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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose design does Moses use to build a tunnel in this section?
(a) Singstad
(b) Jacobs
(c) La Guardia
(d) Bingsby

2. Who stands in front of the bulldozers?
(a) La Guardia
(b) Moses
(c) Mothers and children
(d) Newspaper reporters

3. What does Moses intend to tax to finance public housing?
(a) Books
(b) Telephones
(c) Cigarettes
(d) Alcohol

4. What does La Guardia die of?
(a) Stroke
(b) Cancer
(c) Old age
(d) Heart attack

5. What does Rockefeller want Moses to resign in 1962?
(a) Everything
(b) His Title I Presidency
(c) His Tunnel Authority chairmanship
(d) His Long Island State Part Commission

6. Which of the following names are suggested as a name for the dam?
(a) Robert Moses Power Dam
(b) The Dam of New York City
(c) O'Dwyer Dam
(d) Dam Roosevelt

7. What does Tavern on the Green want to build?
(a) A road
(b) A runway
(c) Offices
(d) A parking lot

8. What is Gene Gleason's role at the newspaper?
(a) Sub-editor
(b) Owner
(c) Reporter
(d) Editor

9. Who is the governor of New York in this section?
(a) Nelson Rockefeller
(b) John Ford
(c) Gerald Ford
(d) Ronald Reagan

10. Who becomes involved in moving Moses after Lindsay?
(a) Nixon
(b) Roosevelt
(c) Truman
(d) Rockefeller

11. Where does Moses want to build a huge park?
(a) Astoria
(b) Flushing Meadows
(c) Staten Island
(d) Harlem

12. What does the letter to the Times call Robert Moses?
(a) Unique
(b) A genuis
(c) A power mongerer
(d) A Mafia boss

13. What is Norton Mockridge's role at the newspaper?
(a) Copy Writer
(b) Editor
(c) Owner
(d) Reporter

14. What is the name of the New York Mayor in this section?
(a) Horac
(b) Wagner
(c) Davis
(d) Rockefeller

15. What does Moses want to build in the East Temont area?
(a) The world's biggest parking lot
(b) Cross-Bronx Expressway
(c) A shopping mall
(d) Highway 78

Short Answer Questions

1. What guarantees the Rockefeller family almost total power in the New York Republican Party?

2. Who writes up Cleason's reports?

3. Where is Tavern on the Green located?

4. What is the name of the chief engineer Moses attacks?

5. What do the reporters find that Gigante really is?

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