6.4.4 Quiz Review

What were areas in a city called where most of the poor working class lived in crowded conditions?

• Slums

• Neighborhoods

• Back alleys

• Tenements

What is a slum?

• An area on the edge of a city where people had to ride the train to work

• An area on the edge of a city where houses were farther apart

• An area of a city that was poor, dangerous, and crowded

• An area of a city where people all worked in the same factory

What kinds of jobs did working-class women hold?

• Nurses

• Office workers

• Teachers

• Seamstresses

Which of these was a job that a working-class man would most likely hold?

• Inventor

• Meatpacker

• Lawyer

• Office worker

What jobs were working-class children most likely to hold?

• Delivering messages

• Street cleaning

• Shoe shining

• All of the above

Why didn't people move out of the slums?

• The living conditions were getting better.

• There was no other housing in cities.

• They didn't make enough money.

• They liked living there.

What was a common belief about people who lived in the slums?

• They should pay more rent to have bigger rooms.

• They should move out of the city to the countryside

• They should find jobs with charity organizations.

• They didn't want to work or live in better conditions.

Many working-class families lived in slums because:

• They preferred those sections of the cities.

• They were forced to live there by the government.

• They could not afford to live anywhere else.

• They did not want to improve their condition.

What were large apartment buildings that were often loud, dirty, and crowded called?

• Charity organizations

• Neighborhoods

• Nursing homes

• Tenements

What was a tenement?

• A large apartment building that was usually overcrowded and dirty

• An ethnic enclave within a smaller city

• A run-down part of the city where poorer people lived

• A building where the factory owner made his employees live