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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Harriet Beecher Stowe famous for writing?
(a) Tom and Jerry
(b) War and Peace
(c) Uncle Tom's Cabin
(d) David Copperfield

2. What does Remington falsely claim to be?
(a) Wagon train leader
(b) U.S. Cavalry lieutenant
(c) Cowpuncher and Indian fighter
(d) U.S. Congressman

3. What donations is Agassiz able to attain for the school?
(a) Biology textbooks
(b) Scholarships
(c) Geology field trips
(d) Horse skeletons

4. The idea for the railroad originates with three men who are _______________________.
(a) not railroad men
(b) army officers
(c) railroad executives
(d) politicians

5. "The Builders" is the story of the building of _________________.
(a) Mount Rushmore
(b) The Eiffel Tower
(c) The Brooklyn Bridge
(d) The Golden Gate Bridge

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

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

8. Where does Agassiz take a summer expedition in 1848?
(a) Vesuvius
(b) The amazon
(c) Mt. St. Helens
(d) Lake Superior

9. Who takes over the project when John Roebling dies?
(a) U.S. Grant
(b) Warner Roebling
(c) Washington Roebling
(d) Richard Remington

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

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

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

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

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

15. According to Remington the West is filled with horses, blood and _________________.
(a) bandits
(b) cacti
(c) profanity
(d) whiskey

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Agassiz turn into a temporary museum filled with his new collection of specimens?

2. How many children does Harriet have?

3. When does a show exhibiting the documents open in New York?

4. Who does Harriet claim wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. In what countries do Humboldt and Bonpland spend two years?

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