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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Food and Drink.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prognosis did alcoholism usually carry in the late 19th century?
(a) Liver disease.
(b) Early death.
(c) Mental Illness.
(d) Blood disease.

2. According to "Rural Life," where were children most likely to be on the prairie?
(a) Physically working to help their parents.
(b) Boarding school.
(c) Playing games on the farm.
(d) At school.

3. Who were most of the shantytown residents in the late 1800s?
(a) People displaced by their landlords.
(b) Runaways.
(c) African-Americans.
(d) Newly-arrived immigrants.

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," where did poorer residents end up who could not afford tenements?
(a) Sleeping at railway stations.
(b) On the outskirts of the city.
(c) Boarding homes.
(d) Homeless shelters.

5. Where were the first apartments constructed?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) New York City.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a major contributor to the contamination and disease in the wells in the late 19th century?

2. What does Bettmann say street car riders in the late 1800s were encouraged to bring along on their ride?

3. In New York after the Civil War, in what area was the greatest contrast between rich and poor seen?

4. In the late 19th century on the frontier, what was a child's formal education considered to be?

5. In 1890, what was the ratio of railroad workers to work-related deaths?

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