Q 01/05
A) Kirkcaldy
B) Dunfermline
C) Aberdeen
D) Glasgow
Answer · why
He was born in a weaver's cottage with a single main room, shared with a neighbouring family.
Q 02/05
A) Coal miner
B) Fisherman
C) Blacksmith
D) Handloom weaver
Answer · why
Demand for damask collapsed and the family borrowed money to emigrate in 1848.
Q 03/05
A) 20
B) 12
C) 16
D) 14
Answer · why
They settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now part of Pittsburgh.
Q 04/05
A) Stable hand at a livery
B) Coal breaker in a mine
C) Newspaper seller on the street
D) Bobbin boy in a cotton mill
Answer · why
He earned 1.20 dollars a week for 12-hour days, six days a week.
Q 05/05
A) $6.00
B) $3.00
C) $1.20
D) 50 cents
Answer · why
A bobbin manufacturer named John Hay soon offered him two dollars a week to fire a boiler.
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