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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 percentage of a working man's income did streetcar fares account for?
(a) Ten percent.
(b) Five percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Two percent.

2. According to Bettmann in "Housing," where did poorer residents end up who could not afford tenements?
(a) On the outskirts of the city.
(b) Homeless shelters.
(c) Boarding homes.
(d) Sleeping at railway stations.

3. In the time after the Civil War, air pollution was:
(a) Much less than it was before the Civil War.
(b) Not a problem.
(c) Only a problem in the South.
(d) Not understood.

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

5. Providing the reader with a truer understanding of the late 1800s, Bettmann demonstrated:
(a) How the Civil War improved our economy.
(b) The large amounts of progress our civilization has made.
(c) Why we should long for those simpler days.
(d) How the days from the Civil War to WWI were key to the development of our nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before cars, what was the main source of transportation in the late 1800s?

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

3. Why did tenants in the late 1800s have such big problems when it came to housing in the big cities?

4. According to Bettmann in "Air," one observer called the worst New York industrial area a:

5. According to "Rural Life," where were children most likely to be on the prairie?

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