Class 10 Social Science Chapter 6 | Work, Life and Leisure: Cities In The Contemporary World | One mark questions

Here is a comprehensive list of one-mark questions that could be asked from chapter 6 of NCERT Class 10 Social Science.

1. Which city is known as the city of dreams?

Bombay (Mumbai)

2. Name any one movie made by Dada Saheb Fhalke?

Raja Harishchandra

3. The first underground railway in the world was opened between ……………………….. and ………………………

Paddington and Farrington street in London

4. The first city in India to enforce the smoke nuisance legislation

Calcutta

5. The Compulsory Elementary Education Act enacted with the objective of keeping children away from industrial work came into force in ………………………..

1870 in Britain

6. The most important modern city in the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century

Bombay

7. A source of entertainment for the wealthy Londoners during the 19th century

London season

8. 19th century London was a city of clerks and shop keepers. Who said this?

Gareth Stedman Jones

9. Which movement aimed at reducing consumption of alcoholic drinks among the working classes?

Temperance movement

10. Who wrote the novel Debganer Martye Aagaman (The Gods Visit Earth)

Durgacharan Roy

11. What was Chartism movement?

It was a movement for adult male suffrage

12. Name the author of ‘The Bitter Cry of Outcast London’.

Andrew Mearns

13. When was the first section of the underground railway in the world opened?

10 January 1863

14. Who was the architect and planner of London?

Ebenezer Howard

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