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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Travel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other problems did city schools face in the post Civil War era?
(a) Teacher turnover.
(b) Lack of decent materials.
(c) Poor lighting and poor air quality.
(d) Student crime.

2. How did parents in the late 1800s react to teachers using necessary classroom discipline?
(a) They fought against it.
(b) They withdrew their children from school.
(c) They encouraged it.
(d) They began to educate their own children.

3. How did the gun laws after the Civil War compound the problem?
(a) The laws enabled known criminals to carry weapons.
(b) There were no real gun laws.
(c) Only the frontier lawmen were allowed to carry guns.
(d) The waiting period was too short to buy a weapon.

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

5. What percentage of surgeries in the late 19th century ended in death?
(a) 50%.
(b) 40%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 25%.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why were some animals a pollutant problem as noted in the chapter "Air"?

4. In the late 1800s, what disease affected the city dwellers as well as the frontier people?

5. According to Bettmann in "Health," how was insanity regarded?

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