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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What becomes Remington's formula for his success as a commercial artist?
(a) Wagon Trains
(b) Man on horseback
(c) Native Americans
(d) Wide open spaces

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the railroad, what is the only method of crossing the Isthmus of Panama?

2. Why does Agassiz first come to the United States?

3. What life does Harriet come to like?

4. Who rides in the first carriage across the bridge?

5. The idea for the railroad originates with three men who are _______________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the unusual circumstances of Hattie's marriage?

2. What is the topic of "The Builders?"

3. What precipitates the finding of the carpentry shop treasure?

4. How is Agassiz' American lecture tour described?

5. Cite some of the reasons that Uncle Tom's Cabin had such an impact on readers.

6. What is the perspective of the Brooklyn Bridge legacy found in "The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop?"

7. Why is the Panama Railroad called "the first steam road to El Dorado?"

8. Who is the subject of the essay entitled "Journey to the Top of the World?"

9. What is Frederic Remington's background?

10. What was the impetus for the Brooklyn Bridge?

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