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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Women on the frontier in the late 1800s also endured the hard work of what daily chore?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Chicken care.
(c) Laundry.
(d) Sewing.

2. Why were some animals a pollutant problem as noted in the chapter "Air"?
(a) They got in the way of street cleaners.
(b) They had way too much carbon monoxide emissions.
(c) Their manure made an awful stench.
(d) The made noise pollution within city limits.

3. What did Richard M. Hunt develop to help with overcrowding and the housing shortage?
(a) Government sponsored housing.
(b) Homeless shelters.
(c) The suburbs.
(d) The vertical apartment building.

4. In the era after the Civil War, what was the most dangerous sweatshop activity?
(a) Tobacco stripping.
(b) Cotton weaving.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Loom operation.

5. In 1890, what was the ratio of railroad workers to work-related deaths?
(a) 1 out of 65.
(b) 1 out of 1000.
(c) 1 out of 360.
(d) 1 out of 600.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Stewart keep as many employees working at one time as possible?

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

3. What did Bettmann cite as the main reason for the traffic problems in the cities in the late 1800s?

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," how did apartments turn into vertical versions of tenements?

5. In "Housing," what did Bettmann cite as an additional cause of dangerous air quality in homes?

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