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1. What textile manufacturer
became known as the
Father of American Manufacturing?
(a) Richard Arkwright
(b) Francis Cabot
Lowell (c) Samuel A. Slater
2. The invention of what
machine in 1793 revolutionized
t he economy of the
South and the textile industry?
(a) slot machine (b)
Spinning Jenny (c) power
^ loom (d) cotton gin.
3. After experimenting
with many materials,
Thomas A. Edison finally
made the filament fnr Vii?
first light bulb by burning
a (a) cigar (b) cotton thread
te) pair of nylons (d) silk
yarn
4. Textiles were the only
known substance light
enough, strong enough, and
pliable enough to be used
^ in man's first trips (a)
across the Atlantic Ocean
(b) into the air (c) up the
Oregon Trail (d) to the 1966
New York World's Fair
5. At the turn of the 19th
Century what Frenchman
devised a loom which became
the forerunner of today's
modern computers?
(a) Joseph-Marie Jacquard
(b) Napoleon Bonaparte ict
Count Hilaire de Chardonnet
(d) Charles de Gaulle
) 6. According to the latest
figures the United States
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20 QUESTIOI
So you've been working
for the textile industry
B quite a few years now, and
you think you know a lot
about it? Or maybe you
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would like to pick up a
little extra knowledge. Below
are 20 questions with
multiple choice answers.
See if you can pick the
right answer to each of
them. If you get 18 or more
right, you're a know-it-all;
15-17, a smart-aleck; 12-14,
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iS About the U. S. Te
textile industry employs
approximately how many
people? (a) 95,000 (b) 221,000
(c) 475.000 (d) 989,000
7. In how many of the 50
states can textile mills be
found? (a) 8 (b) 42 (c) 36 (d)
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8. Approximately
how many dozen pairs of
nosiery cnci united States
textile manufacturers produce
in 1967? (a) 165,000 (b)
21 million (c) 230 million
(d) None. Hosiery* is produced
by the rubber industry.
9. How many pounds of
fiber does the textile industry
use in a year? (a) 18
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more than 9 billion (d) no
one knows
10. The nearly 7,000 textile
plants in the United States
produce cloth at the rate of
(a) a foot a second (b) a
mile a minute (c) 900 miles
an hour (d) 10,000 yards a
day
11. The United States textile
industry's biggest customer
is (a) Eva Gabor (b)
the home furnishings industry
(c) the United States
Army (d) the apparel industry
12. The win^s of the Wright
Brothers' plane were covered
with (a) unbleached
muslin (b) 56 yards of 45inch
osnaburg (c) Irish lace
(d) corduroy
13. How many items made
of textiles are used by the
United States a r m e d
forces? (a) 420 (b) 25.000 (cl
750 (d) 7,500
14. A p p r o x i ni a t el v
how many Americans depend
either directly or infl
j r I" ( t 1 V nil thi> TTnitorl
States textile industry for
a livelihood? (a) 15 million
(b) 970,000 (c) enough to fill
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than a million.
15. Each year the Unitec
States textile industry pay?
wages of approximately (a'
$4.5 billion (b) $25 millior
(c) nearly S750 million (d'(
$2 billion
16. Approximately
how much does the Unitec
States textile industry pay
each year for the product;
and services of other in
dustries? (a) $100 millior
(b) $12 billion (c) more thar
$14 billion
17. In terms of employmeni
the United States textik
industry is (a) 5 time:
larger than the oil industry
(b) 10 times larger than the
tobacco industry (c) 50 pei
cent larger than the lumbei
and wood products indus
try (d) answers (a), (b). anc
(c) are all correst
18. Each year United State:
textile mills supply enougi
carpet to the automobile in
dustry to make a runner (a
reaching from Peoria. Ill
inois, to Oshkosh. Wiscon
sin (b) 12 feet wide reach
ing across the entire Unitec
States (c) covering all th<
stairs of the Empire State
Building
19. What famous Italiar
explorer w o r k e d as i
weaver until the age of 27'
(a) Marco Polo (b) Christo
pher Columbus (c) Johr
Cabot (d) Clina Lollabrigidc
20. The textile-ceramic hea
shield of the Apollo space
craft can resist tempera
tures up to (a) 500 degree;
(b) 3,000 degrees (c) 12,00(
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ANSWER
1. (c); 2. (b); 3. (b); 4. (b)
5. (a); 6. (d); 7. (b); 8. (c)
9. (c); 10. (c); 11. (d); 12. (a)
13. (b); 14. (a); 15. (a); 16. (c)
17. (d); 18. (b); 19 (b); 20. (c)
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