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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Vocabulary and _________________ are particularly important to Richter's writing.
(a) phraseology
(b) humor
(c) verb tense
(d) irony

3. What position is created for Agassiz in America?
(a) The President's Council on Ecology
(b) Chair of Natural History at Harvard
(c) President of Yale
(d) Assistant to Darwin

4. What is the name of the last 550 acres of land Caudill has spared from the strip miners?
(a) Blue Ridge Parkway
(b) Sherwood's Forest
(c) Lilly's Wood
(d) Bluegrass Woods

5. Who is the first American to orbit the Earth?
(a) Buzz Aldrin
(b) Jim Lovell
(c) John Glenn
(d) Gus Grissom

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year are treasures related to the Brooklyn Bridge found?

2. With whom does Mores think Roosevelt sides?

3. Which of the following does Plowden not arrive in time to photograph before its demise?

4. "The Builders" is the story of the building of _________________.

5. What initials are on many of the bridge drawings?

(see the answer key)

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