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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Rural Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Women on the frontier in the late 1800s also endured the hard work of what daily chore?
(a) Chicken care.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Laundry.

2. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," what frontier necessity was often a cesspool of contamination?
(a) The local well.
(b) The barn.
(c) The outhouse.
(d) Nearby streams.

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

4. Just like their male counterparts, frontier women after the Civil War endured:
(a) Back-breaking labor.
(b) Small town life.
(c) Lack of voting rights.
(d) Harsh weather.

5. How did the electric trolley car create even bigger traffic problems for cities?
(a) Too many people wanted to ride.
(b) It was poorly scheduled.
(c) It was built on the busiest streets.
(d) It was way too slow.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When the railroads came to a town after the Civil War, where were they placed?

4. What did Bettmann cite as the main reason for the traffic problems in the cities in the late 1800s?

5. Why, does Bettmann explain, were pigs tolerated in the cities?

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