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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 is Mores' plan for the town of Medora?
(a) Open a meat packing plant
(b) Become the educational center of the West
(c) Establish a cultural center
(d) Provide film sets

2. What donations is Agassiz able to attain for the school?
(a) Scholarships
(b) Horse skeletons
(c) Biology textbooks
(d) Geology field trips

3. Humboldt and Bonpland explored the New World colonies of which country?
(a) Italy
(b) Great Britain
(c) Spain
(d) France

4. This book is a volume of 17 __________________.
(a) eulogies
(b) articles and addresses
(c) speeches
(d) poems

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Humboldt's book that inspired Charles Darwin and others?

2. What does Agassiz consider Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION?

3. In what countries do Humboldt and Bonpland spend two years?

4. Before the railroad, what is the only method of crossing the Isthmus of Panama?

5. Roosevelt's family attribute his presidency and his Rough Riders to ______________________.

(see the answer key)

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