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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. What people took advantage of the tenants in the time after the Civil War?
(a) The immigrants.
(b) The police.
(c) The landlords.
(d) The merchants.

2. What was the main cause of lung irritation, vomiting and sickness for people in the large cities in the early 19th century?
(a) Smoking tobacco.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Industrial vapors.
(d) Food poisoning.

3. Just like their male counterparts, frontier women after the Civil War endured:
(a) Harsh weather.
(b) Lack of voting rights.
(c) Back-breaking labor.
(d) Small town life.

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

5. What problems did the railroads add to any town in the late 1800s?
(a) Prestige.
(b) Pollution and noise.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Crime.

Short Answer Questions

1. Providing the reader with a truer understanding of the late 1800s, Bettmann demonstrated:

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

3. According to Bettmann in "Air," one observer called the worst New York industrial area a:

4. When the railroads came to a town after the Civil War, where were they placed?

5. After the Civil War, how did the railroad monopoly hurt the rural farmers?

(see the answer key)

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