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At the end of the 1800s the price of grain fell. What did many Danish farmers do?

In the exam (Danish)

I slutningen af 1800-tallet faldt prisen på korn. Hvad gjorde mange danske bønder?

  1. aThey stopped selling abroad completelyDe holdt helt op med at sælge til udlandet
  2. bThey all moved to the towns and sold their farmsDe flyttede alle til byerne og solgte gårdene
  3. cThey began to produce butter and bacon for exportDe begyndte at producere smør og flæsk til eksportCorrect answer

Why?

Cheap grain from America and other places made it hard to earn money from grain. Instead, the farmers used the grain to feed animals and sold butter and bacon (smør og flæsk), especially to England.

Translated with AI. In the exam the question is in Danish, as shown above.

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Questions from past citizenship tests (danskogproever.dk), reproduced verbatim in Danish with the official answers by permission of the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), and our own practice questions on the facts of the study material “Læremateriale til Indfødsretsprøven” and on Danish values. The English translation and the explanations are ours, made with AI help; in the test the questions are asked in Danish. Current-affairs questions and questions whose official answer no longer holds have been left out. We are not affiliated with SIRI.

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