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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Of what does John Roebling die?
(a) Cancer
(b) Heart disease
(c) Tetanus
(d) Old age

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

5. Who is Elizabeth Cabot Cary?
(a) Agassiz' sister
(b) Agassiz' prize student
(c) Agassiz' wife
(d) Agassiz' secretary

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

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

8. Which U.S. president attended the bridge opening?
(a) Grover Cleveland
(b) U.S. Grant
(c) Chester A. Arthur
(d) Warren Harding

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

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

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

12. Most of the railroad lies in what type of terrain?
(a) Mountains
(b) Rainforest
(c) Forests
(d) Desert

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the bridge officially opened?

2. This book is a volume of 17 __________________.

3. What was the impetus for the railroad?

4. Who is Valentine's neighbor who works for the Whitney Museum of Modern Art?

5. Medora is the location of what national site?

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