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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. This book is a volume of 17 __________________.
(a) speeches
(b) poems
(c) articles and addresses
(d) eulogies

2. Who does Harriet consider guilty of slavery?
(a) Thomas Jefferson
(b) All white Americans
(c) George Washington
(d) Southern cotton merchants

3. What is showing signs of wear on the bridge?
(a) Joints
(b) Cement
(c) Trunnions
(d) Caissons

4. In what countries do Humboldt and Bonpland spend two years?
(a) Columbia, Ecuador and Peru
(b) Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(c) Italy, Germany and France
(d) Thailand, China, India

5. To which Ohio city does Harriet's family move?
(a) Dayton
(b) Cincinnati
(c) Columbus
(d) Portsmouth

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the major disease that kills many of the workers on the railroad?

2. The "Steam Road to El Dorado" is the story of the _______________ Railroad.

3. Who does Harriet claim wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. What does Remington come to dislike about the West?

5. What is a major impediment to construction of the railroad?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the impetus for the Brooklyn Bridge?

2. What is Frederic Remington's background?

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

4. What is Agassiz' teaching style at Harvard?

5. For what is the town of Medora most known today?

6. What is notable about Humboldt and Bonpland's work relating vegetation to elevations?

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

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

9. What is the purpose of Brave Companions?

10. What was the career path of naturalist Louis Agassiz that leads him from Switzerland to America?

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