Question

The following passage describes the bathing habits of people in 19th-century England. Select the best evidence to support the statement "bathwater was a shared resource in 19th-century homes." There may be more than one correct choice.
In the early part of the nineteenth century, you would have been well advised to stand upwind of anyone with whom you were having a conversation.
Only the hands, neck and arms were frequently washed....The poor must have bathed infrequently at best. The middle class, although they apparently washed their hands and feet daily, usually made do in the 1860s with one big bath on Sunday night, in which the whole household took part, perhaps because it was such a nuisance to boil all that water. And at Mrs. Browning's Academy in Blackheath for young ladies a weekly bath was charged as an extra.
Partly this was due to a lack of readily available water. In the countryside, water came from streams, rivers, wells, or ... pumps.

Answer 1

The best evidence to support the statement "bathwater was a shared resource in 19th-century homes" includes the following excerpts:

1. "The middle class, although they apparently washed their hands and feet daily, usually made do in the 1860s with one big bath on Sunday night, in which the whole household took part, perhaps because it was such a nuisance to boil all that water."

2. "Partly this was due to a lack of readily available water."

These selections highlight that multiple members of a household used the same bathwater, indicating that bathwater was indeed a shared resource during that time.