When the Boucicauts established the world’s first department store, they introduced many changes. Mark the statement if it accurately describes one of the innovations they made.

Choose all answers that are correct.

Question 1 options:

Customers bargained with the salesclerk about the prices.

They began to display merchandise in departments.

Customers paid higher prices to be able to shop in the fancy store.

Customers were allowed to use credit to buy things.

Customers were allowed to browse through the merchandise.

Question 2 (1 point)
Mark the statement if it accurately describes one of the reasons Sears decided to use catalogs to sell products.

Choose all answers that are correct.

Question 2 options:

Traveling salesmen charged people living in the country very high prices.

The traveling salesmen were rude.

Farmers could now afford more products.

Question 3 (1 point)
Mark the statement if it accurately describes one of the reasons Sears decided to use catalogs to sell products.

Choose all answers that are correct.

Question 3 options:

The postal service could ship products almost anywhere in the country.

The postal service delivered packages overnight all over the country.

Traveling salesmen did not offer a wide variety of goods.

Question 4 (1 point)
Why did so many leisure activities become very popular at the end of the nineteenth century?

Question 4 options:

The newspapers began advertising leisure activities.

People had some leisure time and extra money.

Games were being exported all over the world.

Many new factories were introducing new games.

Question 5 (1 point)
Why did William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer become famous?

Question 5 options:

They invented moving pictures.

They transformed the newspaper into a form of entertainment.

They invented the high-speed press.

They established newspapers with very high standards.

Question 6 (1 point)
Henry Ford made many important contributions to the auto industry. Which of the following was not one of his innovations?

Question 6 options:

He reduced the work day from 9 to 8 hours.

He established assembly lines to make cars quickly and cheaply.

He invented the automobile.

He guaranteed most of his workers a salary of five dollars a day.

Question 7 (1 point)
What was vaudeville?

Question 7 options:

a very sensationalistic newspaper

a small village park at the end of the trolley line

one of the early forms of moving pictures

a show that featured a wide variety of short acts

Question 8 (1 point)
Which invention eventually led to the development of movies?

Question 8 options:

Kinetoscope

phonograph

quadricycle

high-speed press

Question 9 (1 point)
Which of the following men did not contribute to the development of phonographs or records?

Question 9 options:

Emile Berliner

Thomas Edison

Eldridge Johnson

Joseph Pulitzer

Question 10 (1 point)
How did the introduction of universal public education affect the economies of the United States and Western Europe?

Question 10 options:

Countries with universal education showed greater economic progress than countries without it.

The economies suffered when children left the workforce to attend school.

The expense of establishing public schools slowed the economies.

The economies were not affected by universal education.