Victorian London/Charles Dickens Background Prep

The major downfall of Queen Victoria's reign was her willingness to

• lock people away in prison for life

• let the rich get richer and the poor get poorer

• help the poor achieve self-reliance

• allow people to dump waste in the Thames

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Which of the following was NOT a reason that illness spread so rapidly in London?

• Doctors thought that illness was spread through the air

• The city was overcrowded with people and rodents

• People and factories dumped waste into the Thames

• Hospitals were expensive

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Which of the following is NOT evidence that workers were treated unfairly during the Victorian Age?

• Children as young as five often worked in factories

• Workers labored for up to 16 hours a day

• Employers were not required to give their workers any time off from work

• Employers could pay their employees as little as they wanted

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True or False? Most Victorian children were able to attend school and get an education.

• True

• False

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True or False? Charles Dickens wrote his stories to show the world how harsh life was for the poor.

• True

• False

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True or False? People who lived in the workhouses were never sent to work in factories or other places outside of the workhouse.

• True

• False

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True or False? Pain was often used to encourage children to work faster.

• True

• False

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True or False? Workhouse supervisors often took money that was meant to be used to care for the poor and kept some for themselves.

• True

• False

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What word means the movement of people out of the country and into the cities?

• emigration

• urbanization

• transportation

• immigration

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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the housing shortage in Victorian London?

• London's population doubled between 1800 and 1850

• Adequate housing did not exist to support the population

• Queen Victoria refused to allow new construction in vacant parts of the city

• Railroad construction demolished many existing London neighborhoods

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