Sociology 001 - Introduction to Sociology » Spring 2022 » Chapter 23 Quiz

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Question #1
One reason that cottage workers were reluctant to work in factories is that they resembled which of the following?
A.   Poorhouses
B.   Churches
C.   Schools
D.   Hospitals
Question #2
How did early factory work affect family life?
A.   Workers often came to the mills and mines and were employed as whole family units.
B.   Factory work upset traditional gender roles as women increasingly worked outside the home.
C.   Families were often separated as parents abandoned children to pursue factory work.
D.   Traditional family structures were irrevocably broken.
Question #3
Which of the following was a result of the boom in agricultural production of the eighteenth century?
A.   People had more money to spend on manufactured goods.
B.   Large numbers of people began leaving cities to move to farms.
C.   Families began to stockpile foodstuffs for shortages.
D.   People put more money into banks for saving.
Question #4
Where did Fritz Harkort set up production of steam engines?
A.   The Netherlands
B.   Germany
C.   The United States
D.   France
Question #5
Who wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England?
A.   Friedrich List
B.   Friedrich Engels
C.   Karl Marx
D.   Robert Owen
Question #6
How did James Watt fundamentally improve the Newcomen steam engine?
A.   He introduced gears to change the power ratio.
B.   He added a condenser to the engine.
C.   He made an airtight seal on the cylinders.
D.   He used coal instead of wood for fuel.
Question #7
In the English putting-out system, what did merchants do with raw materials?
A.   They loaned them to local cottage workers who processed them at home.
B.   They sent them to colonial factories to be worked into final products.
C.   They sent them to factories they owned in English villages for processing.
D.   They traded them to the Dutch for finished cloth.
Question #8
By reducing the cost of shipping freight, the railroad
A.   reduced the volume of world trade.
B.   strengthened regional economies.
C.   proved to be a boon to cottage workers and urban artisans.
D.   created national markets.
Question #9
Which of the following was true of transportation in the eighteenth century?
A.   Italy had Europe's cheapest transportation system, thanks to the old Roman roads.
B.   Shipping goods by water cost more than by land.
C.   No part of England was more than fifty miles from navigable water.
D.   Few goods were transported more than fifty miles from where they were produced.
Question #10
In 1802, the British Parliament banned which of the following in factories?
A.   Women workers
B.   The use of pauper apprentices
C.   Employing whole families
D.   Overseers
Question #11
What were working conditions like in early cotton factories?
A.   Better than average
B.   Poor
C.   Excellent
D.   Adequate
Question #12
What was the key demand of the Chartist movement?
A.   An eight-hour workday and a minimum wage
B.   A ban on women and children working in the factories
C.   The repeal of the Combination Acts
D.   Universal suffrage for all men
Question #13
By the mid-nineteenth century, a new paradigm of social relations suggested that
A.   most people did not develop an awareness of their particular social class.
B.   peasants and industrial workers saw themselves as united "laborers" against the traditional aristocracy.
C.   individuals were members of separate classes based on their relationship to the means of production.
D.   an ideal society would adopt equality for women.
Question #14
What was one of the major limitations of the putting-out system in the British textile industry?
A.   There were too many spinners driving prices down.
B.   There was an overabundance of thread.
C.   There was not enough cotton to meet demand.
D.   There were not enough spinners to meet demand.
Question #15
Which of the following was the primary source of heat for all European homes and industries until the eighteenth century?
A.   Coal
B.   Wood
C.   Water
D.   Peat
Question #16
Which of the following was one difference between Hargreaves's spinning jenny and Arkwright's water frame?
A.   The jenny produced thinner thread.
B.   The water frame produced a weaker thread.
C.   The water frame was hand-powered.
D.   The water frame could be worked by one woman.

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