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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did tenants in the late 1800s have such big problems when it came to housing in the big cities?
(a) Landlords did not allow animals.
(b) They had no laws to protect them.
(c) There was too much housing to chose from.
(d) A lease was seldom renewed.

2. What percentage of farmers in the 1880s had to mortgage their land?
(a) 75%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 10%.

3. Author Otto Bettman wished to shatter the misconceptions of the late 19th century by:
(a) Demonstrating what life was really like for average people.
(b) Reporting how glorious life in the late nineteenth century really was.
(c) Describing the westward movement.
(d) Reporting how the nineteenth century immigrants flourished in the New World.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the electric trolley car create even bigger traffic problems for cities?

3. How did parents react to child labor in the late 1800s?

4. How did the police handle strikes in the late 1800s?

5. According to the chapter "Work," what was a typical work week in the late 1800s?

(see the answer key)

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