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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Bettmann in "Housing," how did apartments turn into vertical versions of tenements?
(a) Noxious air indoors.
(b) Cruel landlords.
(c) Shoddy construction practices.
(d) Animals indoors were commonplace.

4. What does Bettmann say street car riders in the late 1800s were encouraged to bring along on their ride?
(a) An umbrella.
(b) A weapon.
(c) A drink.
(d) Sufficient change.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was there such massive overcrowding on Manhattan Island in the late 1800s?

2. According to "Rural Life," where were children most likely to be on the prairie?

3. What was one initial problem with the electric trolley car?

4. What was a popular type of big city housing during the late 1800s?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the late 1800s, were strikes an effective way to handle grievances by workers?

2. What made the popular brownstone a stuffy and hazardous place to live for it's occupants?

3. What was the area in New York that was the worst air pollution offender in the late 19th century?

4. What were some of the back-breaking laborious chores that frontier women had to endure?

5. What was the most famous sewing-related sweatshop in New York?

6. How did the apartments of the late 1800s often turn into death traps for its occupants?

7. How did winter pose a health hazard on the frontier?

8. What was New York's shantytown, and who lived there in the late 19th century?

9. Why was child labor so common in the late 1800s?

10. What caused the local wells on the frontier to become contaminated?

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