Which of the following is NOT true about E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class?

1. A. It studies the development of working-class consciousness.
2. B. It treats class as a relationship, not a fixed structure.
3. C. It is a pioneering systematic study of working-class history.
4. D. It critiques Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
5. E. It reinforces race and ethnicity as forms of collective identity.

1. A(A) and (B) only
2. B(C) and (D) only
3. C(E) and (D) only
4. D(B) and (D) only

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Correct answer: C. (E) and (D) only

Explanation

Thompson's 'history from below' (1963) traces how English workers, 1780–1832, made themselves a class, defined as a 'historical relationship'. It has nothing to do with Woolf, and its collective identity is class, not race.