15. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 15: Women in the West

**Quiz for Document 15.3: A Prostitute’s Contract (1886)**

Quiz for Document 15.3: A Prostitute’s Contract (1886)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. What does Xin Jin’s contract illustrate about immigration during the late nineteenth century?

Sex was used as a currency for immigrants.

Some immigrants still indentured themselves to reach America.

Contracts governed immigrant behavior in the American West.

Foreign women had greater opportunities to immigrate to America than men.

2. The prostitution contract provides information that suggests which of the following conclusions about Xin Jin?

She is illiterate.

She migrated with other members of her family.

She was a skilled seamstress.

She is unhealthy.

3. The “four loathsome diseases” mentioned in the contract are most likely

common childhood illnesses such as measles.

deadly diseases such as smallpox.

sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis.

those acquired in wet tropical areas, such as malaria.

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