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Unit 2 Vocab Quiz #3

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following inventors came up with a process that made the production of steel faster and stronger?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Henry Bessemer

d)

Louis Pasteur

2.

Which scientist from the I..R. era is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases.

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Jethro Tull

d)

Richard Arkwright

3.

Karl Marx is best known for...

a)

focusing his attention on the plight of workers.

b)

developing the theory of communism.

c)

advocating a public ownership of all factories.

d)

all of these accomplishments.

4.

This realist write's book "The Jungle" focused on the the horrible working conditions in the American meat packing industry factories.

a)

Louis Pasteur

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Theodore Dreiser

d)

Upton Sinclair

5.

Theodore Dreiser is credited with...

a)

starting the "realist" writing movement by exposing working conditions in factories and life in industrial cities as it really was.

b)

exposing the horrible conditions of the meat packing factories in America.

c)

painting landscapes that allowed those who live in city to see what the countryside was like.

d)

writing poems about how wonderful working in the factories was.

6.

What invention is James Watt credited with improving that changed the "energy" industry?

a)

coal

b)

iron

c)

steam engine

d)

textile

7.

Who revolutionized the cotton industry by inventing a new machine called the "cotton gin"?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Charles Dickens

c)

James Watt

d)

Eli Whitney

8.

Charles Dickens was best known for...

a)

being a realist who wrote about what he saw in industrial Britain.

b)

writing about orphaned children and the plight in the story of Oliver Twist

c)

writing stories about how children were treated in industrial Britain.

d)

all of these.

9.

This inventor changed industry by developing many devices in electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.

a)

James Watt

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Charles Dickens

d)

Henry Bessemer