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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many feet of additional width are added to the bridge in order to ensure two-way traffic?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.

2. What is the one day of the week Roebling does not ask his men to come in for work?
(a) Mondays.
(b) Fridays.
(c) Sundays.
(d) Saturdays.

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

4. Which of the following famous people is NOT mentioned as having left the West for fame and fortune in the East?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

5. Which of the following is a nickname for Brooklyn?
(a) The City of Rainbows.
(b) The City of Churches.
(c) The City of Rivers.
(d) The City of Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What staggering amount of money has John Roebling earned at the time his wife dies in 1864?

2. Where does Murphy graduate law school?

3. Ellet offers $5 to the first boy who can do what across his bridge over the Ohio River?

4. In which decade is the novel "The Great Bridge" set?

5. What does Thomas Pope call the bridge that would one day join Manhattan to Brooklyn?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did James Eads find himself in the bridge building business?

2. How did Roebling combat injuries and sickness amongst his men working in the caisson?

3. Which problems stopped the initial production of "The Rainbow Bridge" in the early-1800s?

4. How does Roebling react to the scandal surrounding Kingsley's finances?

5. How did the people of Brooklyn eventually come to demand the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge?

6. What change in transportation would the Brooklyn Bridge allow between the two cities?

7. What scandal does Kingsley find himself embroiled in at the start of the Brooklyn Bridge's construction?

8. Why was John Roebling so devastated when his wife, Johanna, died?

9. How is Tweed depicted in the newspapers of New York?

10. Why did John so quickly return to engineering after moving to America?

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