Question 10 • World History 1A - Mr.Sauceda (Fall 2026)
Read this excerpt from Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England.Every great city has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. . . . The streets are generally unpaved, rough, dirty, filled with vegetable and animal refuse [trash], without sewers or gutters, but supplied with foul, stagnant pools instead.
Answer
A
Industrialization has created poor living conditions.
B
Mass production has led to the birth of industrial cities.
C
Steam-power machinery has destroyed the environment.
D
Workers in cities need to try harder to improve their living conditions.
Explanation
Engels describes working-class neighborhoods as overcrowded, dirty, and lacking basic sanitation such as sewers and gutters. These details illustrate the poor living conditions associated with industrialization. The excerpt does not say that workers simply need to try harder, or focus on steam power destroying the environment.
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