
1. Fill in the missing part of the following quotation: "Such disregard for _________ could of course only be possible in a crofting and fishing community, whose framework of marketing and administration is minimal, and in which the day's tasks (which might vary from fishing to farming, building, mending of nets, thatching, making a cradle or a coffin) seem to disclose themselves, by the logic of need, before the crofter's eyes."
~ "Such disregard for "clock time" could of course only be possible in a crofting and fishing community, whose framework of marketing and administration is minimal, and in which the day's tasks (which might vary from fishing to farming, building, mending of nets, thatching, making a cradle or a coffin) seem to disclose themselves, by the logic of need, before the crofter's eyes."
@ "Such disregard for "clock time" could of course only be possible in a crofting and fishing community, whose framework of marketing and administration is minimal, and in which the day's tasks (which might vary from fishing to farming, building, mending of nets, thatching, making a cradle or a coffin) seem to disclose themselves, by the logic of need, before the crofter's eyes."
a. task-orientation
*b. clock time
c. time-thrift
d. disciplined industrial capitalism

2. Time-discipline refers to
~ Time-discipline refers to the absorption of the dominant class ethos of clock-time by the working class. While many readers interpret this as a kind of capitalist oppression, it can also be understood as Gramscian spontaneous consent.
@ Time-discipline refers to the absorption of the dominant class ethos of clock-time by the working class. While many readers interpret this as a kind of capitalist oppression, it can also be understood as Gramscian spontaneous consent.
*a. the absorption of the dominant class ethos of clock-time by the working class.
b. the act of one being able to participate in clock-time.
c. the patience needed by laborers in task-oriented jobs due to natural phenomenon such as weather.
d. the valuation of time as currency.

3. "Thou silent murderer, Sloth no more | My mind imprison'd keep | Nor let me waste another hour | With thee, thou felon Sleep." According to Thompson, these lines illustrate
~ "Thou silent murderer, Sloth no more | My mind imprison'd keep | Nor let me waste another hour | With thee, thou felon Sleep." These lines illustrate the "time-thrift" ethos of the dominant class.
@ "Thou silent murderer, Sloth no more | My mind imprison'd keep | Nor let me waste another hour | With thee, thou felon Sleep." These lines illustrate the "time-thrift" ethos of the dominant class.
a. the spirit of capitalism that developed out of Protestant ethics.
b. the switch to eight-hour nights that accompanied the switch to clock-time in industrialized Europe.
c. propaganda used by industrial capitalists to socialize their workers.
*d. the "time-thrift" ethos of the dominant class.

4. What does Thompson mean when he states that the rhythm of women's work in the home "has not yet altogether moved out of the conventions of 'pre-industrial' society?"
~ Childcare is necessarily task-orientated and cannot be wholly regulated by the clock. Thompson is showing how one's gender can impact perception of time.
@ Childcare is necessarily task-orientated and cannot be wholly regulated by the clock. Thompson is showing how one's gender can impact perception of time.
a. The restrictive nature of child care limits the amount of free time mothers and caretakers have.
*b. Childcare is necessarily task-orientated and cannot be wholly regulated by the clock.
c. Thompson is explaining that most homes, due to their lack of clocks, simply don't operate on clock time.
d. Mothers aren't oppressed because their labor isn't regulated by the clock.

5. According to Thompson, changes in _____ caused a change in _____.
~ Changes in the means of production caused a change in the working class's perception of time. 
@ Changes in the means of production caused a change in the working class's perception of time. 
a. the working class's perception of time, in the means of production
*b. the means of production, the working class's perception of time
c. dominant class ideology, the means of production
d. time-keeping technology, industrial capitalism

6. Which of the following quotations shows why clock-time dominated over task-orientation?
~ "What we are examining here are not only changes in manufacturing technique which demand greater synchronization of labour and a greater exactitude in time-routines in any society...." 
@ "What we are examining here are not only changes in manufacturing technique which demand greater synchronization of labour and a greater exactitude in time-routines in any society...." 
a. "Such hours were endurable only because one part of the work, with the children and in the home, disclosed itself as necessary and inevitable, rather than as an external imposition."
b. "The entire family economy of the small farmer may be task-oriented; but within it there may be a division of labour, and allocation of roles, and the discipline of an employer-employed relationship between the farmer and his children. Even here time is beginning to become money."
c. "Almost all that the masters wished to see imposed may be found in the bounds of a single pamphlet...'If the sluggard hides his hands in his bosom, rather than applies them to work; if he spends his Time in Sauntring, impairs his Constitution by Laziness, and dulls his Spirit by Indolence...' then he can expect only poverty as his reward."
*d. "What we are examining here are not only changes in manufacturing technique which demand greater synchronization of labour and a greater exactitude in time-routines in any society." 

7. "Every scholar must be in the school-room on Sundays, at nine o'clock in the morning, and at half-past one in the afternoon, or she shall lose her place the next Sunday, and walk last." In this text it is evident that
~ "Every scholar must be in the school-room on Sundays, at nine o'clock in the morning, and at half-past one in the afternoon, or she shall lose her place the next Sunday, and walk last." In this text it is evident that disciplined time had begun to creep into other aspects of the lived experience of individuals apart from labor.
@ "Every scholar must be in the school-room on Sundays, at nine o'clock in the morning, and at half-past one in the afternoon, or she shall lose her place the next Sunday, and walk last." In this text it is evident that disciplined time had begun to creep into other aspects of the lived experience of individuals apart from labor.
a. task-orientation prevailed in schools.
b. clock-time had failed to reshape any aspects of an individual's life.
*c. disciplined time had begun to creep into other aspects of the lived experience of individuals apart from labor.
d. punishments for not following allowing a "time-thrift" ethos existed only within Methodist schools.

8. Which of the following is NOT included in Thompson's three points proposed about "task-orientation"?
~ Task-orientation alienates the laborer from his product.
@ Task-orientation alienates the laborer from his product.
*a. Task-orientation alienates the laborer from his product.
b. In task-orientation, the working day lengthens or contrasts according to the task.
c. In task-orientation, the worker appears to attend upon what is an observed necessity.
d. To those accustomed to labor by the clock, task-orientation appears to be wasteful and lacking in urgency.

9. Thompson denies
~ Thompson denies the "Modernization Theory" of Rostow and any simple model for the complex process of industrialization.
@ Thompson denies the "Modernization Theory" of Rostow and any simple model for the complex process of industrialization.
a. the Marxist idea that changes in the economic substructure can impact class perceptions of time.
*b. the "Modernization Theory" of Rostow and any simple model for the complex process of industrialization.
c. Weber's thesis that a "time-thrift" ethos developed out of Protestantism.
d. notions that countries should industrialize.

10. Initially, clocks and pocket watches
~ Initially, clocks and pocket watches were status symbols of the dominant class. They remained such even through the mid-1700s, until the "industrial revolution demanded a greater synchronization of labour."
@ Initially, clocks and pocket watches were status symbols of the dominant class. They remained such even through the mid-1700s, until the "industrial revolution demanded a greater synchronization of labour."
a. were primarily household items.
b. were used to remold agricultural laborers' perceptions of time to favor clock time.
*c. were status symbols of the dominant class.
d. were symbols of "time-thrift."