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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Otto Bettman wished to shatter the misconceptions of the late 19th century by:
(a) Reporting how glorious life in the late nineteenth century really was.
(b) Describing the westward movement.
(c) Demonstrating what life was really like for average people.
(d) Reporting how the nineteenth century immigrants flourished in the New World.

2. What was the biggest safety threat in the vertical apartments in the late 1800s?
(a) Lead poisoning.
(b) Unsafe water.
(c) Earthquakes.
(d) Fire.

3. According to Bettmann, what percentage of New Yorkers lived in the slums between 1868 and 1875?
(a) Thirty percent.
(b) Ten Percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Twenty-five percent.

4. According to Bettmann in "Housing," where did poorer residents end up who could not afford tenements?
(a) On the outskirts of the city.
(b) Sleeping at railway stations.
(c) Boarding homes.
(d) Homeless shelters.

5. In what year was the El Train introduced?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1868.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bettmann say street car riders in the late 1800s were encouraged to bring along on their ride?

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

3. Who were most of the shantytown residents in the late 1800s?

4. According to Bettmann in "Air," many people were cramped together in windowless rooms in the tenements during the summer, causing:

5. What was a major contributor to the contamination and disease in the wells in the late 19th century?

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