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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 was one initial problem with the electric trolley car?
(a) It was way too slow.
(b) It broke down often.
(c) It didn't hold enough people.
(d) It competed with the horse-drawn streetcars for space.

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

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

4. Due to a lack of a sanitation department in the late 1800s, many streets in the large American cities were lined with what?
(a) Filth.
(b) People living on the streets.
(c) Trash bins.
(d) Animals.

5. In the late 1800s, who was it that posed a threat to those on the frontier and instilled a sense of fear?
(a) Cattle thieves.
(b) Train robbers.
(c) Tramps and various vagrants.
(d) Runaways.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Bettmann in the chapter "Air," what did some people think air pollution was a good sign of?

3. In New York after the Civil War, in what area was the greatest contrast between rich and poor seen?

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

5. What was a common difficulty for frontiersmen after the Civil War?

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