Question 1

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:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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 3

The Industrial Revolution led to the development of a great many capital-intensive enterprises,new ways of organizing people's labor,and the rapid growth of cities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 4

How did changing textile industry technologies affect society?

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Question 5

The Industrial Revolution intensified human labor much more often than it eased it.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

One of the greatest obstacles to freely buying and selling land and the commercialization of agriculture in nineteenth-century Europe was:

Accepted Answer

A)   antiquated record keeping procedures present in most countries.
B)   the continued effects of serfdom.
C)   continuing warfare between France and the rest of Europe.
D)   the famine that swept across Europe from Ireland.
E)   the unwillingness of the aristocracy to part with their lands.

Question 7

One of the developments that hastened the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine,originally developed to remove water from mines by:

Accepted Answer

A)   Thomas Newcomen.
B)   James Hargreaves.
C)   Matthew Boulton.
D)   James Watt.
E)   John Kay.

Question 8

The Crédit Mobilier,founded in 1852,was:

Accepted Answer

A)   a society created to monitor the price of European coal.
B)   responsible for importing British textile technology to Europe.
C)   the first credit union to be founded in the world.
D)   the name given to a trade union of ironworkers.
E)   one of the first joint-stock investment banks.

Question 9

Railways were constructed almost entirely without aid of machinery.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

In 1860,the largest single occupational category in Great Britain was the agricultural laborer.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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 12

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

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Question 13

One of the most important preconditions of industrialization that was best established in Great Britain was:

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A)   an extensive system of paved highways maintained by the government.
B)   a small urban population.
C)   its widespread railway system wholly owned by the government.
D)   a commercialized system of agriculture.
E)   a small rural population.

Question 14

The Industrial Revolution caused changes in all of the following areas EXCEPT:

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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)   The philosophical foundations of scientific culture.

Question 15

Middle-class "respectability" required:

Accepted Answer

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)   a professional vocation.

Question 16

Even with the interconnectedness of industry,wherein an improvement in one area led to improvements in other areas,there was one dual foundation on which the rest was built; that foundation was:

Accepted Answer

A)   steel and iron.
B)   wheat and potatoes.
C)   steam and speed.
D)   capital and land.
E)   corn and land.

Question 17

There were many inventions that improved textile manufacturing in the 1700s,but the first of these was the "flying shuttle," which was invented by:

Accepted Answer

A)   Samuel Compton.
B)   James Hargreaves.
C)   John Kay.
D)   James Watt.
E)   Matthew Boulton.

Question 18

What social,economic,and natural preconditions for industrialization made Britain the home of the Industrial Revolution?

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Question 19

The 'angel in the house' refers to the Victorian ideal that a respectable middle-class household should be suffused with a religious spirit.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

By the mid-nineteenth century,the world economy had divided into two major groups:

Accepted Answer

A)   the producers of fine, luxury goods and those who produced ordinary consumer goods.
B)   those who produced manufactured goods and those who supplied the necessary raw materials.
C)   countries that provided the financing for industrialization and those who produced.
D)   wealthier countries and the rest of the world which the first group supported through grants.
E)   those who produced the goods and those who consumed them.

Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

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:

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

The Industrial Revolution led to the development of a great many capital-intensive enterprises,new ways of organizing people's labor,and the rapid growth of cities.

How did changing textile industry technologies affect society?

The Industrial Revolution intensified human labor much more often than it eased it.

One of the greatest obstacles to freely buying and selling land and the commercialization of agriculture in nineteenth-century Europe was:

One of the developments that hastened the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine,originally developed to remove water from mines by:

The Crédit Mobilier,founded in 1852,was:

Railways were constructed almost entirely without aid of machinery.

In 1860,the largest single occupational category in Great Britain was the agricultural laborer.

The "angel in the house" referred to:

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

One of the most important preconditions of industrialization that was best established in Great Britain was:

The Industrial Revolution caused changes in all of the following areas EXCEPT:

Middle-class "respectability" required:

Even with the interconnectedness of industry,wherein an improvement in one area led to improvements in other areas,there was one dual foundation on which the rest was built; that foundation was:

There were many inventions that improved textile manufacturing in the 1700s,but the first of these was the "flying shuttle," which was invented by:

What social,economic,and natural preconditions for industrialization made Britain the home of the Industrial Revolution?

The 'angel in the house' refers to the Victorian ideal that a respectable middle-class household should be suffused with a religious spirit.

By the mid-nineteenth century,the world economy had divided into two major groups: