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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Education.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Richard M. Hunt develop to help with overcrowding and the housing shortage?
(a) The suburbs.
(b) The vertical apartment building.
(c) Homeless shelters.
(d) Government sponsored housing.

2. How long did a typical rural school year last in the late 19th century?
(a) Ten months.
(b) Only a few months.
(c) Twelve months.
(d) Nine months.

3. What was a huge problem for city schools in the post Civil War era?
(a) Overpopulation.
(b) Lack of funding.
(c) Crime.
(d) Teacher turnover.

4. What was the biggest safety threat in the vertical apartments in the late 1800s?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Fire.
(c) Lead poisoning.
(d) Unsafe water.

5. How did the teachers in the late 1800s fight the lack of discipline with the students?
(a) Corporal punishment.
(b) They refused to teach without help.
(c) They segregated their classes by age.
(d) Lots of field trips.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did teaching methods of the late 19th century emphasize?

2. What percentage of black children received any education at all in 1890?

3. Education in the rural setting in the late 19th century was considered to be:

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," how did apartments turn into vertical versions of tenements?

5. What did the police often do with offending boys in the late 1800s?

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