A. Ned Lud.
B. John Ball.
C. Captain Swing.
D. Wat Tyler.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
334. The expression, “ angel in the house ,” refers to:
A. a London Prostitute.
B. the Victorian middle-class woman.
C. an essay by John Stuart Mill.
D. a London domestic servant.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
333. Working- class men and women were most vulnerable to:
A. unemployment, sickness, and industrial accidents.
B. seasonal unemployment.
C. cyclical economic depressions.
D. All of the above.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
344. The English contractor Thomas Brassey is best known for:
A. developing the first steam-powered locomotive.
B. opening the Stockton to Darlington line in 1825.
C. criticizing continental railway system.
D. building railways in Canada, Argentina, Australia and India.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
343. In general, the population of Europe in the nineteenth century:
A. declined.
B. stay roughly at the same.
C. showed a dramatic increase.
D. slowly increased.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
337. Which pairing is incorrect?
A. William Thackeray- Vanity Fair.
B. Charles Dicken- Hard Times.
C. Honore de Balzac- The Human Comedy.
D. Victor Hugo- Oliver Twist.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
330. Middle-class respectability required all but which of the following?
A. financial independence.
B. living modestly and soberly.
C. merit and character.
D. conspicuous consumption.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
328. The “ new cathedrals ” of the industrial age were:
A. museums, opera houses and city halls.
B. textile factories.
C. railway stations.
D. suburban middle class homes.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
326. The Industrial Revolution occurred first in Great Britain because:
A. the Continental System guaranteed that Britain would be able to import much needed coal.
B. the government was able to borrow necessary capital from German banking houses.
C. agriculture was more thoroughly commercialized in Britain than elsewhere.
D. of its vast network of internal tolls and tariffs.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
324. Queen Victoria was a successful queen because:
A. she and her husband embodied traits important to the middle classes.
B. her name has come to represent the culture of the nineteenth century.
C. she managed to extol the virtues of the aristocracy at the moment they went into decline.
D. her court was all in respects similar to her uncle, George IV.
✅ The correct answer is option A.