Lesson test: Feeding the escape

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Feeding the escape

1.[2p]
What was the main technical achievement of the Norfolk four-course rotation?

It removed the fallow, so every field carried a useful crop every year

Correct

It introduced the first chemical fertiliser to English farming

The answer is: It removed the fallow, so every field carried a useful crop every year

It allowed wheat to be grown twice in the same year

The answer is: It removed the fallow, so every field carried a useful crop every year

It replaced livestock farming with arable farming

The answer is: It removed the fallow, so every field carried a useful crop every year

2.[2p]
A three-field rotation leaves one field in three fallow. Moving to a four-course rotation with no fallow raises the cropped area by what percentage?

CorrectNot quite: 50

3.[2p]
Put the four courses of the Norfolk rotation in their usual order.

Barley
Clover
Turnips
Wheat

Show the answer

a, b, c, d

4.[2p]
Why did clover raise the yield of the wheat that followed it?

It is a legume, so bacteria on its roots fix nitrogen from the air into the soil

Correct

It shades out weeds so completely that the soil is left clean

The answer is: It is a legume, so bacteria on its roots fix nitrogen from the air into the soil

Its deep roots break up the subsoil and improve drainage

The answer is: It is a legume, so bacteria on its roots fix nitrogen from the air into the soil

It was harvested before it could draw nutrients out of the ground

The answer is: It is a legume, so bacteria on its roots fix nitrogen from the air into the soil

5.[2p]
Wrigley and Schofield found that the acceleration in English population growth came mainly from falling death rates.

True

The answer is: False

False

Correct

6.[3p]
By what mechanism did rising wages raise the English birth rate?

Couples could afford to set up a household sooner, so they married younger and fewer stayed single

Correct

Married couples chose to have more children each

The answer is: Couples could afford to set up a household sooner, so they married younger and fewer stayed single

Immigration rose with wages

The answer is: Couples could afford to set up a household sooner, so they married younger and fewer stayed single

Better nutrition raised the maximum number of births a woman could have

The answer is: Couples could afford to set up a household sooner, so they married younger and fewer stayed single

7.[2p]
Roughly 6.8 million acres of England were enclosed by act of Parliament. As a percentage of England's 32 million acres, that is about what?

CorrectNot quite: 21

8.[3p]
Which of these does the lesson say about parliamentary enclosure?

Select all that apply

Its measured yield advantage over open fields was modest

Correct

It extinguished common rights that had real cash value to cottagers

Correct

It ran mostly between 1750 and 1830, through roughly four thousand private acts

Correct

It is the main cause of the doubling of English wheat yields before 1700

The answer is: Its measured yield advantage over open fields was modest, It extinguished common rights that had real cash value to cottagers, It ran mostly between 1750 and 1830, through roughly four thousand private acts

9.[2p]
What does the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 show about Britain by that date?

The interest of an industrial workforce that ate imported food had overtaken that of landowners

Correct

British agriculture had collapsed and could no longer feed anyone

The answer is: The interest of an industrial workforce that ate imported food had overtaken that of landowners

Wheat had become cheaper to grow at home than to import

The answer is: The interest of an industrial workforce that ate imported food had overtaken that of landowners

Parliament had been reformed enough for labourers to vote

The answer is: The interest of an industrial workforce that ate imported food had overtaken that of landowners

1.[2p] What was the main technical achievement of the Norfolk four-course rotation?

2.[2p] A three-field rotation leaves one field in three fallow. Moving to a four-course rotation with no fallow raises the cropped area by what percentage?

3.[2p] Put the four courses of the Norfolk rotation in their usual order.

4.[2p] Why did clover raise the yield of the wheat that followed it?

5.[2p] Wrigley and Schofield found that the acceleration in English population growth came mainly from falling death rates.

6.[3p] By what mechanism did rising wages raise the English birth rate?

7.[2p] Roughly 6.8 million acres of England were enclosed by act of Parliament. As a percentage of England's 32 million acres, that is about what?

8.[3p] Which of these does the lesson say about parliamentary enclosure?

9.[2p] What does the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 show about Britain by that date?

1.[2p]
What was the main technical achievement of the Norfolk four-course rotation?

2.[2p]
A three-field rotation leaves one field in three fallow. Moving to a four-course rotation with no fallow raises the cropped area by what percentage?

3.[2p]
Put the four courses of the Norfolk rotation in their usual order.

4.[2p]
Why did clover raise the yield of the wheat that followed it?

5.[2p]
Wrigley and Schofield found that the acceleration in English population growth came mainly from falling death rates.

6.[3p]
By what mechanism did rising wages raise the English birth rate?

7.[2p]
Roughly 6.8 million acres of England were enclosed by act of Parliament. As a percentage of England's 32 million acres, that is about what?

8.[3p]
Which of these does the lesson say about parliamentary enclosure?

9.[2p]
What does the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 show about Britain by that date?