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Popular culture is best described as

A
activities that are uplifting.
B
activities that are widely shared.
C
magazines and books that are printed by hand.
D
paintings that are only enjoyed by wealthy admirers.
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Read the body paragraphs of an argumentative essay.National parks are totally important in the economy. Each park creates opportunities for tourism. Millions of visitors travel to national parks. For example, almost 3.5 million visitors went to Yellowstone Park in Wyoming in 2012. These visitors need tons of services, which creates job opportunities for local residents. So, it’s obvious that national parks play an important role in the economy.

A
The writer could make the tone more academic.
B
The writer could make the tone more informal.
C
The writer could change viewpoints on the topic.
D
The writer could include more transitions.
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How did banking change in Europe from the 1700s to the 1800s?

A
The number of private banks sharply increased.
B
The number of private banks sharply decreased.
C
The number of government banks sharply increased.
D
The number of government banks sharply decreased.
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communismcapitalismsocialismanarchism

A
communism
B
capitalism
C
socialism
D
anarchism
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The excerpt is from The History of Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, by Edward Baines.A great number of streams . . . furnish water-power adequate to turn many hundred mills: they afford the element of water, indispensable for scouring, bleaching, printing, dyeing, and other processes of manufacture: and when collected in their larger channels, or employed to feed canals, they supply a superior inland navigation, so important for the transit of raw materials and merchandise.

A
Water supplied power and a means of transportation.
B
Water helped people build hundreds of mills.
C
Water helped people trade goods with nations overseas.
D
Water enabled people to create raw materials.
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What did reformers in the early 1800s claim were problems with the British parliamentary system? Choose two answers.

A
Too many women had been elected to Parliament.
B
Factory workers were making poor choices at the polls.
C
Only wealthy landowners were allowed to vote.
D
Rural areas had no representatives in Parliament.
E
Large cities were not well represented in Parliament.
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A strong outline for an argumentative essay should include

A
educated opinions to provide the argument.
B
evidence to support a claim.
C
only the introduction and conclusion.
D
every detail that will be in the essay.
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Marx and Engels believed that a communist revolution would defeat capitalism and that the revolution would be led by

A
the bourgeoisie.
B
entrepreneurs.
C
factory owners.
D
the working class.
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The leader in the British abolition movement was

A
Mary Stewart.
B
Frederick Douglass.
C
William Wilberforce.
D
Olaudah Equiano.
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This picture, taken by Lewis Hine, shows a 12-year-old factory worker in Vermont in 1912.

Question illustration
A
Children are too young to be paid wages.
B
Workers should not engage in collective bargaining.
C
People should buy more textiles.
D
Children should not be working in factories.
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What is the difference between manumission and emancipation of the enslaved?

A
Manumission permitted the enslaver to release a person on their own terms, while emancipation forced enslavers to legally free those they enslaved.
B
Manumission is legally freeing enslaved people, while emancipation is abolishing the institution of slavery.
C
Manumission is abolishing the institution of slavery, while emancipation is allowing an enslaved person to purchase their freedom.
D
Emancipation permitted the enslaver to release a person from slavery on their own terms, while manumission forced enslavers to legally free those they enslaved.
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Read the passage from Charles Dickens’s Hard Times.All the public inscriptions in the town were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.

A
Industrialization results in pollution.
B
Industrialization results in standardization and monotony.
C
Laborers in the Coketown factory had to work hard.
D
People in Coketown typically volunteered to work long hours.
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The poet William Wordsworth summed up romanticism in literature with this statement.All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.Which theme of romanticism was Wordsworth referring to?

A
emotion
B
nature
C
the common man
D
individualism
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How did industrialization bring literature to more people and contribute to the growth of popular culture?

A
Owners of factories allowed their workers to read books and magazines on the job.
B
People working in industry were given free subscriptions to magazines and newspapers.
C
Machines were invented that turned out high-quality printings of famous works of literature.
D
High-speed presses could mass-produce books, magazines, and newspapers.
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Why did artists during the Industrial Age turn away from classicism and develop a different style of art?

A
They wanted to use a style of art that was based on traditional values.
B
They were reacting to advances in technology and wanted to celebrate them.
C
They wanted to represent reason and balance in their paintings and literature.
D
They were reacting to the social problems brought by industrialization.
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The process of industrialization caused worldwide damage to the

A
environment.
B
rights of workers.
C
rights of consumers.
D
economy.
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Which explains why factory owners’ profits grew quickly during the Industrial Revolution?

A
Factories were making more products to sell by using cheaper labor.
B
Factories were making fewer products to sell by using skilled labor.
C
Factories were making higher quality products by using cheaper labor.
D
Factories were making lower quality products by using skilled labor.
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Why did Europeans enslave Africans for labor in the Americas?

A
There weren’t enough criminals and captives to do the work.
B
They had already exploited and decimated Indigenous populations in the Americas.
C
Enslavers were afraid to enslave Indigenous people because they were outnumbered by them.
D
Indigenous people demanded to be paid for labor, so enslavers captured Africans instead.
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A
capitalism
B
utopianism
C
communism
D
mysticism
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Why did factory owners and management often use force against striking workers?

A
They wanted to protect their families in case of worker uprisings.
B
They wanted to show that they were tough enough to run dangerous factories.
C
They hoped the use of force would keep the government from getting involved.
D
They hoped the use of force would keep workers from joining unions in the future.

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