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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Richter do most of his writing?
(a) The barn
(b) The seashore
(c) The library
(d) The dining room table

2. What is the book written by the answer to #126 which is compared to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath?
(a) Night Comes to the Cumberlands
(b) Bluegrass Memories
(c) My Old Kentucky Home
(d) Horses, Highways and Hollers

3. The "Steam Road to El Dorado" is the story of the _______________ Railroad.
(a) Panama
(b) Santa Fe
(c) B&O
(d) Union Pacific

4. Who rides in the first carriage across the bridge?
(a) Mayor Giuliani
(b) Warner Roebling
(c) President Chester A. Arthur
(d) Emily Roebling

5. Which U.S. president attended the bridge opening?
(a) Grover Cleveland
(b) U.S. Grant
(c) Warren Harding
(d) Chester A. Arthur

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harriet's famous book prompt?

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

3. For what book is Antoine de Saint-Exupery most famous?

4. Vocabulary and _________________ are particularly important to Richter's writing.

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

(see the answer key)

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