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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Rural Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problem did profit motives lead to for street car riders in the late 1800s?
(a) Massive overcrowding.
(b) Routes that were not expanded as the city expanded.
(c) Lack of upkeep on the lines.
(d) Unsafe vehicles.

2. Why did farmers in the 1880s have to mortgage their land?
(a) No crops.
(b) Debt.
(c) Drought.
(d) Pestilence.

3. To some, the time between the end of the Civil War and the early 1900s was known as what?
(a) "Hard luck times."
(b) "The Wild West Era."
(c) "Post War Era."
(d) "The Good Old Days."

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

5. What was one initial problem with the electric trolley car?
(a) It broke down often.
(b) It competed with the horse-drawn streetcars for space.
(c) It was way too slow.
(d) It didn't hold enough people.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In what year was the electric trolley car introduced?

4. According to Bettmann in "Air," many people were cramped together in windowless rooms in the tenements during the summer, causing:

5. Why were some animals a pollutant problem as noted in the chapter "Air"?

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