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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The weather was often an obstacle for what mode of transportation in the large cities after the Civil War?
(a) Rickshaws.
(b) Taxis.
(c) Street cars.
(d) City Buses.

2. In the late 1800s, who was it that posed a threat to those on the frontier and instilled a sense of fear?
(a) Tramps and various vagrants.
(b) Runaways.
(c) Train robbers.
(d) Cattle thieves.

3. In what decade was window screening introduced?
(a) 1900s.
(b) 1890s.
(c) 1880s.
(d) 1870s.

4. According to Bettmann in "Education," what was the pitiful education for blacks due to?
(a) Lack of desire.
(b) Lack of qualified teachers.
(c) Lack of materials.
(d) Racism.

5. In the late 19th century, at what age were most workers forced to stop working due to health problems?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Fifty-five.
(c) Forty.
(d) Forty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Otto Bettman wished to shatter the misconceptions of the late 19th century by:

2. According to Bettmann in "Health," medical colleges were designed primarily to do what?

3. What were three diseases that ravaged country populations in the post Civil War era?

4. Women on the frontier in the late 1800s also endured the hard work of what daily chore?

5. In the time after the Civil War, humans generated an amazing amount of:

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