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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. How could travel in the Victorian period be defined?
(a) Exciting.
(b) Slow.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Quick and easy.

2. Prisons in the latter 19th century were regarded as places of:
(a) Punishment.
(b) Crime.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Rehabilitation.

3. The diet of the average American in the late 19th century was:
(a) Highly varied.
(b) Vegetarian.
(c) Mostly Italian.
(d) Far from healthful.

4. Why were foods manipulated with foreign ingredients in the late 19th century?
(a) Because real ingredients were scarce.
(b) Because people were trying to make their money go further.
(c) To better the taste.
(d) For profit.

5. According to Bettmann in "Crime," how did juvenile delinquency affect the large cities?
(a) With lack of school attendance.
(b) With organized youth gangs.
(c) With large scale gambling.
(d) With rampant kidnappings.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 19th century, how did families deal with members who had mental illnesses?

2. Who were the frontier drunkards in the late 19th century?

3. What was one effective way to fight disease carried by ships into New York Harbor?

4. Disease and sickness on the ocean liners caused them to be nicknamed:

5. What was a chief concern with train travel in the late 1800s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What one food was the frontier diet staple?

2. What were doctors on the frontier like, and what were the primary diseases that ravaged the country populations?

3. What teaching methods were emphasized by many teachers in the late 1800s?

4. How were criminals treated in the prisons in the late 1800s?

5. In the late 1800s, why were the police not much help in the fight against crime?

6. In the late 19th century, how did the lack of a meat-packing industry affect the quality of meat that was available to the general public?

7. How was milk treated for consumers when it has been contaminated or spoiled?

8. After the Civil War, how effective were the hospitals at helping the sick and infirm?

9. What were some of the characteristics of the one-room schoolhouses on the prairie?

10. Why didn't people turn to vegetables given the state of the meat industry?

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