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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) Blood disease.
(b) Early death.
(c) Mental Illness.
(d) Liver disease.

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

3. According to Bettmann, what was the homemade frontier liquor made from?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Apples.
(c) Beets.
(d) Corn.

4. What did overpopulation in the big cities mean for the tenants in the late 1800s?
(a) Families often had to split up.
(b) A housing shortage.
(c) Only very small accomodations were available.
(d) A lack of food.

5. What people took advantage of the tenants in the time after the Civil War?
(a) The police.
(b) The landlords.
(c) The immigrants.
(d) The merchants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the first apartments constructed?

2. According to Bettmann in "Food and Drink," the frontier diet was dominated by what single food?

3. Why did farmers in the 1880s have to mortgage their land?

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," where did poorer residents end up who could not afford tenements?

5. Just like their male counterparts, frontier women after the Civil War endured:

(see the answer key)

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