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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Rural Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of problem did the El Train have initially?
(a) It was loud and poorly scheduled.
(b) It didn't accomodate enough people.
(c) It was unattractive.
(d) It didn't go where riders needed it to go.

2. Why, does Bettmann explain, were pigs tolerated in the cities?
(a) They provided good food.
(b) They were inexpensive to keep.
(c) They made good pets.
(d) They ate garbage.

3. How did the electric trolley car create even bigger traffic problems for cities?
(a) It was way too slow.
(b) It was poorly scheduled.
(c) It was built on the busiest streets.
(d) Too many people wanted to ride.

4. In New York after the Civil War, in what area was the greatest contrast between rich and poor seen?
(a) Family size.
(b) Job security.
(c) Housing.
(d) Clothing.

5. Why did farmers in the 1880s have to mortgage their land?
(a) Drought.
(b) Pestilence.
(c) Debt.
(d) No crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first vertical apartments?

2. What percentage of a working man's income did streetcar fares account for?

3. What kind of work did the young rural girls often find in the cities in the late 1800s?

4. According to Bettmann in "Air," one observer called the worst New York industrial area a:

5. What percentage of farmers in the 1880s had to mortgage their land?

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