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Question 1: In the 1970s and 1980s, manufacturing industry in Birmingham went into decline, mainly through competition from foreign competitors, and by the early 1980s ________ rates in Birmingham were amongst the highest in the country.
UnemploymentUnderemploymentDiscouraged workerGap year

Question 2: During the early to mid 19th century, thousands of back-to-back houses were built to house the growing population, many of which were poorly built and badly drained, and many soon became ________.
Shanty townSlumSquattingPoverty

Question 3: The oldest man-made structures in the city date from the ________ era, including a possible cursus identified by aerial photography near Mere Green, and the surviving barrow at Kingstanding.
Vinča cultureLinear Pottery cultureCucuteni-Trypillian cultureNeolithic

Question 4: The fort was constructed soon after the ________ in AD 43.
Roman conquest of BritainRoman EmpireBoudicaRoman Britain

Question 5: During the tenth century ________ of Wessex reorganised western Mercia for defensive purposes into shires based around the fortified burhs established by his sister Æthelflæd.
Cnut the GreatEdward the ElderAlfred the GreatEdward the Martyr

Question 6: The developments were not welcomed by everyone however — the right-wing Wolverhampton MP ________ delivered his famous Rivers of Blood speech in the city on 20 April, 1968.
Margaret ThatcherHarold WilsonEdward HeathEnoch Powell

Question 7: During their time in Birmingham, Boulton, Watt and Murdoch were instrumental in innovations such as the development of the steam engine and ________, and Birmingham found itself at the forefront of industrial technology.
CandleOil lampKerosene lampGas lighting

Question 8: [92] St John's Chapel, Deritend was established around 1380 as a chapel of ease of the parish church of ________, with its priest supprted by the associated Guild of St John, Deritend, which also maintained a school.
Perry BarrAstonBirminghamErdington

Question 9: An History of Birmingham — an extensive history, written in 1783, from ________
Project Gutenberg AustraliaProject GutenbergGoogle BooksAmazon Kindle

Question 10: Birmingham soon became a centre of arms manufacturing, with guns and ________ being produced.
Martial artsSwordFencingHistorical European martial arts
















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