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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Harriet consider guilty of slavery?
(a) George Washington
(b) Southern cotton merchants
(c) Thomas Jefferson
(d) All white Americans

2. When is the bridge officially opened?
(a) March 24, 1883
(b) May 24, 1883
(c) May 24, 1893
(d) May 24, 1865

3. What becomes Remington's formula for his success as a commercial artist?
(a) Wide open spaces
(b) Wagon Trains
(c) Native Americans
(d) Man on horseback

4. Two of Roebling's successful projects were in ______________ and Niagara Falls.
(a) San Francisco
(b) Paris
(c) Portsmouth
(d) Cincinnati

5. The idea for the railroad originates with three men who are _______________________.
(a) railroad executives
(b) army officers
(c) not railroad men
(d) politicians

Short Answer Questions

1. Which U.S. president attended the bridge opening?

2. Humboldt is the first European to ___________________________________.

3. Who sells the idea for the project to civic leaders in 1882?

4. Which U.S. president did Humboldt visit in 1804?

5. Humboldt and Bonpland explored the New World colonies of which country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the major impediments to building the Panama Railroad?

2. Why is the Panama Railroad called "the first steam road to El Dorado?"

3. What is the nature of Harriet Beecher's childhood?

4. What is the focus of "Glory Days in Medora?

5. What precipitates the finding of the carpentry shop treasure?

6. Remington is prolific with his painting and writing but what new medium does he discover which he feels will make him immortal?

7. What is Valentine's struggle with getting the bridge documents validated?

8. Explain how the drawings are crafted.

9. What is notable about Humboldt and Bonpland's work relating vegetation to elevations?

10. What is the purpose of Brave Companions?

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