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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) Twenty percent.
(b) Two percent.
(c) Ten percent.
(d) Five percent.

2. Who were most of the shantytown residents in the late 1800s?
(a) Newly-arrived immigrants.
(b) Runaways.
(c) People displaced by their landlords.
(d) African-Americans.

3. What did Bettmann cite as the main reason for the traffic problems in the cities in the late 1800s?
(a) Prevalence of the horse and cart.
(b) Unsynchronized traffic lights.
(c) Too many one-way streets.
(d) Unpaved roads.

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

5. What major problem did window screening help with in the late 1800s?
(a) Drafts.
(b) Insects.
(c) Light control.
(d) Privacy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the late 19th century, where was New York's shantytown?

3. What does Bettmann say street car riders in the late 1800s were encouraged to bring along on their ride?

4. Just like their male counterparts, frontier women after the Civil War endured:

5. In large cities in the late 1800s, what animals created massive amounts of pollution problems?

(see the answer key)

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