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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the major disease that kills many of the workers on the railroad?
(a) AIDS
(b) Malaria
(c) Tuberculosis
(d) Diabetes

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

3. When does a show exhibiting the documents open in New York?
(a) May 1876
(b) May 1976
(c) March 1976
(d) April 1975

4. In what countries do Humboldt and Bonpland spend two years?
(a) Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(b) Italy, Germany and France
(c) Columbia, Ecuador and Peru
(d) Thailand, China, India

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

6. People find Remington to be full of high spirits and _________________.
(a) charity
(b) cruelty
(c) tall tales
(d) intelligence

7. What is Agassiz' teaching style?
(a) Remote
(b) Comparative
(c) Hands-on
(d) Observation

8. What is Mores' plan for the town of Medora?
(a) Establish a cultural center
(b) Provide film sets
(c) Open a meat packing plant
(d) Become the educational center of the West

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

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

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

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

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

14. According to Remington, "Cowboys are ______________."
(a) cash
(b) dirty
(c) illiterate
(d) interesting

15. What initials are on many of the bridge drawings?
(a) FAR
(b) JAR
(c) EAR
(d) WAR

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the New York governor who attended the bridge opening?

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

3. Who does Mores crusade against when he returns to France?

4. What donations is Agassiz able to attain for the school?

5. What is the name of Humboldt's book that inspired Charles Darwin and others?

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