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

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) An increase in determination to succeed in the working class.
(b) Landlords to lower rents.
(c) Heat stroke and dehydration.
(d) Many people to flee the cities.

2. How did people know when a ship in the late 19th century was infected with disease?
(a) The ship radioed ahead.
(b) The captain ran ashore with the news.
(c) The ship flew a yellow flag.
(d) The ship came into the harbor but did not anchor.

3. Author Otto Bettman wished to shatter the misconceptions of the late 19th century by:
(a) Reporting how glorious life in the late nineteenth century really was.
(b) Reporting how the nineteenth century immigrants flourished in the New World.
(c) Describing the westward movement.
(d) Demonstrating what life was really like for average people.

4. According to Bettmann in "Work," in cases of a worker's death the courts ruled with the employers, calling the death:
(a) The worker's fault.
(b) Unpreventable.
(c) An acceptable loss.
(d) Bad luck.

5. How did parents in the late 1800s react to teachers using necessary classroom discipline?
(a) They began to educate their own children.
(b) They withdrew their children from school.
(c) They fought against it.
(d) They encouraged it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the prisoners in the prison system treated in the post Civil War era?

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

3. What activity entertained bored urban children in the late 1800s?

4. What characterized American eating habits in the post Civil War era?

5. What kind of education did a teacher have to have in the late 1800s?

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