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Information and Ideas practice question
In the 1700s the village's parish records list dozens of weavers, but by 1850 not one. Over the same period the number of people listed as 'mill hand' rose from none to over a hundred. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. home weaving gave way to factory work in the village during that period.Correct
- B. the village's population fell sharply.
- C. cloth was no longer made in the village.
- D. the parish stopped recording occupations.
Answer: A. home weaving gave way to factory work in the village during that period.
Weavers vanish as mill hands appear: the trade moved into the mills.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the village's population fell sharply.
- A hundred mill hands replacing dozens of weavers suggests growth, not decline.
- C. cloth was no longer made in the village.
- Mill hands make cloth.
- D. the parish stopped recording occupations.
- Occupations were still recorded in 1850.
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