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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Education.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did parents in the late 1800s react to teachers using necessary classroom discipline?
(a) They began to educate their own children.
(b) They encouraged it.
(c) They fought against it.
(d) They withdrew their children from school.

2. The air quality in homes was dangerous in the late 1800s because of:
(a) Animals that were kept indoors.
(b) The smog would get trapped inside.
(c) Sewer gas from primitive drainage systems.
(d) High temperatures from the heat outside.

3. Prisons in the latter 19th century were regarded as places of:
(a) Rehabilitation.
(b) Crime.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Corruption.

4. What was the biggest problem with the police in the post Civil War era?
(a) Corruption.
(b) They had no weapons.
(c) They did not protect the public.
(d) The crime rate was too overwhelming.

5. How did most landlords treat their tenants in the late 1800s?
(a) With reasonable rents.
(b) With unfair cruelty.
(c) Landlords kept their places nice for good tenants.
(d) With a hands-off policy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What people took advantage of the tenants in the time after the Civil War?

2. According to Bettmann in "Housing," why did people keep their windows closed even in the heat of summer?

3. According to Bettmann in "Education," children from different villages in the same classroom invariably led to what?

4. What kind of education did a teacher have to have in the late 1800s?

5. What was the biggest safety threat in the vertical apartments in the late 1800s?

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