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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 life does Harriet come to like?
(a) Education
(b) Domestic life
(c) Religious life
(d) The lecture circuit

2. What is Harriet's nickname?
(a) Hat pin
(b) Beaches
(c) Hattie
(d) Harrie

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

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

5. In what year are treasures related to the Brooklyn Bridge found?
(a) 1969
(b) 1955
(c) 1949
(d) 1919

Short Answer Questions

1. Humboldt is one of the earliest _________________.

2. What response does Valentine get from public institutions regarding the drawings at first?

3. What does the person in #80 carry across the bridge as a symbol of victory?

4. Roosevelt's family attribute his presidency and his Rough Riders to ______________________.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain how the drawings are crafted.

4. Explain Theodore Roosevelt's interest in the Medora area.

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

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

7. What was the impetus for the Brooklyn Bridge?

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

9. Explain Harriet's familiarity with slavery which allows her to write Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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

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