Answer: 1. Edmund Cartwright

Question 32. Who invented the Steam Engine?

  1. James Watt
  2. George Stephenson
  3. Macadam
  4. Arkwright

Answer: 2. George Stephenson

Question 33. Who built concrete roads?

  1. Macadam
  2. Bradley
  3. James Watt
  4. George Barlow

Answer: 1. Macadam

Question 34. When did the first Railways start in India?

  1. 1853 A.D.
  2. 1863 A.D.
  3. 1873 A.D.
  4. 1883 A.D.

Answer: 1. 1853 A.D.

Question 35. When did the Railways start in Britain?

  1. 1810 A.D.
  2. 1820 A.D.
  3. 1830 A.D.
  4. 1840 A.D.

Answer: 2. 1820 A.D.

Question 36. Who invented the Aeroplane?

  1. Wright Brothers
  2. James Watt
  3. Arkwright
  4. John Key

Answer: 1. Wright Brothers

Question 37. Where is Bhimbetka situated?

  1. Uttar Pradesh
  2. Madhya Pradesh
  3. Haryana
  4. Jammu Kashmir

Answer: 2. Madhya Pradesh

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Question 38. Who painted the picture of Monalisa?

  1. Leonardo da Vinci
  2. Raphael
  3. Karl Marx
  4. John Key

Answer: 1. Leonardo da Vinci

Question 39. Who wrote the book ‘The History of the Peloponnesian War’?

  1. Herodotus
  2. Thucydides
  3. Ptolemy
  4. Homer

Answer: 2. Thucydides

Question 40. Which country used the ‘Atomic bomb’ in the Second World War?

  1. Britain
  2. Japan
  3. U.S.A.
  4. USSR

Answer: 3. U.S.A.

Question 41. Over which country America dropped atom bomb?

  1. Japan
  2. Italy
  3. Germany
  4. Pakistan

Answer: 1. Japan

Question 42. Who wrote the book ‘Charak Samhita’?

  1. Sushruta
  2. Charak
  3. Panini
  4. Patanjali

Answer: 2. Charak

Question 43. Who built the Taj Mahal?

  1. Hamayun
  2. SherShah
  3. Akbar
  4. Shahjahan

Answer: 4. Shah Jahan

Question 44. Where is Victoria Memorial situated?

  1. Kolkata
  2. Delhi
  3. Madras
  4. Lucknow

Answer: 1. Kolkata

Question 45. When was the General Society established?

  1. 1698 A.D.
  2. 1790 A.D.
  3. 1898 A.D.
  4. 1998 A.D.

Answer: 1. 1698 A.D.

Question 46. When was the Supreme Court established in Kolkata?

  1. 1770 A.D.
  2. 1773 A.D.
  3. 1774 A.D.
  4. 1775 A.D.

Answer: 3. 1774 A.D.

Question 47. When was the first Charter Act passed in India?

  1. 1775
  2. 1773
  3. 1720
  4. 1770

Answer: 2. 1773

Question 48. What was the time duration of the rule of East India Company in India?

  1. 1600 – 1858 A.D.
  2. 1784 -1858 A.D.
  3. 1858 – 1947 A.D.
  4. 1937 – 1948 A.D.

Answer: 1. 1600-1858 A.D.

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Question 49. Whose descriptions are there in the book Jiban Smriti?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Bipin Chandra Pal
  3. Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
  4. Rabindranath Tagore

Answer: 1. Rabindranath Tagore

Question 50. When was the book Jiban Smriti published?

  1. 1912
  2. 1927
  3. 1957
  4. 1960

Answer: 1. 1912

Question 51. Who is the writer of the book titled ‘Pita Ke Patra Putri Ke Naam’ ?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. Munshi Premchand
  3. Bipin Chandra Pal
  4. Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: 2. Munshi Premchand

Question 52. What kind of magazine was Somprakash?

  1. Daily
  2. Weekly
  3. Monthly
  4. Yearly

Answer: 2. Weekly

Question 53. In which novel Vande Mata Ram’s song is mentioned?

  1. Anandmath
  2. Gitanjali
  3. Godan
  4. Somprakash

Answer: 1. Anandmath

Question 54. Who wrote the novel, Chandra Shekhar?

  1. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  2. Bipin Chandra Pal
  3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  4. Premchand

Answer: 1. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Question 55. Which one of the following books is the most important literary source for the study of the early history of Assam?

  1. Mahabharata
  2. Harsha Charita
  3. Kalika Puran
  4. Arthashastra

Answer: 3. Kalika Puran

Question 56. Who is called the father of history?

  1. Ibn Khaldun
  2. Herodotus
  3. Vincent Smith
  4. Thucydides

Answer: 2. Herodotus

Question 57. The spokesman of the history of subaltern groups is :

  1. Dr. Ranajit Guha
  2. Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. A. L. Rouse
  4. C. M. Joshi

Answer: 1. Dr. Ranajit Guha

Question 58. The poet who wrote the epic Illiad is :

  1. Thucydides
  2. Amanti Laksari
  3. Homer
  4. Jeremy Black

Answer: 3. Homer

Question 59. The new studies in social history began in the century.

  1. 19th
  2. 18th
  3. 20th
  4. 17th

Answer: 3. 20th

Question 60. What is the main subject of the new social history?

  1. Gentlemen
  2. Intellectuals
  3. Common man
  4. Service holders

Answer: 3.  Common man

Question 61. Which sport is called a game of 22 yards?

  1. Hockey
  2. Cricket
  3. Football
  4. Rugby

Answer: 2. Cricket

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Question 62. The first women’s cricket World Cup took place in

  1. 1970
  2. 1971
  3. 1972
  4. 1973

Answer: 4. 1973

Question 63. When was the Mohan Bagan Team formed?

  1. 1889
  2. 1899
  3. 1909
  4. 1919

Answer: 1. 1889

Question 64. Which country has the highest consumption of potatoes?

  1. England
  2. India
  3. Holland
  4. Ireland

Answer: 4. Ireland

Question 65. Which country is called the ‘land of cakes’?

  1. Scotland
  2. Holland
  3. Belgium
  4. Ireland

Answer: 1. Scotland

Question 66. What was Punjab’s camel riders’ song called?

  1. Tappa
  2. Thumri
  3. Bhatiyalli
  4. Ghazali

Answer: 1. Tappa

Question 67. Kathakali dance originated from which place?

  1. Malabar
  2. Karnataka
  3. Orissa
  4. Manipur

Answer: 1. Malabar

Question 68. Transport mainly consists of types.

  1. 3
  2. 2
  3. 4
  4. 6

Answer: 1. 3

Question 69. Historical studies of local issues began in –

  1. 1760
  2. 1860
  3. 1960
  4. In the decade of 2000-10

Answer: 3. 1960

Question 70. Which city is known as the city of culture in India?

  1. Kolkata
  2. Mumbai
  3. Delhi
  4. Chennai

Answer: 1. Kolkata

Question 71. The main issue studied in military history is

  1. War
  2. Politics
  3. World war
  4. Skills in battle

Answer: 4. Skills in battle

Question 72. The study of environmental history gained prominence in the decade of

  1. 1940
  2. 1950
  3. 1960
  4. 1980

Answer: 1. 1940

Question 73. What is Eco-feminism?

  1. Women & Environment
  2. Man & Environment
  3. Nature & Man
  4. Man & Woman

Answer: 1. Women & Environment

Question 74. Whose autobiography is ‘Sattar Battsar’?

  1. Bipin Chandra Pal
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Sarala Devi Choudhurani
  4. Surendranath Banerjee

Answer: 1. Bipin Chandra Pal

Question 75. The magazine edited by Bankim Chandra is

  1. Hindu Patriot
  2. Banga Darshan
  3. Sanjibani
  4. Samachar Darpan

Answer: 2. Banga Darshan

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Question 76. The first Bengali political magazine was –

  1. Banga Darshan
  2. Somprakash
  3. Sudhakar
  4. Dig Darshan

Answer: 2. Somprakash

Question 77.Of the following which describes the essentials of history?

  1. Studies of man as a social being living in a particular geographical and natural environment.
  2. Studies how man laid the foundation of civilization.
  3. Records of the dates and events that took place over time.
  4. Studies of man as he lives in society.

Answer: 1. Studies of man as he lives in society.

Question 78. Of the following, which is considered one of the ingredients of history?

  1. Diplomatic strategies
  2. Studies of plants
  3. Studies of insects
  4. Studies on planets

Answer: 1. Diplomatic strategies

Question 79.Of the following, who said that Bengali youth could get to heaven by playing football?

  1. Professor Niharranjan Roy
  2. Ramchandra Guha
  3. Swami Vivekananda
  4. Ashis Nandy

Answer: 3. Swami Vivekananda

Question 80. The earliest music in Bengal was influenced by which of the following?

  1. Rabindrasangeet
  2. Gitagovinda
  3. Panchali Gan
  4. Chau Nritya

Answer: 2. Gitagovinda

Question 81. Which of the following refers to the Paridhan as the garments in use in early India?

  1. The Ramayana
  2. The Mahabharata
  3. The Rigveda
  4. The writings of Kalidasa

Answer: 3. The Rigveda

Question 82.Of the following, who experimented with designs for a national dress for women of the country?

  1. Sarala Devi
  2. Jnanadanandini Devi
  3. Priyadarshini Devi
  4. Narayani Devi

Answer: 2. Jnanadanandini Devi

Question 83. Of the following which was very much in use in 19th century Kolkata as a means of transportation?

  1. Horse-driven carriages
  2. Palanquins
  3. Trucks
  4. Elephant brigade

Answer: 2. Palanquins

Question 84.Of the following, which was the Buddhist text that was illuminated as a part of painting as a visual art?

  1. Kalighat paintings
  2. Pahari drawings
  3. Rajput paintings
  4. Pancaraksha

Answer: 4. Pancaraksha

Question 85. Of the following, which was the center of the Renaissance of modern Indian paintings?

  1. Kolkata
  2. Delhi
  3. Bombay
  4. Madras

Answer: 1. Kolkata

Question 86. In which of the following years did the camera arrive in Kolkata?

  1. 1830
  2. 820
  3. 1840
  4. 1850

Answer: 3. 1840

Question 87. One example of the Bhanja style of Bengali architecture is :

  1. Calcutta Museum
  2. Kali temple at Dakshineshwar
  3. Belur Math
  4. Saheed Meena

Answer: 2. Kali temple at Dakshineshwar

Question 88. Which of the following books are on the art of architecture chiefly in Bengal around the twentieth century?

  1. Silpashastra
  2. History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
  3. The Making of a New Indian Art: An Imperial Vision
  4. None of these

Answer: 3. The Making of a New Indian Art: An Imperial Vision

Question 89. Of the following, who wrote his first play Ananda Raho in 1882?

  1. Girischandra Ghosh
  2. Dasarathi Rai
  3. Jogendra Gupta
  4. Sridhar Kathak

Answer: 1. Girischandra Ghosh

Question 90. When was “school society” was formed?

  1. 1817
  2. 1818
  3. 1819
  4. 1820

Answer: 2. 1818

Chapter 1 Ideas Of History Fill In The Blanks

Question 1. The autobiography of Sarala Debi Chaudhurani is called ______
Answer: Jibaner Jharapata.

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Question 2. The first women’s cricket club was established in England in _____
Answer: 1887.

Question 3. After Michael Faraday discovered____________ controlled flow of electricity with the help of signals became very convenient.
Answer: Electro Magnetic Induction.

Question 4. The term eco-feminism was first used by the French feminist____ in 1970.
Answer: Francois Doban.

Question 5. Rabindranath in his book_____has told many stories from his childhood.
Answer: Jiban Smriti.

Question 6. The word Historia is a ____ word.
Answer: Greek.

Question 7. Kumud Nath Mallik is a _____
Answer: Local Historian.

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Question 8. Tuzuk-I-Babari is the autobiography of ______
Answer: Babur.

Question 9. The leader of the Nazi regiment was _____
Answer: Adolf Hitler.

Question 10. Rabindranath Tagore published his popular novel ____ in Banga Darshan.
Answer: Chokher Bali.

Question 11. Radha Rani’s novel was published in Banga Darshan in ______
Answer: 1875 A.D.

Question 12. The editing office of Banga Darshan was ________
Answer: Majumdar Agency.

Question 13. Sannyasi Revolt is discussed in _____ novel.
Answer: Anandamath.

Question 14. The National Song Vande Mataram is mentioned in the _______novel.
Answer: Anandamath.

Question 15.’Letters from a Father to his Daughter’ was written in ___ A.D.
Answer: 1928.

Question 16. The writer of the book Jiban Smriti is ______
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore.

Chapter 1 Ideas Of History True Or False

Question 1. New Social History is a study of kings and their empires.
Answer: False

Question 2. The song ‘Vande Mataram’ was composed by Rabindranath Tagore.
Answer: False

Question 3. The first Bengali periodical to be published was ‘Digdarshan’.
Answer: True

Question 4.’Bangadarshan’ was a journal edited by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
Answer: True

Question 5. From the decade of 1970, the history of sports gained popularity at the endeavor of the British.
Answer: True

Question 6. The meaning of the term ‘history/ is to search.
Answer: True

Question 7. The time limitation of Old Social History seems to be 1960 A.D.
Answer: True

Question 8. There was development in the art of history writing by the effect of the Renaissance.
Answer: True

Question 9. The history of sports is as old on this earth as the existence of men on this earth.
Answer: True

Question 10. New Social History discusses only the nation and the social structure and development of individuals.
Answer: True

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Question 11. The Olympic Games were first organized in Egypt.
Answer: False

Question 12. Agriculture was discovered in the Mesolithic age.
Answer: False

Question 13. Colonialism affected the food habits of people in India.
Answer: True

Question 14. Vidya Bhushan was the founder of Bangadarshan.
Answer: False

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