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Quiz for Document 19–3: Jacob Riis, Waifs of New York City’s Slums, 1890

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. According to Riis, what was the most common reason for women of New York’s East Side to abandon their babies?

Their husbands did not want more mouths to feed.

The babies were the result of extramarital affairs.

They were typically poor, young, and unmarried.

The babies were almost exclusively girls.

2. Which fate was most common for poor abandoned babies?

Being raised at the Foundling Asylum

Adoption by a rich family

Death due to exposure or other health issues

Reunion with their birth mothers

3. How did poor mothers help support the Foundling Asylum?

They donated money and clothing.

They fostered young children in their homes.

They discouraged other mothers from abandoning their children.

They nursed young babies at the asylum.