Quiz: The British Rule in India

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. What happened to the population of Dacca, famous for its fabrics? It fell from 150,000 to 20,000 It rose to a million inhabitants It doubled It stayed the same
2. To which country does Marx compare Hindostan? Germany Italy Spain Russia
3. What social system does Marx say resulted from central public works and the union of farming and handicraft? Feudal manors held by military chiefs The village system of self-governing communities Free city-states ruled by merchant guilds and councils Nomadic tribes under hereditary chiefs
4. What gives “a particular kind of melancholy” to the present misery of the Hindoo, according to Marx? The rule of the Moguls Losing his old world without gaining a new one The heat of the climate and the failure of the monsoon The decline of religion
5. Where, according to Marx, does the barbarism of bourgeois civilisation “go naked”? In the colonies In the factories In parliament In the churches
6. When will Indians reap the fruits of the new elements of society, according to Marx? When the East India Company’s charter expires and India is governed directly by the British Crown When Indians have been educated in English schools and admitted to the higher civil service When the industrial proletariat rules Britain, or Indians grow strong enough to throw off the yoke When the railways are complete and Indian cotton is sold freely on the English and European market
7. What does Marx say the idyllic village communities had always been, despite their inoffensive appearance? The solid foundation of Oriental despotism Bases of resistance to every foreign conquest Centres of industry Seeds of democracy
8. When is the first article, “The British Rule in India”, dated? Paris, February 1848 London, 10 June 1853 Brussels, 1847 London, 1867
9. When is the second article, “The Future Results of British Rule in India”, dated? London, 10 June 1853 Paris, 1848 London, 22 July 1853 London, 1857
10. What does Marx say explains why once-cultivated territories like Palmyra and Petra are now desert? Plagues and famines brought in by the caravans that once made these cities rich Artificial fertility that decays once a central government neglects irrigation Overpopulation that exhausted the soil after centuries of continuous cultivation A slow change of climate that dried up the rivers and springs of Arabia and Persia

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