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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Food and Drink.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was blamed for the cholera epidemic in 1832?
(a) Unsanitary restaurants.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Tainted Meat.
(d) Unclean water.

2. What was a popular type of big city housing during the late 1800s?
(a) The brownstone.
(b) High-rise apartments.
(c) The suburbs.
(d) Shanties.

3. After the Civil War, how did the isolation of the endless prairie affect many homesteaders?
(a) It led to depression.
(b) It led to several trips a year to the cities.
(c) It caused people to live in groups.
(d) It caused people to have large families.

4. Who were most of the shantytown residents in the late 1800s?
(a) Runaways.
(b) People displaced by their landlords.
(c) African-Americans.
(d) Newly-arrived immigrants.

5. What did Richard M. Hunt develop to help with overcrowding and the housing shortage?
(a) The vertical apartment building.
(b) Government sponsored housing.
(c) Homeless shelters.
(d) The suburbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did parents react to child labor in the late 1800s?

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

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

4. What characterized American eating habits in the post Civil War era?

5. According to Bettmann in "Food and Drink," what percentage of people in prison were alcoholics?

(see the answer key)

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