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  (C) The study relied more on qualitative than quantitative evidence.

  (D) The study focused more on the working-class community than on working-class culture.

  (E) The study ignored working-class joblessness during the 美国GREat Depression.

  3. According to the passage, which of the following is true of Keyssar’s findings concerning unemployment in Massachusetts?

  (A) They tend to contradict earlier findings about such unemployment.

  (B) They are possible because Massachusetts has the most easily accessible historical records.

  (C) They are the first to mention the existence of high rates of geographical mobility in the nineteenth century.

  (D) They are relevant to a historical understanding of the nature of unemployment in other states.

  (E) They have caused historians to reconsider the role of the working class during the 美国GREat Depression.

  4. According to the passage, which of the following is true of the unemployment rates mentioned in line 15

  (A) They hovered, on average, around 15 percent during the period 1870-1920.

  (B) They give less than a full sense of the impact of unemployment on working-class people.

  (C) They overestimate the importance of middle class and white-collar unemployment.

  (D) They have been considered by many historians to underestimate the extent of working-class unemployment.

  (E) They are more open to question when calculated for years other than those of peak recession.

  5. Which of the following statements about the unemployment rate during the 美国GREat Depression can be inferred from the passage?

  (A) It was sometimes higher than 15 percent.

  (B) It has been analyzed seriously only since the early 1970’s.

  (C) It can be calculated more easily than can unemployment frequency.

  (D) It was never as high as the rate during the 1870’s.

  (E) It has been shown by Keyssar to be lower than previously thought.

  6. According to the passage, Keyssar considers which of the following to be among the important predictors of the likelihood that a particular person would be unemployed in late nineteenth-century Massachusetts?

  Ⅰ. The person’s class

  Ⅱ. Where the person lived or worked

  Ⅲ. The person’s age

  (A) Ⅰonly

  (B) Ⅱonly

  (C) Ⅰand Ⅱ only

  (D) Ⅰand Ⅲ only

  (E) Ⅰ,Ⅱ, and Ⅲ

  7. The author views Keyssar’s study with

  (A) impatient disapproval

  (B) wary concern

  (C) polite skepticism

  (D) scrupulous neutrality

  (E) qualified admiration

  8. Which of the following, if true, would most strongly support Keyssar’s findings as they are described by the author?

  (A) Boston, Massachusetts, and Quincy, Massachusetts, adjoining communities, had a higher rate of unemployment for working-class people in 1870 than in 1890.
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