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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Food and Drink.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bettmann, what was the homemade frontier liquor made from?
(a) Grapes.
(b) Apples.
(c) Corn.
(d) Beets.

2. What was the name of the first vertical apartments?
(a) Park Place.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Lakeside Apartments.
(d) Stuyvesant Apartments.

3. According to Bettmann in "Food and Drink," what percentage of people in prison were alcoholics?
(a) 45%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 30%.

4. Just like their male counterparts, frontier women after the Civil War endured:
(a) Small town life.
(b) Back-breaking labor.
(c) Lack of voting rights.
(d) Harsh weather.

5. What was blamed for the cholera epidemic in 1832?
(a) Tainted Meat.
(b) Unclean water.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) Unsanitary restaurants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hours did Steward demand his employees work?

2. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," what frontier necessity was often a cesspool of contamination?

3. What did Bettmann cite as the main reason for the traffic problems in the cities in the late 1800s?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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