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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. Providing the reader with a truer understanding of the late 1800s, Bettmann demonstrated:
(a) How the Civil War improved our economy.
(b) Why we should long for those simpler days.
(c) The large amounts of progress our civilization has made.
(d) How the days from the Civil War to WWI were key to the development of our nation.

2. Why did winter pose a health problem to those on the frontier according to Bettmann in "Rural Life"?
(a) People inhaled smoke in their closed houses.
(b) It was hard to stay healthy in drafty homes.
(c) Flu epidemics were common.
(d) Frostbite was common.

3. In the late 19th century, where was New York's shantytown?
(a) Downtown.
(b) Near the industrial neighborhood.
(c) Near the railway station.
(d) On the outskirts of the city.

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

5. According to Bettmann, what percentage of New Yorkers lived in the slums between 1868 and 1875?
(a) Twenty-five percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Ten Percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Just like their male counterparts, frontier women after the Civil War endured:

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

4. Author Otto Bettman wished to shatter the misconceptions of the late 19th century by:

5. What kind of problem did the El Train have initially?

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