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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the electric trolley car create even bigger traffic problems for cities?
(a) It was built on the busiest streets.
(b) It was way too slow.
(c) It was poorly scheduled.
(d) Too many people wanted to ride.

2. According to "Rural Life," where were children most likely to be on the prairie?
(a) Boarding school.
(b) Physically working to help their parents.
(c) Playing games on the farm.
(d) At school.

3. How were the workers of labor strikes in the late 19th century perceived to be by the public?
(a) Lawless and violent.
(b) Troublemakers.
(c) Fighting for fair treatment.
(d) Unjustly treated.

4. What did Richard M. Hunt develop to help with overcrowding and the housing shortage?
(a) The vertical apartment building.
(b) The suburbs.
(c) Homeless shelters.
(d) Government sponsored housing.

5. Which industry featured the most brutal conditions for time and wages in the late 1800s?
(a) Textile.
(b) Auto.
(c) Steel.
(d) Railroad.

6. Women on the frontier in the late 1800s also endured the hard work of what daily chore?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Chicken care.

7. Providing the reader with a truer understanding of the late 1800s, Bettmann demonstrated:
(a) How the Civil War improved our economy.
(b) The large amounts of progress our civilization has made.
(c) How the days from the Civil War to WWI were key to the development of our nation.
(d) Why we should long for those simpler days.

8. What percentage of farmers in the 1880s had to mortgage their land?
(a) 50%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 10%.

9. What was the fare for the electric trolley car in the late 1800s?
(a) Twenty-five cents.
(b) One cent.
(c) Five cents.
(d) Ten cents.

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

11. What was a major contributor to the contamination and disease in the wells in the late 19th century?
(a) Misunderstanding of germs.
(b) Drainage from the outhouse.
(c) Typhoid epidemic.
(d) Food left out.

12. What was a popular type of big city housing during the late 1800s?
(a) High-rise apartments.
(b) The brownstone.
(c) Shanties.
(d) The suburbs.

13. In what year was the electric trolley car introduced?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1887.

14. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," what frontier necessity was often a cesspool of contamination?
(a) The outhouse.
(b) The barn.
(c) The local well.
(d) Nearby streams.

15. In "Air," what was a common misconception about air pollution?
(a) That it attracted business.
(b) That it cured ailments.
(c) That it created envy in nations overseas.
(d) That it helped horticulture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of problem did the El Train have initially?

2. According to Bettman in "Traffic," in what city was a record 330 crossing-grade deaths in one year?

3. After the Civil War, how did the isolation of the endless prairie affect many homesteaders?

4. In New York after the Civil War, in what area was the greatest contrast between rich and poor seen?

5. In the era after the Civil War, what was the most dangerous sweatshop activity?

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