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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did farmers in the 1880s have to mortgage their land?
(a) No crops.
(b) Debt.
(c) Pestilence.
(d) Drought.

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

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

5. How did parents react to child labor in the late 1800s?
(a) They encouraged it.
(b) They fought against it.
(c) They hid their children with distant relatives.
(d) They sued the industries that practiced it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the El Train introduced?

2. Where were the first apartments constructed?

3. Wind as well as the heat of summer exacerbated what problem in the large cities after the Civil War?

4. Traffic in the large American cities in the late 1800s was:

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

(see the answer key)

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