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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the answer to #77 paralyzed?

2. Who takes over the work of running the project after her husband is paralyzed?

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

4. What is Agassiz' teaching style?

5. Agassiz helps people understand how ______________ created natural phenomena in Europe.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When is the idea for the Panama Railroad born and who are its creators?

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

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

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

7. Explain how the drawings are crafted.

8. What was the impetus for the Brooklyn Bridge?

9. How is Agassiz' American lecture tour described?

10. What role does Emily Washington play in the building of the bridge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

David Plowden is fascinated by trains and takes his first picture of one when he is ten years old. How can you explain Plowden's fascination with trains? What do trains signify to people? What is the allure of the concept of leaving and the loneliness of the one left behind?

Essay Topic 2

The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the great engineering marvels of the world. What was the impetus for the initiation of the project? What toll did the project take on the Roebling family as well as the other workers who risked their lives to complete this project?

Essay Topic 3

Charles Lindbergh lost some popularity in America when he went to Germany prior to World War II and then took an isolationist position related to war with Germany. What does it mean to take an isolationist position? Why were many Americans disheartened to learn of Lindbergh's position on the subject of war with Germany?

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