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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," one observer called the worst New York industrial area a:
(a) "Smog City."
(b) "Industrial wasteland."
(c) "Heart of the New Economy."
(d) "Nasal Disaster."

2. The weather was often an obstacle for what mode of transportation in the large cities after the Civil War?
(a) Street cars.
(b) City Buses.
(c) Rickshaws.
(d) Taxis.

3. What was the name of the first vertical apartments?
(a) Park Place.
(b) Lakeside Apartments.
(c) Stuyvesant Apartments.
(d) The New Yorker.

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," how did apartments turn into vertical versions of tenements?
(a) Cruel landlords.
(b) Shoddy construction practices.
(c) Noxious air indoors.
(d) Animals indoors were commonplace.

5. Why, does Bettmann explain, were pigs tolerated in the cities?
(a) They made good pets.
(b) They provided good food.
(c) They ate garbage.
(d) They were inexpensive to keep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the first apartments constructed?

2. The air quality in homes was dangerous in the late 1800s because of:

3. According to Bettman in "Traffic," in what city was a record 330 crossing-grade deaths in one year?

4. In the time after the Civil War, air pollution was:

5. What problem did profit motives lead to for street car riders in the late 1800s?

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