TEST 13

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#1. What was the Great Exhibition of 1851 designed to display?

#2. Where was the Great Exhibition of 1851 held?

#3. Which prince was closely associated with organising the Great Exhibition?

#4. Which 19th-century reform expanded voting rights for some men in Britain?

#5. What did the Chartists demand?

#6. Which social reform is associated with Lord Shaftesbury?

#7. Which engineer designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge and worked on railways and ships?

#8. Which engineer is associated with early railway development and the Rocket locomotive?

#9. Which British scientist developed the theory of gravity and laws of motion?

#10. Which book is associated with Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution?

#11. Who was Florence Nightingale?

#12. Which war is Florence Nightingale strongly associated with?

#13. Who is associated with founding modern nursing practice in Britain?

#14. Which woman is closely associated with the suffragette campaign?

#15. What did the Representation of the People Act 1918 do?

#16. Which Act gave women equal voting rights with men in 1928?

#17. Which organisation was created to support soldiers returning from the First World War and their families?

#18. Why is the poppy used as a symbol of remembrance?

#19. What was rationing during the Second World War?

#20. What was the Home Guard?

#21. Which evacuation policy during the Second World War moved many children away from cities?

#22. What did the Beveridge Report identify as major social problems to be addressed?

#23. Which post-war government is strongly associated with the creation of the welfare state?

#24. Which year did India and Pakistan become independent from Britain?

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