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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. In what countries do Humboldt and Bonpland spend two years?
(a) Columbia, Ecuador and Peru
(b) Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(c) Thailand, China, India
(d) Italy, Germany and France
2. Who rides in the first carriage across the bridge?
(a) Warner Roebling
(b) Emily Roebling
(c) President Chester A. Arthur
(d) Mayor Giuliani
3. What donations is Agassiz able to attain for the school?
(a) Scholarships
(b) Geology field trips
(c) Horse skeletons
(d) Biology textbooks
4. What does the person in #80 carry across the bridge as a symbol of victory?
(a) Laurel wreath
(b) Rooster
(c) Trophy
(d) Peace flower
5. What becomes Remington's formula for his success as a commercial artist?
(a) Man on horseback
(b) Wide open spaces
(c) Native Americans
(d) Wagon Trains
Short Answer Questions
1. What makes it hard to retain workers for the railroad?
2. How many children does Harriet have?
3. Where does Agassiz take a summer expedition in 1848?
4. Humboldt and Bonpland explored the New World colonies of which country?
5. Mores becomes a big part of which historical event?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Agassiz' American lecture tour described?
2. When is the idea for the Panama Railroad born and who are its creators?
3. What is the perspective of the Brooklyn Bridge legacy found in "The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop?"
4. Who is the subject of the essay entitled "Journey to the Top of the World?"
5. Why does Agassiz decide to make America his permanent home?
6. Why is the Panama Railroad called "the first steam road to El Dorado?"
7. Cite some of the reasons that Uncle Tom's Cabin had such an impact on readers.
8. Explain Harriet's familiarity with slavery which allows her to write Uncle Tom's Cabin.
9. What was the impetus for the Brooklyn Bridge?
10. What precipitates the finding of the carpentry shop treasure?
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