Yes, I agree. As the child of a war widow, I was certainly brought up to know the value of money, and was very alert to the sort of small social differences you mention, Margaid. I look around our house at all the normal things we now have which weren’t even invented then, or were prototype versions only available to the rich - fridge freezer, microwave, TV, iPad and the whole world it opens up - the list goes on, and my grandchildren can hardly believe how we did without all those things. But I remember as a child visiting my grandmother’s relatives in a country village and being amazed even then at the lives they were still living in the 1940s and 50s - water in buckets from a communal well, outside earth toilet, no electricity or gas, heating and cooking on an iron range fuelled by firewood, chickens of course, and a productive veg patch fertilised from the toilet bucket - very similar to Thomas Hardy’s time I expect, or further back still. The sort of lifestyle some people aspire to today, in preparation for what may be coming in terms of food security.
Obviously this quiz is just a bit of fun, and totally inaccurate in my case, but actually it may be pointing up an aspect of our national belief in outside appearances which, as Margaid says, is irrelevant compared with how one behaves. Which is why we all love watching Hyacinth Bucket and her insistence on having her surname pronounced ‘Bouquet’!