All of the following is true about genteel families in the 1830s and 1840s, EXCEPT:
a. The movement of workers out of the owners' homes permitted a genteel lifestyle for the emerging elite class.
b. Genteel families aimed at the complete separation of their private and public lives.
c. Genteel families were fond of the popular theater, but found opera companies too highbrow and elitist.
d. Men in the manufacturing elite class spent their leisure time differently than their workers.
ANSWER: c
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