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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Rural Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," why would many young girls leave the country for the promise of the city?
(a) They thought they could find husbands easier in the city.
(b) They would be sent to earn a wage to help the family.
(c) They watched their mothers grow prematurely old with toil.
(d) Their families could no longer afford to feed them.

3. Where were the first apartments constructed?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. According to Bettmann in the chapter "Air," what did some people think air pollution was a good sign of?
(a) Luck.
(b) Health.
(c) Industry.
(d) Wind currents.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the original purpose of the El Train?

3. What percentage of a working man's income did streetcar fares account for?

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

5. What did overpopulation in the big cities mean for the tenants in the late 1800s?

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