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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Traffic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bettmann in "Air," many people were cramped together in windowless rooms in the tenements during the summer, causing:
(a) An increase in determination to succeed in the working class.
(b) Many people to flee the cities.
(c) Landlords to lower rents.
(d) Heat stroke and dehydration.

2. What problem did profit motives lead to for street car riders in the late 1800s?
(a) Massive overcrowding.
(b) Routes that were not expanded as the city expanded.
(c) Lack of upkeep on the lines.
(d) Unsafe vehicles.

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

4. What was the main cause of lung irritation, vomiting and sickness for people in the large cities in the early 19th century?
(a) Smoking tobacco.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Industrial vapors.

5. In the time after the Civil War, humans generated an amazing amount of:
(a) Trash.
(b) Ingenuity.
(c) Offspring.
(d) Textiles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In large cities in the late 1800s, what animals created massive amounts of pollution problems?

2. Providing the reader with a truer understanding of the late 1800s, Bettmann demonstrated:

3. According to Bettmann in the chapter "Air," what did some people think air pollution was a good sign of?

4. Traffic in the large American cities in the late 1800s was:

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

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