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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," why would many young girls leave the country for the promise of the city?
(a) Their families could no longer afford to feed them.
(b) They would be sent to earn a wage to help the family.
(c) They thought they could find husbands easier in the city.
(d) They watched their mothers grow prematurely old with toil.

2. What problems did the railroads add to any town in the late 1800s?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Prestige.
(c) Pollution and noise.
(d) Crime.

3. What was a common difficulty for frontiersmen after the Civil War?
(a) Financial hardship.
(b) Animals kept dying.
(c) The threat of Indians.
(d) The ground often did not yield a crop.

4. What people took advantage of the tenants in the time after the Civil War?
(a) The immigrants.
(b) The merchants.
(c) The landlords.
(d) The police.

5. What was the original purpose of the El Train?
(a) To show off new technology.
(b) To replace the horse and cart.
(c) To relieve massive overcrowding.
(d) To improve commute times.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 19th century, where was New York's shantytown?

2. After the Civil War, how did the isolation of the endless prairie affect many homesteaders?

3. According to Bettmann in the chapter "Air," what did some people think air pollution was a good sign of?

4. In the time after the Civil War, air pollution was:

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

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