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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the frontier drunkards in the late 19th century?
(a) Saloon owners.
(b) Whole families, including children.
(c) The homeless.
(d) Many who were left alone on the frontier.

2. When was opium introduced?
(a) In the 1850s.
(b) As early as 1840.
(c) 1845.
(d) As early as 1862.

3. What was a chief problem of the lower decks of an ocean liner?
(a) Leaks.
(b) Lack of proper ventilation.
(c) Not enough beds.
(d) Improper lighting.

4. Which part of the population got to enjoy the luxuries of ocean liners in the late 19th century?
(a) The rich.
(b) Foreign dignitaries.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) Politicians.

5. According to Bettmann in "Crime," what higher-level organizations were just as corrupted as the police?
(a) City politics.
(b) FBI.
(c) The senate.
(d) SWAT.

Short Answer Questions

1. Education in the rural setting in the late 19th century was considered to be:

2. In the late 1800s, why would a cop be encouraged to beat up a perpetrator?

3. According to Bettmann in "Food and Drink," what percentage of people in prison were alcoholics?

4. Surprisingly, who usually had no knowledge of health or medicine in the late 19th century?

5. What percentage of black children received any education at all in 1890?

Short Essay Questions

1. What one food was the frontier diet staple?

2. In the late 1800s, what was the most effective way to fight diseases coming to America by ship?

3. How did city politicians add to the crime problem?

4. What were some of the characteristics of the one-room schoolhouses on the prairie?

5. In the late 1800s, why were the police not much help in the fight against crime?

6. In the late 19th century, how did ocean liner travel exemplify the differences in travel for the rich and travel for the poor?

7. How did the lack of medical advances affect the population of the post Civil War era?

8. What was "bogus butter"?

9. How was drug addiction so rampant in the average population in the late 1800s?

10. How did alcohol affect families on the frontier?

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