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{Cartwright built two textile factories. One of them} -a) was sabotaged by workers -b) burned down +c) two of these are true -d) was transported to Germany -e) is still in use today {A major change in the metal industries during the era of the Industrial Revolution was the replacement of wood and other bio-fuels with coal. Compared to wood, coal required } -a) about the same labour to mine, but was more abundant than wood. +b) less labour to mine and was also more abundant. -c) less labour to mine, but was less abundant (until the Rineland coal fields were discovered). {During the Industrial Revolution, the cost of producing sulfuric acid greatly improved by} -a) replacing lead containers with glass containers +b) replacing glass containers with lead containers -c) replacing iron containers with glass containers -d) replacing glass containers with iron containers {According to Wikipedia, the first large machine tool was used to} +a) bore cylinders for steam engines steam engines. -b) shape plates for ship hulls -c) plane rails for railroads -d) drill coal mines {The purpose of Eli Whitney's cotton gin was to} -a) weave cotton -b) clean cotton -c) spin cotton -d) pick cotton +e) remove seeds {On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, when the textile industry was largely a cottage industry, women did the ______ and men did the _______. If a loom was used, the work done by the women required ______ person hours.} -a) spinning, weaving, fewer -b) weaving, spinning, fewer +c) spinning, weaving, more -d) weaving, spinning, more {The Miner's Friend} -a) provided ventilation -b) transported miners -c) was electrical lighting +d) pumped water {On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, when the textile industry was largely a cottage industry, men did the ______ and women did the _______. If a loom was used, the work done by the men required ______ person hours.} -a) spinning, weaving, more -b) weaving, spinning, more -c) spinning, weaving, fewer +d) weaving, spinning, fewer {The Industrial Revolution began shortly before} -a) the American civil war (1861) +b) the American revolution (1776) -c) World War I (1914)

{Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 2 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?} -a) 1.0 meters  -b) 2.0  meters +c) 3.0 meters  -d) 4.0  meters -e) 5.0 meters  {Henry Cort developed rolling, which is 15 times _____ than ______} -a) cheaper, puddling -b) faster, puddling -c) cheaper, hammering +d) faster, hammering {The Calico Acts were initially designed to protect} -a) domestic cotton production -b) large manufacturers -c) small manufacturers +d) the woollen industry {What impact did the industrial revolution have on living standards of ordinary people, according to Wikipedia?} -a) little or no growth in the first half, but enormous growth in the second half of the industrial revolution. -b) sustained growth, for the first time in history -c) little or no growth until much later (19th and 20th centuries) +d) the question is a subject of controversy {During the Industrial Revolution, the best Chemists were trained in} -a) United States -b) Sweden -c) Italy -d) Great Britain +e) Germany {Manchester acquired the nickname __________ during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of ______} -a) Coalopolis, coal mines +b) Cottonopolis, textile factories -c) Weavopolis, Weaving factories -d) Cokopolis, coke processing plants {Which is NOT one of the three areas of development that helped initiate the industrial revolution?} +a) assembly lines -b) textiles -c) iron making -d) steam power {Early uses for sulphuric acid included} -a) producing dyes and bleaching cloth +b) removing rust and bleaching cloth -c) making cement and bleaching cloth -d) producing dyes and making cement -e) removing rust and making cement {The dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, output and invested capital was} -a) railroads -b) military spending -c) farm equipment -d) ship building +e) textiles {The industrial revolution began in} +a) Great Britain -b) United States -c) Germany -d) simultaneously in a variety of European nations -e) simultaneously in Europe and the United States {The Industrial Revolution lasted just under _____ years} -a) 600 +b) 200 -c) 400 -d) 1000 -e) 50 {For most of the period of the Industrial Revolution, the majority of industrial power was supplied by} -a) steam and wind. +b) water and wind. -c) water and steam. {Puddling involved } -a) the use of coke instead of coal greatly reduced the cost of producing pig iron -b) stirring with a long rod and became much cheaper when steam engines replaced manual stirring -c) the use of coke instead of coal and led to much strong iron +d) stirring with a long rod and was never successfully mechanised.

{Mr. Smith is driving at a speed of 7 m/s, when he slows down to a speed of 5 m/s, when he hits a wall at this speed, after travelling for 4 seconds. How far did he travel? } -a) 23.0 meters  +b) 24.0  meters -c) 25.0 meters  -d) 26.0  meters -e) 27.0 meters

{The first English-language usage of the word "computer" referred to} -a) counting rods -b)  Roman numerals +c) a person -d)  an abacus {The chronological order by which electronic computers advanced is:} +a) tubes, transistors, and then integrated circuits -b)  transistors, integrated circuits, and then tubes -c) integrated circuits, tubes, and then transistors -d)  tubes, integrated circuits and then transistors {The Bombe was a(n) ______________ device used (circa 1940) to defeat the Enigma machine in World War II.} +a) electromechanical -b)  Turing-complete -c) electric digital programmable -d)  mechanical

{Mr. Smith starts at rest and accelerates to a speed of 2 m/s, in 6 seconds. He then travels at this speed for an additional 3 seconds. Then he decelerates uniformly, taking 4 seconds to come to rest. How far did he travel?} -a) 13.0 meters  -b) 14.0  meters -c) 15.0 meters  +d) 16.0  meters -e) 17.0 meters  {Analog computers were phased out by the dawn of the twentieth century (circa 1900)} -a)  true +b) false {In London (circa 1935) thousands of vacuum tubes were used to} -a)  count votes in an election -b) calculate the value of &pi; +c)  control a telephone exchange -d) control a textile mill {The Colossus, used to defeat the German Enigma machine during World War II in 1944, was} -a)  Turing-complete +b) electric digital programmable -c)  electromechanical -d) mechanical {Babbage's account of the origin of the difference engine in the 1820s was that he was working to satisfy the Astronomical Society's desire to predict lunar eclipses} -a)  true +b) false {Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was later adopted to the Jacquard loom.} -a)  true +b) false {Analog computers continued to be developed into the twentieth century} +a)  true -b) false {The  Turing machine could not have been invented until after the halting problem was solved.} -a)  true +b) false {A system that uses tables of numbers is called an analog computer} -a)  true +b) false {A system that uses levers, pulleys, or other mechanical device to perform calculations is called an analog computer} +a)  true -b) false {Babbage's account of the origin of the difference engine in the 1820s was that he was working to satisfy the Astronomical Society's desire to improve The Nautical Almanac.} +a)  true -b) false {The Turing machine was a(n) ______ device} -a)  analog +b) conceptual -c)  electromechanical -d) prototype -e)  digital {Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was preceded by such use on the Jacquard loom.} +a) true -b)  false {This algorithm halts if it starts at 0: +a) true -b)  false {The Turing machine permitted a solution to the halting problem} +a) true -b)  false {This algorithm halts if it starts at 0: -a) true +b)  false
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 * If the number is divisible by 10, divide by 10
 * Stop if the number exceeds 100
 * Go to top}