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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. In the late 19th century, where was New York's shantytown?
(a) Downtown.
(b) On the outskirts of the city.
(c) Near the railway station.
(d) Near the industrial neighborhood.

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

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) Unpaved roads.
(c) Unsynchronized traffic lights.
(d) Too many one-way streets.

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," how did apartments turn into vertical versions of tenements?
(a) Noxious air indoors.
(b) Animals indoors were commonplace.
(c) Cruel landlords.
(d) Shoddy construction practices.

5. The weather was often an obstacle for what mode of transportation in the large cities after the Civil War?
(a) Taxis.
(b) Rickshaws.
(c) Street cars.
(d) City Buses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problems did the railroads add to any town in the late 1800s?

2. According to Bettmann, what percentage of New Yorkers lived in the slums between 1868 and 1875?

3. What kind of problem did the El Train have initially?

4. Why did farmers in the 1880s have to mortgage their land?

5. Due to a lack of a sanitation department in the late 1800s, many streets in the large American cities were lined with what?

(see the answer key)

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