How things work college course/Industrial Revolution quiz

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1 The Industrial Revolution began shortly before

	World War I (1914)
	the American revolution (1776)
	the American civil war (1861)

2 How long did the Industrial Revolution last _____

	200 years
	300 years
	400 years
	100 years

3 The dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, output and invested capital was

	railroads
	military spending
	farm equipment
	ship building
	textiles

4 What impact did the industrial revolution have on living standards of ordinary people, according to Wikipedia?

	the question is a subject of controversy
	little or no growth in the first half, but enormous growth in the second half of the industrial revolution.
	sustained growth, for the first time in history
	little or no growth until much later (19th and 20th centuries)

5 The industrial revolution began in

	simultaneously in a variety of European nations
	Germany
	simultaneously in Europe and the United States
	Great Britain
	United States

Important technological developments

6 Which is NOT one of the three areas of development that helped initiate the industrial revolution?

	assembly lines
	textiles
	iron making
	steam power

Textile manufacture

7 The Calico Acts were initially designed to protect

	domestic cotton production
	the woollen industry
	small manufacturers
	large manufacturers

8 On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, when the textile industry was largely a cottage industry, women did the ______ and men did the _______. If a loom was used, the work done by the women required ______ person hours.

	spinning, weaving, more
	spinning, weaving, fewer
	weaving, spinning, more
	weaving, spinning, fewer

9 On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, when the textile industry was largely a cottage industry, men did the ______ and women did the _______. If a loom was used, the work done by the men required ______ person hours.

	spinning, weaving, fewer
	weaving, spinning, fewer
	weaving, spinning, more
	spinning, weaving, more

10 Cartwright built two textile factories. One of them

	burned down
	two of these are true
	is still in use today
	was transported to Germany
	was sabotaged by workers

11 The purpose of Eli Whitney's cotton gin was to

	clean cotton
	remove seeds
	weave cotton
	pick cotton
	spin cotton

12 Manchester acquired the nickname __________ during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of ______

	Coalopolis, coal mines
	Weavopolis, Weaving factories
	Cottonopolis, textile factories
	Cokopolis, coke processing plants

Metallurgy

13 A major change in the metal industries during the era of the Industrial Revolution was the replacement of wood and other bio-fuels with coal. Compared to wood, coal required

	about the same labour to mine, but was more abundant than wood.
	less labour to mine and was also more abundant.
	less labour to mine, but was less abundant (until the Rineland coal fields were discovered).

14 Henry Cort developed rolling, which is 15 times _____ than ______

	faster, hammering
	faster, puddling
	cheaper, hammering
	cheaper, puddling

15 Puddling involved

	stirring with a long rod and became much cheaper when steam engines replaced manual stirring
	the use of coke instead of coal greatly reduced the cost of producing pig iron
	the use of coke instead of coal and led to much strong iron
	stirring with a long rod and was never successfully mechanised.

16 For most of the period of the Industrial Revolution, the majority of industrial power was supplied by

	steam and wind.
	water and steam.
	water and wind.

Steam power

17 The Miner's Friend

	provided ventilation
	transported miners
	pumped water
	was electrical lighting

18 According to Wikipedia, the first large machine tool was used to

	drill coal mines
	shape plates for ship hulls
	bore cylinders for steam engines steam engines.
	plane rails for railroads

Chemicals

19 During the Industrial Revolution, the cost of producing sulfuric acid greatly improved by

	replacing glass containers with lead containers
	replacing iron containers with glass containers
	replacing glass containers with iron containers
	replacing lead containers with glass containers

20 Early uses for sulphuric acid included

	making cement and bleaching cloth
	producing dyes and bleaching cloth
	removing rust and making cement
	producing dyes and making cement
	removing rust and bleaching cloth

21 During the Industrial Revolution, the best Chemists were trained in

	Great Britain
	Germany
	United States
	Italy
	Sweden