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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Agassiz consider Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION?
(a) Inaccurate
(b) Brilliant
(c) Atheism
(d) Overrated

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

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

4. What position is created for Agassiz in America?
(a) Assistant to Darwin
(b) Chair of Natural History at Harvard
(c) President of Yale
(d) The President's Council on Ecology

5. Who takes over the work of running the project after her husband is paralyzed?
(a) Alice Grant
(b) Frannie Remington
(c) Emily Roebling
(d) Emma Roebling

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

7. Who is Alexander von Humboldt?
(a) Italian artist
(b) Swiss inventor
(c) German-born naturalist
(d) Inventor of the Humvee

8. Who is Valentine's neighbor who works for the Whitney Museum of Modern Art?
(a) David Copperfield
(b) David McCullough
(c) David Hupert
(d) Michael Hupert

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

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

11. What is the name of Humboldt's book that inspired Charles Darwin and others?
(a) Personal Narrative
(b) Hot, Humid Horticulture
(c) My Life with Plants
(d) Jungle Stories

12. With whom does Mores think Roosevelt sides?
(a) Railroad men
(b) Democrats
(c) Chicago beef trust
(d) Republicans

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Valentine find documents related to the bridge?

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

3. Humboldt and Bonpland explored the New World colonies of which country?

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

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

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