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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bettmann in "Food and Drink," what percentage of people in prison were alcoholics?
(a) 45%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 30%.
(d) 60%.

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

3. What was "swill" milk?
(a) Milk that had gone bad.
(b) Milk from goats.
(c) Milk that was used for medicinal purposes.
(d) Milk from cows that were fed waste.

4. What was Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall?
(a) A country-western song.
(b) A corrupt political crime ring.
(c) An infamous night club known for illegal trafficking.
(d) Two famous New York cops.

5. What percentage of black children received any education at all in 1890?
(a) 30%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 20%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of education did a teacher have to have in the late 1800s?

2. What could the Pullman sleeping car in the late 19th century be compared to?

3. Which part of the population got to enjoy the luxuries of ocean liners in the late 19th century?

4. Why was there such massive overcrowding on Manhattan Island in the late 1800s?

5. Who managed the insane asylums of the late 1800s?

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