View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the late 1800s, how was milk treated when it had spoiled?
(a) It was used to make yogurt.
(b) It was thrown away.
(c) It was given to the homeless.
(d) It was colored with chalk or plaster of paris.

2. What was a common difficulty for frontiersmen after the Civil War?
(a) The threat of Indians.
(b) Financial hardship.
(c) The ground often did not yield a crop.
(d) Animals kept dying.

3. What was a major contributor to the contamination and disease in the wells in the late 19th century?
(a) Food left out.
(b) Typhoid epidemic.
(c) Misunderstanding of germs.
(d) Drainage from the outhouse.

4. According to Bettmann in "Work," in cases of a worker's death the courts ruled with the employers, calling the death:
(a) Bad luck.
(b) Unpreventable.
(c) The worker's fault.
(d) An acceptable loss.

5. How did Stewart keep as many employees working at one time as possible?
(a) He kept his machines in great working order.
(b) He hired men to stand over them.
(c) With inadequate bathroom facilities.
(d) He hired more than he needed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the police handle strikes in the late 1800s?

2. What percentage of a working man's income did streetcar fares account for?

3. Why did farmers in the 1880s have to mortgage their land?

4. Who were most of the shantytown residents in the late 1800s?

5. After the Civil War, how did the isolation of the endless prairie affect many homesteaders?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 292 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample