Question Format 2: Identify Working Conditions

A stimulus describes long hours, child labor, dangerous machinery, or low wages; Maria identifies industrial factory conditions.

Sample stimulus: "Children aged eight to ten worked twelve-hour shifts in cotton mills. Many were maimed by unguarded machinery. Foremen carried whips to keep them awake."

Strategy: Recognition cues: long hours, child labor, factory injuries, low wages, urban tenements. The answer is industrial working conditions in the nineteenth century.