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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. 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) Reporting how glorious life in the late nineteenth century really was.
(c) Describing the westward movement.
(d) Reporting how the nineteenth century immigrants flourished in the New World.

2. What kind of problem did the El Train have initially?
(a) It was unattractive.
(b) It didn't accomodate enough people.
(c) It was loud and poorly scheduled.
(d) It didn't go where riders needed it to go.

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

4. In what year was the El Train introduced?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1898.

5. In the late 1800s, who was it that posed a threat to those on the frontier and instilled a sense of fear?
(a) Tramps and various vagrants.
(b) Runaways.
(c) Train robbers.
(d) Cattle thieves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main cause of lung irritation, vomiting and sickness for people in the large cities in the early 19th century?

2. How did the electric trolley car create even bigger traffic problems for cities?

3. What problems did the railroads add to any town in the late 1800s?

4. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," what frontier necessity was often a cesspool of contamination?

5. Due to a lack of a sanitation department in the late 1800s, many streets in the large American cities were lined with what?

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