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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. Just like their male counterparts, frontier women after the Civil War endured:
(a) Back-breaking labor.
(b) Lack of voting rights.
(c) Harsh weather.
(d) Small town life.

2. Author Otto Bettman wished to shatter the misconceptions of the late 19th century by:
(a) Reporting how glorious life in the late nineteenth century really was.
(b) Reporting how the nineteenth century immigrants flourished in the New World.
(c) Describing the westward movement.
(d) Demonstrating what life was really like for average people.

3. What problems did the railroads add to any town in the late 1800s?
(a) Crime.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Pollution and noise.
(d) Prestige.

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

5. What did overpopulation in the big cities mean for the tenants in the late 1800s?
(a) Families often had to split up.
(b) A housing shortage.
(c) A lack of food.
(d) Only very small accomodations were available.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the railroads came to a town after the Civil War, where were they placed?

3. To some, the time between the end of the Civil War and the early 1900s was known as what?

4. What work did an ancient stove require on the frontier?

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

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