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CBSE Class 10 Global World & Industrialisation — practice questions — page 8

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Why did manufacturers' calendars reach buyers that newspapers did not?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of people appeared in advertisements to make products seem respectable?Read the answer and worked solution →Which production stayed important alongside factories?Read the answer and worked solution →At the end of the 1800s, what share of the workforce was in technologically advanced sectors?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Why did manufacturers' calendars reach buyers that newspapers did not?

  1. Newspapers were too costly
  2. Non-readers also used them
  3. Calendars named the maker
  4. Calendars sold only in towns
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Correct answer: B. Non-readers also used them

Calendars were used even by people who could not read, and they were hung in tea shops and poor homes.

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Which kind of people appeared in advertisements to make products seem respectable?

  1. Emperors and nawabs
  2. Factory jobbers
  3. Village weavers
  4. Railway engineers
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Correct answer: A. Emperors and nawabs

Figures of emperors and nawabs adorned advertisements and calendars, so that royal approval seemed to vouch for the product.

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Which production stayed important alongside factories?

  1. Only steam-powered cotton mills
  2. Hand technology and small workshops
  3. Only state-owned heavy industry
  4. Only colonial tea plantations
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Correct answer: B. Hand technology and small workshops

Hand technology and small-scale production stayed an important part of the industrial landscape alongside factories.

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