What types of goods could a wife at home produce that could not be purchased in the market?

Improved health, better eating habits, and better behavior

In her great novel Middlemarch, George Eliot examined:

The ways in which people are shaped social environment

As the 19th century progressed, the upper middle class

Tended to merge with the old aristocracy

Central to improvements in sanitation was the discovery that:

Excrement from outhouses could be carried off through sewers

Improved economic conditions in the 19th century led to:

The expectation that women would not work outside the home

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19th Century European Society

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1
Georges Haussmann is remembered for:
Realistic novels of lower-class life
Developing the antiseptic method
Pioneering the use of anesthesia
Rebuilding Paris
2
Politics should promote the "greatest good for the greatest number:
realism
Social Darwinism
utilitarianism
evolution
3
A branch of physics built on Newton's laws of mechanics:
evolution
thermodynamics
germ theory
organic chemistry
4
What types of goods could a wife at home produce that could not be purchased in the market?
Improved health, better eating habits, and better behavior
Social status and reputation
Better clothing and household goods such as candles
Better education for children and intellectual curiosity
5
Edwin Chadwick gained fame as:
advocate of public sanitation
proponent of migration to the countryside
trade union leader
successful businessman
6
Literary movement that stressed the depiction of life as it really was:
realism
utilitarianism
Social Darwinism
evolution
7
In her great novel Middlemarch, George Eliot examined:
The illusion of free will in society
The ordinary life of an adulterous housewife
How the young abandon their idealism
The ways in which people are shaped social environment
8
As the 19th century progressed, the upper middle class
Tended to merge with the old aristocracy
Expressed a high degree of social conciousness
Retained its frugal attitudes
Formed tighter bonds with the rest of the middle class
9
Central to improvements in sanitation was the discovery that:
Excrement from outhouses could be carried off through sewers
Creation of communal baths would reduce spread of bacteria
Horses carried many of the diseases that afflicted humans
Schools could be used as vaccination centers
10
Improved economic conditions in the 19th century led to:
More women remaining single
More job opportunities for women outside the home
The expectation that women would not work outside the home
A mass exodus of women from domestic service

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