Brave Companions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

David McCullough
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Brave Companions Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

David McCullough
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 113 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. McCullough wants Americans to learn more about what?
(a) Economy
(b) Asia
(c) History
(d) Religion

2. When was the first stake for the railroad driven?
(a) May 1850
(b) April 1855
(c) March 1850
(d) May 1860

3. What does the person in #80 carry across the bridge as a symbol of victory?
(a) Trophy
(b) Rooster
(c) Laurel wreath
(d) Peace flower

4. What response does Valentine get from public institutions regarding the drawings at first?
(a) No interest
(b) Disdain
(c) Wild enthusiasm
(d) Mild interest

5. Who does Harriet consider guilty of slavery?
(a) Thomas Jefferson
(b) Southern cotton merchants
(c) George Washington
(d) All white Americans

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

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

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

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

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

11. Where does Theodore Roosevelt spend his time in this chapter?
(a) Mojave Desert
(b) Appalachian Mountains
(c) Florida swamps
(d) Dakota Badlands

12. Roosevelt's family attribute his presidency and his Rough Riders to ______________________.
(a) his grit
(b) his wife
(c) his studies
(d) his Medora experience

13. "Agassiz belongs to that class of naturalists who see ___________ in everything."
(a) Beauty
(b) Perfection
(c) God
(d) Flaws

14. Who is Louis Agassiz?
(a) Tennis player
(b) President of France
(c) Jefferson's secretary
(d) Humboldt's protege

15. Humboldt is the first European to ___________________________________.
(a) fly from Paris to New York
(b) sense the greatness of America's Incan and Mayan civilizations
(c) create a botanical garden
(d) sail through the Panama Canal

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Remington, "Cowboys are ______________."

2. From what school is the young artist forced to drop out upon the death of his father?

3. Why does Roosevelt suffer bouts of depression?

4. What is showing signs of wear on the bridge?

5. What does Remington come to dislike about the West?

(see the answer keys)

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