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Quiz for Document 21–2: Royal Melendy, Ethical Substitutes for the Saloon, 1900

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did Melendy think saloons in working-class Chicago were so popular at the turn of the century?

Saloons offered excellent-quality beers and other liquors.

Saloons were ideal sites for professional networking and business negotiations.

Saloons were more welcoming than many men’s poverty-stricken home lives.

Saloons offered free sodas and milk, which made them friendly and safe for children.

2. What type of assistance did saloons offer for the neighborhood’s less fortunate residents?

Child care

Free food

Cheap lodging

Formal education

3. According to Melendy, what was the relationship between saloons and Americanization?

The segregation of ethnic groups at different saloons delayed immigrants’ assimilation.

The radical ideas circulated at saloons undermined the foundations of a capitalist democracy.

The mixing of ethnic groups and informal conversations among saloon customers aided the process of Americanization.

The social hierarchy maintained at saloons helped immigrants understand class divisions in American society.