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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. When is the bridge officially opened?

2. Who is Louis Agassiz?

3. What is Francis P. Valentine's job?

4. Of what does John Roebling die?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the impetus for the Brooklyn Bridge?

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

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

6. What is Remington's position on the civilizing of the West and how does he express it?

7. What is Agassiz' teaching style at Harvard?

8. What is the purpose of Brave Companions?

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

10. Why does Agassiz decide to make America his permanent home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the life and career of Alexander von Humboldt. What was his background? What were his personal and professional motivations? For what is he best remembered today?

Essay Topic 2

Frederic Remington was born in a town in New York but made a career out of creating art about the Wild West. Explain how a person can create things that are foreign to their background or heritage. Why was Remington so drawn to the West? How did he feel when the West began to be civilized?

Essay Topic 3

In 1872, a reporter from the Brooklyn Eagle observes that few who cross the Brooklyn Bridge will value the courage, faith and genius that underlie its successful building. What does he mean by this statement? Does the finding of the bridge builders' drawings increase the level of appreciation? Explain.

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