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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harriet's husband insist about her?
(a) She can't keep plants alive
(b) She is a literary woman
(c) She is a terrible cook
(d) She is a wonderful mother

2. What is a major impediment to construction of the railroad?
(a) The financing
(b) The natives
(c) The terrain
(d) The climate

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

4. Remington illustrates articles written by whom?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe
(c) U.S. Grant
(d) Theodore Roosevelt

5. What makes it hard to retain workers for the railroad?
(a) The Gold Rush
(b) The heat
(c) Low pay
(d) Treacherous terrain

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Aime Bonpland?

2. What act guarantees exclusive U.S. rights to build the railroad?

3. The idea for the railroad originates with three men who are _______________________.

4. What does Theodore Roosevelt find even more interesting about Remington than his paintings?

5. Where does Agassiz take a summer expedition in 1848?

(see the answer key)

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