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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Leisure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Just like their male counterparts, frontier women after the Civil War endured:
(a) Back-breaking labor.
(b) Lack of voting rights.
(c) Small town life.
(d) Harsh weather.

2. According to Bettmann in "Education," children from different villages in the same classroom invariably led to what?
(a) Difficulty getting all the children attending at the same time.
(b) Violence and fighting.
(c) Communication problems.
(d) Tardiness.

3. What kind of work did the young rural girls often find in the cities in the late 1800s?
(a) Selling door to door.
(b) Servant help.
(c) No work was to be found.
(d) In the sweatshops.

4. According to Bettmann in the chapter "Air," what did some people think air pollution was a good sign of?
(a) Health.
(b) Luck.
(c) Wind currents.
(d) Industry.

5. What was one common agonizing disease that continued to break out in the South after the Civil War?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Yellow Fever.
(c) Leprosy
(d) Influenza.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bettmann say street car riders in the late 1800s were encouraged to bring along on their ride?

2. Prisons in the latter 19th century were regarded as places of:

3. To some, the time between the end of the Civil War and the early 1900s was known as what?

4. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," what frontier necessity was often a cesspool of contamination?

5. In the late 1800s, who was it that posed a threat to those on the frontier and instilled a sense of fear?

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