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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Travel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were three diseases that ravaged country populations in the post Civil War era?
(a) Ague, influenza, cancer.
(b) Smallpox, cholera, ague.
(c) Yellow fever, cholera, influenza.
(d) Influenza, smallpox, lice.

2. What was one effective way to fight disease carried by ships into New York Harbor?
(a) Medicine was given immediately.
(b) Officials quarantined the entire ship.
(c) They sent the ship back to its point of origin.
(d) Doctors were sent on board before the people disembarked.

3. Who managed the insane asylums of the late 1800s?
(a) The state.
(b) Certified professionals.
(c) Religious institutions.
(d) Prison guards.

4. What was "bogus butter"?
(a) Butter that the poor ate.
(b) Butter that was made from mashed potatoes, bleach or hog fat.
(c) Margarine.
(d) Butter that was made from swill milk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, does Bettmann explain, were pigs tolerated in the cities?

2. Who ran the hospitals of the late 1800s?

3. In the time after the Civil War, humans generated an amazing amount of:

4. In the late 1800s, what disease affected the city dwellers as well as the frontier people?

5. Why did meat deteriorate so quickly in the late 1800s?

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