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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. How did most landlords treat their tenants in the late 1800s?
(a) With reasonable rents.
(b) Landlords kept their places nice for good tenants.
(c) With a hands-off policy.
(d) With unfair cruelty.

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

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

4. What did Richard M. Hunt develop to help with overcrowding and the housing shortage?
(a) Homeless shelters.
(b) The suburbs.
(c) Government sponsored housing.
(d) The vertical apartment building.

5. In what year was the El Train introduced?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1870.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one initial problem with the electric trolley car?

3. What was the name of the first vertical apartments?

4. In New York after the Civil War, in what area was the greatest contrast between rich and poor seen?

5. What percentage of a working man's income did streetcar fares account for?

(see the answer key)

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