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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the late 19th century, where was New York's shantytown?
(a) Near the industrial neighborhood.
(b) Near the railway station.
(c) On the outskirts of the city.
(d) Downtown.

2. The "protection" and "non-harassment" fees of the police in the late 19th century were a precursor to what later crime force?
(a) Drug lords.
(b) Street thugs.
(c) Mafia.
(d) Gangs.

3. What was the name of the first vertical apartments?
(a) Park Place.
(b) Lakeside Apartments.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Stuyvesant Apartments.

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," why did people keep their windows closed even in the heat of summer?
(a) To keep out the stench from the street.
(b) To protect themselves from intruders.
(c) The windows didn't open.
(d) For privacy.

5. How did the gun laws after the Civil War compound the problem?
(a) Only the frontier lawmen were allowed to carry guns.
(b) There were no real gun laws.
(c) The waiting period was too short to buy a weapon.
(d) The laws enabled known criminals to carry weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the first apartments constructed?

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

3. What was the biggest safety threat in the vertical apartments in the late 1800s?

4. What happened in a famous case in 1870 involving students and their teacher?

5. How did most landlords treat their tenants in the late 1800s?

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