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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Housing.

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 problems did the railroads add to any town in the late 1800s?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Pollution and noise.
(c) Prestige.
(d) Crime.

3. Why were some animals a pollutant problem as noted in the chapter "Air"?
(a) Their manure made an awful stench.
(b) They had way too much carbon monoxide emissions.
(c) They got in the way of street cleaners.
(d) The made noise pollution within city limits.

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

5. Why did tenants in the late 1800s have such big problems when it came to housing in the big cities?
(a) A lease was seldom renewed.
(b) There was too much housing to chose from.
(c) Landlords did not allow animals.
(d) They had no laws to protect them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to a lack of a sanitation department in the late 1800s, many streets in the large American cities were lined with what?

2. What did Richard M. Hunt develop to help with overcrowding and the housing shortage?

3. According to Bettmann in "Housing," where did poorer residents end up who could not afford tenements?

4. In New York after the Civil War, in what area was the greatest contrast between rich and poor seen?

5. In "Housing," what did Bettmann cite as an additional cause of dangerous air quality in homes?

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