Drill 15 · Multiple Choice · Unit 5: Revolutions
AP World History Unit 5 Drill 15 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 5: Revolutions. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on the social consequences of early industrialization from c. 1750 to c. 1900, with attention to the conditions faced by the new industrial working class and the reactions these conditions provoked. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from Friedrich Engels, a German political thinker, describing conditions in Manchester, England, 1845 CE, with substantial paraphrase.
"The manner in which the great mass of the poor is treated by modern society is revolting. They are drawn into the large cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the country. They are penned into districts which by the utter absence of all means of cleanliness, by the heaping together of thousands of human beings, becomes a breeding place for every possible disease. In these districts there is only occasional work, uncertain and ill-paid. The men spend their short hours of leisure in the public houses; their wives and children are left to starve. What can we expect of a class that lives under such conditions, that has grown up in ignorance and misery, bruised by society at every point, robbed of all enjoyments except the brutal excesses of drink? The workers have no alternative: they must either sink into a broken spirit or revolt."