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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. What position is created for Agassiz in America?
(a) The President's Council on Ecology
(b) President of Yale
(c) Chair of Natural History at Harvard
(d) Assistant to Darwin

2. Agassiz becomes American's premiere _______________.
(a) naturalist
(b) filmmaker
(c) sculptor
(d) painter

3. Why does Roosevelt suffer bouts of depression?
(a) He loses his bid for Congress
(b) It is an inherited condition
(c) He is not nominated for President
(d) His wife and mother die on the same day

4. _______________ called Harriet "the little woman who made this big war."
(a) Calvin Stowe
(b) Andrew Johnson
(c) Frederick Douglass
(d) Abraham Lincoln

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Harriet Beecher Stowe famous for writing?

2. What subject had been an unpleasant one to Harriet since her childhood?

3. What life does Harriet come to like?

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

5. What does Agassiz consider Darwin's ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who founded the town of Medora and what was his purpose for doing so?

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

3. What is Frederic Remington's background?

4. What is the injury that changes Washington Roebling's life and his work on the bridge?

5. Who is Humboldt's partner and what is the nature of their explorations?

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

7. What is the human cost of building the Panama Railroad?

8. What is the purpose of Brave Companions?

9. Remington is prolific with his painting and writing but what new medium does he discover which he feels will make him immortal?

10. Explain how the drawings are crafted.

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