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AssignmentMultiple Choice

The Factory System

Question 2 • 26/27 Modern World History A

How do the accounts of Elizabeth Bentley and Matthew Crabtree corroborate each other?

Answer
A
Both Bentley and Crabtree were forced to work in flax mills.
B
Both Bentley and Crabtree were treated kindly by factory overseers.
C
Both Bentley and Crabtree began work in their teenage years.
D
Both Bentley and Crabtree were beaten at work as punishment.

Explanation

Both accounts describe workers being physically punished in the factory. Bentley’s account reports beatings as discipline, and Crabtree likewise describes being beaten for mistakes or disobedience. This shared detail corroborates the claim that both were beaten at work as punishment.

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