Question 1

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793,the cotton gin:

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A)   had little effect on the process of cotton textile manufacture.
B)   produced sixteen threads at once.
C)   combined the best features of the spinning jenny and the water frame.
D)   mechanically separated the seeds from the cotton fibers.
E)   did the work of fifteen men.

Question 2

What was the impact of the ideals behind "the Cult of Domesticity" on women in the nineteenth century?

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The rise of the middle class and the centralization of power in government all relied on rituals and hierarchies; thus the home became a prime image and place in which proper order could be exhibited and enforced.The Napoleonic Law Code and other such legal subordination of women had deprived women of legal status,grouping them with the mentally ill as those unable to represent themselves legally.Women transferred all property to their husbands upon marriage,and girls were educated only at home.A housewife was given the task of managing the household,maintaining accounts,and supervising the servants.The running of the house required enormous work to carry water,clean,mend and sew,maintain the heating of the house,and keep up its appearance.The housewife had a demanding,full-time occupation.Outside the home,there was little respectable employment for a woman.Unmarried women could act as governesses,but aside from this,little was acceptable to the middle class and the cult of domesticity.A woman's place was in the home,though she was encouraged to take up charitable hobbies such as nursing,work for the church,or even engage in social causes such as the abolition of slavery.The separate spheres of male and female life existed only in the middle and upper class; for the poor it was a luxury they could not afford.

Question 3

The Industrial Revolution caused changes in which of the following areas?

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A)   the nature of work
B)   the physical landscape of Europe
C)   the private lives of people
D)   wealth and poverty
E)   all of these

Question 4

Children commonly worked from a very young age; most in Britain worked in:

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A)   shipyards.
B)   textile plants.
C)   mines.
D)   domestic service.
E)   rail yards.

Question 5

Most prostitutes were women who were trying to manage during a period of unemployment,rather than professional sex workers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The first modern railway connected Stockton to Manchester to transport coal from the mines.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Balzac believed the changes of the French Revolution and industrialization had merely replaced an old aristocracy with a new one: a materialistic middle class.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 8

A central difference in the development of industrialization in Great Britain and the United States on the one hand and continental Europe on the other was the involvement of:

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A)   private companies in Europe and the exclusive involvement of government in Great Britain.
B)   the Roman Catholic Church to the exclusion of government and private companies in Europe.
C)   government through subsidies,incentives,and direct development in Europe.
D)   foreign investors only in Great Britain and a mix of foreign and national investors in Europe.
E)   the peasantry who moved to the urban centers and provided the needed labor on the Continent.

Question 9

Direct communication between the United States and Europe was not possible until:

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A)   1825.
B)   1848.
C)   1865.
D)   1883.
E)   1900.

Question 10

The "angel in the house" referred to:

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A)   any domestic servant.
B)   prostitutes who worked in the area of Parliament.
C)   middle-class women of Victorian England.
D)   a domestic servant who carried on an affair with the master of the house.
E)   a governess hired to care for the family's children.

Question 11

How accurate is the image of "passionless" Victorian sexuality,and why was such an image cultivated?

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The lack of passion in discussions of Vi...

Question 12

Most of the labor force in Russia was made up of _________,who remained bound to the land and did not profit from their labor until 1861.

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A)   serfs
B)   children
C)   peasants
D)   women
E)   men

Question 13

The mining industry in England expanded rapidly with industrialization due to the increased demand for:

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A)   steel.
B)   iron.
C)   coke.
D)   coal.
E)   copper.

Question 14

What factors were behind the population growth of the nineteenth century?

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Several factors were important to the dramatic growth of the European population in the nineteenth century.Disease was the largest killer in Europe.The development of a vaccination against smallpox saved many lives,as did improved sanitation,which helped to curb diseases such as cholera.Food was a key factor,especially foods from the New World,namely,the potato.This inexpensive and nutritious food revolutionized the European diet.The newly increased transportation links also made food less expensive and increasingly more available throughout countries.The decline in the cost of clothing and the expansion of cotton textiles actually increased the sanitation of family life as clothes could be changed and washed more frequently,lessening some of the diseases born of unsanitary conditions.Most historians see the population explosion as deriving from an increase in fertility rather than from an increase in longevity.Europe's relative prosperity,especially in the country,allowed couples to marry at younger ages without having to wait for inherited land to secure an income.As a result of marrying younger,people had more children,contributing to a large,young,and fertile population.

Question 15

What was the role of working women in the Industrial Revolution,and what impact did it have on their lives?

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Women had always been part of the econom...

Question 16

Middle-class "respectability" required:

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A)   hard work,character,and financial independence.
B)   an education at Oxford or Cambridge.
C)   a household containing at least five servants.
D)   owning one's own business.
E)   all of these

Question 17

One consequence of the industrialization of Europe was its detrimental effect on the environment.This was first noted in its effect on air quality,as typified by Coketown,the fictional city in the novel Hard Times by:

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A)   Charles Dickens.
B)   George Eliot.
C)   Honoré de Balzac.
D)   Victor Hugo.
E)   George Sand.

Question 18

The rapid growth of European cities such as Manchester,Birmingham,and Essen was due to:

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A)   their situation above large coal fields,which required large numbers of miners to extract.
B)   the growth of the textile industry,located as they were in the cotton-growing area of southern Europe.
C)   the expansion of the porcelain industry in the Netherlands and Belgium.
D)   the expansion of local cultural centers that drew performers and audiences from across Europe.
E)   the expansion of manufacturing and mining in the areas surrounding these places.

Question 19

As a result of the Industrial Revolution,people of the nineteenth century viewed one another through the lens of:

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A)   class.
B)   wealth.
C)   birth.
D)   religion.
E)   national origin.

Question 20

Working people had an advocate for their plight in the writings of:

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A)   Honoré de Balzac.
B)   Victor Hugo.
C)   George Sand.
D)   Guy de Maupassant.
E)   Walter Scott.

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The Industrial Revolution caused changes in which of the following areas?

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Children commonly worked from a very young age; most in Britain worked in:

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Most prostitutes were women who were trying to manage during a period of unemployment,rather than professional sex workers.

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The first modern railway connected Stockton to Manchester to transport coal from the mines.

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Balzac believed the changes of the French Revolution and industrialization had merely replaced an old aristocracy with a new one: a materialistic middle class.

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Direct communication between the United States and Europe was not possible until:

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