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Quiz for Life in the Modern City on Film

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Quiz for the Modern City on Film

Question 22.1

1. Which of these best describes innovations in mass transportation like the ones shown in the films Elevated Train and Subway (see Document 22.1)?

They were condemned by progressive reformers.

They did nothing to alleviate urban congestion.

They led to greater social contact between rich and poor.

They facilitated the growth of the suburbs.

Correct. The answer is d. Public transportation systems allowed middle-class people to live in the suburbs and work in the city.

Incorrect. The answer is d. Public transportation systems allowed middle-class people to live in the suburbs and work in the city.

Question 22.2

2. Which group would be most likely to oppose the construction and demolition seen in the films Beginning of a Skyscraper and The Demolition of the Star Theater (see Document 22.2)?

White-collar professionals

Progressive reformers

Residents of older urban neighborhoods

Real estate developers

Correct. The answer is c. Reformers and developers often failed to take into account the interests of the residents of neighborhoods they planned to demolish.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Reformers and developers often failed to take into account the interests of the residents of neighborhoods they planned to demolish.

Question 22.3

3. Which of these conclusions is justified based on the evidence provided by the films New York City Dumping Wharf and Sorting Refuse at an Incinerating Plant (see Document 22.3)?

Late-nineteenth-century cities made little or no progress in improving public health and sanitation.

Late-nineteenth-century cities employed recycling to a far greater degree than is generally known.

By the late nineteenth century, modern cities had achieved levels of sanitation similar to those that prevail now.

The solutions employed by late-nineteenth-century cities to solve their waste disposal problems probably created new, unintended environmental issues.

Correct. The answer is d. In almost all cases, cities burned their garbage, or simply concentrated it in locations outside of the city.

Incorrect. The answer is d. In almost all cases, cities burned their garbage, or simply concentrated it in locations outside of the city.

Question 22.4

4. What important shift in urban life is reflected in the film New York Fire Department, Annual Parade (see Document 22.4)?

The shift in responsibility for municipal services from private companies to public organizations

The growth in urban pride and boosterism

The increase in local and regional autonomy

The trend toward ethnic segregation

Correct. The answer is a. Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, city governments took responsibility for a variety of municipal services that had previously been supplied by private companies on a for-profit basis.

Incorrect. The answer is a. Over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century, city governments took responsibility for a variety of municipal services that had previously been supplied by private companies on a for-profit basis.

Question 22.5

5. Organizations like New York City's "white wings," featured in the film White Wings on Review (see Document 22.4), were created to

reduce petty crime in urban neighborhoods.

alleviate the crowding of congestion of the modern city.

combat the unsanitary and unhealthy conditions in nineteenth-century cities.

aid newcomers to the city as they faced its many challenges.

Correct. The answer is c. As nineteenth-century cities grew, health and sanitation problems reached intolerable levels.

Incorrect. The answer is c. As nineteenth-century cities grew, health and sanitation problems reached intolerable levels.

Question 22.6

6. Scenes such as the one in the film Bargain Day at Rothschild's Department Store (see Document 22.5) reflected the

inability of nineteenth-century manufacturers to keep up with urban demand.

crowding and congestion of the early-nineteenth-century city.

increasing importance of consumption to middle-class culture and identity.

effects of progressive reforms on urban life.

Correct. The answer is c. Increasingly, middle-class status was defined, at least in part, by what one owned and what one wore.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Increasingly, middle-class status was defined, at least in part, by what one owned and what one wore.