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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the time Roebling's bridge is launched, how many of his workers have died on the job?
(a) 100.
(b) 1.
(c) 10.
(d) 1,000.

2. Who demands that all committee members be banned from entering their companies into the wire contract competition?
(a) Murphy.
(b) Hewitt.
(c) Roebling.
(d) Tiden.

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

4. What staggering amount of money has John Roebling earned at the time his wife dies in 1864?
(a) $1 million.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $10,000
(d) $100,000

5. What does Murphy claim the engineers of the Brooklyn Bridge have a license to do?
(a) Explore.
(b) Create.
(c) Kill.
(d) Steal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much deeper are the caissons on the Manhattan side of the bridge than on the Brooklyn side?

3. What do the Bridge committee think Washington is missing from his father's spirit?

4. How many gallons of water are used to extinguish the fire in the caisson?

5. How many men are killed during the river's "Great Blowout?"

(see the answer key)

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