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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In large cities in the late 1800s, what animals created massive amounts of pollution problems?
(a) Pigs and horses.
(b) Chickens and pigs.
(c) Horses and chickens.
(d) Horses and cows.

2. What does Bettmann say street car riders in the late 1800s were encouraged to bring along on their ride?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A drink.
(c) Sufficient change.
(d) An umbrella.

3. What was the biggest safety threat in the vertical apartments in the late 1800s?
(a) Lead poisoning.
(b) Earthquakes.
(c) Fire.
(d) Unsafe water.

4. According to Bettmann in "Health," how was insanity regarded?
(a) As demon possession.
(b) As a condition that could not be cured.
(c) As a humorous condition.
(d) As a social imposition.

5. What could the Pullman sleeping car in the late 19th century be compared to?
(a) Sleeping in a cattle car.
(b) Sleeping in a sardine can.
(c) The luxuries of an ocean liner.
(d) Sleeping standing up.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the frontier in the late 1800s, what was the homemade liquor called?

2. What was a chief problem of the lower decks of an ocean liner?

3. Wind as well as the heat of summer exacerbated what problem in the large cities after the Civil War?

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

5. In the era after the Civil War, what was the most dangerous sweatshop activity?

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