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Writing Workshop: An Argumentative Essay about Economic Systems — Unit test Answers

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A positive effect of urbanization was the building of which public transportation systems?

A
taxis
B
trolleys
C
buses
D
trains
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Capitalism is built on the principle of ownership.

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Read this excerpt from Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England.Every great city has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. . . . The streets are generally unpaved, rough, dirty, filled with vegetable and animal refuse [trash], without sewers or gutters, but supplied with foul, stagnant pools instead.

A
Industrialization has created poor living conditions.
B
Mass production has led to the birth of industrial cities.
C
Steam-power machinery has destroyed the environment.
D
Workers in cities need to try harder to improve their living conditions.
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Which is the best example of a cottage industry business?

A
A car company uses an assembly line to make vehicles.
B
A family sells the rights to the coal in their backyard.
C
A seamstress weaves clothes to sell out of her home.
D
A shoemaker starts at home but expands into a factory.
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This 1818 painting shows a man looking out to sea.

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A
The man is posing much like a Greek statue.
B
The man is in nature, lost in his imagination.
C
The scene is a traditional one.
D
The fog suggests that the man has rejected nature.
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Read the excerpt from The Communist Manifesto.Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians [workers] have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!

A
Workers should take care not to lose their personal property.
B
Workers are so oppressed that they should revolt.
C
A failed revolt will land the revolutionaries in prison, in chains.
D
It is unjust to hold communist revolutionaries in chains.
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In a laissez-faire economy, the government plays a

A
limited role.
B
indefinite role.
C
dominant role.
D
dependent role.
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Which inventor developed a new motor that generated alternating current (AC) electricity?

A
Marie Curie
B
Gregor Mendel
C
George Washington Carver
D
Nikola Tesla
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A
the internal combustion engine
B
the single-wire telegraph
C
alternating current electricity
D
engine-powered flight
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By the 1700s, what about slavery had changed?

A
Enslaved people could be emancipated.
B
All enslaved people were of African descent.
C
Enslaved people were considered employees.
D
All enslaved people were separated from family.

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