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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. The air quality in homes was dangerous in the late 1800s because of:
(a) Animals that were kept indoors.
(b) Sewer gas from primitive drainage systems.
(c) High temperatures from the heat outside.
(d) The smog would get trapped inside.

4. 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.

5. According to Bettmann in "Housing," where did poorer residents end up who could not afford tenements?
(a) Boarding homes.
(b) Homeless shelters.
(c) On the outskirts of the city.
(d) Sleeping at railway stations.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The weather was often an obstacle for what mode of transportation in the large cities after the Civil War?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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