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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of a working man's income did streetcar fares account for?
(a) Five percent.
(b) Two percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Ten percent.

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) "The Wild West Era."
(c) "Hard luck times."
(d) "Post War Era."

3. Author Otto Bettman wished to shatter the misconceptions of the late 19th century by:
(a) Reporting how glorious life in the late nineteenth century really was.
(b) Reporting how the nineteenth century immigrants flourished in the New World.
(c) Describing the westward movement.
(d) Demonstrating what life was really like for average people.

4. When the railroads came to a town after the Civil War, where were they placed?
(a) They were placed a minimum of one mile from any residential area.
(b) They were run on the outskirts of town.
(c) They were usually run through the industrial areas.
(d) They went straight through the towns.

5. Wind as well as the heat of summer exacerbated what problem in the large cities after the Civil War?
(a) Overcrowding.
(b) The dark smoke emitting from the factories.
(c) The health problems of the animals.
(d) The constant putrid stench.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why were some animals a pollutant problem as noted in the chapter "Air"?

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

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

5. What does Bettmann say street car riders in the late 1800s were encouraged to bring along on their ride?

(see the answer key)

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