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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bettmann in "Air," many people were cramped together in windowless rooms in the tenements during the summer, causing:
(a) Heat stroke and dehydration.
(b) An increase in determination to succeed in the working class.
(c) Many people to flee the cities.
(d) Landlords to lower rents.

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

3. According to Bettmann in "Health," how was insanity regarded?
(a) As a humorous condition.
(b) As a condition that could not be cured.
(c) As a social imposition.
(d) As demon possession.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1800s, how was milk treated when it had spoiled?

2. In the cities in the late 1800s, what did the public health officials do to help stop disease?

3. Where were the first apartments constructed?

4. According to Bettmann in "Food and Drink," in what condition were the cows when they arrived at the slaughterhouse?

5. Who was A.T. Stewart?

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