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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Roebling spend in Trenton at the advice of his doctors?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 3 days.

2. What is the name of the day people celebrated the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge?
(a) "Bridge Day."
(b) "The Day of the Great Bridge."
(c) "Roebling's Day."
(d) "The People's Day."

3. How long does it take the cable car to cross the East River?
(a) Seven minutes.
(b) Twelve minutes.
(c) Twenty-one minutes.
(d) Nineteen minutes.

4. Why does Roebling want to add 1,000 pounds of trusses to the Brooklyn Bridge?
(a) To support rush hour traffic.
(b) To support airplanes, should they need to land unexpectedly.
(c) To support trains.
(d) To support the Brooklyn marathon.

5. What part of the Brooklyn Bridge does Hildebrand design?
(a) The archway.
(b) The footbridge.
(c) The caissons.
(d) The towers.

6. How old is Emily Warren when she marries Washington Roebling?
(a) 17.
(b) 21.
(c) 31.
(d) 27.

7. How much is the wire contract valued at?
(a) $1 million.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $100,000.

8. How long are the shifts while digging the caissons on the Manhattan side of the bridge?
(a) Four hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) Eight hours.
(d) Six hours.

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

10. How many tons of wire are needed to suspend the Brooklyn Bridge?
(a) 56 tons.
(b) 120 tons.
(c) 10 tons.
(d) 78 tons.

11. How does Murphy die?
(a) From pneumonia.
(b) In a ferry accident.
(c) In an automobile crash.
(d) From old age.

12. Who is chosen to ride in the first cable car to ever cross the East River?
(a) Collington.
(b) Ferrington.
(c) Barnes.
(d) Roebling.

13. What governmental position does business owner Tilden have when he competes for the lucrative wire contract in the bridge project?
(a) Senator.
(b) Governor.
(c) Attorney General.
(d) Mayor.

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

15. What does "The Heroic Mode" promise to cure?
(a) Weak metal frames.
(b) Alcoholism.
(c) The bends.
(d) Laziness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Seth Low?

2. How old is the Long Island boy who volunteers to be the first person to cross the bridge?

3. Which of the following subjects is Emily Warren most interested in as a child?

4. As the bridge nears completion, how do young trustees feel about Roebling?

5. In total, how much does the Brooklyn Bridge cost to build?

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