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Year 8 Industrial Prisons

Authored by Ben Williams

History

8th - 9th Grade

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Year 8 Industrial Prisons
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What proportion of prisoners died due to diseases each year in 1800?

1/2

1/3

1/4

1/8

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What would typical meals have consisted of c.1800?

Porridge

Cheese burgers

Bread

Rice

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How much did it cost a prisoner to rent a bed for a night c.1800?

2p

4p

6p

8p

4.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What tasks were prisoners expected to carry out c.1800?

Pacing the treadmill

Singing songs

Picking old ropes apart

School work

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Over 60% of prisoners in c.1800 were in jail because:

They were convicted murderers

They were convicted thieves

They were convicted fraudsters

They were convicted debtors

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

John Howard wrote a book to educate the public about the conditions in prisons. What was this book called?

How Prisons are Bad

The Terrible State of Prisons

Prisons: An Account

The State of Prisons

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In 1813, Elizabeth Fry was astonished when she visited a famous prison. What was this prison called?

Dartmoor Prison

Wormwood Scrubs

Newgate Prison

Bodmin Prison

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