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AP U.S. History — Period 7 (1890–1945) — Drill 13

Drill 13 · Multiple Choice · Period 7: 1890–1945

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AP U.S. History — Period 7 (1890–1945) — Drill 13 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 7: 1890–1945. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This AP U.S. History Period 7 drill is based on an adapted excerpt from Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives (1890). Questions analyze Riis's rhetorical and journalistic strategies, his argument for social reform, the conditions he describes in New York tenements, and the Progressive Era reform context.

Passage

The following is adapted from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, by journalist and social reformer Jacob Riis, published in 1890. Bandits' Roost, Mulberry Street. In the depth of yonder tenement block, a hundred and forty families are housed, and for every adult there are two children, so that the children outnumber the adults two to one. Every summer a hundred thousand children, at least, are turned out like so many cattle from these tenements to seek coolness wherever it can be found. The mortality is appalling. It is one of the saddest reflections upon our civilization that the masses of the poor, even in this rich city, must depend for what holidays they have upon the charity of others, while the landlord baits his trap with what passes for home. I make no apology for speaking plainly of those whose misery I have seen; it is the business of civilization to attend to these things.

Questions in This Drill

  1. Riis's phrase 'it is the business of civilization to attend to these things' most directly conveys his belief that
  2. Riis's comparison of tenement children to 'cattle turned out' from the tenements primarily serves to
  3. The context most directly relevant to understanding the impact of How the Other Half Lives was
  4. Riis's criticism that 'the landlord baits his trap with what passes for home' reveals which of the following tensions in Gilded Age urban America?
  5. The muckraking journalism exemplified by Riis most directly contributed to which of the following developments in the Progressive Era?