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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 was the name of the first vertical apartments?
(a) Park Place.
(b) Stuyvesant Apartments.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) Lakeside Apartments.

2. In New York after the Civil War, in what area was the greatest contrast between rich and poor seen?
(a) Housing.
(b) Family size.
(c) Job security.
(d) Clothing.

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

4. Who ran the hospitals of the late 1800s?
(a) Universities.
(b) The city.
(c) The medical schools.
(d) Religious institutions.

5. How were the prisoners in the prison system treated in the post Civil War era?
(a) Like subhuman species.
(b) Much as prisoners today are treated.
(c) They were treated according to their crimes.
(d) Although incarcerated they were treated with respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bettmann, what kind of wage did Stewart award his workers?

2. What work did an ancient stove require on the frontier?

3. Why were foods manipulated with foreign ingredients in the late 19th century?

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

5. In the late 1800s, why was street crime so rampant in the large cities at night?

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