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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 people took advantage of the tenants in the time after the Civil War?
(a) The merchants.
(b) The police.
(c) The immigrants.
(d) The landlords.

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

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bettmann, what was the homemade frontier liquor made from?

2. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," why would many young girls leave the country for the promise of the city?

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

4. What percentage of farmers in the 1880s had to mortgage their land?

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

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