Question 1

Many nineteenth-century doctors and scientists attributed women's supposed moral superiority to their:

Accepted Answer

A)  advanced capacity for abstract thought. 
B)  total lack of any ability for abstract thought. 
C)  lack of sexual feeling, or passionlessness. 
D)  ability to totally control their passions. 
E)  concentrated attention to spouse and children.

Question 2

What did the British poet William Blake describe as "these dark satanic mills?"

Accepted Answer

A)  linen factories 
B)  railroad terminals 
C)  grain mills 
D)  textile mills 
E)  shipyards

Question 3

An average house in the United States today contains approximately 1,500 to 2,000 square feet.In Leeds,England,in the 1840s,an average house contained _________ square feet for an entire family.

Accepted Answer

A)  150 
B)  500 
C)  750 
D)  1,000 
E)  1,200

Question 4

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 5

Queen Victoria of England ascended to the throne in 1837 and became one of the country's most successful monarchs,in no small measure because she:

Accepted Answer

A)  met with her subjects regularly in very informal settings to find out what she could do to help them. 
B)  embodied the traits important to the middle class, whose habits of mind we now call Victorian. 
C)  waged a successful series of wars with virtually every nation in Europe to wipe out the last vestiges of Marxist thought. 
D)  bowed to public pressure and reestablished Roman Catholicism as the state religion of Great Britain. 
E)  returned to the principle of absolutism that had been abandoned by the British monarchy two centuries earlier.

Question 6

The "angel in the house" referred to:

Accepted Answer

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 7

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 the 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.

Question 8

The Victorian attitude toward gender roles is best summarized by the lines "Man for the field and woman for the hearth; man for the sword and she for the needle. . . . All else is confusion" was written by:

Accepted Answer

A)  Jane Austen. 
B)  Charlotte Brontë. 
C)  Walter Scott. 
D)  Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 
E)  George Sand.

Question 9

The British "navvies" were:

Accepted Answer

A)  feminists who argued for "equal pay for equal work." 
B)  the construction workers who built the railways. 
C)  sailors of Her Majesty's navy serving in India. 
D)  the construction workers who built factories throughout the British empire. 
E)  natives who worked for British companies in the colonies.

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

The sexuality of working-class women was:

Accepted Answer

A)  conditioned by poverty and the absence of privacy. 
B)  nearly identical to that of middle-class women. 
C)  of no concern whatsoever to middle-class reformers. 
D)  much stronger in the cities than in the countryside. 
E)  much stronger in the countryside than in the cities.

Question 13

What determined the division of the working class into subgroups?

Accepted Answer

A)  location of workplace 
B)  gender 
C)  skills and workplace 
D)  skills, wages, and gender 
E)  industry worked in

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

Great Britain began to lose its lead in the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century due to new industries being developed by other countries,industries such as:

Accepted Answer

A)  explosives and iron. 
B)  chemical processes and energy. 
C)  transportation and energy. 
D)  iron and communications. 
E)  transportation and communications.

Question 16

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:

Accepted Answer

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 17

Which pairing is correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  Matthew Boulton-spinning jenny 
B)  Richard Arkwright-water frame 
C)  James Hargreaves-steam engine 
D)  George Stephenson-flying shuttle 
E)  Richard Corey-cotton gin

Question 18

Fully one and a half centuries after industrialization began in Great Britain,the largest single occupational category was that of _________ workers.

Accepted Answer

A)  iron 
B)  agricultural 
C)  railroad 
D)  textile 
E)  office

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Britain's cotton industry was a direct result of the tariffs protecting the British wool industry,which prohibited imports of Indian cottons.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 19: The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century Society

Many nineteenth-century doctors and scientists attributed women's supposed moral superiority to their:

What did the British poet William Blake describe as "these dark satanic mills?"

An average house in the United States today contains approximately 1,500 to 2,000 square feet.In Leeds,England,in the 1840s,an average house contained _________ square feet for an entire family.

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

Queen Victoria of England ascended to the throne in 1837 and became one of the country's most successful monarchs,in no small measure because she:

The "angel in the house" referred to:

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

The Victorian attitude toward gender roles is best summarized by the lines "Man for the field and woman for the hearth; man for the sword and she for the needle. . . . All else is confusion" was written by:

The British "navvies" were:

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

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

The sexuality of working-class women was:

What determined the division of the working class into subgroups?

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

Great Britain began to lose its lead in the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century due to new industries being developed by other countries,industries such as:

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:

Which pairing is correct?

Fully one and a half centuries after industrialization began in Great Britain,the largest single occupational category was that of _________ workers.

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

Britain's cotton industry was a direct result of the tariffs protecting the British wool industry,which prohibited imports of Indian cottons.