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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Education.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did teaching methods of the late 19th century emphasize?
(a) Memorization of dull facts.
(b) How to learn a craft.
(c) Recitation and obedience.
(d) Skill mastery.

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

3. In large cities in the late 1800s, what animals created massive amounts of pollution problems?
(a) Horses and chickens.
(b) Horses and cows.
(c) Pigs and horses.
(d) Chickens and pigs.

4. In the late 1800s, why was street crime so rampant in the large cities at night?
(a) People were not careful and were easy targets.
(b) The police did not patrol at night.
(c) Streets were poorly lit.
(d) The were few alternatives to keep criminals off the streets.

5. According to Bettmann in "Crime," what higher-level organizations were just as corrupted as the police?
(a) City politics.
(b) FBI.
(c) SWAT.
(d) The senate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one effective way to fight disease carried by ships into New York Harbor?

3. In what year was the El Train introduced?

4. In the time after the Civil War, air pollution was:

5. How did most landlords treat their tenants in the late 1800s?

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