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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. In what year was the electric trolley car introduced?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1887.

2. Wind as well as the heat of summer exacerbated what problem in the large cities after the Civil War?
(a) The dark smoke emitting from the factories.
(b) The health problems of the animals.
(c) Overcrowding.
(d) The constant putrid stench.

3. To some, the time between the end of the Civil War and the early 1900s was known as what?
(a) "Hard luck times."
(b) "The Good Old Days."
(c) "Post War Era."
(d) "The Wild West Era."

4. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," what frontier necessity was often a cesspool of contamination?
(a) Nearby streams.
(b) The barn.
(c) The local well.
(d) The outhouse.

5. In the time after the Civil War, air pollution was:
(a) Much less than it was before the Civil War.
(b) Not a problem.
(c) Not understood.
(d) Only a problem in the South.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first vertical apartments?

2. After the Civil War, how did the isolation of the endless prairie affect many homesteaders?

3. Who were most of the shantytown residents in the late 1800s?

4. Why were some animals a pollutant problem as noted in the chapter "Air"?

5. What did Richard M. Hunt develop to help with overcrowding and the housing shortage?

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