CBSE Class 9 History Clothing A Social History MCQs

Question: The simplicity of clothing of Sans-Culottes was meant to express

a) The idea of equality

b) The poverty among the common people

c) The prosperity of textile industries

d) None of the options

Answer: The idea of equality

Question: Why did Mahatma Gandhi adopt loin cloth and a chaddar as his dress?

a) He believed that poor peasants could not afford more than that

b) It was easy to wear

c) It was not easy to practise

d) It was a political statement of self-respect

Answer: He believed that poor peasants could not afford more than that

Question: In the late 1870s, Jnanadanandini Devi, wife of Satyendranath Tagore, adopted

a) Parsi style of wearing sari

b) British style of skirt and blouse

c) Rajasthani style of Ghagra-Choli

d) None of the options

Answer: Parsi style of wearing sari

Question: To some Indians western clothes were a sign of

a) Both Progress and Modernity

b) Progress

c) Modernity

d) Freedom from poverty

Answer: Both Progress and Modernity

Question: On what grounds were the traditional feminine clothes criticised in the USA?

a) All the options

b) Long skirts swept the grounds collecting filth and causing illness

c) The skirts were voluminous and difficult to handle

d) They hampered movement and prevented women from working and earning

Answer: All the options

Question: Which one of the following is the most appropriate definition of Sumptuary Laws?

a) Laws meant to emphasize the social hierarchy

b) Laws on taxes framed by the government

c) Laws giving privileges to higher sections of society

d) All the options

Answer: Laws meant to emphasize the social hierarchy

Question: Who among the following headed the American woman suffrage association?

a) Mrs. Stanton

b) Lucy Stone

c) Amelia Bloomer

d) None of the options

Answer: Mrs. Stanton

Question: Which of the following sections of society lamented that those women, who had given up traditional norms of dressing up, no longer looked beautiful?

a) Conservatives

b) Radicals

c) Revolutionaries

d) Liberals

Answer: Conservatives

Question: The women in Victorian England wore tightly fitting corsets when they slightly grew older:

a) Because it gave shape and support to the figure

b) Because the women could not move freely

c) It was considered fashionable

d) Because women were expected to be serious, independent and aggressive

Answer: Because it gave shape and support to the figure

Question: Which among the following is associated with sumptuary laws in France?

a) Only the members of royalty and aristocracy could wear expensive clothes made of ermine, silk or brocade

b) Promoted for hunting game in certain areas

c) Laws were not strict towards social inferiors

d) Socially inferior were allowed to wear ermine, silk or brocade

Answer: Only the members of royalty and aristocracy could wear expensive clothes made of ermine, silk or brocade

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Question: What was a cockade?

a) A cap that usually wore on one side

b) A fashionable dress of France

c) A skirt worn up to the knee

d) A type of fur

Answer: A cap that usually wore on one side

Question: A long, buttoned coat is called

a) Achkan

b) Coat

c) Suit

d) Maxi

Answer: Achkan

Question: Which one of the following statements about womens fashion in the twentieth century is not true?

a) Women started wearing jewellery

b) Women started wearing trousers and blouses

c) Women started wearing shorter skirts

d) Women started wearing sober colours

Answer: Women started wearing jewellery

Question: Many women reformers in India changed back into traditional clothes as:

a) Faced by persistent attacks, they decided to conform to conventions

b) They found the new style of clothing too stylish

c) New style of clothing did not fit them well

d) There were no good tailors to stitch the new style of clothing

Answer: Faced by persistent attacks, they decided to conform to conventions

Question: Many Dalits from the early 1910s began to wear three-piece suits on all public occasions as:

a) A political statement of self-respect

b) They were more comfortable in western style suits

c) They did not like Khadi as it was a coarse material

d) They wanted to imitate the British

Answer: A political statement of self-respect

Question: Which of the following Indians was associated with the case of defiance of the shoe-respect rule?

a) Manockjee Cowasjee Entee

b) Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) Sir M. Visveswaraya

Answer: Manockjee Cowasjee Entee

Question: Gandhijis decision to wear loin cloth only (and chaddar if necessary to protect his body) throughout his life was seen by him as

a) His duty to the poor

b) Saving countrys resources

c) Giving in to the wishes of Britishers

d) None of the options

Answer: His duty to the poor

Question: Why did Mahatma Gandhi adopt loin cloth and a chaddar as his dress?

a) He believed that poor peasants could not afford more than that

b) It was easy to wear

c) It was not easy to practise

d) It was a political statement of self-respect

Answer: He believed that poor peasants could not afford more than that

Question: For Mahatma Gandhi, khadi, white and coarse, was a sign of

a) All the options

b) Purity

c) Simplicity

d) Poverty

Answer: All the options

Question: In which year did Gandhiji adopt dhoti?

a) 1921

b) 1913

c) 1915

d) 1928

Answer: 1921

Question: Where and why did Gandhi first appear in a lungi and kurta with his head shaved, in 1913?

a) Durban, to protest against the shooting of Indian coalminers

b) London, to attend the Round Table Conference

c) Natal, to show Indian style of dressing

d) None of the options

Answer: Durban, to protest against the shooting of Indian coalminers

Question: According to Gandhiji, which kind of dress would have a more powerful political effect?

a) Dressing unsuitably

b) Western style

c) Indian style

d) Dressing suitably for the occasion

Answer: Dressing unsuitably

Question: Which of the statements are not correct about the Swadeshi movement?

a) Men were allowed to wear the British-made clothes

b) The use of Khadi was made a patriotic duty

c) Women were urged to throw away their silks and glass bangles

d) Rough homespun cloth was glorified in songs and poems to popularise it

Answer: Men were allowed to wear the British-made clothes

Question: In reaction to which measure of the British did the Swadeshi Movement begin?

a) Partition of Bengal in 1905

b) Surat split in 1907

c) Starting of World War I in 1914

d) Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919

Answer: Partition of Bengal in 1905

Question: In the first decade of the 20th century, which movement in Bengal was linked to the politics of clothing?

a) Swadeshi movement

b) Khilafat movement

c) Bardoli satyagraha

d) Champaran satyagraha

Answer: Swadeshi movement

Question: Jnanadanandini Tagore is associated with:

a) Brahmika Saris

b) Sans Culottes

c) Community of toddy tappers

d) Partition of Bengal

Answer: Brahmika Saris

Question: Jnanadanandini Devis style of wearing sari was adopted by Brahmo Samaji women and came to be called

a) Brahmika sari

b) Brahmo sari

c) Samaji sari

d) Bhoomika sari

Answer: Brahmika sari

Question: In the late 1870s, Jnanadanandini Devi, wife of Satyendranath Tagore, adopted

a) Parsi style of wearing sari

b) British style of skirt and blouse

c) Rajasthani style of Ghagra-Choli

d) None of the options

Answer: Parsi style of wearing sari

Question: What was the idea of national dress as suggested by Rabindranath Tagore?

a) Combination of Hindu and Muslim dress

b) Combination of Indian and European dress

c) Only Hindu dress

d) Combination Hindu and Parsi dress

Answer: Combination of Hindu and Muslim dress

Question: Which of these statements are correct about the cultural symbols which Indians began to devise to express unity of the nation?

a) All the options

b) A debate began over the design of national flag

c) Poets wrote national songs

d) The search for a national dress began

Answer: All the options

Question: Who was the first American dress reformer to launch loose tunics?

a) Mrs Amelia Bloomer

b) Martha Somerville

c) Queen Victoria

d) None of the options

Answer: Mrs Amelia Bloomer

Question: Which of the following associations in the USA campaigned for dress reform in the 1870s?

a) BothNational Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association

b) National Woman Suffrage Association

c) American Woman Suffrage Association

d) Global Woman Suffrage Association

Answer: BothNational Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association

Question: On what grounds were the traditional feminine clothes criticised in the USA?

a) All the options

b) Long skirts swept the grounds collecting filth and causing illness

c) The skirts were voluminous and difficult to handle

d) They hampered movement and prevented women from working and earning

Answer: All the options

Question: Who said the following, It is evident physiologically that air is the pabulum of life, and that the effect of a tight cord round the neck and of tight lacing differs only in degrees ... for the strangulations are both fatal. To wear tight stays in many cases is to wither, to waste, to die.

a) The Registrar General in the Ninth Annual Report of 1857

b) Martha Somerville

c) John Keats

d) Thackeray

Answer: The Registrar General in the Ninth Annual Report of 1857

Question: When did women in England start agitating for democratic rights?

a) 1830s

b) 1820s

c) 1840s

d) 1850s

Answer: 1830s

Question: How did clothing play a part in creating the image of frail, submissive women?

a) All the options

b) From childhood, girls were tightly laced up

c) When slightly older, girls had to wear tight fitting corsets

d) Tightly laced, small waisted women were admired as attractive, elegant and graceful

Answer: All the options

Question: In Victorian England why were women from childhood tightly laced up and dressed in stays, because:

a) Women looked graceful in these dresses

b) They were dutiful and docile

c) These clothes helped in creating the expected image of girls

d) Women were trained to bear and suffer

Answer: Women looked graceful in these dresses

Question: England passed a law which compelled all persons over 6 years of age, except those of high position, to wear woolen caps made in England on Sundays and all holy days. What does this mean?

a) Some sumptuary laws were passed to protect home production against imports

b) All sumptuary laws were meant to emphasis social hierarchy

c) Some sumptuary laws were made to promote the religion

d) None of the options

Answer: Some sumptuary laws were passed to protect home production against imports

Question: Which of the following were among the things that became a symbol of equality and liberty among the French people?

a) All the options

b) The colours of France -blue, white and red

c) The red cap

d) Revolutionary cockade pinned on to a hat

Answer: All the options

Question: The simplicity of clothing of Sans-Culottes was meant to express

a) The idea of equality

b) The poverty among the common people

c) The prosperity of textile industries

d) None of the options

Answer: The idea of equality

Question: Simplicity of clothing was the symbol of which of the following in France?

a) Equality

b) Liberty

c) Fraternity

d) None of the options

Answer: Equality

Question: Which of these sentences is not correct about medieval France?

a) Everybody could wear expensive materials

b) The items of clothing a person could purchase was regulated not only by income but by social rank

c) The material to be used for clothing was legally prescribed

d) None of the options

Answer: Everybody could wear expensive materials

Question: Which one of the following is the most appropriate definition of Sumptuary Laws?

a) Laws meant to emphasize the social hierarchy

b) Laws on taxes framed by the government

c) Laws giving privileges to higher sections of society

d) All the options

Answer: Laws meant to emphasize the social hierarchy

Question: State the period when people of France were expected to strictly follow the Sumptuary Laws?

a) 1294 to 1798

b) 1300 to 1799

c) 1308 to 1800

d) 1350 to 1809

Answer: 1294 to 1798

Question: The existing dress codes in Europe were swept away by

a) French Revolution

b) American Revolution

c) Russian Revolution

d) The First World War

Answer: French Revolution