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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During what month of the year is the first cable car sent across the East River?
(a) November.
(b) August.
(c) May.
(d) February.

2. How many gallons of water are used to extinguish the fire in the caisson?
(a) 130 gallons.
(b) 13,000 gallons.
(c) 130,000 gallons.
(d) 1.3 million gallons.

3. Which of the following descriptions best describes Brooklyn Mayor, Martin Kalbfleisch?
(a) Sweet tempered and morbidly obese.
(b) Tyranically conservative.
(c) Foul mouthed and hard drinking.
(d) Painfully shy and wire thin.

4. What is Theodore Cooper hired to investigate at the bridge site?
(a) The workers' health.
(b) The suspension wires.
(c) The iron superstructure.
(d) The caissons.

5. Which magazine publishes Roebling's thoughts about the East River?
(a) The New York Tribune.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) The Cincinnati Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many ferries commute between Manhattan and Brooklyn each day?

2. How is Blake killed?

3. Which of the following is a nickname for Brooklyn?

4. How long did it take Roebling to build the Allegheny Bridge?

5. What is the one day of the week Roebling does not ask his men to come in for work?

(see the answer key)

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