The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Moses' office located?
(a) Harlem
(b) Queens
(c) Staten Island
(d) Randall's Island

2. Which of the following actors performs in the plays?
(a) Marlon Brando
(b) Harvey Keitel
(c) James Dean
(d) George C. Scott

3. What does Arthur Palmer want to talk Moses into doing?
(a) To build in Chicago
(b) Resigning
(c) Donating money
(d) To build in Texas

4. What do Cohen and Gabel investigate?
(a) The housing situation
(b) Fraud
(c) Corruption
(d) Moses' dealings with the underworld

5. What is the name of the chief engineer Moses attacks?
(a) Rotten
(b) Singstad
(c) Bingsby
(d) Jacobs

6. What is the name of the plays' producer?
(a) Stuart Constable
(b) Ade Regan
(c) James Formby
(d) Joseph Papp

7. Why can Lindsay not get rid of Moses?
(a) The public love him
(b) He controls too much money
(c) He can ruin Lindsay's career
(d) He is too useful

8. What does Rockefeller want access to to build his projects?
(a) Moses' files
(b) Triborough surplus
(c) Moses' plans
(d) Chase Manhatten Bank

9. What does Moses' housing project aim to clear?
(a) The streets
(b) The slums
(c) The parks
(d) The roads

10. Where did Moses put most of the people he forced out of their homes?
(a) Tenements
(b) The streets
(c) New Jersey
(d) Chicago

11. Why can a mass transit system not be built?
(a) It will take too long
(b) Moses is against it
(c) It is too expensive
(d) The public are against it

12. What is the only European nation to participate in the World's Fair?
(a) Britain
(b) Spain
(c) Italy
(d) Portugal

13. Who is the Chase Manhattan Bank controlled by?
(a) The Trump family
(b) President Nixon
(c) The Rockefeller family
(d) Moses

14. What is the name of the investigator who investigates a scandal at the fair?
(a) Jack Gordon
(b) Roger Hale
(c) Fred Flump
(d) Abe Beame

15. Whose plays does CBS want to produce?
(a) Arthur Miller
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Tennesee Williams
(d) Goethe

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of Pokrass' secret partners?

2. Where does most of the money that Moses had wanted for bridges now go to?

3. Who is the governor of New York in this section?

4. What does one of Moses' aides die of?

5. Whose term expires in 1970?

(see the answer keys)

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