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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Traffic.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the fare for the electric trolley car in the late 1800s?
(a) Five cents.
(b) One cent.
(c) Twenty-five cents.
(d) Ten cents.

3. In large cities in the late 1800s, what animals created massive amounts of pollution problems?
(a) Horses and cows.
(b) Chickens and pigs.
(c) Horses and chickens.
(d) Pigs and horses.

4. Wind as well as the heat of summer exacerbated what problem in the large cities after the Civil War?
(a) Overcrowding.
(b) The health problems of the animals.
(c) The constant putrid stench.
(d) The dark smoke emitting from the factories.

5. According to Bettmann in "Air," many people were cramped together in windowless rooms in the tenements during the summer, causing:
(a) Heat stroke and dehydration.
(b) An increase in determination to succeed in the working class.
(c) Many people to flee the cities.
(d) Landlords to lower rents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the original purpose of the El Train?

2. How did the electric trolley car create even bigger traffic problems for cities?

3. When the railroads came to a town after the Civil War, where were they placed?

4. Providing the reader with a truer understanding of the late 1800s, Bettmann demonstrated:

5. Due to a lack of a sanitation department in the late 1800s, many streets in the large American cities were lined with what?

(see the answer key)

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