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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 the police often do with offending boys in the late 1800s?
(a) Tried to scare them into being law-obiding citizens.
(b) Sent them to Juvenile Hall.
(c) Released them to parents.
(d) Locked them up with adults.

2. What happened in a famous case in 1870 involving students and their teacher?
(a) The students set their school house on fire, injuring their teacher.
(b) The teacher refused to teach such an unruly group of students.
(c) The students picketed their school and would not attend.
(d) The students stoned the teacher to death.

3. According to Bettmann in "Health," medical colleges were designed primarily to do what?
(a) Send out qualified physicians to the frontier.
(b) Educate doctors.
(c) Make money off of tuition.
(d) Eradicate disease.

4. What did teaching methods of the late 19th century emphasize?
(a) How to learn a craft.
(b) Memorization of dull facts.
(c) Recitation and obedience.
(d) Skill mastery.

5. Education in the rural setting in the late 19th century was considered to be:
(a) A good way to keep children occupied.
(b) Optional.
(c) A waste of time.
(d) Important.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What could the Pullman sleeping car in the late 19th century be compared to?

3. According to Bettmann in "Education," children from different villages in the same classroom invariably led to what?

4. According to Bettmann, what was the homemade frontier liquor made from?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the late 19th century, how did city doctors often do more harm than good to their patients?

2. How did city politicians add to the crime problem?

3. How did the lack of medical advances affect the population of the post Civil War era?

4. In the late 1800s, what was the most effective way to fight diseases coming to America by ship?

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

6. What type of education did blacks receive during the post Civil War era?

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

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

9. In the late 1800s, why was the public pessimistic about the growing street crime in the cities?

10. According to Bettmann in "Travel," how were the below-deck boilers a danger to ferry travelers?

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