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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Leisure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did meat deteriorate so quickly in the late 1800s?
(a) It was injected with coloring dye.
(b) The cows were poorly fed.
(c) It was left to hang outdoors.
(d) It was injected with hormones.

2. What was one effective way to fight disease carried by ships into New York Harbor?
(a) They sent the ship back to its point of origin.
(b) Medicine was given immediately.
(c) Doctors were sent on board before the people disembarked.
(d) Officials quarantined the entire ship.

3. Who were the frontier drunkards in the late 19th century?
(a) Saloon owners.
(b) Whole families, including children.
(c) Many who were left alone on the frontier.
(d) The homeless.

4. When was opium introduced?
(a) As early as 1840.
(b) In the 1850s.
(c) 1845.
(d) As early as 1862.

5. According to Bettmann in "Crime," who was treated the worst in the prison system?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Italians.
(c) Jews.
(d) Murderers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1800s, why would a cop be encouraged to beat up a perpetrator?

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

3. On the frontier in the late 1800s, what was the homemade liquor called?

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

5. According to Bettmann in "Crime," how did juvenile delinquency affect the large cities?

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