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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Housing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bettmann say street car riders in the late 1800s were encouraged to bring along on their ride?
(a) A drink.
(b) A weapon.
(c) Sufficient change.
(d) An umbrella.

2. Author Otto Bettman wished to shatter the misconceptions of the late 19th century by:
(a) Demonstrating what life was really like for average people.
(b) Describing the westward movement.
(c) Reporting how the nineteenth century immigrants flourished in the New World.
(d) Reporting how glorious life in the late nineteenth century really was.

3. What problems did the railroads add to any town in the late 1800s?
(a) Crime.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Pollution and noise.
(d) Prestige.

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," how did apartments turn into vertical versions of tenements?
(a) Cruel landlords.
(b) Animals indoors were commonplace.
(c) Noxious air indoors.
(d) Shoddy construction practices.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before cars, what was the main source of transportation in the late 1800s?

2. In the time after the Civil War, air pollution was:

3. Where were the first apartments constructed?

4. Wind as well as the heat of summer exacerbated what problem in the large cities after the Civil War?

5. According to Bettmann, what percentage of New Yorkers lived in the slums between 1868 and 1875?

(see the answer key)

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