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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Roosevelt head to the Badlands to do?
(a) Start a new family
(b) Work on the railroad
(c) Open a dude ranch
(d) Write

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

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

4. Two of Roebling's successful projects were in ______________ and Niagara Falls.
(a) Portsmouth
(b) Paris
(c) Cincinnati
(d) San Francisco

5. What does Agassiz turn into a temporary museum filled with his new collection of specimens?
(a) The natatorium
(b) A bathhouse
(c) His garage
(d) The cafeteria

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

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

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

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

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

11. Mores becomes a big part of which historical event?
(a) The Dreyfus Affair
(b) World War I
(c) The French and Indian War
(d) The Affair of the Necklace

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

13. What does Stowe do after her friend, Eliza Stowe, dies?
(a) Adopts her children
(b) Marries Eliza's husband
(c) Manages her estate
(d) Writes her biography

14. How many documents does Valentine find?
(a) 10,000
(b) 1,000
(c) 6,000
(d) 5,000

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This book is a volume of 17 __________________.

2. "Agassiz belongs to that class of naturalists who see ___________ in everything."

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

4. What does Harriet's husband insist about her?

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

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