• 1. 
    Transport of perishable goods over long distance was possible because of

  • improved railways
  • airline services
  • refrigerated ships
  • steam ships
  • 2. 
    The World Bank was set-up to

  • finance rehabilitation of refugees.
  • finance post war construction.
  • finance industrial development.
  • help third world countries.
  • 3. 
    Most Indian indentured workers came from: [CBSE 2011]

  • Eastern Uttar Pradesh
  • North-eastern states
  • Jammu and Kashmir
  • None of these
  • 4. 
    Who adopted the concept of an assembly line to produce automobiles?

  • Henry Ford
  • Karl Benz
  • V.S. Naipaul
  • Samuel Morse
  • 5. 
    The First World War was fought mainly in

  • Asia
  • Europe
  • America
  • Africa.
  • 6. 
    The geographical exploration in Africa was directly linked to

  • Search for scientific information
  • Imperial projects
  • Vast land with rich resources
  • Labour to work for plantations in America
  • 7. 
    From ancient times travellers travel long

  • Food
  • Knowledge
  • Peace
  • Spiritual leaders
  • 8. 
    Common foods like potatoes, groundnuts, maize, tomatoes, chillies, sweet potatoes were introduced in

  • Europe
  • China
  • Africa
  • Australia
  • 9. 
    10,000,000 people died in Ireland between 1845-1849 due to

  • potato famine
  • epidemic
  • foreign invasion
  • drought
  • 10. 
    Thousands of people fled Europe for America in the 19th century due to

  • poverty and widespread deadly diseases
  • natural calamity
  • outbreak of a war among nations
  • outbreak of plague
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