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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sells the idea for the project to civic leaders in 1882?
(a) Washington Roebling
(b) John Roebling
(c) Frederic Remington
(d) U.S. Grant

2. Who was the New York governor who attended the bridge opening?
(a) Ed Koch
(b) Grover Cleveland
(c) John Lindsay
(d) Fiorello La Guardia

3. Medora is the location of what national site?
(a) Little Big Horn
(b) Grant's Tomb
(c) Theodore Roosevelt National Park
(d) Mount Rushmore

4. What act guarantees exclusive U.S. rights to build the railroad?
(a) Treaty of Greenville
(b) Bidlack Treaty
(c) U.N. Treaty
(d) Treaty of Versailles

5. Agassiz becomes American's premiere _______________.
(a) sculptor
(b) naturalist
(c) painter
(d) filmmaker

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stowe do after her friend, Eliza Stowe, dies?

2. What does the person in #80 carry across the bridge as a symbol of victory?

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

4. Most of the railroad lies in what type of terrain?

5. What was the impetus for the railroad?

(see the answer key)

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