Chapter- Work, Life and
Leisure
BY: - A.S.DHARSHIKA
CLASS: - X-A
ROLL NO: - 8
Q.1. Who wrote the novel Debganer Martye
Aagaman and in which year?
Answer: - Durgacharan Ray in 1880
Q.2. What were the things gods wanted to
build in heaven?
Answer: - Museum and High court
Q.3. What were the cities that appeared
along river valleys?
Answer: - Ur, Nippur
and Mohenjo-Daro
Q.4. Leeds and Manchester attracted large
number of migrants due to which industry?
Answer: - Textile mills
Q.5. What did London began manufacturing
during the First World War?
Answer: - motor cars
and electrical goods
Q.6. Which novel did Andrew Mearns write
and in which year?
Answer: - The Bitter Cry of Outcast London in
1880’s
Q.7. When did Charles Booth conduct first
social survey?
Answer: - in 1887
Q.8. What was the average life expectancy
of both rich and poor people?
Answer: - Poor 29 years and rich 55 years
Q.9. Who was Ebenezer Howard and what he
did?
Answer: - Architect and Planner and he
developed garden City
Q.10. When was underground railway started
and between which stations?
Answer: - 10th January 1863 between
Paddington and Farrington Street in London
Q.11. Who wrote Dombey and Son and in
which year?
Answer: - Charles Dickens and in the year 1848
Q.12. What were events organized for the
elite group?
Answer: - Opera, the Theatre and Classical
Music Performances
Q.13. Who was the king during
Haussaminsation of Paris?
Answer: - Louis
Napoleon III
Q.14. When did Bombay became the capital
of the British Presidency?
Answer: - In 1819
after the Anglo-Maratha war
Q.15. When was the first cotton textile
mill in Bombay was established?
Answer: - In 1854
Q.16. What was the population density of
Bombay and London?
Answer: - Bombay 20 persons per sq. km
London 9 persons per sq. km
Q.17. Who was the Governor of Bombay in
1784?
Answer: - William Hornby
Q.18. In which year the Rent control Act
was passed?
Answer: - In 1918
Q.19. When was India’s first film made and
in which city?
Answer: - it was made
in the year 1896 and in Bombay
Q.20. Who developed the city of Singapore?
Answer: - Lee Kaun Yew developed the city of
Singapore
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