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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The town of ________________ ought to be as celebrated as Dodge City or Tombstone.
(a) Medora
(b) Malvern
(c) Mentor
(d) Midori

2. What is showing signs of wear on the bridge?
(a) Joints
(b) Caissons
(c) Cement
(d) Trunnions

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

4. How many children does Harriet have?
(a) 2
(b) 7
(c) 3
(d) 5

5. Who is Aime Bonpland?
(a) Humboldt's minister
(b) Humboldt's partner
(c) Humboldt's mentor
(d) Humboldt's father

6. Agassiz helps people understand how ______________ created natural phenomena in Europe.
(a) Global Warming
(b) The Big Bang
(c) The Ice Age
(d) God

7. Who is the founder of Medora?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt
(b) Marquis de Mores
(c) Dale Medford
(d) Franklin Roosevelt

8. What are the found treasures?
(a) Blueprints and drawings
(b) Buried coins
(c) Legal documents
(d) Letters

9. Where are some of the drawings taken to be cleaned?
(a) Whitney Museum of Art
(b) The Louvre
(c) Metropolitan Museum of Art
(d) New York Blueprint Co.

10. From what school is the young artist forced to drop out upon the death of his father?
(a) Yale University
(b) Princeton University
(c) Columbia University
(d) Harvard University

11. Who is Eva Caten?
(a) Remington's wife
(b) Remington's favorite portrait subject
(c) Remington's sister
(d) Remington's first art teacher

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What initials are on many of the bridge drawings?

2. Of what does John Roebling die?

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

4. Who is Elizabeth Cabot Cary?

5. How many documents does Valentine find?

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