Question
15. (WH.4.1) The most frequent method eruploved to maike the many very young boys and girls working in new
British industries obey the owner's fackory discipline was
Al heavy fines for lost time.
C. lectures und schooling in the rules to parents.
# repeated beatings.
D. the promise of incressed pest.
16. (WH.4.2) Which of the following statements best applies to urban life in the earty nineteenth century?
A. Government intervention prevented consumer froud and food duheration.
B. A tremendous decline in urbun deuth rutes accounted for the increased population of most large cities.
C. Lower-class family dwellings were on the whole much bener then in the countryside.
D. Foor sanitary conditions were exacerbuted by the cities" reluctance to take responstbilie for publie health.
Use the passage to answer question #17.
The debate was closing at half-after twelve; and the main argument of the opponents was that if
two hours" labor from these children, under eighteen yeats of age, were taken off, the
consequences, on a national scale, might be «ruly dreadful!" It might, and would, destroy
manufacturing capital; prevent us from carrying on competition with foreign manufacturers;
reduce mills to a small part of their present valve and break un as it were. the wealth and power
lively feeble- and eynose it to he an ensv nrew to forsion nations.
Answer
The opponents argued that reducing the labor of children under 18 would have disastrous consequences on manufacturing capital, prevent competition with foreign manufacturers, reduce mills to a small part of their present value, and weaken the nation's wealth and power.