Chapter Five Quiz

Public Transit Quiz
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1. Venice, Italy is built on top of :

	dinosaur bones	England and France
	islands and waterways	mountains and valleys

2. Public transit works best when the community is designed :

	for transit	for cars
	with wiiiiide roads	for little kids

3. How many of the people living near the BART station in Pleasant Hill use public transit to go to work?

	lots of them	none; Pleasant Hill is a fake name.
	63.7%	almost half

4. A "busway" in Ottawa is a road that can be used only by :

	subways	teachers
	commuters	buses

5. Fill in the blanks: rail trains usually run over ground, and rail trains usually run underground.

	light, heavy	heavy, light
	big, fat	ugly, smelly

6. Commuter trains run most often in the morning and afternoon, when riders are traveling :

	to pick up their kids	to pick up their parents
	to and from work	to the train station

7. How many New Yorkers ride the subway to work every day?

	more than 200	2.7 million
	63.7%	5 gazillion

8. Paratransit vehicles include:

	skateboards and unicycles	flying saucers and spaceships
	taxis, vans and jitneys	big trucks for carrying Paras

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