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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a popular type of big city housing during the late 1800s?
(a) Shanties.
(b) The suburbs.
(c) High-rise apartments.
(d) The brownstone.

2. Traffic in the large American cities in the late 1800s was:
(a) Light.
(b) Not too bad if you had a map.
(c) Easy.
(d) Horrendous.

3. What did Richard M. Hunt develop to help with overcrowding and the housing shortage?
(a) Homeless shelters.
(b) The suburbs.
(c) The vertical apartment building.
(d) Government sponsored housing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why, does Bettmann explain, were pigs tolerated in the cities?

3. What did Bettmann cite as the main reason for the traffic problems in the cities in the late 1800s?

4. What problems did the railroads add to any town in the late 1800s?

5. What was the fare for the electric trolley car in the late 1800s?

(see the answer key)

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