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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were most of the shantytown residents in the late 1800s?
(a) Newly-arrived immigrants.
(b) Runaways.
(c) People displaced by their landlords.
(d) African-Americans.

2. Before cars, what was the main source of transportation in the late 1800s?
(a) Bicycles.
(b) Horses.
(c) Subways.
(d) Walking.

3. What people took advantage of the tenants in the time after the Civil War?
(a) The merchants.
(b) The police.
(c) The landlords.
(d) The immigrants.

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

5. What kind of problem did the El Train have initially?
(a) It was unattractive.
(b) It didn't accomodate enough people.
(c) It didn't go where riders needed it to go.
(d) It was loud and poorly scheduled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the biggest safety threat in the vertical apartments in the late 1800s?

2. What was a popular type of big city housing during the late 1800s?

3. Why did tenants in the late 1800s have such big problems when it came to housing in the big cities?

4. According to Bettmann, what percentage of New Yorkers lived in the slums between 1868 and 1875?

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

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