(Honors) Life in the Industrial Age - Quiz

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20 questions

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(Honors) Life in the Industrial Age - Quiz

Last updated about 3 years ago

20 questions

3

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What German composer created some of his most iconic music towards the end of his life while almost completely deaf?

Ludwig von Beethoven

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Johann Sebastian Bach

Hector Berlioz

In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, the invention of ___________ greatly imrpoved the quality of surgeries for both doctor and patient.

anesthetic

surgical laser tools

machine monitors

pharmaceutical drugs

What firm believer of DC power, gave us the incadescent light bulb?

Brian Johnson

Nikola Tesla 

Thomas Edison

George Westinghouse

What British naturalist was responsible for writing On the Origin of Species?

Issac Newton

Charles Darwin

Ole Roemer

Robert Oppenheimer

What post-impressionist painter suffered from psychotic episodes, delusions, and depression?

Vincent Van Gogh

Pablo Picasso

Salvador Dali

Claude Monet

What inventor was responsible for the creation of the radio?

Alexander Graham Bell

Guglielmo Marconi

Thomas Newcomen

Samuel F.B. Morse

___________ created the cotton gin, which seperated the seeds from raw cotton at a fast rate.

Eli Whitney

Thomas Newcomen

Jethro Tull

John Deere

What was the world's first major rail line?

Washington D.C. to Baltimore

London to Cambridge

Liverpool to Manchester

Lyon to Paris

Major cities during the Industrial Revolution experienced __________, due to changes in farming, soaring population growth, and an ever-increasing demand for workers.

urbanization

collectivism

suburbanization

gentrification

What is it called when multiple corporations join forces to fix prices, set production quotas, and/or control markets?

an enterprise

a cartel

a monopoly

a conglomerate

What is the process by which rich landowners began taking over or consolidating land formely shared by peasant farmers?

civil asset forfeiture

foreclosure

enclosure

usurpation

Lifestyles in tenements greatly increased the chance for contracting such diseases as cholera.

True

False

Labor unions were originally illegal, and members had to conduct secret meetings for fear of prison or retalliation.

True

False

Freeways were created by entrepreneurs who looked to charge travelers a toll, or fee, to use them.

True

False

Workers on an assembly line required proper training on all phases of production.

True

False

The Wright brothers short flight led to comercial flying being a reality only 20 years later.

True

False

Please select ANY answers applicable to Karl Marx.

Predicted a struggle between social classes that would lead to a classless society.  

Theorized that economics was the driving force in history.  

Along with Emmanuel Kant, wrote a pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto.

Was a leader in the Russian Revolution.  

Please select ANY answers applicable to Florence Nightingale.

International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday.  

Was responsible for founding the world's first school of nursing.  

After the war, she worked to introduce sanitary measures in Russian hospitals.  

Served as an army nurse in the Crimean War.  

Please match each item on the left with its approraite definition/explanation on the right.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Henry Bessemer		Concluded that poverty was unavoidable because the population was increasing faster than the food supply.
James Watt		A chemist, who invented dynamtie, an explosive much safer than others used at the time.
Alfred Nobel		An engineer, who patented the quick and cheap process of making steel from iron.
Thomas Malthus		Responsible for creating the improved upon steam engine, which would power the Industrial Revolution.

Please match each item on the left with its approraite definition/explanation on the right.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Utilitarianism		People as a whole, rather than private individuals, would own and operate the means of production.
Communism		An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Socialism		Though not introduced as it was written, this would come to be known as a system of government led by a small elite controlling all economic and political life.
Capitalism		The idea that the goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" of its citizens.

What German composer created some of his most iconic music towards the end of his life while almost completely deaf?

Ludwig von Beethoven

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Johann Sebastian Bach

Hector Berlioz

In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, the invention of ___________ greatly imrpoved the quality of surgeries for both doctor and patient.  

anesthetic

surgical laser tools

machine monitors

pharmaceutical drugs

What firm believer of DC power, gave us the incadescent light bulb?

Brian Johnson

Nikola Tesla 

Thomas Edison

George Westinghouse

What British naturalist was responsible for writing On the Origin of Species?

Issac Newton

Charles Darwin

Ole Roemer

Robert Oppenheimer

What post-impressionist painter suffered from psychotic episodes, delusions, and depression?

Vincent Van Gogh

Pablo Picasso

Salvador Dali

Claude Monet

What inventor was responsible for the creation of the radio?

Alexander Graham Bell

Guglielmo Marconi

Thomas Newcomen

Samuel F.B. Morse

___________ created the cotton gin, which seperated the seeds from raw cotton at a fast rate.  

Eli Whitney

Thomas Newcomen

Jethro Tull

John Deere

What was the world's first major rail line?

Washington D.C. to Baltimore

London to Cambridge

Liverpool to Manchester

Lyon to Paris

Major cities during the Industrial Revolution experienced __________, due to changes in farming, soaring population growth, and an ever-increasing demand for workers.  

urbanization

collectivism

suburbanization

gentrification

What is it called when multiple corporations join forces to fix prices, set production quotas, and/or control markets?

an enterprise

a cartel

a monopoly

a conglomerate

What is the process by which rich landowners began taking over or consolidating land formely shared by peasant farmers?

civil asset forfeiture

foreclosure

enclosure

usurpation

Lifestyles in tenements greatly increased the chance for contracting such diseases as cholera.  

True

False

Labor unions were originally illegal, and members had to conduct secret meetings for fear of prison or retalliation.  

True

False

Freeways were created by entrepreneurs who looked to charge travelers a toll, or fee, to use them.  

True

False

Workers on an assembly line required proper training on all phases of production.  

True

False

The Wright brothers short flight led to comercial flying being a reality only 20 years later.

True

False

Please select ANY answers applicable to Karl Marx.

Predicted a struggle between social classes that would lead to a classless society.  

Theorized that economics was the driving force in history.  

Along with Emmanuel Kant, wrote a pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto.

Was a leader in the Russian Revolution.  

Please select ANY answers applicable to Florence Nightingale.

International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday.  

Was responsible for founding the world's first school of nursing.  

After the war, she worked to introduce sanitary measures in Russian hospitals.  

Served as an army nurse in the Crimean War.  

Please match each item on the left with its approraite definition/explanation on the right.

Henry Bessemer

Concluded that poverty was unavoidable because the population was increasing faster than the food supply.  

James Watt

A chemist, who invented dynamtie, an explosive much safer than others used at the time.  

Alfred Nobel

An engineer, who patented the quick and cheap process of making steel from iron.

Thomas Malthus

Responsible for creating the improved upon steam engine, which would power the Industrial Revolution.  

Please match each item on the left with its approraite definition/explanation on the right.

Utilitarianism

People as a whole, rather than private individuals, would own and operate the means of production.  

Communism

An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit. 

Socialism

Though not introduced as it was written, this would come to be known as a system of government led by a small elite controlling all economic and political life.  

Capitalism

The idea that the goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" of its citizens.  