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

2. Which of the following is another name for "The Bends?"
(a) Bridge disease.
(b) Tunnel disease.
(c) Roebling disease.
(d) Caisson disease.

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

4. What future event is discussed by the old woman who retrospectively remembers the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge?
(a) The completion of the Suaz Canal.
(b) The moon landing.
(c) The construction of the Great Wall of China.
(d) The invention of the Internet.

5. How many companies bid for the lucrative wire contract?
(a) Seven.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname of New York Mayor John Kelly?

2. How is Blake killed?

3. How old is Emily Warren when she marries Washington Roebling?

4. What does "The Heroic Mode" promise to cure?

5. How many photographers are hired to capture the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ferrington react to being chosen as the first man to cross the Brooklyn Bridge?

2. How does Washington resign from office, and what is his life like after his resignation?

3. What happens during the "rope fall" of 1878?

4. What argument do Roebling and Hewitt find themselves in over the wire contract?

5. What was work like for the men who first began construction on the Brooklyn footbridge?

6. What problem do local reporters have with the temporary footbridge put into place for workers who are "spinning" up the bridge?

7. Why do the bridge workers go on strike in 1872.

8. What symptoms of the Bends does Dr. Smith encounter during his research of the disease?

9. What is life like for Washington Roebling during the three years he is forced to live in Trenton?

10. What happens on Thanksgiving day during the time the wires are being strung up?

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